Muppet by Yvois (Official Music Video)

This 3D-animated music video tells the story of how the ferris wheel in Berlin’s lost place ‚Spreepark‘ disappeared.

I created the music video I created in winter 2020/21 for my dear friend Ivy. I drew inspiration from one of the few cultural events we could attend together in summer 2020. Ivy and me went to an open-air screening on Insel der Jugend, an island placed next to the lost place, where we watched the documentary ‚Achterbahn‘ (2009) by director Peter Dörfler. The movie tells the story of the family Witte. The former operators and fairground people founded the amusement park ‚Spreepark’ in 1969. Although surviving German reunification their business went bankrupt in 2002 leading to a troubling story of emigration, drug traffic and jail time in Peru.
As a teenager I visited the Spreepark in 2002 during a school trip. Unforgotten memories were made in the double looping rollercoaster which I rode four times in a row and later received a much aspired kiss from a flirt. After the area was abandoned and several friends told me their adventurous stories of discovering this lost place. It is clear this area is a beloved place for old and new Berliners alike. In autumn 2020 the local news reported about the plan of the restoration of the area including the deconstruction of the ferris wheel in early 2021. Many people in Berlin will now look at the park and cityscape along the Spree river and wonder: Where has the ferris wheel gone?

The video is part of the first single release from Yvois' When We Dressed In Gold EP