schuppel-films

Germany 2009, 91 min
by Uli M. Schueppel

At noon on December 21st, 1989 the members of EINSTUERZENDE NEUBAUTEN – a band then hailedas West-German cult export – hit the road in West Berlin for their very first concert in East Berlin,capital of the GDR.And as yet, it is a long, unusual way from Berlin Kreuzberg to Berlin Lichtenberg, into the WilhelmPieck-Hall of the industrial plant VEB Elektrokohle. As yet there is the wall and as yet there are bordercontrols…Filmmaker Uli M Schueppel, a friend of the band, accompanied EINSTUERZE