Synopsis

After losing her mother, a young girl sets out with her brother and grandmother to fulfill a promise: showing her mother the sea. Traveling in a brightly painted vintage Barkas, the family leaves their gray everyday surroundings behind and heads toward the Baltic coast. Rosenstolz accompany the journey, turning the road trip into a colorful, bittersweet passage from mourning toward renewed vitality. At the beach, the family finally reaches the sunlight and sea, giving the song's longing for warmth and happiness a hopeful visual resolution.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was filmed in 2008 on the island of Usedom and in Lassan, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

• Its story is set against an East German-inspired 1970s backdrop, with Trabants and other period details creating an unmistakable sense of Ostalgie.

• The family's vehicle is a brightly colored Barkas B1000, a classic East German van often associated with everyday travel in the former GDR.

• The clip draws inspiration from the road-trip film "Little Miss Sunshine," while its emotional setup also recalls the East German film "The Legend of Paul and Paula."

• "Gib mir Sonne" became Rosenstolz's first No. 1 single in Germany and served as the title song of the Sat.1 telenovela "Anna und die Liebe."

• The video won the national video award at the 2009 ECHO ceremony.