L'Attentate

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L'Attentate
General information
origin Leipzig , Germany
Genre (s) Punk , anarcho-punk
founding 1982
resolution 1989
Founding members
Imad Abdul Majid
Maik Reichenbach
Bernd Stracke

L'Attentat was a Leipzig GDR punk band that emerged from the band Tantrum.

history

The predecessor band HAU (Halbgewalkte Anarchist Untergrundbewegung) was founded at the end of 1982 in the context of Tantrum, one of the first punk bands in the GDR. The line-up consisted of the former tantrum guitarist Imad Abdul Majid, the bassist Maik Reichenbach and a changing line-up for vocals and drums (including Bernd Stracke, who later participated in Tantrum).

In the late summer of 1983, after the imprisonment of the bassist Maik Reichenbach, there was a temporary end to HAU and Imad Abdul Majid replaced the guitarist again until mid-1984. Bernd Stracke also stepped in for the retired tantrum singer.

After Tantrum resolved, HAU reorganized itself in 1984 and was renamed L'Attentat in early 1985.

Bernd Stracke was later arrested and imprisoned by the Ministry for State Security . After the fall of the Wall it turned out that guitarist Imad Abdul Majid worked as a paid IM for the State Security and was responsible for Bernd Stracke and Maik Reichenbach's stay in prison.

In the early days, L'Attentat's repertoire extended from HAU songs such as Civil War to new versions of tantrums classics (including Leipzig in Trümmern ).

Like most punks in the GDR, the band was targeted by the Stasi . In the mid- eighties , a music cassette was smuggled into Germany and released as a record on the X-Mist label in 1987 under the title Made in GDR . This made L'Attentat, along with Schleim-Keim and KG Rest ("Panem et circensis"), one of the few punk bands in the GDR who succeeded.

In the following years the line-up was changed several times due to another imprisonment of the singer Bernd Stracke (with subsequent deportation to the West), as well as due to the departure of some band members.

After the fall of the Wall, the band split up in 1989. Some members of the following line-up can later be found in the punk rock band Der Schwarze Kanal .

In 2014 the major label released the LP Made in GDR and a 7 "EP (ML 075) with three not yet published songs and a new 60 page booklet on the band's history. This latest re-issue was published on October 3rd, 2014 with a surprising live reunion of the almost complete former L'assassination cast a sold out early UT Connewitz celebrated in Leipzig As. Warsaw Punk Pact - Revisited the preliminary program denied Der Schwarze Kanal , the Polish punk legend Dezerter and the Leipziger punk chorus .

Discography

literature

  • Ed. Michael Boehlke, H. Gericke - SUBstitute 2007: Too much future - punk in the GDR .
  • Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister: We always want to be good ... Punk, New Wave, HipHop, independent scene in the GDR 1980-1990 . ISBN 3-89602-306-3 .
  • C. Remath, R. Schneider: Hair on riot. Youth subcultures in Leipzig 1980-1991 Connewitzer Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig, second edition 1999/2001, ISBN 3-928833-74-X .
  • Alexander Pehlemann, Bert Papenfuß, Robert Mießner: 1984! - Block to block, subcultures in the Orwell year Ventil Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-95575-041-1 .
  • Tim Mohr: Don't die in the waiting room of the future. the East German punks and the fall of the Wall Heyne-Hardcore 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-27127-2 .
  • Christiane Eisler: Tantrum. Punk in the GDR 1982-1989 Photo book © Christiane Eisler, Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056092-7 .

Movie

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tantrum, Lastfm
  2. ↑ Michael Luger: From the Iroquois to the city council , cinema, Der Tagesspiegel from August 23, 2007