A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

The story

Hygienic habits are as old as the various human civilizations; but each era establishes its own customs: whether private or public, everywhere and at all times, methods of personal cleanliness have depended on cultural conventions, religious morals, political ideologies and economic interests; because the control of basic hygiene has also been and is one more tool in the infinite exercise of power over the masses.

Cast & crew

Tobias MeisterSelf - Narrator (voice)

Karl-Heinz Leven

Karl-Heinz LevenSelf - Medicine Historian

Klaus Bergdolt

Klaus BergdoltSelf - Medicine Historian

Mathieu Da VinhaSelf - Historian

Harald Seifert

Harald SeifertSelf - Microbiologist

Klaus Vogel

Klaus VogelSelf - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director