Scherbenland

In the organizer's words:

Ton Steine Scherben and the Kreuzberg sound of the present. With RAPK, Maike Rosa Vogel, Rio Reiser. Documentary film by Lutz Pehnert and Ferdinand Hübner. From May 02 at the Zukunft cinema

"Scherbenland" tells the story of a band whose first album began with the question: "Why am I so dirty?" - 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.

Scherbenland - From May 02 at the Zukunft cinema