German anger - rock against the top
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1998 |
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13 |
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35:48 |
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Deutsche Wut - Rock gegen Oben is the second studio album by the German right-wing rock band Landser . It was released in 1998 on the Rebell Records label and has been indexed and confiscated since August 2004 .
background
After the drummer Horst S. left Landser in March 1996, the band's activities came to a standstill for a few months. At the end of 1996 there was contact with the later co-defendant Christian W., a member of the Blood and Honor network. He had learned that the band was looking for a new drummer. After rehearsing together in early 1997, W. was accepted into the band. For W., who had previously played as guitarist and drummer in various bands of the right-wing extremist scene, membership in Landser was the culmination of his musical career. With Michael Regener , Christian W. and André M., the band finally had its final line-up which lasted until the court ruling in December 2003.
Regener had already written numerous new texts during this phase. The newcomer W. found an attic where the band could do their rehearsals undisturbed. Another recording studio abroad was chosen to record the new album. Regener used his good contacts in the USA and chose a recording studio in Saint Paul (Minnesota) as the production location . In April 1998 the band members flew there and recorded their new album entitled Deutsche Wut - Rock gegen Oben .
The production should be taken over by Jens O., who had already distributed the debut album Republik der Trolche . However, the latter turned it down because he was already having difficulties with the law enforcement authorities because of his activities in the right-wing extremist scene, and transferred the production to his business partner B. The sound carriers were pressed in the USA and had a circulation of 10,000. O. and B. were responsible for distributing the albums. After the legal difficulties in distributing the first album, they chose a new distribution channel. The finished CDs were sent in small quantities from the USA to the Netherlands , where they were picked up at their own risk by selected dealers who had to pay the purchase price in advance. This was to prevent the CDs from being confiscated by German customs before they were sold.
The cover and booklet should be printed again in Germany. A first template that was sent to B. by e-mail was destroyed by the latter, however, as he feared official monitoring of communication traffic. Then a new cover had to be designed. The subsequent printing was not without problems. The owner of the commissioned printer found the booklet suspicious, whereupon he called the public prosecutor's office. As a result, O. and B.'s places of residence were searched, but no criminal evidence was found. O. and B. ended their collaboration with the band a little later.
Although the new CD was also very popular, the sales proceeds were low. One reason for this was that by bypassing the official distribution, unauthorized copied tapes with the new songs were already in circulation before sales began.
content
Musically, most of the songs belong to the hard rock genre. Only the pieces Rudolf Hess and Rebell are quieter ballads . Thematically, the songs are mostly dedicated to typical right-wing extremist topics. This includes the rejection of ethnic groups who are perceived as inferior and those who think differently, such as Roma ( pack of gypsies ), blacks ( in the mountains of Rwanda ) and Turks, as well as asylum seekers and so-called ticks ( in the ass ). Among other things, these groups of people are subjected to derogatory statements, the use of force against them is called for, or their deportation is requested. The song In the Mountains of Rwanda uses a text excerpt from the film Die Kammer at the beginning , and the piece Gypsy Pack is based on the song I Hate You by the American hardcore punk band Verbal Abuse or the cover version of Slayer , though The Canadian punk band DOA is stated in the CD booklet . The song In den Arsch also contains elements of a piece by the German punk band Die Lokalmatadore . In the song Polacken Tango, the band also calls for the recapture of the territories lost to Poland after the First and Second World Wars . This piece also starts with a dialogue from the GDR television series Archive of Death . In the lyrics of Freiheit , it is criticized that those who think differently , such as nationalists , are wrongly persecuted politically and criminally in disregard of human rights and that there is no independent judiciary in Germany. In other songs, the war is glorified and the SS venerated ( Sturmführer ) and the development of the Federal Republic of Germany since the fall of the Wall is criticized ( sold + betrayed ). The former NSDAP politician Rudolf Heß , who died in custody in 1987, is venerated in the ballad of the same name, while supporters of the SHARP movement are attacked in Döner Skins . Kreuzberg is a xenophobic song that calls for the entire population of the Berlin district of Kreuzberg to be destroyed with strychnine . The song is based on a piece by the American, racist country singer Johnny Rebel . The band also in the piece calls for retaliation like-minded people to free to awaken and Germany from the "oppression." The ballad Rebell is about various historical people who fought for freedom ( William Wallace , General Lee ) and the popular uprising of June 17, 1953 in the GDR . Music from the film Braveheart is used at the beginning of the song . In the court ruling on the band's ban, reference was made in particular to the title song of the album Deutsche Wut , which emphasizes the firmness of Landser's group association, praises the band's cult status in the right-wing extremist scene and makes it clear that the group is aware of the criminal liability of its text content. In the chorus of this song, the then chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Ignatz Bubis is addressed.
Cover design
The album cover is in black and white and shows the photo of an anti-racism demonstration on November 8, 1992 in Berlin . On it are the then chairman of the Central Council of Jews Ignatz Bubis as well as the former governing mayor of Berlin Eberhard Diepgen and the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl . In the foreground there are police officers in protective gear. At the upper edge of the picture is the Landser lettering in Fraktur in white, and at the bottom right, also in white, is the lettering Rock gegen Oben in Antiqua . On the back cover there is, among other things, the quote "I'd rather drive the world to the devil than not being allowed to call the devil himself" by the German writer Ernst Moritz Arndt .
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| 1 | freedom | 2:41 |
| 2 | Gypsy pack | 2:25 |
| 3 | Sturmführer | 1:35 |
| 4th | retribution | 3:07 |
| 5 | Polacken Tango | 4:21 |
| 6th | In the ass | 2:40 |
| 7th | Sold + betrayed | 3:14 |
| 8th | Rudolf Hess | 2:03 |
| 9 | Kreuzberg | 1:52 |
| 10 | In the mountains of Rwanda | 2:43 |
| 11 | Doner skins | 1:45 |
| 12 | German anger | 3:25 |
| 13 | rebel | 3:57 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Wut - Rock gegen Oben at discogs.com
- ↑ a b c d e f g Judgment of the Berlin Court of Appeal of December 22, 2003, Az. (2) 3 StE 2/02 - 5 (1) (2/02). (PDF; 547 kB) Internet service Dullophob, accessed on May 20, 2013. ( Possible alternative on snafu.de. ( Memento from September 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
- ↑ Senate Department for Internal Affairs and Sport, Department for Protection of the Constitution [Berlin] (ed.): Info right-wing extremist music . 2nd Edition. Berlin November 2007, p. 16 . Info right-wing extremist music ( Memento of the original dated November 5, 2013 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. (PDF; 785 kB)
- ↑ Episode from the GDR television series Archive of Death on YouTube, film passage quoted in the song at 7:40 a.m.
- ↑ The holo is over . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1992 ( online - also the album cover as PDF; source of the album cover: photography of the anti-racism demo from November 8, 1992 in Berlin).
- ↑ Deutsche Wut - Rock gegen Oben on discogs.com
