Disruptive force

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Disruptive force
Cover of a maxi CD by Störkraft released after the official release
Cover of a maxi CD by Störkraft released after the official release
General information
Genre (s) Right skirt
founding 1985
resolution Mid 1990s
Last occupation
no longer active
former members
Jörg Petritsch
Volker Grüner
Stefan Rasche
Steven Martin
Michael Devers
Band manager
 Torsten Lemmer

Interference force was founded in 1985, right rock - band . In the early 1990s, media reports made it the best-known band in this spectrum. It broke up in the mid-1990s.

Text and music style

The band's lyrics are “unmistakably xenophobic ” and call for resistance against “leftists” who are called the “red tide” without any clear demarcation. "Clearly right-wing extremist texts" can usually not be spoken of in relation to the left. As with many right-wing rock bands, “foreigners” and “leftists” (“ ticks ”) are at the center of the textual attacks even if they are disruptive.

Stylistically, the music is usually assigned to right-wing rock. The sound of Störkraft stands out from similar bands in two main features: the singer's concise voice and short, melancholy-sounding guitar solos with lots of reverb.

successes

The band became known nationwide from October 1992 when they appeared in several magazines of public and private television stations: for example Einspruch ( Sat.1 ), Spiegel TV ( RTL ), Akut (Sat.1), Report ( ARD ) and Frontal ( ZDF ). At that time there were also numerous newspaper reports about legal rock and the band Störkraft in particular. Der Spiegel conducted a large, exclusive interview with the group.

The background was a campaign by the Berlin youth senator Thomas Krüger ( SPD ), who at a press conference called for the indexing and criminal prosecution of some right-wing rock productions, especially by Störkraft. Their tapes and texts were then distributed to journalists.

Klaus Farin , former head of the Berlin Archive of Youth Cultures and author of several non-fiction books and films about neo-Nazis and their music, said:

“A third-rate amateur rock band, which was previously almost unknown in school classes and youth clubs, managed to appear in at least three major talk shows within a few weeks, was allowed to populate hundreds of newspaper columns and cover a dozen TV magazine articles, up to now every 14-year-old in had realized in this country that he absolutely had to get a record from this 'ultra-tough' band if he didn't want to be completely out. "

- Klaus Farin : The Skins: Myth and Reality

The band was mentioned in the anti-neo-Nazi song Schrei nach Liebe by Die Ärzte , published on September 10, 1993 , in which one line reads: "Between Störkraft and den Onkelz there is a cuddly skirt- LP" .

In fact, this media presence ensured sales of over 70,000 CDs from Störkraft, making them the most successful right-wing rock band in Germany. The band was managed by the Düsseldorf entrepreneur Torsten Lemmer , who already looked after a number of other right-wing rock bands. From now on, the sound carriers were distributed by the neo-Nazi newspaper and music publisher Rock Nord .

In the early 1990s the band tried their hand at the single Mordbrenner - You are not one of us! to break away from their neo-Nazi image. With the song Mörder ohne Reue (a cover of the play Brighton Bomb by the emphatically anti-racist English punk group Angelic Upstarts ) they distanced themselves from neo-Nazi skinheads, who do not shy away from carrying out arson attacks against foreigners. The song was originally supposed to be included in the repertoire of the short-lived Ruhrpott Rejects project, which Volker Grüner entertained together with Stefan Spiller (now singer of the Oi! -Band Emscherkurve 77 and previously with a neo-Nazi group called Voll Die Guten), but this project went ahead in the sand. According to Volker Grüner, the text of this song was an "affair of the heart" for him, but the group was aware that it would be "good" to publish this song under the name Störkraft in the context of a "criminal proceeding".

resolution

The band Störkraft broke up in the mid-1990s. Band manager Torsten Lemmer got out of the neo-Nazi scene in 2001 as part of a dropout project led by Christoph Schlingensief and later published a book about his departure.

The former guitarist Volker Grüner played in the band 4 Promille , the apolitical Oi! made and in interviews and on their homepage explicitly demarcated themselves against right-wing radicalism (including 4 per thousand covered the piece Watch Your Back by the English Oi! band Cock Sparrer , in the text of which they spoke out against the exploitation of the working class by left and right-wing extremists).

The trained welder Stefan Rasche was active as a singer in the Düsseldorf neo-Nazi combo "Starkstrom" from 1993, which published two CDs until 1996 and performed at several skinhead concerts. He later distanced himself from the right-wing scene and has been a works council at Rheinbahn since 2010. His appointment to a funding project of the Düsseldorf Opera caused a controversy in 2013.

Publications

The band released two official studio albums:

  1. Dirty, bald and wicked # (1989) indexed October 31, 1992, drafted September 2, 1993 and
  2. Mann für Mann # (1990) indexed October 31, 1992, withdrawn July 6, 1994, the album
  3. Wikinger (1996) appeared several years after the dissolution.

In addition, a live CD with the title Live in Weimar (1991, indexed on November 28, 1992) and the maxi CD Mordbrenner - You are not one of us! (1993).

In addition, the Störkraft / Noie values / Endstufe project called Störstufe should be mentioned, which recorded a vinyl single called Parole Fun . This vinyl single is considered a rarity in the scene. In 2018 it was removed from the list of indexed media.

In addition, a maxi CD (STCD 101) was released after 1994 with the title We are back! on the market, which contained the following three titles:

  1. We are back!
  2. Talking is silver
  3. Uncrowned kings

and a CD (KRCD 1), which was released in 1997 by Rock-O-Rama under the same title.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gabriele Regener: Störkraft brought 41-year-olds to court. (No longer available online.) Ruhrnachrichten.de, June 18, 2013, archived from the original on June 21, 2013 ; Retrieved June 19, 2013 . 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.ruhrnachrichten.de
  2. ↑ Jana Funke: Popular music as a means of expressing right-wing ideology. Google Books, accessed June 19, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Ertel Müller v. Blumencron: Then I sing 'Blood and Honor' - the skinhead cult band “Störkraft” about their right-wing radical songs . In: Der Spiegel . No. 53 , 1992, pp. 40-43 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Klaus Farin: The Skins: Myth and Reality . Ch.links Verlag 1998, p. 223.
  5. ↑ Interviews with Volker Grüner in Fanzine Scumfuck (issues 29 and 30) with Volker Grüner, Duisburg 1995/1996
  6. ^ Skinheads and right-wing extremism. Instrumentalization of a youthful subculture . Ministry of the Interior of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.), Düsseldorf 2001, p. 44f
  7. ↑ The excitement surrounding Stefan Rasche From right-wing rocker to “opera scout” . Express, October 28, 2013
  8. ↑ BAnz AT June 29, 2018 B9
  9. ↑ Online Music Database: Störkraft - we're back