Baumgart still gets the subsequent international break. He wants to change the system, Kuntz recalls. The HSV leads 2-0 against Schalke at halftime. The film team is allowed to go into the cabin again: the mood there looks tense and the pressure seems to be great. Schalke strikes back in the second half, the HSV plays terrifyingly weak – it ends 2: 2.
Stefan Kuntz is the disappointment in the documentary when he says of the decisive conversation with Steffen Baumgart: “He said to me: ‘Yes, Stefan, what do you want to say now? That the team is not performing, the coach is responsible for this. I am the coach, so I am responsible. I can understand if you say to me that we want to try something else.’
Kuntz finally ends Baumgart’s HSV chapter briefly and painlessly: “Yes. We want to try something else.” After only 278 days in office, the childhood dream of the trainer has dreamed of.
“Always Hamburg-Hope. Pain.”: All six parts of the documentation will be available for access from Friday, August 22nd, in the ZDF media library. On Wednesday, August 27th, ZDF will show the first episode on TV from 11 p.m. and from 1 a.m. episodes 2 to 6.
Note: The author of this text is neither related nor confused with Jonas Boldt.