In 2007 and 2008, he made the film Der Tag, in which he discussed about human mortality. The soundtrack was composed again by FM Einheit. Der Tag won the 2009 New Berlin Film Award at the Achtung Berlin Festival. In those years he made the documentary Von Wegen, a film about the first concert of Einstürzende Neubauten in Eastern-Berlin in the concert hall of VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg. Schueppel crossed in the film scenes shot from 1989 with actual shots. The concert was co-directed with Heiner Müller, who gave a speech with the French minister of culture Jack Lang. Von Wegen was shown in the program of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival, and was released under the title Elektrokohle (Von Wegen). The documentary was shown at a lot of festivals and exhibitions worldwide on the occasion of the anniversary of 20 years fall of the Berlin Wall.
