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01:02 Scene Campfire, Shaman, Wash Scene

Main Speaker:
Nobody can really say when we started to clean ourselves properly. Did we wash
ourselves clean of blood from enemies we had just killed? Did we clean ourselves
after hunting, or as part of a pagan ritual before we worshipped Gods and Spirits.
01:29 Scene John the Baptist
Main Speaker:
Practically and literally, part of the cleansing ritual in any initiation ceremony is done
through water, fire and/or smoke when joining a religious community, or in fact any
type of sect. One of the most famous initiation ceremonies, in cultural history, was
that of the baptism of Christ in Jordan.
01:55 Wash Scene Ganges:
Main Speaker:
Cleaning the body and spiritual cleansing become one ritual during a morning bath
in the polluted Ganges. The inexperienced traveller should not be seduced by the
idyllic looking ceremony.
02:08 Bathing Scene in ancient Rome
Main Speaker:
The first bathing emerged out of ancient Babylon, where it was classed as an activity
of high culture. It was the Romans who transposed it into everyday life, for the
general public, and invented what we now call a spa.
The traditions of Roman bathing culture live on in our modern day therapeutic spas
and hot springs.
02:36 Rose bath in Taiwan
Main Speaker:
like in Taiwan. The Spa in Wulai offers exclusive body treatments. Apparently the
wife of Tschiang Kai-Schek loved any type of luxury bath. As the name of the founder
of the State of Taiwan is still enveloped in a veil of respect, the personality cult has
gone a long way to help with this particular marketing strategy.
03:22 Hot Spring Wulai
Main Speaker:
The resfreshing and healing properties of the natural hot springs of this region can
also be experienced cheapily.
People from the city close by, and from many other areas of the Island, travel from
near and far to visit the springs. Families and friends regularly spend their spare time
bathing in the open air and enjoyable waters - cost free.
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Carefree and without having to pay attention to rules or regulations set up by

commercial swimming pools, you can enjoy the pleasing and also healing gift of
nature - no different today than it was centuries ago.
03:53 Asklepion in Kos
Main Speaker:
Early traces of an industrial business dedicated to wellness can be found on the
Greek island of Kos. The sprawling complex was a mixture of temple, hospital and
sanatorium. The establishment was dedicated to Asclepius the God of Healing.
04:20 New Sign
Main Speaker:
It was built in memory of Hippocrates, the great son of the island and the most
famous physician of antiquity. In that day and age healing was still considered an art
form rather than a business. Then the terms holy, pure and clean were a form of
insurance.
04:37 Bathing Scene ancient Rome 2
Main Speaker:
The Romans continued the holistic traditions of physical and psychological wellbeing. They delved deeper into and expanded the teachings of Hippocrates, and
furthered step by step the treatment compendium.
04:51 New Sign
Healing, cures and baths quickly became an integral part of Roman daily life.
Engineers and architects developed sophisticated systems, such as the hypocaust
heating. Here the hollow floor beneath a house would be heated from an oven
outside using hot air. The Romans used slaves to do the job, and whole woods were
laid bare for fuel.
Such baths not only existed in the homes of the rich and powerful. They became
increasingly popular in public institutions. They were very similar to our modern day
spas; places of relaxation, healing and recuperation.
Much of what we use today in the wellness field was handed down from Roman
times.
06:07 Bad Tatzmannsdorf 1
Main Speaker:
Bad Tatzmannsdorf in Burgenland, is recognized as a top spa and health resort, by a
set of lucky geological coincidences. Here, three high-quality natural remedies are
available for medicinal purposes, but also for relaxing and preventive regeneration.
The following are available: a 38C thermal bath, mud, and - and this is the really
special feature - several carbonated mineral waters that are naturally fortified.

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06:44:16 OT Spa doctor Dr. Melchart

Any water that has more than 20C when it comes out of the Earth is by definition
thermal. In the first instance this water is used as stored heat, and then the water,
which is rich in carbons, contains particular ingredients that seep into the skin if you
bathe in it, so this is used primarily as its effects can be noted in cardiovascular
convalescence.
07:11 CO2 Bath
Main Speaker:
When used over a period of 3 weeks, the healing powers of a carbonated bath can
cause - amongst other things - the continuous regulation of blood pressure.
07:45 Mud Pack / Sauna
Main Speaker:
Deep moor clay brings relief especially to chronic musculoskeletal pain. It has mild
properties and is optimal for heating joints, tendons and muscles, and as a continued
pain reducer.
08:13 Sauna- Scene
Main Speaker:
We have inherited the sauna from ancient shamanistic purification rituals. The
modern sauna now has little to do with cult, or religion then. It has become - used in
moderation - a healthy place for pleasure and the enhancement of physical wellbeing.
08:41:23 OT Prof. Marktl, Balneologist
We know that the positive effects on ones health, when using specific healing
methods in spas can be proven - in particularly in conjunction with using medicinal
water. Psychological factors play a significant role too and the impact of relaxation,
absolute relaxation effects a significant part of the outcome of a complex
treatment. Medicinal water plays an integral role in any healthy recovery.
09:14 Histor. Pictures Bad Tatzmannsdorf
Main Speaker:
The Romans already new of the healing power of the baths in the region. They have
been economically exploited for the benefit of public health since 17 Century,
where initially the thermal water was used for drinking cures.
09:31 Fragrance-Oil-Massage
Main Speaker:
Towards the end of the 20th Century, next to the pure spa aspect the wellness ideal
enforced by the Romans started to evolve more strongly. Far Eastern relaxation
techniques, mainly based on the ancient Indian Ayurvedic principles, became more
and more fashionable in spa facilities.
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09:56 Varanasi 1 div. and University

Main Speaker:
The Benares Hindu University, Varanasi has an India Ayurveda Faculty recognized
throughout India. Through Prof. Vinod Joshi, we wanted to know what the
fundamental pillars of the old, all-encompassing health and living principles are.
10:10 OT Vinod K. Joshi (19)
The whole study theory revolves around the symbol of well-being. On principle it is
about how healthily we look after ourselves from the day we are born until our spirits
leave our earthly bodies. Thats it.
10:30 Treatment Scene
Main Speaker:
One aspect of Ayurvedic medicine is the "Pancha Karma", a comprehensive
method to purify people, in both a spiritual and a medical sense.
10:48 Fragrance-Oil-Massage Bad Tatzmannsdorf
Main Speaker:
In the modern, Western spa boom, these ancient Indian methods are being utilized.
They are elegant, expensive and - not so close to the original ...
11:09 OT Vinod K. Joshi (38)
Everything in the universe is essentially made up of the five absolute cosmic natural
elements; earth, water, fire wind and ether. Human beings too. Whether plant, metal
or organic in its make up everything in the universe drives from these five elements.
The human body, like any other body is a microcosm, an illustration of the universe.
Likewise whatever exists in the universe will find itself in a living body too.
11:51 Cleaning Scene at the Floor
Main Speaker:
The external cleaning rituals, as they shape everyday life in Hinduism, are viewed
with skepticism in Buddhism. In the monastery For Guang Shan, near the Taiwanese
city of Kaohsiung, we meet Hue Shou, an Austrian. Hue Shou has lived here as a
monk for more than a decade.
11:52:05 OT Hue Shou 1
The Bhraman always use water or other methods to clean themselves. Buddha simply
stated that this was not possible. He determined that one had to clean oneself and
ones own deeds, by that he meant one must cleanse ones actions, ones spirit and
ones speech. Only then could a person be consider pure, this could not be achieved
through the physical washing of the outer body, all that and any other rituals did not
really affect a proper cleansing.

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12:47 Buddhist Monastery further

Main Speaker:
At sunrise an impressive procession begins, the monks and nuns gather to do their
morning prayer.
The monastery was founded in 1967 by Hsing Yun, a Buddhist monk and scholar. It is
now the largest religious institution in Taiwan. The sprawling complex was a kind of
pilgrimage center for the newly awakened Chinese spirituality.
52:18 OT Hue Shou 2
We should take care of our body that is very important. We are not ascetic types,
Buddha said ascetism does not work, one does not reach enlightenment, Gluttony
doesnt work either - he chose the Buddhist middle road. However, we do need our
bodies, our bodies are our vehicle, that we need to reach a heightened level of
being... to be truly free. Therefore we have to take care of our bodies, to do so we
must follow the practices of science. If science dictates - for example like now, when
there are so many illnesses occurring in our temple community - we must wash our
hands, then we do. Or taking a temperature, so that if someone falls ill they can be
isolated. For such things we completely follow the practices of modern medicine.
There is no conflict between the old, cosmic rituals and ceremonies and modern
science.
14:42 Voiceover to the Tai Chi Practice
Main Speaker:
Tai Chi is a very popular alternative to the otherwise known secular mental health
worship. In a mixture of exercise and meditation, a strictly controlled and
complicated movement procedure causes not only a level of physical fitness but a
certain spiritual purification as well.
15:12 Temazcal Scene
Main Speaker:
On the other side of the world, in Mexico, we also see a combination of physical and
spiritual purification: ceremonial sweating, which is done much like a mundane
sauna. The erection and use of a sweat lodge, as an ancient purification ritual, is
rooted in many cultures.
It is called a Temazcalin in Central and South America. In North America, it is usually
referred to collectively as a Sweat Lodge. (The Lakota call it I-ni-pi.)
At the core of the largely similar rituals worldwide, it's always about sweating out bad
elements in the body - meaning medically and spiritually.

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16:27 Street Scene with Eduardo

Main Speaker:
A curandero is a so-called traditional healer, without professional training. He bases
his business entirely on traditional knowledge, personal experience and a good
knowledge of nature and botany. Eduardo Bustamante is a curandero. He gives us
some insight into his private world and his spiritual work.
16:58 OT Eduardo (1:11)
No it is not magic. It is more like medicine. My work is actually lovely, because it has a
lot to do with working with love of people. Hate, the inability to forgive and
unhappiness make people ill. These negative elements can cause psychosomatic
disorders. The soul gets ill, a person can even die from its effects. We work on these
illnesses using our experience, our knowledge and our abilities. We can improve
these emotional symptoms, in fact often even cure them.
New Sign
Our religion is universal. We use the essential essence of every religion. For example
the great magician Jesus. He stands for love. Quetzalcoatl personifies wisdom. Then
of course there is Buddha and Mohammed. Each one has their own specific energy.
With the help of all of these deities we are able to work better.
18:10 Limpia Scene with Eduardo
Main Speaker:
Eduardo gets his very fresh ingredients for the upcoming Limpia, the so-called
Cleansing meeting, from the market in Sonora. This is the famous Witches market of
Mexico City. It may look like any vegetable market, but it is actually the cleansing
department for the soul. Everything on offer here is for psychological well-being used
according to the old rules of Shamans and Cuarandos.
New Sign:
Limpias were also typically held by the Aztecs and Mayans. The procedure for the
meeting has remained practically unchanged for centuries. We have streamlined
the ceremony, which originally takes two hours.
19:51 Mexico City Zocalo
Main Speaker:
In the Indian civilizations of Central and South America cleanliness and hygiene were
very important. In the cult as well as in everyday life. The first encounter with the little
cultivated, probably smelly Spanish conquerors must have therefore also been quite
a shock.
20:08 OT Maria Teresa Garcia (53)
First, they must have perceived the Spanish as horrible beings, as a repulsive species.
The smell they permeated must have been like an assault on the good taste of Aztec
nobility.
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Not only because of the lack of personal hygiene - but also because of their
clothing. During that time in these cultures there were strict rules on cleanliness and
personal hygiene. Laundry was washed and changed constantly. The rulers in
particular, never wore the same piece of clothe twice. Imagine this self proclaimed
conquerors with their bad habits. That was probably difficult to reconcile. I think our
ancestors were, at least in terms of cleanliness, considerably superior to their captors.
21:07 Pictures of Templo Major and the Middle ages in Europe 1
Main Speaker:
Long before the so-called New World was conquered and had all sorts of modern
world improvements - mental and physical vile - forced upon it, large parts of the
old continent sank into dirt. Thorough washing was out of fashion and hygiene was of
no real account.
Queen Isabella of Castile and her husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon were
embroiled in a furious battle against the Moors. The queen, so the legend says,
vowed to only change her shirt after "the last of Moors had been banished from
Spain" . It is well known that this took many years - until the end of the 15th Century.
21:58 Medieval Europe 2
Main Speaker:
Before, the plague had severely depopulated most of Europe, and it fell into
poverty. Among other things, people blamed water for the spread of the Black
Death. In the cities the stinking, ever present sewage was believed to spread the
plague.
The trauma of mass death could not be overcome for a long time and so, where
they could people, avoided personal hygiene. Spiritual perception became
narrower; suspicion, denunciation and finally witchcraft and superstition however
flourished.
22:56 The Alhambra of Granada
Main Speaker:
The most singular and almost antiseptically hygienic and clean corner of the
European map was the Moorish part of Spain in Al Andalus. The Alhambra of
Granada must have seemed like the Fata Morgana of paradise. Light-filled buildings,
fragrant gardens adorned with thousands of flowers, seeming to enjoy eternal life,
fed from the ever present pure water.
23:23 Pasteur, Koch and Semmelweis
Main Speaker:
It took another three and a half centuries until hygiene was re-evaluated and
important steps to change current theories were made.

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Luis Pasteur in Paris, Robert Koch in Berlin and in Vienna, Ignaz Semmelweis were very
important forefathers of the new ideals..
With their findings, also demonstrated with practical experience, they set new
standards both in public health and hygiene. The mortality rate steadily decreased as a result of simply washing hands and in the continued use of modern methods of
sterilization and practices of today.
25:05 Old Washroom
Main Speaker:
During this time and for some years to come right into the 20th Century, integrating
cleanliness into the home meant a lot of hard work. This did not change until 1907
when the first washing powder was invented; that meant whites could be washed
without the use of bleach or a washboards.
New Sign (tot he following Spot):
Half a century later a new chapter was thus opened in German daily life was started.
25:08:12 First German TV-Spot
Dear (esteemed) television viewers, you know of the existing methods the advertising
industry has made use of so far, to bring their goods to consumers? Well here comes
the newest and most modern form of marketing - advertising on television.
Woman: Xaver! Look what you have done again. You really are a dirty....
Man: Dont you dare say it..we are not at home.
Woman: Well you are behaving like you were at home. If I was the owner of the pub,
oh my goodness!
Man: Yeah and what if you WERE the owner?
Woman: Id throw you out.
Publican: Ladies! Gents! Oh, oops sorry. Giselle a serviette!
Man: Well excuse me!
Publican: Oh please! Things like that can happen. Well thank goodness, for things like
that we have Persil
26:34Henkel-Company, Vienna
Main Speaker:
Washing detergents have been produced in Viennas third district for over 80 years.
This traditional industrial base is also the control center for the supply of household
cleaning products in more than 30 countries in Central and Eastern Europe.
38:21 OT Martina Steinberger-Voracek
That which was perceived as clean 40 or 50 years ago probably no longer would be.
Or maybe there is even a reverse trend, that too much hygiene - yes that is also a
thought - is not even really wanted. And I reckon, well Id like to suggest at least, that
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countries that we work with from here have different levels of development, and thus
cleanliness and hygiene is interpreted and felt about in different terms.
27:28 (immediately thereafter)
Main Speaker:
That senses of smell vary differently from culture to culture is very obvious...
28:13:13 Johann Seiff
Detergents are not only used for cleaning purposes only - at least that should not be
their only role. They should also be consumer friendly and easy to use, creating less
work. You mentioned that earlier one had to cook washing; this was a very work
intensive process, these things fall on the wayside now. So along with the cleanliness,
the white one must always achieve, there are also the end-users. Detergents must be
always be consumer friendly, it plays a big role.
28:02 Test laundering facility
Main Speaker:
In Vienna household dirt, whether it comes from Middle Europe, the Balkans or the far
east of Europe, is given no chance of survival in the washing laboratory.
28:55:16 OT Walter Heberlein
Dirty smears on clothing, represent the biggest, most problematic stains you can find
in a household. With this we mean, stained shirt collars, soiling from different fruits like
blackcurrant or blueberry, or even e.g. baby food, red wine and lipstick. These items
are washed in our washing experiments, then the washed items are measured, and
residue stains are compared so we can determine which washing powder has the
better dirt removing power.
29:03 Laundry in Mumbai
Main Speaker:
A large industrial laundry facility in Mumbai, here laundry is washed according to a
clearly defined set of rules, that the casual observer would not notice. This is done for
hospitals, hotels and also for private households. One hears, so far there has never
been any confusion as to which customer gets which laundry returned.
29:49before the montage to the Overkill at Hygiene:
Main Speaker:
Elsewhere, in turn, there is a real overkill in terms of the fight against dirt and what
one might consider dirt to be. Too much hygiene also causes physical vulnerability
and leads to a huge increase in allergies.
30:16 Montage to the fragrance of the Cleanliness
Main Speaker:
The scent of nature only has a chance when it is plagiarized and comes in a bottle.
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Just before OT
Main Speaker:
The potency of artificiality is soundly used.
31:32:04 OT Frank M. Rittler
One cannot simply catch a clean smell, primarily it depends on the product. For
example take washing up liquid; a lemon fragrance is still considered the most clean
smell in Europe, yet lemon in Italy is not the same as lemon in Germany or say lemon
in Spain. Yet it is a lemon smell. If I were to create e.g. a lemony smell for washing
powder, that would not be accepted by the consumer.
31:24 Essences and Scene toilet test
Main Speaker:
The fact that we are sensitive, albeit unconsciously, to strong signals we receive from
smell has been effectively used and turned into a seductive science by consumer
goods producers. Their main job? Testing, tinkering and sniffing.
32:23:08 OT Frank M. Rittler 2
A per fumier goes through life with an open nose, to determine, I suggest, what is
clean, which smells do which cultures like most. It also depends of course on which
society I have grown up in. The French the Mediterranean countries have grown up
predominantly with herbs and spices. They have completely different imprint to us
Germans. We are not herb oriented. That is of course reflected in our cuisine, and
other cultures like completely different smells for that reason.
32:22 Nightmarket in Taipeh
Main Speaker:
Immersed in the famous night market of Taipei, you can experience a different
culture and an olfactory crescendo, that - the farther you advance into the market can increase so much as to cause a level of anesthesia.
32:54 Ratpoison-Dealer
Main Speaker:
Then, amidst the many strange edibles, there is still a surprise. Free and fully
convinced of his hygienic mission a dealer sells open insect and rat poison.
33:21 Montage- mountains of waste
Main Speaker:
The mountains of rubbish reach to the skies. Waste management is a rough business.
Heavy equipment and precisely coordinated logistics are needed so that we are not
engulfed by our own dirt.

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33:57 Rubbish in Naples

Main Speaker:
Literally astounding, like in the Middle Ages, and probably dangerous, when the
waste builds up in the streets of Naples. All this because a policy, caught up in the
machinations of organized crime, failed.
34:15 Road sweeper in Vienna
Main Speaker:
Do the Viennese have the ambition, if wanted - we asked of a street cleaner - to
excel even above the manic cleanliness one finds in Singapore?
34:29 OT SR Thon
One acts as if Singapore is only clean because of the fines one pays there for
unclean behavior. This is absolutely not true, those fines are only set up for the tourists.
The residents of Singapore are clean, it is part of their cultural heritage. Ownership of
responsibility has long been the norm there. Other cities like Calcutta have more
pressing problems than cleanliness - if I have no idea when I will next get food I really
have more important issues to deal with.
34:52Streetlife India
Main Speaker:
Most of the inhabitants of Indian, and also African or South American, cities regulate
their day according to the rhythms of their fight for survival. The sometimes
hysterically, high bench mark of Western hygiene interests them little.
35:08:07 OT SR Thon
So where do we want to go? We want to be the cleanest city in Europe, in fact
ideally of the whole world - simply because I feel it contributes to our whole quality of
life. If things are clean, you simply feel safer, then you can walk through the
meadow, sit in the meadow, you can sit anywhere and simply feel great. That is the
whole purpose of the Viennese.
35:33 Nighttime driving rubbish collection yesterday, today
Main Speaker:
That is why day after day, before the grey light of dawn, a technically well equipped
army goes out and fights the piles of rubbish - to keep the cities clean.
Hardly had the rubble, caused by Second World War bombs, been cleared away,
than cities - with a eye on Health and hygiene - were told to do a general spring
clean.
Slowly the rubbish created by the prosperity of the Economic Miracle became the
new enemy. More efficient equipment and methods of waste management have
been developed to address these issues.

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Today Vienna is among one of the cleanest and healthiest cities in the world. Has this
fact also influenced the environmental awareness of the population? Has the
individual responsibility to the common good - as far as cleanliness and hygiene are
concerned - risen as a result?
36:50:17 SR Thon 3
They are not resistant to advice, you have to say it, a few hardliners have died out,
you can say that, they dont exist anymore. What we have however achieved in the
last years, and this where many generations failed, is the fight against dog
excrement. Well our old city mayor, old Dr. Zilk said, that the only thing he had failed
on, the one issue he had not resolved was dog excrement on the streets. I think we
have already come a long way. We are not there yet, but with have made a good
start. If over 50,000 plastic bags are filled a day and thrown into bins then that is a
success we could not have dreamed of 3 years ago.
37:18 Dog Scene with Waste Watchers
Main Speaker:
It is not as drastic as in Singapore, but some of the Townhall Troops, so-called Waste
Watchers, go out on the streets and address guilty culprits. They have a particularly
beedy eye on undisciplined dog owners. The little beasts, no matter how cute or
small create about 10 tons of waste a day!
37:48 Montage Toilet- Today and Yesterday
Main Speaker:
High tech and elegance surround us today, whilst complying with our unchanged,
human needs. The road to the First Class Toilet was long and colorful.
39:00 Sewage Works Vienna
Main Speaker:
The legacy of our civilization is not only solid waste disposal. As complex as waste
management, is the disposal and recycling of waste water. Here, too modern,
environmentally friendly technology is in use. Today; ponds, lakes and streams are
largely spared from the debris of civilization.
39:28 Gnsehufel New and b/w-Pictures
Main Speaker:
And so the Danube with all its estuaries, even in the urban areas of towns and cites, is
clean and does not cause concern with regards to hygiene. The whole river is a
popular recreation area, as it was more than 100 years ago when the famous
Gnsehufel - which started as a private initiative - was turned over to the
management of the Vienna Council.

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39:53 historical b/w. Pictures and film scenes

Main Speaker:
Florian Berndl was the man to thank for the "Gnsehufel. He was one of the first
nature apostles, with a passionate enthusiasm for "air, light and sun. "
This catchy hygiene-slogan became the creed of urban policy and social medicine
in the fight against diseases such as tuberculosis in the 20s.
With its extensive green spaces and numerous, then ultra-modern, hygienic
infrastructure facilities, the beach was hardly comparable to any municipal
recreation area in Europe, in the early 20 Century.
40:51 Gnsehufel nowadays,. Montage 2
Main Speaker:
During the last days of April, the bath is "cleaned up "for the new season. On opening
day the regulars are already waiting, regardless of weather and temperatures.
42:14:00 OT SR Teubenbacher
In reality the needs have changed completely, we have developed into a services
provider society that stands for stands for leisure, recreation, adventure sports and
swimming. Consequentially the facilities we have changed too. We have more open
air and indoor pools than before, and the childrens open air pools that were first
built in the 1920s, or around then, exist still too. We call it a Family Pool. These are
basically small, public, open air swimming pools. In the old days they were called
childrens Pools because children were admitted free of charge, that still happens
today - but in reality they are tiny open air pools that exist in densely populated
areas.
42:30 Summer Open Air Pools - Assembly 3
Main Speaker:
The communal Wellness Oasis have developed, with time, into well functioning
places of multi-cultural mingling.
Hardly noticed by visitors, behind the scenes at the public swimming pools are
specialists who work to ensure safety and that a high standard of hygiene is
controlled and guaranteed
New Sign:
For several years already it possible of pensioners or people with handicaps to visit
these public baths and enjoy the relaxing facilities they provide.

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44:21 End of Season

Main Speaker:
The season ends traditionally in the middle of September. At this time the
preparations for a much needed winter hybernation are completed. During the
summer the social and hygienic biotope that is Gnsehufel has been taken to the
extremes of its abilities. Now the water, even the flora and forna, has time to rest so
that the powers of nature can once again be enjoyed by visitors next spring.
45:20 Trpferlbad b/w-Scenes
Main Speaker:
One of the great social achievements of Vienna during the 20s, was the
establishment of a series of city swimming pools. These served, because bathrooms
were very rare in private homes, primarily as a place for taking care of personal
hygiene.
Because of their shower cubicles these important health institutions were often
referred to as "Potty bath in the vernacular.
47:15 Passage to Amalienbad
Main Speaker:
In the middle of a traditionally working class districts stands a monument to Viennese
City Hygiene - the Amalienbad (pool)
The elegant interior Art-Deco design, and the - for those times - leading technical
equipment (for example there was a moving glass roof) made the pool not just
attraction for the public. It became a model for other such institutions in Europe.
47:38:05 OT SR Teubenbacher
With the onslaught of Red Vienna, there was a major upturn in public swimming
baths. The highpoint of this was the opening of the Amalienbad in 1926. If you study
the architecture now, it is considered a listed building, it reminds one in many ways of
a Roman Spa. Originally it didnt just have a swimming pool and steam bath, but its
other function included the shower and bath whose sole purpose was for cleansing.
48:36 Amalienbad interior cont.
Main Speaker:
At the end of the Second World War the pool that had been badly destroyed by
bombings, was rebuilt to its original design. It shined with new/old glory for the first
time in 1986 after the building went through a 7 year renovation.
Today it is barely visited solely for cleansing purposes. However, as a training pool for
athletic swimming it is more popular than ever.

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49:05 Roman bath / Wash scene in India

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From the healing Temple of Asclepius to the elegant baths of the Romans, from the
purification ceremonies by priests and healers, to the banks of the Ganges, where
the washing of the body and praying to gods literally go hand in hand: Holy, pure
and clean is a physical and psychological triad that unites all our cultures. With and
without a thought given to profit.
49:46 Start Pilatus-Scene
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One can get rid of dirt in many ways. This deep rooted, primeval wish is cemented in
a well known scene played out two thousand years ago in Jerusalem. How often do
we need to wash our hands - as Pontius Pilate once did - in the hope that the water
will wash us clean of guilt?
50:35 Credits
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