Karl Nagel (politician, 1960)

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Karl Nagel (actually Peter N. Altenburg ; born December 9, 1960 in Wuppertal ) is a German artist and politician. Since 1981 he has been using the stage name "Karl Nagel". He was significantly involved in the Chaostage and the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany (APPD) and stood as an APPD candidate for chancellor in the 1998 federal election . Through targeted disinformation and playing with the expectations of the mass media and other participants, he succeeded in creating a broad public with leaflets and via the Internet .

Political activities

His anarchist actions can be understood as practical examples of situationist action. In the 1980s, Nagel was co-initiator of the Hanoverian Chaostage and the Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany (APPD) as well as publisher and main author of the party newspaper Armes Deutschland . In the 1990s he was the driving force behind the founding of the APPD and the relaunch of the Chaostage from 1994.

In 2001 he met the neo-Nazi Christian Worch and caused some confusion. On September 1, 2002, he ended his political activity with a staged "political suicide". In his “bunker letters” he documented the way to this decision and criticized the radical fringes of the political spectrum and the competitive society .

For the early federal elections in 2005 he was campaign manager for the APPD. His campaign made it to page two of the Bild newspaper, the then Interior Minister Otto Schily was outraged by the election advert.

In the state elections in Hamburg in 2015 , he should run as the top candidate of the party Die PARTTEI . But in November 2014 there was an amicable separation due to “insurmountable programmatic differences”. Nagel had declared that he wanted to take over the world and exterminate humanity.

Author and editor

Karl Nagel appeared publicly for the first time as the publisher and author of the science fiction and comic magazines “Gorgol” and “Fantastrips”. In the 1980s he brought out six issues of his punk scene magazine "Hackfleisch", which commented controversially on the development of the punk scene. In the 1990s, Nagel became the author of the punk / hardcore magazine ZAP and in 1995 published the special editions “Streetpunk”, “Punker Terror” and the first “Bunker letters”.

In 2005 Karl Nagel founded the Alligator Farm drawing studio in Hamburg. With Wittek he was able to win an experienced comic artist to train young talents. The comic artists Vincent Burmeister, Simone Kesterton, Philip Cassirer and Till Felix came from this cadre forge.

As part of the Alligator Farm and through his contacts with Klaus N. Frick , the editor-in-chief of the Perry Rhodan series, he created the Perry Rhodan comics anew. After Karl Nagel ended his work for Alligator Farm in 2007 and handed the publishing house over to employees, he returned to Alligator Farm in 2011 as the producer of the main story of the Perry comics. Previously, he had published six issues of the comic magazine "DIE! OR WIR" in a new publishing house and, following an advertisement by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, was able to successfully counteract an indexing application from the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People.

In February 2012, after 17 years of severe internet addiction, Nagel took “measures to achieve mental sovereignty” and documented the progress in his blog “Brain regain”.

In December 2018 his book Schlund was published by the Berlin Hirnkost Verlag .

Music and cabaret

Karl Nagel with no hate there at the Ruhrpott Rodeo 2013

In 1984 Karl Nagel started as a singer in the punk band Alte Kameraden . The band was renamed every year: The old comrades became Preussens Gloria and from it Morbid Outburst . 1988 was Karl Nagel with the reestablishment of the hardcore band Militant Mothers the punk rock behind. After several LPs, the Militant Mothers were dissolved in 1992 and Karl Nagel said goodbye to music for over a decade and a half. Since 2008, Nagel has been back on stage as the frontman of the band Kein Hass . To do this, he translated various songs by the American band Bad Brains into German, whereby his focus was not literal translation, but rather the rhythm of the language and the tonality of the sung text.

In 2010 Karl Nagel started another project with the idiot piano . Along his own biography, he commented on experiences from earlier years and sang suitable songs from that time. The live presentation was supplemented by cabaret elements, films and photos. With this program he toured many German cities since 2011.

For Deutschlandfunk , Karl Nagel was supposed to report on the premiere of the play Chaostage - The sale continues in the Cumberland Gallery of the State Theater Hanover . He was approached by one of the actors and grabbed his crotch.

Film and photo

Nagel has been running a photo archive on the German punk scene since 2007. It is now probably the largest collection of punk rock photos in the world. In 2008 Karl Nagel was interviewed in the punk film Chaostage - We Are Punks! by Tarek Ehlail with. He made archive material available and supported the production with advice and contacts.

Karl Nagel is married with a daughter and lives temporarily in the south of France.

Publications

book

LP

  • Hymns from the Throat , vinyl, LP, Kino ohne Talent, D 2018

Web links

Commons : Karl Nagel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Corinth : Der Informationsvergifter ( Memento from March 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) . Süddeutsche Zeitung of August 29, 1997.
  2. ^ Ernst Corinth: Expo and Chaos Days 2000. In: Telepolis . February 13, 2000
  3. ↑ Ute Wieners: Fortunately there was punk , Edition Region und Geschichte, Verlag Arbeitskreis Regionalgeschichte, Neustadt 2012, ISBN 978-3-930726-18-9 , pp. 195 ff.
  4. ↑ Karl Nagel's political suicide 2001 on YouTube
  5. ↑ Joachim Hiller: Interviews: Karl Nagel, Kein Hass da in: Ox-Fanzine June / July 2009
  6. ^ APPD election campaign spot 2005 on YouTube
  7. ↑ Election advertising: APPD- "Scandalspot" no longer on TV in: Stern.de from September 12, 2005
  8. ↑ Anarchists: How the Pogo Party Celebrated the Election . In: Spiegel Online . September 19, 2005 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 28, 2018]).
  9. ↑ Karl Nagel throws down the bucket , Die PARTEI Landesverband Hamburg, November 24, 2014
  10. ↑ Andreas Michalke: People eater and toilet humor . In: Jungle World . No. 24, June 15, 2006
  11. ↑ Perry Rhodan comes from Bahrenfeld in: Hinz & Kunzt 156 / February 2006
  12. ↑ Klaus N. Frick : A brand new Perry comic . ( Memento of January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) perry-rhodan.net, March 17, 2006
  13. ↑ Christian Fuchs: Amok comic causes controversy in: Spiegel Online from March 24, 2009
  14. ↑ Joachim Hiller: Interviews: Karl Nagel, in: ox-fanzine
  15. ↑ Blog karl nagel… brain regain ( Memento from July 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Schlund in the German National Library
  17. ↑ Publishing information on Schlund
  18. ^ "Chaostage" at the Staatstheater Hannover: A punk intervenes , Karl Nagel in conversation with Gesa Ufer, Deutschlandfunk , December 11, 2017
  19. ↑ Ronald Meyer-Arlt: Punk in the theater: "Chaostage - The sale continues" on the Cumberland stage . Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , December 10, 2017
  20. ↑ Ernst Corinth: When the world was still in order . Telepolis , January 17, 2007
  21. Jump up ↑ Chaostage 1983: “You can't keep up a life like this forever”. In: one day . Retrieved October 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Nagel, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altenburg, Peter N. (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (APPD) and musician, organizer of the Chaostage and APPD candidate for chancellor
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal