Overview
- The 90‑minute ARD/NDR documentary, which arrived Sunday in the ARD Mediathek, will air May 18 on Das Erste.
- Director Cornelia Quast blends black‑and‑white archives, concert footage, and interviews with Apache 207, Jan Delay, Tokio Hotel, Maria Furtwängler, and Jan Josef Liefers.
- The story lingers on years of heavy drinking from the mid‑1980s to mid‑1990s, featuring Lindenberg’s line that no one with over four per mille and two bottles of whisky a day is happy.
- Friends describe interventions, including bassist Karl‑Georg “Steffi” Stephan leaving out of fear he would drink himself to death and a label‑hired minder whom Lindenberg chose and then drank with.
- A push for sobriety set up a comeback marked by the No. 1 album Stark wie Zwei in 2008 and the 2023 chart‑topping single Komet with Apache 207, as his 80th year also brings a Hamburg Udoversum exhibition and the tribute album We Love Udo.