[Thor Joachim Haga]

Good additions, Malte!

Since DAS BOOT was brought up, I should also point out that I’m a big Herbert Grönemeyer fan from childhood. Brief backstory: In the 80s and 90s, we sometimes visited some German friends of my parents who lived in Hamburg (they vacationed near our summer house in Denmark every year; hence why we knew them). They also had two sons, a bit older than me, but more or less the same age. While this was before I had German in school, I picked up a few words, including constructing the weird phrase “Volkswagen Geschmack” that I repeated over and over again — which they thought was funny. So during one of our visits there, the two sons had made a mixed tape for me, called “Volkswagen Geschmack”, with a homemade cover:

Long story short (or not so short now), the cassette contained one Grönemeyer album on each side – SPRÜNGE and 4630 BOCHUM. I loved them, and still do.

But only later did I realize he was so multi-talented, both as an actor (in DAS BOOT and other things) and a film composer. Like on THE AMERICAN and A MOST WANTED MAN by Anton Corbijn.