A Matter of Life and Death: History of Hygiene

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.

• Claudia SpodenDirector
• Christian FeyerabendDirector
• Claudia SpodenWriter
• Christian FeyerabendWriter

• Tobias MeisterSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Karl-Heinz LevenSelf - Medicine Historian
• Klaus BergdoltSelf - Medicine Historian
• Mathieu Da VinhaSelf - Historian
• Harald SeifertSelf - Microbiologist
• Klaus VogelSelf - Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Director