Josef Maria Klumb

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Josef Maria Klumb (* 1962 in Bingen ), also known under the pseudonym Jay Kay , is a German musician . He became known through music projects such as Forthcoming Fire , Weissglut or Von Thronstahl . He is classified as right-wing extremist by the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance .

biography

In the 1980s, Klumb founded the punk band Aus-98, from which the Circle of Sig-Tiu emerged . These music groups resorted to a Nazi aesthetic, which was not uncommon in punk bands of the time. The Z in the song title Black Raven on the Aus 98 single resembled a Wolfsangel and the band's lettering resembled a symbol that has similarities to the swastika , but also to the band logo of the anarcho-punk formation Crass and can be found on the jackets of the band members was. However, tracks by the band were released on punk and hardcore samplers from labels clearly anti-fascist .

In 1988 Klumb dissolved the Circle of Sig-Tiu and returned in 1990 with the music group Forthcoming Fire . As a result of some of Klumb's remarks, it made headlines nationwide from the mid-1990s and was also observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which brought it into connection with the dark wave scene, from which the band had already distanced itself musically in 1995. In 1995 he founded the Von Thronstahl group with his brother Bernhard . This is also criticized because of its aesthetics, its commitment to nationalist ideas and martial song titles. Klumb's texts and other statements contain references to “images of 'dark forces', ' high finance ' and ' Zionism '”, a New World Order and other conspiracy theories .

His activity as a musician also includes the Weissglut and Preussak projects . The band Weissglut parted ways with Klumb in 1999 as a singer and lyricist "on the grounds that Josef Klumb was unable to seriously refute the accusation of representing right-wing extremist ideas". In addition, he supported with his bandmates Raymond Plummer (also at Von Thronstahl and with his solo project, The Days of the Trumpet Call active), the NSBM band Absurd in the setting of by Hendrik Möbus written song Sonnenritter that on the EP Asgardsrei appeared . However, Klumb states that he had no knowledge of the right-wing extremist sentiments of Möbus or the Sondershausen murder case . Around 2000, however, Klumb told the neo-Nazi fanzine Der Förderturm that he was “nationally and socially minded”, and even Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg , while still a resistance fighter, said “that the ideas of National Socialism were in order”.

In 2001 he took part in the song Sacred Divinity of the dark metal band Agathodaimon as a guest singer.

Klumb published several volumes of poetry (e.g. Iron Age ) and, in 1999, an autobiography called Easily Flammable Material , which primarily addresses his career as an artist and his various skirmishes with left-wing people and groups.

His statements about an allegedly existing ' Zionist world domination ' and his closeness to Jan van Helsing and contacts to right-wing extremist circles made him - but also his publisher Werner Symanek (owner of the VAWS ), who was accused of the same - suspect in the black scene that he want to influence them with nationalist and social Darwinist ideas. Some anti-fascist groups drew attention to Klumb during lectures on right-wing political tendencies in the black scene and also prevented some of his bands from performing. In the documentary Vom Hirschkäfer zum Hakenkreuz (2001; director: Oliver Lammert and Madeleine Dewald) both Klumb himself and his critic Alfred Schobert have their say on this topic . Klumb was also temporarily observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Critics also accuse him of exposing himself, stiffening into a “martyr role” and “acting as a messiah”. Klumb's self-stylization can already be seen in the accompanying texts of the LP We Come With Love but Not for Peace , released in 1988 , as well as the fact that musicians who were not officially part of the Circle of Sig-Tiu, his band at the time, but played on the albums, only played on small musicians separate photos shown and not listed as members. More recently, he has complained in several web forums, “about being ignored by large parts of the Neofolk press and suspected that this 'mechanism' was due to unfair methods. In these texts he essentially castigated 'hypocrisy'. [...] Perhaps the 'deeper secret' of an alleged VT-dead silence simply has something to do with the fact that one prefers to discuss recordings that are less embarrassing, especially since factual negative reviews do not seem to anger the gentleman any less ”.

In a Spiegel article from February 16, 2009, which deals with the connection between Catholicism and right-wing extremism, Von Thronstahl is described by the two authors as a “right-wing Gothic band”. They also refer to the admiration that Hans Milch receives on the part of Klumb, who, after a personal conversation with the "charismatic Piusbruder" (Spiegel is wrong here, Pastor Milch was never a member of the Piusbruderschaft), even converted to Catholicism and gave a sermon by the controversial priest set to music under the title Pontifex solis . Klumb is now trying to "make the deceased 'most honorable friend' immortal". “'Beyond the Catholic', says the Thronstahl website under 'Ecclesia Militans', the priest enjoys great popularity in 'our defensive, conservative and avant-garde subculture'”.

In the meantime, Klumb is again active with a new project. In 2017 his brother Bernhard, who played a large part in the music of Forthcoming Fire , sent him two drafts for new songs, whereupon the two brothers collaborated again musically after a long time. In 2018 they released their first single called Svantaal - an allusion to the Schwanthaler family of sculptors - with the title Black Star Baby , which contained the two songs Black Star Baby and Ins Leben .

Private

Klumb has a grown daughter and now lives in Munich .

Discography

with Aus-98
  • 1983: Everything Falls / Black Raven (Single)
with Circle of Sig-Tiu
as Jay Kay
  • And All Your Glamor Will Turn into Dust
with Forthcoming Fire
with Preussak
  • 1998: Liebe Tanz und Tod (12 "single)
  • 2005: work show
with company trident
  • 1998: Lies become truth, peace is war
  • 2001: 1948
with Von Thronstahl
with white heat
  • 1998: white heat
  • 1998: something comes into your world
  • 1998: Angel of Innocence (single)
with absurdity
with agathodaimon
  • 2001: Chapter III

Books

Essays

  • Cainsmal ; in: Matzke, Peter u. Seeliger, Tobias: Gothic! The scene in Germany from the perspective of its makers , Berlin 2000, pp. 156–167. ISBN 978-3896023322
  • 30 years of punk. Antifa Gestapo & Neofolk Punk ; in: Radiance - Propaganda Organ for Neofolk Culture , Berlin 2010, pp. 12–22.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : News from far right - July 2004 . VAWS Festival in Carinthia ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2011 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 / doewweb01.doew.at
  2. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 170 .
  3. ↑ a b GfM interview with Josef K. Archived from the original on September 26, 2007 ; Retrieved March 1, 2010 .
  4. ^ Ingo Taler: Out of Step . Hardcore punk between rollback and neo-Nazi adaptation. series of anti-fascist texts / UNRAST-Verlag, Hamburg / Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-89771-821-0 , p. 169 .
  5. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): Verfassungsschutzbericht 2001 . Berlin 2002, p. 129 .
  6. ^ Dull figure of light . In: Rudolf Augstein (Ed.): Spiegel . No. 44/1998 . Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg 1998, p. 304 ( spiegel.de ).
  7. ↑ Dominik Tischleder: VON THRONSTAHL: Mother of Pain. Nonpop, accessed September 6, 2010 .
  8. ↑ a b Michael Sontheimer, Peter Wensierski: Zur Rechten Gottes . In: Der Spiegel , No. 8/2009, February 16, 2009, p. 36f.
  9. ↑ https://time-for-metal.eu/svantaal-feat-ex-lösungen-von-forthcoming-fire-und-weissglut-die-debuet-ep-video-online/
  10. ↑ Michael Kuhlen: JAY KAY (JOSEF KLUMB) Interview Part 3 .
  11. ↑ Magazine description of the label Castellum Stoufenburc ; Retrieved November 29, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Klumb, Joseph Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jay Kay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bingen