Time recordings shows protagonists of our time. Encounters with people from the fields of art, culture, science and politics. They give our time a face and fuel social discourse. Werner Bartsch portrays her in his characteristic, clear style. It is a photographic dialogue and a subjective inventory. Bartsch visited Gerhard Richter in his studio, the musician Cro at home in Stuttgart, met veterans such as Reinhold Messner, Jürgen Habermas and Otto Waalkes, as well as techno icon Ellen Allien, presenter Dunja Hayali and the video artist Hito Steyerl.