»He says what he means and always trusts/'s just a clown«, Stephan Krawczyk sang in 1982, when he was still a well-liked singer-songwriter. He might have been able to continue balancing on the fine line of what was just permissible under the clown mask. But his songs became increasingly critical. In the long run, the SED did not tolerate such tightrope walking. Stephan Krawczyk was banned from performing, harassed by the Stasi, finally arrested and deported to the West. In Jürgen Haase's film, he looks back on his youth, the conflicts in the GDR and his life after his expulsion. The result is a very personal portrait of the singer-songwriter.

In conversation
Stephan Krawczyk
Singer-songwriter, Berlin

Prof. Jürgen Haase
Film scholar and director, Berlin