Blümchen - Du und Ich

What this video is

Released in 1996 at the commercial height of the German Eurodance and happy hardcore wave, 'Du und ich' was the fourth single from Blümchen's debut album Herzfrequenz and became a chart success in German-speaking territories. Jasmin Wagner, who began her musical career at age 15 in 1995, became the most successful German female singer of the 1990s, selling millions of records and earning the Echo Award. The video's…

Why it matters

A definitive artefact of mid-1990s German happy hardcore and Eurodance visual culture. The video synthesises the high-energy kineticism of rave subculture with mainstream teen-pop iconography — cheerleading, candy-bright fashion, direct-address performance — exemplifying how German labels packaged…

The director

Rainer Thieding is a German music video director active in the 1990s German pop and Eurodance scene. He is credited on IMDb for directing Blümchen's 'Du und ich' (1996) music video. Further biographical details are not available from verified public sources.