ARD summer cinema: Udo Lindenberg's life for the first time on free TV!
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Created: 07/18/2022, 14:52
By: Katja Kraft
The actor Jan Bülow is not only visually very similar to the young Udo Lindenberg.
He sings in the biopic “Lindenberg!
Do your thing” like the old panic rocker when he was young.
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On July 18, 2022, ARD will show the film biography “Lindenberg!
Do your thing" for the first time on free television.
Jan Bülow shines as panic rocker Udo Lindenberg.
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"We are centuries-old souls who have met again," said Udo Lindenberg himself.
Back then, on the premiere evening of “Lindenberg!
Do your thing” in Munich.
It was January 2020, the first lockdown still felt a long way off, and the Arri cinema in Munich was full of life.
In the middle of the turmoil: actor Jan Bülow, then 23. The young guy and the old panic rocker looked like son and father as they danced down the red carpet together.
Two easygoing guys who came to celebrate Hermione Huntgeburth's biopic.
Around two very long years later, it is now being broadcast on television for the first time.
The first shows "Lindenberg!
Do your thing" on July 18, 2022 at 8:15 p.m.
Not only Udo fans are advised: watch!
Udo Lindenberg and actor Jan Bülow at the premiere of "Lindenberg!
Do your thing" in Munich in January 2020. © Gnoni
One could try to describe how brilliantly Bülow played the young Lindenberg.
How he wrinkles his forehead and how his eyebrows sink down as if they want to close the deep circles under his eyes from above.
How he looks at the many women in Lindenberg's life - and how the overwhelming feeling he feels at the sight of all these beauties literally spills out of him;
there is a single amazement in Bülow's eyes at these wonders of nature, which no one has ever described as touchingly reverent as Udo in his songs.
And then: how Bülow forms his mouth into a crumpled O while singing;
only a hint, because this trademark of Lindenberg has only developed over the years.
Bülow is not exaggerating.
He knows what anyone who has ever been to the singer's concert
like recently in Munich (read the criticism of the Udo Lindenberg concert in Munich's Olympiahalle here) knows: there are already enough Lindenberg caricatures.
One could describe everything.
Or you let the master speak.
Because Bülow received the best compliment at the premiere of Udo himself. The actor sings and plays "in the style of young Udo, so freshman".
Freshling-like and heart-rendingly beautiful.
The film shows Udo Lindenberg's life from childhood to his breakthrough
The film tells the story of the singer from childhood to his breakthrough at 27. From the sweet brat in lederhosen to the asparagus tarzan with fringed hair.
Scenery and soundtrack breathe the sixties and seventies.
Chicago, The Kinks, Creedence Clearwater Revival are on.
All English speaking.
And then this slim stubborn head from Gronau comes along and raves about singing German.
Not like the pop singers that their parents, the old Nazis, listen to - but (punk) rock like their musical role models.
But in the language "in which we dream and chat".
No chance.
German is the “language of the perpetrators”.
As we know today, Udo didn't let that slow him down.
Has made German music salon acceptable again.
A lot of liquor flowed down his throat by the time it happened.
Has he kissed many girls.
And has world politics hit a few snags.
His oeuvre tells of all this.
Udo Lindenberg himself often talks about all of this, for example in an interview with our newspaper on his birthday (you can read the big birthday interview with Udo Lindenberg here).
And this great film is about all of this.
