[WHO THE FUCK WAS] HORST KÖNIGSTEIN WAS HERE!

Sunday, May 14, 2023, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Filmhaus Köln, Maybachstr. 111, 50670 Cologne. Horst Königstein, who died on May 12, 2013, brought rock music to German television, invented the docudrama, wrote lyrics for Udo Lindenberg and translated those of Peter Gabriel into German, produced a wickedly satirical annual review for NDR for many years, staged melodramas in the California desert, made theater and directed more than 30 films. - As an editor at NDR, he was involved in over 500 programs, including many that would never have existed without him. His message in a bottle, as Dominik Graf once said in his film "Es werde Stadt! 50 Years of the Grimme Prize", promises: "It's about television in freedom and openness and about putting down mental fences. It's about the destruction of bureaucracy. It's about mixing avant-garde and popularity. It's simply about improving the world! Brace yourselves friends!" - The film that Jan Bonny and Oliver Schwabe made about him in 2010, with Matthias Brandt and Tom Schilling as Horst Königstein, can be seen: "I, RINGO UND DAS TOR ZUR WELT" (2010, 86 min.). At the same time, people remember him and his work.