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In our film series Music Matters: Soundtrack Germany in the films of Oliver Schwabe
we present in cooperation with the Zentralbibliothek Düsseldorf the documentary film
ASI WITH NIWOH - THE JÜRGEN ZELTINGER STORY
(D 2018, director: Oliver Schwabe, 90 min.)
followed by a discussion with Jürgen Zeltinger and Oliver Schwabe, moderated by Sven-André Dreyer
on Tuesday, 11.11.2025 at 6.30 pm in the Herzkammer-Saal of the Central Library, Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1.
Admission is free, seating is limited!
He drank with Lemmy from Motörhead and was briefly in prison. He was a street musician, redneck, weirdo, fag and, above all, always a rebel - Jürgen Zeltinger is a Cologne icon. With his band, he covered Lou Reed and the Ramones in Kölsch in the 80s, and his socially critical songs such as Sozialamt are still celebrated today. The film shows the veteran rocker on tour, delves into the archives and interviews friends and companions such as Wolfgang Niedecken and Heiner Lauterbach about "de Plaat", as Zeltinger is known in the scene. Oliver Schwabe tells the fascinating story of the fat, bald street urchin with the short fuse who still rocks. "Asi mit Niwoh" - the somewhat different home movie.
With Jürgen Zeltinger, Dennis Kleimann, Arno Steffen, Wolfgang Niedecken, Heiner Lauterbach, Christian Kahrmann, the Zeltinger Band and others.
"Schwabe's films tell far more often and more about the circumstances and circumstances of making music than about the musicians themselves. That's what makes the films so convincingly likeable" (taz)
Keywords
Documentary film
Goethe Institute
Cologne
Kölschrock
Music movie
Pop culture
queer