Battle Fields I - V Idea and concept for an evening-program, realised as 5-part video-essay on the changing dimensions of battlefields since Waterloo 1815. Concept, Direction, Camera: Manfred Hulverscheidt Scientific Consulting: Ulrich Giersch and Ulrich Raulff Interview-partners: John Keegan, Gerd Krumeich, Yves Lacoste, Klaus Reinhardt Music: Ludwig v. Beethoven, Mauricio Kagel, Dimitri Shostakovitch, Igor Stravinsky Compilor of archive-material of the US-army: David Blair Sound: Carl Hulverscheidt Editing: HDTVideo and Maria Zastrow Comissioning Editor: Axel Hofmann Production: Carl-Ludwig Rettinge /WDR/Arte 1993. Total length: 50:00.

The changing and evolution of warfare techniques has quite often been the subject of historical consideration. But the comparison of the view that the commanders really had on the battlefield, has been described in a sensitive and detailed way by the British military historian John Keegan.
The German military historian Gerd Krumeich has also given thought to the horrible effects produced by the loss of integrity of battles as a „piece“ and the fact, that the instigators and commanders of war are going more and more from the front to the rear of battlefields. From Waterloo to Kuweit - the decline of war-strategies. The „virtualization“ of warfare is subject of the final part of these five video-memorials., which is dedicated to the war at the Shatt-el-Arab in 1991. The killing seemed to be but was certainly not „clean“. David Blair, occupied with the compiling of archive-materials of the US-army, was astonished how much of the basic footage is still x-rated.
Strange illnesses and crippled offspring from Gulf-War-Participants dull the heroic self-esteem of the allied forces.