Overview
- The SWR/NDR documentary 'Die Toten Hosen – das letzte Album' was broadcast on ARD and made available in the ARD-Mediathek on 23 May, giving the public two years of behind-the-scenes footage.
- The film records intimate studio moments, including frontman Andreas 'Campino' Frege becoming visibly emotional and saying the decision to end the band with this album is hard for him.
- The album, titled 'Trink aus, wir müssen gehen!', is scheduled for release on 29 May and was framed by the band as their final studio record, a choice Campino made more than two years ago.
- A major tour that begins in June follows the release, with promoters reporting more than one million tickets sold and only supplementary 2027 dates still available.
- The project was filmed by director Eric Friedler over roughly two years with producer Thomas Schuhbauer and SWR/NDR, and it foregrounds creative struggle, leadership tensions and the band’s 44-year legacy of 17 studio albums and about 18 million records sold.