OUR COUNTRY 1980

1980 - The dawn of a new decade that got off to a turbulent start.
Pope John Paul II drove through Cologne in his Popemobile, while Queen Elizabeth II roared into Lemgo in a black Rolls Royce.
A small, colorful cube enchanted an entire generation and people danced to the sound of the New German Wave.
The first episode of the new WDR series "Our country in the 80s" tells the story of a year in which the Minister of Health wanted to turn off the power to the country's discotheques and pitted "Theo against the rest of the world".
The Ruhr area comedy became a box office hit.
And Marius-Müller Westernhagen played his way into the hearts of the audience as the brash truck driver Theo.
At the Grillo Theater in Essen, they had already been conquered.
Under the direction of Walter Bockmayer, the first German Rocky Horror Show celebrated its premiere there in January.
Actress Rotraut Rieger, who played Janet, remembers a brilliant evening full of freaks and exposed buttocks.