Die Palette was a legendary basement bar at 55 ABC Street, where a colorful crowd of dockworkers, vagrants, students and runaways, artists and petty criminals gathered in the 1950s and early 1960s. With his novel Die Palette, published in 1968 – four years after the bar closed – Hubert Fichte created a literary monument to this venue. Conversations with former Palette regulars, pictures, and documents bring the scene of that time back to life: What did the Palette look like? What music blared from the jukebox? What about sex? And what about hitchhiking? Who, pray tell, was the sheriff? And what did that actually mean—subculture in Hamburg in the 1950s?
Theo Janßen
Director
Jan-Frederik Bandel
Writer
Harun Farocki
Will-Roger Föll
Uta Juster
Ulrich Krause
Mac Rugenstein
Cäsar Schwieger
Joachim Stoll
Horst Vocke
Henry Weder
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