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Gerhard Schröder was the last chancellor of the SPD.
He was always controversial within his party.
For some he was an ego player and careerist, for others he was a gifted campaigner and successful modernizer.
It is undisputed that his popularity played a decisive role in bringing the SPD to power in 1998.
But what remained of the red-green project that ended so abruptly in 2005?
The Agenda reforms, the energy turnaround?
The SPD's identity crisis?
Since Gerhard Schröder's defeat to Angela Merkel in 2005, the party has gone downhill and the label "people's party" no longer seems to apply.
What responsibility does the last SPD chancellor bear for this decline?
How did the unprecedented Agenda 2010 reform program come about in the first place?
Torsten Körner's portrait explores these questions and delves deep into the biography of Gerhard Schröder, but also into the red-green government period from 1998 to 2005.
The result is an impressive portrait of a politician and at the same time a social democratic family history in which the protagonists still give each other no quarter.
The interviewees are high-ranking: Sigmar Gabriel, Oskar Lafontaine, Franz Müntefering, Gesine Schwan, Renate Künast, Joschka Fischer, Jürgen Trittin, Otto Schily, Martin Schulz, Markus Lüpertz, Hubert Védrine, Jonathan Powell, Gerhard Schröder, Soyeon Schröder-Kim.
