With hits like "Da da da," "Ich will Spaß," and "99 Luftballons," the Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) made music history. It's the Big Bang of German pop music that changed everything at the beginning of the 1980s: music, country, people. And its influence continues to this day. The 180-minute documentary "Phenomenon Neue Deutsche Welle" showcases the most influential phase of German music history in all its diversity and its impact on contemporary German pop.

The documentary looks back at the musical development of the NDW: its origins in the punk underground of the late 1970s, its prolific hit production of the early 1980s, and its impact on German pop music in the following decades, including the current Neue Deutsche Welle with stars like Edwin Rosen. In exclusive interviews, heroes of the Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) era, such as Extrabreit singer Kai Havaii, Markus Mörl, Gaby "Ixi" Christensen, the "Computerliebe" duo Paso-Doble, Joachim Witt, drumming legend Curt Cress, and NENA band keyboardist Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, recount their stories from the exciting NDW period. They are supported by music experts like Markus Kavka and Alex Gernandt, Schlager icon Marianne Rosenberg, YouTube star Marti Fischer, long-time record label head Jörg Hellwig, and Lieselotte Reznicek, singer of the first all-female rock band in East Germany, Mona Lise.