Jonas Engelmann

In the organizer's words:

The Hamburg School. A legendary music scene, an interesting and recently hotly debated pop phenomenon. How do the "(fellow) students" or any "teachers" today view the music scene that developed in the bars, practice rooms and concert halls of the Hanseatic city from the mid-1980s onwards?

At a time when Deutschpunk was becoming more blunt and Neue Deutsche Welle more pop, something new and unique emerged somewhere in between. Gradually, the German-language, intellectual discourse pop emerged, which became the trademark - and cliché - of the Hamburg School and led bands such as Blumfeld, Die Sterne and Tocotronic to national fame.

"Der Text ist meine Party" accompanies numerous artists on their journey from the provinces to Hamburg. Many of the musicians had learned self-empowerment and the do-it-yourself ethos in the punk scene and founded bands and recording studios, labels and concert venues.

The diversity of Hamburg's music scene in recent decades is described by, among others: Bernd Begemann, Myriam Brüger (L'Age D'Or), Ale Dumbsky (Buback), Ebba & Jakobus Durstewitz (JaKönigJa), Charlotte Goltermann (L'Age D'Or), Carsten Hellberg (Ostzonensuppenwürfelmachenkrebs), Bernadette La Hengst (Die Braut haut ins Auge), Oliver Hörr (Boy Division), Bernd Kroschewski (Boy Division, Hrubesch Youth), Tobias Levin (Cpt. Kirk &.), Dirk von Lowtzow (Tocotronic), Jan Müller (Tocotronic), Hans Nieswandt (Whirlpool Productions), Carol and Chris von Rautenkranz, Knarf Rellöm (Huah!), Frank Spilker (Die Sterne), Linus Volkmann, Rebecca 'Nixe' Walsh, Frank Werner (Fast Weltweit), Thorsten 'Taucher' Wessel (Ostzonensuppenwürfelmachenkrebs).