The bandwidth

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The bandwidth
Logo diebandbreite.gif
General information
Genre (s) Pop , hip-hop
founding 1999
Website www.diebandbreite.de
Founding members
Marcel Wojnarowicz
Co-production
 Torben Eckhoff
singing
 Frank "Frunk" Scheele
Production, rap, singing
 Frank "Franky" Reuter
Current occupation
Marcel Wojnarowicz (Wojna)
Co-production
 Torben Eckhoff
former members
Production, rap, singing
 Frank "Franky" Reuter
Rap, production
 Nils Sowen
singing
 Frank "Frunk" Scheele
The range in shirts with the song title made by myself and related to September 11, 2001

The bandwidth is a hip-hop - Duo from Duisburg , which in German raps . It consists of Torben Eckhoff alias DJ Torben and the singer and songwriter Marcel Wojnarowicz, who performs under the stage name Wojna. The band is known for supporting and promoting various conspiracy theories .

history

The German hip-hop duo The range developed from the solo activities of the two actors Marcel Wojnarowicz (* 1976), also known as Wojna , and DJ Torben. According to his own statements, Wojna began writing her own texts in 1992. He had the first release in 1998 on the 1st Duisburg rap sampler, in the following years more songs appeared on various samplers. He was also part of the Rhine Ruhr Pact. The first joint production Wojna and Turbo with Torben appeared in 2000 on the sampler Kommt in die Pötte.

In 2001 the EP HipHop was released under the name wojna and the complete range , in the following year songs appeared under the complete range , including the single why only once . die welt ist schön was released in 2003 as the duo's first album, the complete range , followed in 2006 completely under the name die range. Self-made was released in 2007 as an EP under the current name Die Zusammenarbeit and in 2008 the album Hexenjagd and the single Dat is Duisburg were released. In 2009 the EP forced vaccination was released , in 2010 the EP world champion . In 2011 the LP Reflexion was published.

Songs

The title Dat is Duisburg is sometimes referred to as the city's unofficial anthem in the Duisburg area.

In the song best list of August 2010, the bandwidth climbed to third place with her song What is going on in this country . This song made it back to the top song list in January 2012 with seventh place.

Political positions

Live show by the duo The Bandwidth with the song No Sex with Nazis

The duo describes themselves as a political pop band. Many songs contain political calls. In their lyrics, the band also ties in with conspiracy theories . Among other things, conspiracy theories for September 11, 2001 are propagated in the play Self Made . In the song Democracy , the moon landing is doubted. Jürgen Elsässer , to whom the singer Wojnarowicz refers positively, described the range as "the most successful band of the ' truth movement '".

Wojnarowicz stated in an interview with the Islamische Zeitung about the political profile of the band that he already took part in Easter marches as a child and was a member of IG Metall and the Falken . He was eventually excluded from the latter because of the band's conspiracy theory texts. Among other things, the North Rhine-Westphalian state executive of the party Die Linke decided in November 2012 that the state association "would not participate financially, in terms of content or organization," and advised against it "in events organized by party branches at which the Duisburg band 'The Range' appears from working with the band.

The political spectrum of the organizations in which the band appears ranges from the Marxist-Leninist DKP to the right-wing populist SVP . In 2010 the band was praised by the NPD as “a people's socialist music group”. In 2011, the duo called for a Truther demonstration in Karlsruhe, which was advertised by Eva Herman on the Kopp Verlag website . At the beginning of 2013, the band composed and sang the party song for the small party Neue Mitte by Christoph Hörstel . The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Rhineland-Palatinate took this on the grounds that "the program of this party [...] is incompatible with left-wing positions" as an opportunity to withdraw as the organizer of the Left Song Summer, at which the band was supposed to perform despite being invited . In September 2014, the band performed at the conspiracy-theoretical and “obvious proximity to right-wing extremist ideas” held by Michael Vogt in Neu-Isenburg. In the 2017 federal election campaign , the band supported Christoph Hörstel's party, Deutsche Mitte . The band sings in their song `` Please don't vaccinate them '' against vaccinating children.

reception

Because of its ability to connect to the right-wing to right-wing extremist scene and its positions on conspiracy theory, The Bandwidth is regularly criticized in the media and by left political groups and identified as "a more than unsavory conspiracy theories, anti-Americanism , sexism and misogyny ". Several organizations, such as trade unions and regional associations of the Left Party, decided not to book the band for events. Left-wing politician Diether Dehm defended the band and planned it for his party's 2013 general election campaign.

In an article on Spiegel Online , Alexandra Sillgitt accused the band of spreading "wild conspiracy polemics". Matthias Jena from IG Metall Bayern made it clear in the same article that IG Metall Bayern did not share the band's “absurd” theories and announced that the band would no longer perform at IG Metall Bayern and DGB youth events .

On July 31, 2008, Zlatan Alihodzic criticized the WAZ for the fact that the SPD , the Left and the DGB in Duisburg booked the bandwidth for events in spite of the conspiracy theory and texts that were popular with neo-Nazis .

Because of the dissemination of the assertion in the Berlin regional edition of the taz that the band was known for their anti-Semitic lyrics, Wojnarowic brought a successful injunction against the taz. The taz then appealed against the judgment of the press chamber of the Berlin Regional Court to the Berlin Regional Court and lost again. However, the band was unable to enforce the requested financial compensation. Even after the journalist Stefan Laurin had accused the band of anti-Semitism in their texts, the repetition of this statement was forbidden by the Bochum Regional Court on September 21, 2011 under threat of punishment.

The band performed at the 2009 conference of Ivo Sasek's anti-censorship coalition .

Martin Wassermann took the World Cup song Weltmeister as an opportunity to critically examine the band in the left-wing weekly newspaper Jungle World , in which he made a “balancing act between reactionary conspiracy ideology, supposedly leftist standpoints and homage to Germany”.

On the occasion of the band's appearance on May 12, 2010 at the Linker Liedersommer at Waldeck Castle , which took place under the motto “Left songs against exploitation and war”, the young world reported positively about the band and, given the impressions, described anti-German accusations as “ridiculous ". Also in 2012 the paper wrote: ““ Bandwidth ”texts are provocative, they do not depict reality, but rather the view of many people on this reality. This is not only justified, but is necessary as a yardstick that shows the rising temperature curve of our society - an important function of songs with political claims that want to go beyond a simple agitprop scheme. ”In connection with an appearance at the controversial so-called The band then accused the band of vigils for peace in April 2014 for never shying away from appearing with conspiracy theorists and right- wing esotericists.

The state committee of the NRW Jusos approved a motion on January 29, 2012, in which all branches of the Jusos and the SPD were requested not to invite the band to events for musical performances. Any form of anti-Semitism, sexism or anti-American conspiracy theories are resolutely rejected.

The Neue Westfälische Zeitung wrote on October 3, 2012: "Unlike the old 68er generation like Wecker , Wader or Mey , the duo manages to analyze social and geopolitical undesirable developments with great musical diversity [...]."

The New Germany accused the band in 2012 of acting as an “appetizer for highly reactionary ideologies” such as the “crude anti-Semitic propaganda of the book author Wolfgang Eggert”, because the band had explicitly referred to Eggert in their description of the origin of the text for the song AIDS . In his book The Planned Epidemics, Eggert made the claim with "openly anti-Semitic formulations" that Jewish institutions or persons were involved in deliberately creating the immune epidemic AIDS . The band advertised Eggert's book on their website and linked the website of its publisher Chronos Medien. As books like Messianists networks drive the world's end , Israel's Secret Vatican as executor of Bible prophecy or the discreet role of Mossad and CIA in the attacks of September 11 offers.

In 2013, the band's gig at the Occupy Camp in Hamburg was canceled by the activists after several bands refused to perform when the band was supposed to participate. The accusation of legal bias was raised again. In the same year Wojnarowicz was expelled from the Socialist Youth of Germany - The Falcons "because of texts on conspiracy theory" .

In 2015 the band was unloaded at the Krefeld “Greengos Festival” at Elfrather See , after the co-organizer Greenpeace and some of the other bands wanted to withdraw. The organizer justified the measure by saying that "they wanted to express very clearly that the Greengos were against sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, nationalism, homo-negativity and hasty general discrediting as well as any other kind of discrimination". The Fog Joggers , announced as headliners , welcomed the organizer's decision.

Discography

Albums

  • 2003: the full range: the world is beautiful
  • 2006: the range: completely through
  • 2008: The range: witch hunt
  • 2011: The range: reflection
  • 2013: The range: Art but fair
  • 2016: The range: The last left

EPs

  • 2001: wojna and the complete range: HipHop
  • 2007: The range: homemade
  • 2009: The range: Forced vaccination
  • 2010: The range: world champion
  • 2015: The range: butterflies in a glass

Singles

  • 2002: the complete range: why only once
  • 2008: The range: Dat is Duisburg
  • 2013: The range: Mafia
  • 2017: The range: "Please don't vaccinate them"
  • 2019: The range: It's that time again

Further

As part of the Rhine Ruhr Pact

  • Group therapy
  • You are the fagot
  • Hip Hop Police
  • Here Comes The Pact!
  • The club is on fire
  • Young & Free

As a feature artist

  • Where's the Truth ( Kilez More )
  • Schenk Ma five minutes ( Siggi Maron )
  • International Unity (Kilez More)
  • Зона Отчуждения (Бонано Клика)
  • Wat'n Revolutionary Song ( Frank Baier )
  • Drawer (thirsty)

In addition, individual songs can be found on various samplers, including on Together Against Right - Die Rote Schulhof CD .

literature

  • Nikolaus Gatter: The range: singer-songwriter or hip-hopper? Duisburg duo between censorship and ground zero. In: Folker! The magazine for folk, song and world music 3/2009, p. 18 f.
  • The range: The truth sits in the backstage . Culex-Verlag, Duisburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-942003-02-5
  • Frank Baier: Good luck. Klartext-Verlag, November 12, 2012, p. 73, ISBN 978-3-8375-0645-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.abektivenwatch.de/profile/marcel-wojnarowicz/archive/134086
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: full broadside for the beloved ), derwesten.de, WAZ, February 16, 2008. Archive version from September 26, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.derwesten.de
  3. ↑ Bandwidth plays at the city festival - unofficial Duisburg anthem on Saturday live in Rheinhausen , Neue Ruhr Zeitung , February 18, 2008.
  4. ↑ Song best list August 2010 , nmz.de, August 2010.
  5. ↑ Song best list January 2012 , nmz.de, January 2012
  6. ^ DGB party: trade unionists let conspiracy theorists rap , Spiegel Online , November 28, 2007.
  7. ↑ a b c d e Full range - Duisburger Band offers campaign support from right to left , Neues Deutschland , June 28, 2013.
  8. ↑ a b “A message has become rare today” , Islamische Zeitung, February 12, 2009.
  9. ^ "Against all anti-Semitism!" AK Shalom on site in Bamberg , bak-shalom.de, February 26, 2013.
  10. ^ "Bandwidth" too large , Neues Deutschland, June 27, 2011.
  11. ↑ Confession letter surfaced - the enemy is on the left , taz , May 2, 2013.
  12. ↑ The bandwidth agency assumes fraud in voting for The Dome (RTL II) , WAZ , August 11, 2011.
  13. ↑ Danijel Majic: Conspiracy theories - meeting point of the anti-enlighteners , Frankfurter Rundschau from September 8, 2014
  14. ↑ Bundestag election service: Deutsche Mitte - Die Wahrhaftigen , by J.-P. Baeck, taz.archiv; accessed on August 30, 2017
  15. ↑ Advertise & Sell: "We can spahn the compulsory vaccination": How vaccination critics advertise | Special | Pharmaceutical Marketing | W&V. October 1, 2019, accessed January 30, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Among vaccination opponents - a demo report. Accessed January 30, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Lower Saxony: Left-top candidate campaigns for a misogynist band , Spiegel Online, June 28, 2013.
  18. ↑ Left top candidate campaigns for misogynist band , Der Spiegel, June 28, 2013
  19. ↑ Trade unionists let conspiracy theorists rap . SPIEGEL Online, November 28, 2007
  20. ↑ From rinks to lechts , WAZ, July 31, 2008.
  21. ↑ LG Berlin 27 O 545/09 - October 8, 2009
  22. ^ KG Berlin, decision of December 14, 2010 - 9 U 203/09
  23. ↑ Acknowledgment judgment Regional Court Bochum, September 21, 2011, file number I-8 O 376/11 .
  24. ↑ Frida Thurm: The very own world of the Monday demonstrators - also conspiracy hip-hop is part of it , Die Zeit from April 22, 2014
  25. ↑ Martin Wassermann: urine instead of beer. Jungle World , June 3, 2010, accessed August 16, 2010 .
  26. ↑ No sex with Nazis - Junge Welt, June 15, 2010
  27. ^ At the fire between the camps - Junge Welt, June 21, 2012
  28. ^ Daniel Bratanovic and Sebastian Carlens: Falsche Friedensfreunde , Junge Welt, April 23, 2014.
  29. ↑ Decision book 11th regular state conference of the Juso-Landesverband NRW, 15.-16. September 2012 in Münster ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2015 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.nrwjusos.de
  30. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: What needs to be said ) Neue Westfälische, October 3, 2012 < Archive version of November 7, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diekomplettebandbreite.de
  31. ↑ “How Left is Paranoia?” ND of June 2, 2012
  32. ↑ Confession letter surfaced - the enemy is on the left , taz, May 2, 2013
  33. ^ "Full range: Duisburg band offers election campaign assistance from right to left" , Neues Deutschland from June 28, 2013, accessed on January 15, 2017
  34. ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: statement from Wojnarowicz ) on the band's website from February 23, 2013 archive version from July 8, 2013@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.diekomplettebandbreite.de
  35. ↑ Jennifer Fortmann: Unloaded from the Greengos Festival: Bandwidth - cast out band , Westdeutsche Zeitung from July 31, 2015
  36. ↑ Update Greengos Festival Krefeld: The bandwidth was unloaded , Ruhrbarone from July 27, 2015
  37. ↑ Together Against Right - The Red Schoolyard CD at Discogs