Documentary series: Skate Evolution – Between subculture and professional sport

Status: 02.05.2023 8:00 a.m

The documentary series Skate Evolution sheds light on the emergence of skateboarding in Germany – tells of the protagonists who changed skating in Germany.

Skateboarding is not just a leisure activity for most skaters. Skateboarding is a way of life, a stance, an attitude, a way of life – and at its core rebellion. At least since the 2020 Olympics, skating has been in the process of becoming a “real”, an official sport.

Skate Evolution describes the multifaceted development of skateboarding. A story of rise, fall, re-rise, meaning, legacy and influence. The skate (r)evolution didn’t happen in one place and we dive into their lifestyles of skating with the past and present riders – a testimony of what skating feels like, from its roots to today.

Spotlight on the skateboarding phenomenon

A fast-paced documentary series in which we kaleidoscopically highlight the phenomenon of skateboarding and look at skating and its currents from different angles.

The focus is not on digging up pure historical facts, but on emotional archeology with our protagonists such as Lulu Magnus, Claus Grabke, Titus Dittmann, Yvonne Labedzki, Anna Groß, Jürgen Horwarth, Elke Krantz, Donald Campbell, Ralf Middendorf, Torsten “Goofy” Schubert, Christian Rothenhagen, Denny Pham, Lilly Stoephasius and many more.

Entertaining, emphatic, diverse, multi-ethnic, universal.

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