The new documentary series “Second Move Kills – 5 years with Jens Spahn” was released on RTL+ on Wednesday. Director and producer Aljoscha Pause (“Tom Meets Zizou”, “Being Mario Götze”) spent more than five years with CDU politician Jens Spahn.
After more than 120 days of shooting and a year of editing, a total of nine episodes were created, which depict the not undisputed corona crisis manager in his position as Minister of Health during a pandemic and privately.
Filming began long before the corona pandemic
At the beginning of the shooting, he was not aware that director Pause would unplannedly capture a precarious social situation and the election of Spahn as Minister of Health with his new project: “The first day of shooting with Spahn was June 13, 2017. A ministerial future was in the Stars, a pandemic was not foreseeable.”
On “TVNow” it says about the filming: “The documentary about the CDU politician Jens Spahn accompanies him during private and public appearances over the past five years. In addition to his home and workplace in Germany, the destinations of Spahn’s frequent trips abroad, e.g. B. to Rome, Brussels or Paris to the most important locations of the series. In addition to Spahn, many other prominent politicians and journalists are also involved in this production by Aljoscha Pause. These include Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Wolfgang Schäuble, Friedrich Merz, Annalena Baerbock and Karl Lauterbach as well as Eva Quadbeck, Markus Feldenkirchen and Robin Alexander.”
With “We will have to forgive each other a lot: How the pandemic has changed us – and what it teaches us for the future. Inside insights into a crisis” Spahn already published his book about crisis management and the ongoing pandemic in September 2022. Pause’s documentation now also shows Spahn’s work during this time in pictures.
Aljoscha Pause’s past projects
“Second Move Kills – 5 years with Jens Spahn” was not the first long-term documentary by Grimme award winner Pause. With “Like a Stranger – A German Pop Music History”, the five-part series about Roland Meyer de Voltaire, the man behind the Schwarz music project, was released in 2020. In it, he outlined the ups and downs of the musician over a period of six years, whose big breakthrough was prophesied with his band Voltaire at the time, but that didn’t happen. Pause recently released the long-term documentary “Art Is A State Of Mind” about the ex-business lawyer Bernhard Zünkeler, who became an artist.
Jens Spahn can currently also be seen as a guest in episode 1 of the seventh season of Kurt Krömer’s talk show “Chez Krömer”.