Trailer
Year
2008
Length
43 min
Director
Birgit Herdlitschke
Blixa Bargeld – My Life
Pieces of machines, chainsaws and jackhammers were the instruments, metal pipes and scrap metal served as alternative percussion. The stage of the “Einstürzende-Neubauten” concert looked like a building site. Right in the center their front singer – one of the most dazzling persons in the history of German music: Blixa Bargeld.
Nobody embodied the awareness of life of the West Berliner punk- and dilettante scence in the early 80s as Blixa Bargeld. Nobody else was so beat-up, so demonic and at the same time so inventive. Even today Blixa Bargeld is known as the head and front singer of “Einstürzende-Neubauten”, although he is a multi-talent and has never restricted himself to being only a musician.
Since the beginning of the 80s Bargeld has worked in all branches of performing arts. In radio plays and movies, theatre productions, concerts, performances and installations. He is singer and actor, director and author, musician, poet and above all: experimenter.
Like he says: „I am everything that is possible and anything in between.“ Blixa Bargeld is an art character.
We retrace the stations of his three centuries long artistic career and accompany Blixa to the current places of his artistic work. His residences are spread over three continents – San Francisco, Peking and Berlin – the basic for his worldwide operations until nowadays is his native city Berlin.
Director
Birgit Herdlitschke
Camera
Ingo Brenner
Patrick Meyer-Clement
Sound
Bianka Schulze
Timothy Benton
Editor
Carsten „Peewee“ Piefke
Head of Production
Julie Schrader
Daniela Schöne
Maria Wischnewski
Executive Producer
Christian Beetz
Commissioning Editor
Ann-Christin Hornberger
Sales & distribution
- Press kit
- Press photos
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„Just in diesem Moment überraschen uns die aus dem Theaterbereich stammenden jungen Regisseure Hans Block und Moritz Riesewieck mit einem erstaunlichen Dokumentarfilm, der seit Monaten Publikum und Kritik auf den wichtigsten Festivals der Welt elektrisiert. Völlig zu Recht: Es ist, als würden einem die Scheuklappen weggerissen, als sähe man das, was sich seit Jahren direkt vor unseren Augen abspielt, zum ersten Mal unverschleiert... eine fesselnde ,Doku noir' mit höchstem Anspruch...Dieser Film müsste an allen Schulen gezeigt werden.“
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
17.05.2018
