Synopsis
Hat, sunglasses, don't panic: That's Udo Lindenberg, one of the greatest German singers and musicians. The film traces the life and career of the German rock star in very personal conversations with close friends and long-time companions, members of his "panic family". Udo's life is one with ups and downs: the film portrait of Susanne Gliffe and Coco Quast tells of his family background and his beloved mother Hermine, growing up in Gronau and the first band together with his best and longest friend Steffi Stephan, with Udo Lindenberg founded the legendary panic orchestra in 1973. It's is about his first great career, the low, the crash, the "forgotten" in the 1990s and of course the meteoric comeback in 2008 and Udo today, a still curious, alert, interested, social and highly musical perfectionist and human being. He was the first to sing rock with German lyrics After the Second World War, Udo Lindenberg rediscovered the German language for music other than Schlager and poured it into serious and unaffected lyrics. He was the first to sing rock with German lyrics and thus paved the way for many subsequent musicians. With his honest texts, Udo gave generations of young people support in difficult phases and shaped many a figure of speech with intelligent wit. Udo Lindenberg is a phenomenon, a legend and a personality that is admired and revered by many people for courage and honesty. A creative individualist, full professional and philanthropist. His admirers and fans come from all walks of life and ages. Udo Lindenberg was one of the first to really care about German reunification, ahead of many politicians. Udo has always remained open and interested, never aloof, always friendly, he gives young musicians space, successfully plays his songs with them and enjoys their utmost respect. Udo Lindenberg: He keeps reinventing himself Udo Lindenberg succeeds in constantly reinventing himself while remaining true to himself. A lesser known public is Udo Lindenberg's commitment to young German-speaking musicians with the Panic Prize he created and the work of his foundation for the youth project Hinterm Horizont macht Schule, in which pupils sing, dance and act in a musical and thus gain courage and self-confidence and at the same time learn a lot about German-German history. The film also shows this side of the artist. Udo Lindenberg is Udo Lindenberg: a real "brand" with a hat, panic, eggnog, green socks and an unmistakable silhouette, now almost his own monument. However, a very lively monument full of ideas that is far from thinking about quitting, not even in Corona times, and would like to join the "Club of 100-year-olds". In this film, his oldest friend and co-founder of the Panikorchester Steffi Stephan, the producer of his first major successes, Thomas Kukuck, his friends Ulrich Waller and Corny Littmann, with whom Udo Lindenberg produced the musical "Hinterm Horizont" and Panik City created Also present: the panic orchestra singers Nathalie Dorra and Ole Feddersen, the musician friends Jan Delay, Johannes Oerding and Sebastian Krumbiegel, his outfitter, "the tsarina" Niko Kazal, the label boss and friend Rita Fl\u00fcgge-Timm, Olivia Jones, the saxophonist and Foundation employee Noah Fischer, singer and Panic Prize winner Ina Bredehorn and Lindenberg's friend and fan, Hamburg's Mayor Peter Tschentscher.
