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Schwabe, O., 2026 Freddy Quinn.
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In the film series Music Matters: Soundtrack Germany in the Films of Oliver Schwabe
the Goethe-Institut Düsseldorf in cooperation with the Central Library Düsseldorf presents
the documentary film
FREDDY QUINN and the eternal longing
(D 2014, Director: Oliver Schwabe, 60 min.)
followed by a discussion with Oliver Schwabe,
Moderated by Sven-André Dreyer
on Wednesday, 18.03.2026 at 18:30 in the Herzkammer-Saal of the Central Library,
Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1.
Admission is free.
A documentary about Freddy Quinn - perhaps the first German pop star.
Freddy Quinn is a phenomenon: in show business for almost 60 years and with ten number one hits
between 1956 and 1966, he is still one of the best-known German stars. An Austrian who is sold as a
sailor and becomes famous. But since 2009 he has disappeared. He no longer gives interviews,
he no longer performs. Just as he appeared out of nowhere in Hamburg in the early 50s, he now seems to have
he now seems to have returned to this nothingness - until he suddenly published his autobiography three years ago.
three years ago. The film celebrates the artificial figure of the eternal sailor and also tells of how an image can be a curse.
can be a curse.
With Elmar Kraushaar (biographer), Eduard Klinger (collector), Jonny Hill (singer), Bernd Begemann (entertainer),
Christian Machalet (former child star), Stephan Remmler (TRIO) and Daniel Michel as Freddy Quinn.
"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)
Contact person:
Frank Baumann, Director of the Institute
Goethe-Institut Düsseldorf
Immermannstr. 65 B
40210 Düsseldorf