Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

Welcome to Germany

In October 2013 three concerts were given at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf titled Entartete Musik: Willkommen in Deutschland - Ein Gedenkkonzert[Degenerate Music: Welcome to Germany – A Memorial Concert]. 

The concerts were a collaboration between the Symphony Orchestra of the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media and the punk band Die Toten Hosen. The concerts as well as comprehensive documentary material were recorded by students completing the upper-level Music and Audiovisual Media module. 

Directed by Music and Media student David Füsgen, a 53-minute documentary film was produced with a glimpse of rehearsals, background information on the project, and the concert performances. Moritz Hils and Alexander Kühn were directors for the concert recordings. David Ropertz (major concentration in Music Production) and Charel Bourkel (major concentration in Classical Music Recording) were the audio engineers.

In October 2015 the film was published as a DVD together with a double CD of the concert.