"He shows their insecurity and embarrassment, their petrification and aggression. He raises an objection to the common reporting of the media. This objection is necessary and constructive because it counteracts a comfortable and frivolous exclusion." (Laudatory speech for the 1992 Documentary Film Award at the Duisburg Film Week) "Stau is a film against clichés, against enemy images too, a film that neither makes an opinion nor confirms one. This is how documentary cinema must be, moving and unsettling." (Hans Schifferle, "Süddeutsche Zeitung")