A documentary about the legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday (1915-1959).  There exist many myths and legends about the Jazz Singer Billie Holiday — one of the greatest voices of the last century. Most of them tell the story of the tragic victim of drugs, alcohol, men, color, or the circumstances of her upbringing. To some extent she contributed herself to these legends, especially in her autobiography "Lady Sings the Blues". In recent years, more and more records and reports have shown a different picture of her. These statements of confidants, colleagues and friends clean up with many of the legends and show a strong personality who has been anything but a pitiable victim. Billie Holiday was a strong-willed and determined person and a very complex personality who did not correspond to the classic victim type.

Billie Holiday: A Sensation

Everybody has an opinion or a story to tell about their manager. Most of the time our impressions are not that positive. In a survey conducted by the Munich based Geva Institute it has been reported that in Germany about 88 percent of the workers have problems with their superiors. One in five confessed even to hate the person that they were accountable to. As a result, almost 70 percent of employees have said they take very little to no pleasure from their work, 18 percent have withdrawn internally from their work and colleagues and only 12 percent are actually motivated to carry out their work. Why is that so? What went wrong? And what are the abilities a boss or manager of a global company has to have or seems not to have anymore? EGOnomics looks to answer these questions through a critique of neoliberalism. The film attempts to show how the ideology of neoliberalism is deeply flawed: showing it as presiding over the relentless expansion of free market economics and the belief in endless growth, regardless if this growth is in fact negative. In order to examine how neoliberalism operates the documentary interviews a range of characters from scientists, psychologists, and CEOs, like Paul Bulcke from Nestlé.

EGOnomics

Ella Fitzgerald's voice is a phenomenon and unrivalled to this day. She had the perfect pitch and perfect intonation. Ella's voice spanned three octaves, her phrasing seemed effortless. There is almost no style of music, in which she did not excel, and her numerous - now legendary - recordings of the 'Great American Songbook' with pieces of US composers such as George and Ira Gershwin, Harald Arlen, Cole Porter or Duke Ellington, remained a benchmark for the "right" interpretation of those songs for generations of singers. In the film the focus will be on the voice of Ella Fitzgerald. We want to unravel the secret of her voice through many different people (musicians, singers, critics etc.), who will tell about what impact her voice had on them and still has. We want to learn more about Ella´s life to find out what made her sing like she did and only she could.