This October, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles will host the touring exhibition Brilliant Dilletantes – Subculture in Germany in the 1980s.

Curated by Mathilde Weh, (Visual Arts, Goethe-Institut, Munich), this multimedia exhibition presents the most comprehensive survey of German subculture of the 1980’s to date and includes, photos, posters, albums and cassettes, as well videos and an interactive sound station offering samples music from the bands Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft/D.A.F., Der Plan, Die Tödliche Doris, Einstürzende Neubauten, Freiwillig Selbstkontrolle/ F.S.K., Ornament und Verbrechen, and Palais Schaumburg.

Preceding the exhibition’s opening, documentary, experimental, and feature films focusing on this era of artistic freedom will be presented at the Goethe-Institut.

PLEASE NOTE: ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE OF CHARGE. ALL FILMS ARE IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Location

GOETHE-INSTITUT
5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Tickets FREE OF CHARGE

Information:

323.525.3388 or http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/los/ver/en14689150v.htm

Flüstern und Schreien: ein Rock Report (Whisper & Scream)
East Germany (DDR), 1988, 120 min., digital. Dir. Dieter Schumann
Music: André + Die Firma, Chicorée, Die Zöllner, Feeling B, Sandow, Silly and This Pop Generation.

Shot in 35mm shortly before the fall of the Berlin wall, and playing to over one million viewers in sold-out theaters in East Germany, Schumann’s film remains a cultfilm among music fans who grew up on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In many ways a roadmovie, the film follows well-established bands like Silly as well as underground rock bands like Feeling B as they tour through the GDR. Clips from concerts and interviews with fans and members of André + Die Firma, Chicorée, Die Zöllner, Feeling B (whose members Christian Lorenz and Paul Landers would form the Band Rammstein), Sandow, Silly and This Pop Generation, present an extremely candid view of this often overlooked music scene. The camera captures young people using music as an outlet to express their take on life, opposition to their parents’ generation, and opinions on the political and social climate. The film shows that similar to their cohorts in Western Germany, East German youth used music as vehicle for rebellion, even within the strict social confines of East Germany.