MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION


The 87-minute film follows the career of Hamburg-born Mona Mur, whose journey began in the underground post-punk scene of early ’80s West Germany and has since evolved across a wide range of musical and artistic styles.

Mur’s music spans several genres, from post-punk and industrial to electronica, piano-driven punk ballads, and experimental music—always marked by her unique voice and vision. Throughout her career, she has worked with a diverse array of musicians and collaborators, including En Esch (KMFDM), FM Einheit, Mark Chung and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Nikko Weidemann (Babylon Berlin), Dieter Meier (Yello), and J.J. Burnel and Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers), along with film directors Monika Treut, Elfi Mikesch, and Fatih Akin, photographer Ilse Ruppert, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

The film’s structure is simple yet effective. Mona Mur sits in a studio, where she and filmmaker Dietmar Post engage in an open conversation. A virtual “jukebox” of archival photos, music videos, and performance footage provides the backdrop, guiding their discussion of key moments and themes in her work. The film’s approach is both reflective and personal, with Mur offering candid insights into her career, her creative choices, and the challenges she’s faced along the way.

“Mona Mur in Conversation” reflects the principles of Post and co-producer Lucía Palacios, who have long explored the idea of the “controlled artistic space” or “narrative laboratory,” where storytelling is shaped by both the artist’s own reflections and the material that prompts them. With wit and clarity, Mur speaks not just about music, but about what it means to stay true to one’s artistic vision. The film is a thoughtful and engaging exploration of an artist who has remained committed to her own path, refusing to conform to expectations and constantly evolving her craft.



CREDITS & FILM DATA
Germany, 2024, 87 min
Directed by: Dietmar Post
Produced by: Lucía Palacios & Dietmar Post
Camera & Set Design: Ede Müller (Zabrisky Film)
Editing: Karl-W. Huelsenbeck & Gertrudis Handschk
Sound Mix: Lorenz Fischer
Color Corrections: Franz Thienel
Music Publishing: Freibank, play loud! publishing
Music by: Mona Mur, Die Mieter, Mona Mur & En Esch, Flucht nach vorn


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MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION
Documentary film, Germany, 2024, 87 min

Directed by
Dietmar Post

Produced by
Lucía Palacios & Dietmar Post

Camera & Set Design
Ede Müller (Zabrisky Film)

Editing by
Karl-W. Huelsenbeck & Gertrudis Handschk

Sound Mix
Lorenz Fischer

Color Corrections
Franz Thienel

Music Publishing
Freibank, play loud! publishing

Music by
Mona Mur
Mona Mur & Die Mieter
Mona Mur Band
Mona Mur & En Esch
Mona Mur & Flucht nach Vorn
Christian St. Clair

Photographs by
Fritz Brinckmann
Petra Gall
Fred George
Lucie Jansch
Jan Riephoff
Ilse Ruppert
Klaus Thumser

Featuring the following artists
Jean-Jaques Burnel
Mark Chung
John Ellis
En Esch
FM Einheit
Ralf Goldkind
Dave Greenfield
Alexander Hacke
Siewert Johannsen
Gerhard A. Schiewe
Thomas Stern
Raymond Watts
Nikko Weidemann

Special thanks to
Chris Bohn
Grzegorz Ciechowski (R.I.P.)
Heiko Daxl (R.I.P.)
Andreas Döhler (Galiläa Kirche)
Erica Faria (Musicboard Berlin)
Joerg Fukking (Songs United & play loud! publishing)
Ingeborg Fülepp
Fred George
Natalie Gravenor (Soundwatch)
Moritz Illner (duophonic)
Lucie Jansch
Dieter Meier
Elfi Mikesch
Christina Mohr
Fredrik Nedelmann (Freibank)
Stefan Pethke (Unerhört Film Festival)
Aneta Panek
Romain Pinteaux (Schwules Museum)
Jürgen Pohl (Salzgeber)
Christian St. Clair
Malgorzata Potocka
Jan Riephoff
Ilse Ruppert
Töni Schifer
Kristine Schmidt (Schwules Museum)
Ralf Schulze (Unerhört Film Festival)
Jana Sylvester (Musicboard Berlin)
Monika Treut
Thomas Tyssen
Tim van Beveren
Christian Weber (Salzgeber)

Poster photograph courtesy of
Ilse Ruppert


Film supported by

REVIEWS

Rating: 5 out of 5.

spielfilm.de

Rating: 4 out of 5.

kino-zeit.de

There was Marlene Dietrich, Hildegard Knef, and Nico, the ice-cold sphinx. And there is Mona Mur, Germany’s Queen of Postpunk. Her dazzling career, which brought her together with the likes of En Esch (KMFDM), FM Einheit, Mark Chung and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Nikko Weidemann (“Babylon Berlin”), Dieter Meier (Yello), and J.J. Burnel (The Stranglers), is now being captured in a documentary film — by Grimme Award winners Dietmar Post and Lucía Palacios, who were also behind the sensational film Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback .

Michael Schuh (Laut.de)

The film ‘Mona Mur in Conversation‘ shows Mona Mur as an impressive musician and artist with a thoughtful, humorous character. It reveals how the path of steadfastness is not easy.  The concept for the film is perfectly realised. A green chair against a red background and a screen. Pure simplicity, no distractions, and it’s mesmerizing: Mona Mur and her story. Her life and work. The highs and the lows. The beauty. Music runs through her in every fibre, breath, rhythm, and in her voice. Her body and movements. Accented by her smile and sensuality. She’s magnetic.

Elfi Mikesch (Filmmaker)

Mona Mur In Conversation is so fascinating because it is multifaceted: it is about Mona Mur as a fearless woman in the male-dominated music business, but it is also a gallop through recent pop music history.
It shows the many faces of Mona Mur, how she adapted and kept evolving her own creative style.

Monika Treut (Filmmaker)

The Audience Award 2024 goes to the film Mona Mur in Conversation by Dietmar Post. The 86-minute film traces the biography of the Hamburg-born artist’s work to date, the stages of self-determined creativity that began in West Germany’s early 80s post-punk scene.
A cleverly constructed set-up combines speaking in front of the camera, off-camera questions and illustrative visual and audio material to create a captivating narrative of a life lived according to her own ideas without concessions – presented in a dry, straightforward, self-conscious and eloquent manner by a great artist to be (re)discovered.
The fact that the film, completed only two days before its screening, received an award from the audience in its protagonist’s hometown the day after its world premiere, can only be described as an amazing feat.

Unerhört Music Film Festival

SCREENINGS

MOVIE THEATERS (Soon in more movie theaters in Germany. Stay tuned)

2025
Wittstock (Kino Astoria)
September 12, 7 PM

Film screening followed by a live performance by Mona Mur
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with Docs on Tour

Supported by Musikfonds
Zossen (Kaleidoskop Kallinchen)
September 13, 4 PM

Film screening followed by a live performance by Mona Mur
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with Docs on Tour
Supported by Musikfonds
Potsdam (Thalia Filmtheater)
September 14, 11 AM

Film screening followed by a live performance by Mona Mur & Gerhard A. Schiewe. With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with Docs on Tour
Supported by Musikfonds
Hamburg (Kino 3001)
September 22, 9 PM

With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
Osnabrück (Lagerhalle Osnabrück)
September 24, 7:30 PM
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance

In collaboration with LetsDok
Offenbach (Waggon am Kulturgleis)
September 25, 7:30 PM
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance

In collaboration with LetsDok
Saabrücken (Kino achteinhalb)
September 26, 8 PM
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance

September 27, 8 PM
Screening of the film Deutsche Pop Zustände

With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
Frankfurt am Main (Gusti Kulturkino)
September 28, 8 PM

With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
Hannover (Kino im Sprengel)
October 4, 8:30 Uhr
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
Karlsruhe (Kinemathek)
October 5, 5 PM
Dietmar Post will attend via video call
Berlin (Lichtblick Kino)
October 9-20

Thu, Oct 9 – 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM – With Mona Mur & Dietmar Post in attendance
Sat, Oct 11 – 8:15 PM – With Dietmar Post in attendance
Sun, Oct 12 – 6:00 PM – With Dietmar Post in attendance
Mon, Oct 13 – 6:30 PM
Tue, Oct 14 10:30 PM
Wed, Oct 15 – 7:45 PM

In collaboration with LetsDok
Additional screenings

Thu, Oct 16 – 6:30 PM
Sat, Oct 18 – 4:30 PM
Sun, Oct 19 – 4:30 PM
Mon, Oct 20 – 6:30 PM
With Dietmar Post in attendance
Mon, Oct 28 – 10:00 PM
Wiesbaden (Murnau Filmtheater)
October 10, 8:15 PM
In collaboration with the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung
Bamberg (Lichtspiel Kino)
October 14, 6:30 PM
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
Nürnberg (Kino Casablanca Filmkunsttheater)
October 15, 8 PM
With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
Munich (Werkstattkino)
October 16, 8 PM

With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
In collaboration with LetsDok
October 19, 10 PM
Stuttgart (Hinterhofkino in der Rakette)
October 17

With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance
Mannheim – Klang/Bild Festival (im Cinema Quadrat)
October 18, 8 PM

With filmmaker Dietmar Post in attendance

FILM FESTIVALS

See The Sound (Cologne)
July 8 – Mona Mur and pianist Johannes Roloff performed at the opening gala of SoundTrack_Cologne, presenting songs from the upcoming album Les Chansons Brutales by the new Mona Mur Trio.
July 9, 10 PM – Film screening (Comedia Cinema)
July 10, 9 PM – Film screening (Odeon 2 Cinema)
Soundwatch (Berlin)
November 30, 2024
Film screening + Live Concert at Galiläa Kirche
Unerhört Musikfilmfestival (Hamburg)
November 8, 2024

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SYNOPSIS

The 87-minute film follows the career of Hamburg-born Mona Mur, whose journey began in the underground post-punk scene of early ’80s West Germany and has since evolved across a wide range of musical and artistic styles.

Mur’s music spans several genres, from post-punk and industrial to electronica, piano-driven punk ballads, and experimental music—always marked by her unique voice and vision. Throughout her career, she has worked with a diverse array of musicians and collaborators, including En Esch (KMFDM), FM Einheit, Mark Chung and Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Nikko Weidemann (Babylon Berlin), Dieter Meier (Yello), and J.J. Burnel and Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers), along with film directors Monika Treut, Elfi Mikesch, and Fatih Akin, photographer Ilse Ruppert, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.

The film’s structure is simple yet effective. Mona Mur sits in a studio, where she and filmmaker Dietmar Post engage in an open conversation. A virtual “jukebox” of archival photos, music videos, and performance footage provides the backdrop, guiding their discussion of key moments and themes in her work. The approach is both reflective and personal, with Mur offering candid insights into her career, her creative choices, and the challenges she’s faced along the way.

“Mona Mur in Conversation” reflects the principles of Post and co-producer Lucía Palacios, who have long explored the idea of the “controlled artistic space” or “narrative laboratory,” where storytelling is shaped by both the artist’s own reflections and the material that prompts them. With wit and clarity, Mur speaks not just about music, but about what it means to stay true to one’s artistic vision. The film is a thoughtful and engaging exploration of an artist who has remained committed to her own path, refusing to conform to expectations and constantly evolving her craft.