It's his 18th birthday and Arda Ylmaz is playing the record of his life while he's chilling on a bench at the train station with his friends. The A-side of this record tells of a present without prospects, of Nazis, cops and dealers - rewind back-spin.
It is his 18th birthday, Arda Yilmaz plays the record of his life while he stands angrily at his father's grave. The B-side tells of a failed revolution, of escape and life in exile.

Get Deutsch or Die Tryin' is music for mothers who like RTL and vodka, for fathers whose revolution has failed, for friends deported to countries that no longer exist, for kebab shop owners whose engineering diplomas are fading into fat, for birthdays in the corridors of the immigration office, for young people on park benches waiting for life to begin tomorrow, waiting for their parents' German Dream to finally pay off.