Our Children

From an official perspective marginal youth culture did not exist in East Germany The topic of subcultures was taboo in the GDR and groups such as goths skinheads antiskins punks and neoNazis were dismissed as social deviations promoted by western countries Director Roland Steiner had access to such young East Germans in the late 1980s Over the course of four years he brought them before the camera in an attempt to understand what drew them to these groups