Queen), live in Frankfurt, Germany, 15.05.2024 - Laibach ＂Geburt einer Nation＂ (＂One vision＂

JUL 01 2024 · 12:00

Queen), live in Frankfurt, Germany, 15.05.2024 - Laibach ＂Geburt einer Nation＂ (＂One vision＂ (2024) Director: Daniel Landin Era: Post-Industrial Revival & NSK Retrospective Era (2024) - Laibach's Opus Dei Tour marking the 2024 remaster/reissue of their landmark 1987 album, performing legacy material in a contemporary live-art context with theatrical AV staging. High archival value as a primary source document of Laibach performing their most internationally recognised song live during the culturally significant Opus Dei Tour 2024, at a confirmed Frankfurt venue with a known date. The footage bridges a 37-year span of the song's live history and provides direct comparative material against the canonical 1987 Daniel Landin-directed promo. The warm-stage, rapid-edit aesthetic and integrated AV backdrop design represent contemporary industrial live-art production values and are of interest to scholars of performance, political art, and European avant-garde music. Context: This footage documents Laibach performing 'Geburt einer Nation', their German-language reinterpretation of Queen's 'One Vision', live at Batschkapp, Frankfurt on 15 May 2024, as part of the Opus Dei Tour. The tour was mounted to celebrate the 2024 remaster and reissue of the seminal 1987 album Opus Dei, Laibach's first for Mute Records. The song exemplifies Laibach's core artistic strategy: appropriating Western pop anthems and re-encoding them through a totalitarian-aesthetic lens, exposing the latent authoritarianism in mass-culture messaging. Performed in Germany, a country with acute historical sensitivity to fascist iconography, the live context adds a charged layer of irony and political provocation that is central to the NSK / Neue Slowenische Kunst project. The warm-toned, rapid-edit live capture reflects contemporary concert documentation norms while preserving the ritualistic, martial theatricality that has defined Laibach's stage presence since 1980. Director notes: Daniel Landin is confirmed director of the original 1987 'Geburt einer Nation' music video (Laibach / Mute Records), as credited on IMDB and Laibach's official website. His association with Laibach dates to 1983 (the 'Occupied Europe Tour' with Last Few Days) and extends through camera work on the 1986 'Drzava' and 1987 'Opus Dei (Life is Life)' music videos. IMPORTANT ARCHIVAL DISTINCTION: The present footage (YouTube ID: 934pQiRN7eI) is a live audience or multi-camera capture from the Opus Dei Tour performance at Batschkapp Frankfurt, 15.05.2024, it is NOT the 1987 promo video directed by Landin. No credited videographer or director for this specific live recording was identified in search results. The director field references Landin solely as director of the canonical 1987 original promo; the camera operator(s) for this 2024 live capture remain unattributed.