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Aufruhr zur Liebe – 3×3 = NEIN

Starting in 1983, Aufruhr zur Liebe consisted of musicians from bands such as Rosa Extra, Feeling B, Antifaschistischer Schutzwall (later Planlos) or Ornament & Verbrechen. The band’s sound and lyrics contextualized the reality of the GDR and left behind idiosyncratic signatures: melodic arcs of failure merged into an alloy of post punk, art rock, T. Rex, Virgin Prunes, industrials shamanism, and a refusal to conform…
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Planlos – Smog & Ruß

The songs of Planlos are classics of GDR punk rock. Their lyrics were politically explicit and steeped in an oppressive poetry. Hardly any other band embodied the charisma of the East Berlin punks to such a degree. The band only ever played illegal shows. In 1983, Planlos had a highly secret gig with the Toten Hosen. The end of Planlos resulted mainly from the constant surveillance and call-ups to the…
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Nontoxic – Intoxication

In 1986 I played drums in the Johannisthal punk band Morticians. The band practised in a cellar on Fritz Heckert Straße in Berlin’s Mitte district. Across the street, the cobblestone paving was bordered directly by the Wall. Behind it was where the music was at, while at the same time East Berlin’s live music scene was also exploding. Undeterred by odysseys on the S-Bahn and tram, goths and leather….
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A.F. Moebius – Eine Auswahl

Frank Bretschneider (1956) was active in the subcultural environment of the GDR’s Karl-Marx-Stadt (nowadays Chemnitz). The Karl-Marx-Stadt area was a nucleus of non-conformist activities in the GDR. Away from a prescribed socialist realism, a countercultural approach unfolded here as openly as was possible within a closed-off society. Inspired by mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius….
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Happy Straps – Pleasures 1985-86

The name Happy Straps was deeply rooted in East Berlin’s alternative scene in the mid 1980s. Café Mosaik was a hotbed of the bohemian scene in Prenzlauer Berg, where dreamers, freaks and artists would meet – ‘negative elements’ who would positively charge each other’s batteries or drive each other insane about their prospects of finally being allowed to leave the GDR. At Café Mosaik Chris Schwartinsky and Jörg…
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