Martin Beiter: For a Modern Besmenia

Martin Beiter: For a Modern Besmenia Martin Beiter: Für ein modernes Besmenien
Directed by	Karsten Köch
Screenplay by	Karsten Köch
Produced by	Bettina Steinmann
Edited by	Matthias Pflug
Production companies	BRF DF-Film
Distributed by	DF-Film
Release date	6th July 2022
Running time	1h 19min
Country	Besmenia
Language	Besmenian
Budget	BS 4 million

Martin Beiter: For a Modern Besmenia (Besmenian:Martin Beiter: Für ein modernes Besmenia), is a 2022 Besmenian documentary about the life and politics of the former Besmenian Premier Martin Beiter.

Synopsis

The film documents the life and political career of Martin Beiter. The documentation shows important places in Beiter's life, archive photos and interviews with contemporaries. Rare old home videos of the Beiter family are also shown for the first time.

Martin Beiter is born on January 10, 1945 as the only child of the entrepreneur Leopold Beiter (1904-1989) and the housewife Greta Beiter (née Helbeing) (1907-1994) in the capital of Metakumburg Behringen. Between 1951 and 1955, Beiter attended the elementary school and from 1955 to 1961 the regular school in Behringen.

Beiter won a seat for the 14th Besmenian Federal Chamber on the Metakumburgian FBBP's state list in the 1972 Besmenian federal election. During his time as a member of parliament, he was particularly known as an excellent speaker and opponent of the blue-orange coalition led by Robert Gleitzmann. He found high recognition among senior FBBP politicians such as Jürgen Rothmann (FBBP chairman, 1968-1980) and Günther Traubert (Vice President of the Federal Chamber, 1976-1980). After the resignation of Roland Wasste, the chairman of the FBBP parliamentary group in the Federal Chamber, Beiter was appointed his successor in 1979.

After Jürgen Rothmann announced on July 10, 1979 that he would resign from the FBBP chairmanship in 1980 and not run as candidate for prime minister for the 1980 election, on July 15, 1979, during a press conference, Beiter announced that he would be for the office of FBBP chairman to apply. He competed against Theoberg Braun and Georg Wallmann. The election took place at the FBBP convention on March 22, 1980. With around 532 out of a total of 970 votes, Beiter achieved an absolute majority and was thus elected as the new party chairman and prime minister candidate of the FBBP.

The 1980 election campaign was dominated by the feud between Beiter and Gleitzmann. Beiter criticized Gleitzmann's resistance to Besmenian's accession to the Coalition of Crown Albatross, while Gleitzmann criticized Beiter for being too young. After the election, a minority government was formed with the Social Democratic Union. In the 1981, 1985, and 1989 elections, the FBBP-SDU coalition is reestablished. His 10-year premiership, was marked by a modernization of the Besmenian society. Also under Beiter, Besmenia became a member of the Coalition of Crown Albatross in 1982, and was a co-founder of the Alliance of Nortuan States in 1989.

During an election campaign for the 1991 Maurenmark state election on May 5, 1991 in Melmingen, Beiter was assassinated] by the mentally ill Michael-Joe Lammer with two revolver shots. In the hospital in Melmingen, Beiter is declared dead. His death causes grief in Besmenia and internationally.

Interviewed contemporary witness

• Astrid Beiter, widow of Martin Beiter
• Rudolf Hemmel, historian
• Otto Schulz, President of Besmenia (1985-1997)
• Doris Brunt-Klammer, Vice Premier of Besmenia (1983-1993)
• Frank Holgfuß, historian
• Heinz Maurich, Federal Minister for Justice (1985-1993)
• Renate Knassel, political scientist