Chaos days

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As Chaostage meetings are of punks called in different cities, associated with calls to violence and destruction in the run and great media attention. The first Chaostage found in 1983 in the Lower Saxon state capital Hanover held and directed against a planned -index punks the police . During the Chaostage, which has been taking place more or less regularly since then, there were repeated violent riots and street battles with the police - especially during the Chaostage 1995 . In addition to punks, autonomous and other left and radical left groups, hooligans , skinheads and other adventure-oriented and violent young people and adults also took part.

Meanwhile, the term chaos days is also used in other contexts.

history

1980s

Call for the first days of chaos

A forerunner of the Hanover Chaos Days took place in 1982 on several Saturdays in Wuppertal . The occasion was the attempt by the local city administration to forbid the punks living there from gathering in groups around a central fountain in the city center. However, this meant that from now on not only Wuppertal people, but also punks from other places in Wuppertal met. These meetings were called "Wuppertal Punk Meetings". In 1983 there were street battles between punks and the police, a year later there were riots between punks and right-wing radical skinheads with several injuries.

December 18, 1982 can already be considered the first chaos day in Hanover. A sound document Jello Biafra calls for Chaos Day ? / i proves that Jello Biafra explicitly called for "chaos days" during the Dead Kennedys performance two days earlier on December 16, 1982 in the Kursaal in Bad Honnef and also referred to the planned punk card index in which young people with conspicuous looks were registered, even if they were not involved in any criminal offenses or administrative offenses. Audio file / audio sample

The first "official" days of chaos took place from 1-3. July 1983 in Hanover. The idea of ​​a big punk and skin get-together was to bring as many "card index" people as possible to Hanover in order to reduce this index to absurdity.

Chaostage 1984 in Hanover

In 1984 and 1985, punks and other left-wing groups met again in Hanover, albeit on the first weekend in August. These meetings were originally held under the motto Punks & Skins United . However, it soon became apparent that the right-wing extremists had infiltrated the skins, which is why there were violent clashes between punks and skins in the city center in 1984. After these clashes, the punks withdrew to the grounds of the UJZ Glocksee , where they were surrounded by the police. When the police used tear gas in the inner courtyard of the site, in the panic that followed, the UJZ Glocksee cafe was destroyed by the encircled punks.

For 1989 "International Chaos Days" were planned. However, fewer punks came to this meeting than expected.

Since the mid-1980s, numerous large and small meetings of punks outside of Hanover have been called Chaostage , but apart from the name, they often have little in common with them. In 1987, around 1000 punks from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and England gathered in Lübbecke in East Westphalia on the second weekend in August for a peaceful and quiet beer fountain festival . Three years later, no more free beer was served to the punks.

1990s

After things had become largely calm in the years from 1985 onwards, there were surprisingly again chaos in Hanover in 1994 and August 1995. The chaos days of the 1990s were characterized by sometimes violent arguments between punks and local youths and the police.

During the Chaostage from August 4 to 6, 1995 in the northern part of Hanover, there were street battles between around 2,000 participants and up to 3,500 police officers and border guards from ten federal states, with 180 police officers and an unknown number of Chaostage visitors injured. 220 Chaostage visitors were later charged with various offenses. The media spoke of conditions similar to civil war , and the looting of a Penny supermarket in the north of the city caused a sensation . The chief of the state police, Hans-Dieter Klosa, said in retrospect: "It was almost like in the civil war".

On August 5th, the event shifted to the Linden-Nord district , where the Hanover Ferryman 's Festival took place at the same time as an alternative open-air festival. After a beer stand was attacked in the early evening with the words “Free beer for everyone!”, The ferryman's festival was stormed by the police.

According to their own statements , the police had relied on a de-escalation strategy during the Chaostage , which, however, had the opposite effect, so that the then Prime Minister of Lower Saxony Gerhard Schröder and his Interior Minister Gerhard Glogowski had to accept nationwide criticism for their strategy.

In 1996, on the first weekend in August, there was an unprecedented police presence of over 10,000 officers throughout the city of Hanover, which was supposed to nip in the bud any attempt to organize chaos days. This succeeded effortlessly with a number of punks that was only in the upper three-digit range. As there was a police station literally on every corner in many parts of the city that weekend, critics also ironically spoke of “order days”.

From 2000

For the EXPO year 2000 chaos days were announced again in Hanover, but they did not reach the dimensions of 1995. Initiator Karl Nagel had created an extensive parody website that aroused completely exaggerated expectations. Nevertheless, there were a lot of young people in the city at the time of the Expo and there were hundreds of arrests by the police, especially on the grounds of the occupied former Sprengel chocolate factory in the north of the city. In addition, there was an attack by autonomists on the Hanover-Hamburg railway line in advance , relating to the Expo in Hanover.

From August 3rd to 5th, 2001, chaos days were announced in Cottbus and Dortmund . Relatively few young people gathered in Cottbus; According to reports, 58 people were briefly taken into police custody in Cottbus . Around 700 punks met in Dortmund, more than 500 of whom were taken into custody after minor incidents.

In 2002 Chaostage should take place from August 2nd to 4th in Munich . According to media reports, they were planned as a protest against the CDU / CSU's candidate for chancellor, Edmund Stoiber . The Munich police reacted to the announcement with a " zero tolerance strategy ". However, hardly any punks came anyway, so the chaos days were practically canceled. A special decree prohibited all "actions that have to do with chaos days". This approach was highly praised in the tabloid press ( BILD : "Punks bounce off Munich Fortress").

From August 5th to 7th, 2005 Chaostage took place in Hanover. Around 300 to 500 punks met in town. The police took almost 90 punks into custody on Friday, August 5th. At an election rally of the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany on August 6th on the Kröpcke , the police enforced a strict ban on alcohol and dogs. After the first riots in the city center and at the University of Hanover , the police broke up the event, surrounded most of the punks present in front of the main train station for about three hours and took them into custody for up to eight hours.

From August 4th to 6th, 2006, around 300 to 450 punks, skins and friends, many in neutral clothing, met in Hanover. Around 1000 police officers were on duty and sent all larger groups away from the city center.

On June 9, 2007, around 200 punks, skins and autonomists as well as Karl Nagel met in Wuppertal-Elberfeld to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Chaostage. Around 300 police officers finally arrested 47 punks, issued a residence ban against 42 rioters and issued 150 reprimands. An officer and several punks were injured.

From October 10th to 14th, 2012, the “international chaos days” took place in Karlsruhe. The “Karlsruhe City Festival” with the “Mascot Meeting” and the numerous construction sites in the city were named as the reason for the venue. With a strong contingent, the police stopped the attempt by around 60–70 punks to break into the "Substage" on the former slaughterhouse site. At that time, a peaceful concert by the alto punk band Slime , attended by around 300 people, took place in the premises . In the late afternoon and in the early evening hours, around 60 punks had already gathered at the measuring site and settled down peacefully. When 71 punks were later arrested or taken into custody , some of which lasted until the next day, the police used pepper spray and batons. In total, the police issued more than a hundred dismissals, in some cases a residence ban in the inner city that was valid up to and including Sunday evening.

For 2013 there was a call for chaos days in Heidelberg on the first weekend in July. However, there were far fewer participants than announced. At the same time there was mobilization again for Hanover on the first weekend in August. A concert by the fun punk band “ Falling Brieftauben ”, the band “Kein Hass da” (with lead singer Karl Nagel) and three other bands took place on the first Saturday in August accompanying the chaos days in Hanover.

music

  • In 1996 Highdive Records and the publisher Konrad Kittner brought the sampler Chaostage “Schöne Grüße aus Hannover” on the market, on which Schrott Grenz , Recharge , Boskops and many other Hanover bands were represented.
  • For Chaostage 2000, the band beinfabrik produced the song Expo 2000 .
  • In 2016, the song Choastage94 appeared on the album DER by the punk band WIZO .
  • The days of chaos are mentioned in the doctors' song “Motherfucker 666” from the album “ Le Frisur ”. ("I shit on the chaos days and the system")

Movies

In 1996 the film War of the Worlds - Chaostage Hannover 1995 came into circulation, which quickly achieved cult status in the punk scene . It consists of various cuts of news programs and feature films .

In 2007 the episode film Chaostage - We Are Punks! Filmed by director Tarek Ehlail . Punks, who were also involved in the real chaos days, take part. However, the story as such does not refer to the real events, but tries to "explain" the origin of the phenomenon in an ironic and satirical way with an absurd combination of coincidences . These refer to the book of the same name by Moses Arndt . The film takes on a documentary character through interview scenes with punks involved in the chaos days. The film premiered on October 3, 2008 in Hanover. The soundtrack of the same name, with many references to the meetings, was indexed by the federal inspection agency for media harmful to minors because of the song We don't want bull pigs . At a punk concert on the day of the premiere of the film there were again clashes between punks and the police in the northern part of the city. Police took 74 people into custody.

Chaostage as a media term for turbulence of all kinds

Since around the 2000s, the term chaos days has been used for confused or unusually disordered socio-political events and conditions of all kinds and without reference to the punk scene (e.g. federal government / coalition crises, leadership crisis in the German bank, Greek crisis , AfD party congress, G8 summit in Genoa and much more).

criticism

From the conservative - bourgeois side, the earlier days of chaos in particular were perceived as pure "rioting". Political goals are not recognizable, it is less about political demonstrations , but more about rituals of violence , comparable to May 1st in Berlin-Kreuzberg .

But the events were also criticized from the alternative and left-wing side because of the lack of content and the frightful mentality: the meetings provided - according to the critics - arguments for a law-and-order policy and served adventure-oriented and violent youngsters as an adventure playground .

From a pogo-anarchist point of view, the aim of the Chaostage used to be mainly to act provocatively against repression and disenfranchisement of punks. Since the 1990s, especially the effort can be seen the myth obtain Chaostage alive and deliver the sensationalist media, politicians and citizens artificially exaggerated riot dangers that these assumptions are grateful to such a piece entertaining satire to create.

literature

  • Klaus Mlynek in: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 110.
  • Oliver Herbertz (2011): The organization of chaos days . Analysis to construct objectivity. in: Betz, Gregor / Hitzler, Ronald / Pfadenhauer, Michaela (eds.): Urban Events. Wiesbaden: VS, pp. 245-260.
  • Ute Wieners: Fortunately there was punk. Autobiographical stories , Verlag Arbeitskreis Regionalgeschichte, Neustadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-930726-18-9
  • Ute Wieners: Sprengel for everyone. Edition Region + Geschichte, Neustadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-930726-32-5

Web links

Commons : Chaostage  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Chaostage  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Nagel : Chaos-Tage: Order is bad , one day , December 18, 2007
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Frömberg: Ute Wieners and Karl Nagel on punk ( Memento from May 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), intro , April 16, 2013
  3. ↑ Hessian Chaostage: Der Aussitzer , Der Spiegel , March 16, 2008
  4. ↑ Chaostage in Portugal , Die Zeit , June 3, 2013
  5. ↑ Thomas Nagel: Today is the birthday of Chaos - 30 years of Chaostage Neue Presse from December 17, 2012
  6. ↑ Christoph Gunkel: 30 years of Chaostage: “You can't keep up a life like this forever” , one day on Spiegel Online , July 2, 2013
  7. ↑ Birgit Reichardt: Chaostage or the "Schutt-und-Asche-Legende" , NDR online , December 16, 2012
  8. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Chaostage 1983: "You can't keep up a life like this forever". In: SPIEGEL ONLINE. Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Jessica Kleinehelftewes: When the beer was served in buckets , Neue Westfälische , August 10, 2012
  10. ↑ Holger Burmeister: In a country where beer and honey flow , Chaostage 1987 in Lübecke (PDF), mopad.de
  11. ↑ When the Chaostage shook Hanover
  12. ↑ a b Chaostage 1995: The Smurfs' riot against Expo, State and Pay Beer
  13. ^ The events in 1995. chaostage.de, archived from the original on March 8, 2016 ; accessed on July 30, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Michael Jach, Hans-Dieter Götz, Ludwig Rademacher: Hanover: Chaos instead of security , Focus , August 14, 1995
  15. ↑ Martin Stucke, Fundamental Rights Report 1997 , "Chaostage" 1996 in Bremen: Police custody for "point-typical appearance"
  16. ↑ Rolf Gössner, Grundrechte-Report 1997 , Soziale “Säuberung” by reference
  17. ↑ Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, DIE ZEIT , 1996, "Chaostage 96: Hanover as a city of restricted basic rights"
  18. ↑ Die Welt from August 7, 2000: Chaostage in Hanover - The police quickly took action
  19. ^ Ernst Corinth: Expo and Chaos Days 2000. Retrieved July 6, 2020 .
  20. ↑ See Heise ticker for Chaos Days 2000
  21. ↑ See Chaostage in Hanover - the police quickly took action
  22. ↑ See attack on railways: Autonome target the Expo Welt.de, June 8, 2000
  23. ^ Website of the Chaostage 2012
  24. ↑ boulevard-baden of October 11, 2012: Punk meeting in front of Substage led to a large police presence ( memento of October 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  25. ↑ swr.de of October 14, 2012: 70 punks try to storm the music club
  26. ↑ boulevard-baden.de of October 14, 2012: No further disruptions from punk meetings ( memento of October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ Just talk? Autonomous people threaten Heidelberg with "chaos days"
  28. ↑ Call for the Chaostage 2013 in Heidelberg ( Memento from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  29. ↑ Heidelberg and Hanover in comparison
  30. ^ Konrad Kittner in the catalog of the German National Library ; "Chaostage - Greetings from Hanover" , Discogs
  31. ^ Bone Factory - Expo 2000 Chaostage Hymne , YouTube
  32. ↑ WIZO: WIZO - "Chaostage94" (official 7/13). In: YouTube . August 11, 2016. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
  33. ↑ die ärzte - official homepage. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
  34. ^ "Chaos in Saarbrücken", in: the daily newspaper , August 16, 2007 .
  35. ↑ “Calculated rampage as a punk film promotion”, in: ARD - Polylux / polylog.tv , October 5, 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.polylog.tv
  36. ^ Chaostage film premiere: Punkerrandale in Hanover. October 4, 2008, accessed on July 6, 2020 (German).
  37. ↑ Wolfgang Frömberg: "They danced on the barricades": Ute Wieners and Karl Nagel on days of chaos and punk ( memento from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Intro # 212, April 16, 2013