Einfach machen! - She Punks von 1977 bis heute (2025)

Just Do It! is a film about punk musicians, punk feminism, and the spirit of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It portrays pioneers of German-language punk who, 40 years later, are back onstage together. Martina Weith inspired the film’s title with the words: “Do it. Don’t talk. Do it.” In the mid-1980s, Martina Weith was the singer and saxophonist of Düsseldorf women’s punk band Östro 430. Caduff shows how the musicians came together in bands and projects back then. They included Gudrun Gut, drummer for the women’s bands Mania D and later Malaria! (also as a singer), as well as the musicians of the Swiss band Kleenex, later known as LiLiPUT. The film follows them into rehearsal rooms, onto concert stages, and backstage. “It’s important to be onstage when you’re no longer ‘so pretty and nice,’” says the now 70-year-old Klaudia Schifferle. Madlaina Peer, who founded the band OneTwoThree in 2018 with Klaudia Schifferle, former singer and bassist of Kleenex, and Sara Schär (TNT), comments: “The punk movement wasn’t shaped by feminism; on the contrary, it was very macho.” However, structural sexism is not at the center of Einfach machen! She-Punks von 1977 bis heute. Caduff is interested in the simple act of doing: in how the musicians of that time came together in bands and projects. The film follows them into rehearsal rooms, onto concert stages, and backstage. For Schifferle, now 70, it is also an important message to stand onstage as a woman who is no longer “so pretty and nice.” Like her bandmates, she impresses with her composure. She says with a certain sense of relief that today she no longer has to fight for her place.