Blurb Summer 86, a young man comes to Hamburg from the provinces. He is 19, wants to make music, celebrate his youth, become an artist. He is drawn to Sankt Pauli, the fixed star of the mad. He longs for the abyss, 'where moisture and dark warmth make strange organisms dance.' He meets the lemons, the doctors, the trousers, the new buildings - and seeks his own place in the world. First of all, he needs a new name: ROCKO SCHAMONI. 'Pudels Kern' is a journey back in time to the years of German punk, to the basement nights of subculture, with the broken tour bus on the way to the dream of a big record deal. Between maximum hopes and fatal crashes, the portrait of a great artist unfolds. Biography Rocko Schamoni, born in Germany in 1966, has released numerous CDs, works for theatre, film and television, regularly tours solo or with a band through the republic and now has a sworn fan base.