19 May 1978DespairRainer Werner Fassbinder
Directs Despair, adapted from Vladimir Nabokov.
Historical records for Germany in 1978, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Directs Despair, adapted from Vladimir Nabokov.
Contributes to The Man-Machine during Kraftwerk's most iconic visual period.
Performs electronic percussion on The Man-Machine.
Releases The Man-Machine, strengthening Kraftwerk's robot image and electronic pop style.
Helps build The Man-Machine's precise synthesis, vocoder and robotic performance language.
Hosts the European Council as leaders develop plans for a European Monetary System.
Supports the Bremen agreement that advances plans for closer European monetary cooperation.
Death of Willy Messerschmitt
Participates as the Brussels European Council finalises the political agreement creating the European Monetary System.
Death of Hasso von Manteuffel
Studies at the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences from 1978 to 1990
Contributes to the omnibus film Germany in Autumn.
Helps develop modulation-doped semiconductor structures with exceptionally mobile electrons confined to two dimensions.
Directs Messer im Kopf, known in English as Knife in the Head.
Directs The Marriage of Maria Braun.
Co-writes The Model, later one of Kraftwerk's most successful singles.
Releases The Robots, turning Kraftwerk's mechanical stage identity into a signature song.
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