The Video
The music video was released on the Dinge von denen CD single as well as the Overkiller DVD. The video uses the album version (longer) of the song. There is also a split screen version of the video showing the storyboard, released on the Overkiller DVD.
In the video, a bunch of people are participating a self-help seminar in rock. The actors include all three band members.
In the first scene, Jens (played by Farin Urlaub) is shown walking across a large hall, humming. He stops to read a list of signs that show the room numbers of daytime classes. The classes on the signs are references to other songs on Geräusch. The signs read
- "NichtWissen - Raum 09"
- "Deine Schuld - Raum 13"
- "Anti-Zombie" with the room number not visible
- "Bin ich ein Mann? - Raum 18" referring to the Song "Ein Mann"
- "Rock-Selbsthilfe - Raum 77"
Jens then continues his way through another hall where a Foucault pendulum is swinging from the ceiling. He walks past an open door where he watches a couple fight with soft foam bars and proceeds through the door of the rock self-help class. Only as he enters the room the song begins to play. All the other participants are already there, and Horst (played by Rodrigo González) looks at his wrist watch, shaking his head, while the very handsome teacher smiles at Jens. The teacher starts the classes, playing music from an LP. The group comments this with shocked looks and one man (played by Bela B.) breaks down on the floor, with a fit of coughing. The teacher begs Jens to help him, starting an apparent romance between Jens and the teacher.
At the end of the class, the group finds itself in the middle of the audience of a Die Ärzte-concert, but they can't stand it and get out of the hall while Die Ärzte are singing "Baby sieh es nicht so eng, fang jetzt endlich an zu bangen, dann hast du auch bald kapiert, dass der Rock die Welt regiert!" . The run out of the building only to find a whole army of Belas, Farins and Rods marching in a parade and singing along the last line "rock rules the world".
The last scene shows Jens sitting in a plain room holding a small hammer, knocking the beat to the last notes of the song on three small stones on a table in front of him, grinning stupidly. It looks as if he's gone mad.
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