Our country 1988

Die Toten Hosen sang cheekily and ironically about a thousand good reasons to be proud of our country - and were one themselves. They successfully played theater in Bad Godesberg ("A Clockwork Orange") and celebrated their first big hit: "Hier kommt Alex".

Bochum has become Broadway. This is where "Starlight Express", the German version of the world's fastest musical, now stops. Karin Kube from Hattingen was probably the only fan the musical came home to: TV star Rudi Carrell surprised the young mother by sending the performers whizzing through the old town of Hattingen.

At the Olympic Games in Seoul, decathlete Jürgen Hingsen was eliminated in the very first competition - after three false starts. The result: he received a lot of ridicule and malice. The Duisburg-born athlete tells us courageously and openly how he dealt with it.

During the Gladbeck hostage crisis, journalist Udo Röbel got into the gangsters' car in downtown Cologne - and was right there when history was being made. In the film, the eyewitness reports on his impressions and takes a critical look back at his behavior in a criminal case the likes of which had never been seen before in the Federal Republic of Germany.

The film is narrated by Jörg Hartmann, the well-known investigator from the Dortmund "Tatort". He was born in Hagen and grew up in Herdecke.

First broadcast: Friday, October 5, 2018, 8.15 p.m., WDR