Leibniz Auf der Suche nach der Weltformel

300 years before globalized communication and long before Facebook and Instagram Leibniz had friends all over the world more than 1300 mail partners For the cultural scientist Joseph Vogl from the Humboldt University in Berlin Leibnizs way of working was something of an information processing machine Most of his estate is in Hanover where Leibniz worked as a librarian and consultant at the Dukes court for 40 years Leibniz has written so much in his life that so far only a part of the total of 200000 pages has been recorded and published It is expected that everything will be edited in 2055 Who was this Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz who said of himself Whoever knows me only from my published writings does not know me The film searches for Leibniz as a person The documentary portrays the genius Leibniz in his time and always brings him back to our present Different people have their say and their work would not be possible without Leibniz