PHOTO: © W. Gladow
Scherbenland - Ton Steine Scherben und der Kreuzberger Sound der Gegenwart
In the organizer's words:
With RAPK, Maike Rosa Vogel, Rio Reiser. Documentary film by Lutz Pehnert and Ferdinand Hübner. Now in the movie theater Zukunft.
"Scherbenland" tells the story of a band whose first album began with the question: "Why am I in such a mess?" - and about a city that was changed by their songs. At the beginning of the 1970s, Kreuzberg became a field of experimentation for a counterculture. With songs like "Macht kaputt, was euch kaputt macht", "Alles verändert sich" and "Der Traum ist aus", Ton Steine Scherben gave a generation a voice. Their music accompanied squats, political struggles and the search for a different life.
The film follows the traces of this time and asks: What has remained of this awakening? And what happens when the hymns of the Scherben meet the songs of the present? In today's Berlin, "Scherbenland" meets musicians whose songs tell of life in the neighborhood - including the rap trio RAPK and songwriter Maike Rosa Vogel. Their music emerges from the everyday life of a district that moves between myth, gentrification and new cultural energy. A film about music and poetry as resistance - then and now. And about the question of whether both still have the power to change a city.
