Category C (band)

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Category C
General information
origin Bremen , Germany
founding 1997
Website www.hungrige-woelfe.de
Current occupation
Hannes Ostendorf
Stefan Ernie Behrens
Magnus Macke Ahlgrim
Stefan Ernie Behrens

Category C is a German band from Bremen , which was founded in 1997 and is attributed to the right-wing extremist hooligan scene . Its name can be traced back to the categorization of football fans according to their propensity for violence carried out by the “ Central Information Center for Sports Operations”, which defines category C as “fans seeking violence”. The band acted and operates partly with name additions to the band name, but partly also under another name (see band history ) .

Band history

The establishment of Category C was carried out according to the band originally as a musical hobby project at the in France held 1998 FIFA World Cup . Founding member Hannes Ostendorf and the later added drummer "Illey" are members of the right-wing extremist hooligan group Standarte Bremen . With songs like Fußballfest '98, a cover of the Böhse-Onkelz title France 84, Third Half or Bengali Lights , the band achieved a certain level of awareness in the hooligan scene, but also outside of it. The lyrics are mostly about football and fan violence, especially the so-called " third half ", excessive alcohol, male friendships and fights. From 2001 the band released their CDs under the name KC - Die Band , as not all band members could be assigned to category C.

Disputes within the band led to the split between KC - Die Band . Rainer Friedrichs founded the band VollKontaCt together with other musicians , while singer Ostendorf also continued to make music under the name Category C - Hungry Wolves with the support of another group. The additional title Hungry Wolves is borrowed from a KC album title . On the official homepage, the band referred to themselves as Category C - Hungry Wolves , but on concert announcements, Hungry Wolves were also advertised. According to the band, Friedrichs and Ostendorf released their new album Forever KC on January 3rd, 2008 under the name Hungry Wolves . The band VollkontaCt , however, has broken up. Since the end of 2007 "Macke" and Stefan Ernie Behrens have been the band's new drummer and bassist. Since the end of 2011 the band has been on a "ballad pub crawl " in northern Germany under the name HERM . Rainer left the band at the turn of the year, Stefan Ernie Behrens took over his part and Tino is the new bass player. On May 5, 2019, the band announced on their official website that they wanted to retire from the stage after a final concert.

Right-wing extremism and hooliganism

Ostendorf (center) at a solidarity demo for the Landser singer Michael Regener (alias Lunikoff) on October 21, 2006 in Berlin.

The volume was listed in 2010 in the report on the protection of the constitution by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Bremen under the heading “other right-wing extremists prepared to use violence”. She is assigned to the right-wing extremist hooligan scene and is said to have contacts with the neo-Nazi scene. However, the band is classified as “not unconstitutional” because, according to the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, “it is not right-wing extremism [...], but readiness to use violence ” that is in the foreground. It is therefore not an "object of observation".

Controversial, neo-Nazi statements can be found on the album Fußballfest '98 , for example . Here it says, among other things: "High on the yellow car, I sit in front of the driver, the Oi trot forward, the MG crashes merrily". On the extreme right-wing “football sampler” with the title “ A guest with us ”, which was called up in July 2006 “on suspicion of public incitement to criminal offenses and acts of violence” , the band was represented with the piece Deutschland dein Trikot , which reads: “Germany your trikot / That's black and white / But unfortunately also the color of your players / In Munich, Rome and Bern, there were still real Germans / guys like that and we would like to have those victories again! "And" Germany is the battle cry / We stand for Germany all one / But Germany is not the FRG / Germany is the battle cry ”.

The singer Hannes Ostendorf is the brother of the NPD and Blood and Honor activist Henrik Ostendorf and was involved in an arson attack on a refugee shelter in Bremen in 1991. Members of KC previously played with the right-wing rock bands Nahkampf and Boots Brothers, among others . In 1999 Category C took part with a song in the sampler Die Deutschen Come II, on which the right-wing rock bands Landser , Stahlgewitter , Kraftschlag and HKL are also represented. On March 31, 2001, the band performed at a party to mark the 20th anniversary of the Dortmund neo-Nazi hooligan group Borussenfront around Siegfried Borchardt . In October 2006, Ostendorf joined, among others, with Annett Müller , Michael Müller and agitator on by Eckart Bräuniger ( NPD registered) Solidarity demo with Concert for the imprisoned soldier singer Michael "Hunters" Regener front of the prison in Berlin-Tegel on. The band, on the other hand, sees itself as an apolitical "soccer rock group"; according to their own statement, their music is aimed at "experience-oriented people". She makes this clear in the chorus of the song “Ha Ho He” with the line “Football is football and politics remains politics”. The band announced on their website in 2008: “Yes, we too have a past that we cannot deny. But the bands we played in no longer exist and will no longer exist. […] Our concerts are by no means rallying points for so-called brainless right-wing thugs. [...] We do not tolerate any political or inflammatory badges or imprints or any other political propaganda at our concerts. People who shout right or left slogans will be expelled from the concert. "

In 2009 three concerts by the band were banned. In each case, orders were issued to avert a danger to public safety and order. In November of the same year, the clothing brand Erik and Sons planned a concert with category C on the Karlshorst trotting track in Berlin ; When the performance became known, the landlord canceled the contract. The responsible district office did not issue a permit for a replacement site rented at short notice. The band was able to perform in June 2011 on a club area in the west of Bremen and "thus give the first right-wing rock concert in the city of Bremen for years". In November 2011, the Bremen City Office issued a general order forbidding the band to perform. The Senate of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen referred "to numerous findings of the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution." According to this, "the band glorifies violence between fans and the police and propagates xenophobia ". The performance serves to "spread racist and National Socialist ideas and to consolidate and stabilize them." The band's music is also suitable, "in particular by expressing aggressive, martial and militant behavior and xenophobia, massively intimidating parts of the population and the peaceful coexistence of the The Bremen Higher Administrative Court confirmed the ban, in particular due to the danger that at the concert, criminal regulations, such as showing the Hitler salute , could be violated, especially by concert-goers . These violations were proven in the recent past by video recordings. The “highly conspiratorial approach” of the concert organizers is also common in the scene in order to remove all control over the event.

In January 2012 the band gave a concert under the name HERM in a restaurant in Delmenhorst as part of their “ballad pub crawl ”, at which “ rockers and neo-Nazis […] [are supposed to have] come together” and at which a passer-by in front of the restaurant was attacked by concertgoers and got hurt. In February 2012, the Bremen interior department and the Bremen police warned sports clubs and restaurants that Category C - Hungry Wolves or HERM could try to perform in sports halls or club restaurants. On December 23, 2012, category C performed in front of 150 spectators in a discotheque in Elmshorn , the operator of which stated that he did not know the political background of the group.

On October 26, 2014, the band played at the opening rally of a large-scale xenophobic demonstration by hooligans, which was held in Cologne under the alleged motto Hooligans against Salafism . Many right-wing extremists and neo-Nazis were among the 4,500 participants in the demonstration, which resulted in serious riots and dozens of police officers injured. At the beginning, Category C hounded against Salafists, police and counter-demonstrators and created with hooligans against Salafists, otherwise Germany will become a mass grave of its own anthem.

On December 5, 2015, the band performed together with the right-wing extremist group " Faust " and the neo-Nazi rapper MaKss Damage at their own concert.

Discography

As category C

  • 1998: Football Festival '98 (CD) - indexed
  • 1999: Sport-free! (CD)

As KC - The Band

  • 2001: Hungry Wolves (CD / LP)
  • 2002: Come With Us (CD)
  • 2002: G-Sport (CD-EP)
  • 2004: The 6th Prank (CD)

As Category C - Hungry Wolves

  • 2006: Live in Germany (CD)
  • 2006: We are in shape (CD)
  • 2007: Sport Frei 98 (CD, re-release of the CDs Fußballfest '98 and Sport-Frei! )
  • 2008: Forever KC (CD)
  • 2008: The mountain is calling ... (MCD)
  • 2008: Live in the Ruhrpott (DVD)
  • 2009: Goodbye (MCD)
  • 2009: Hungrig Bissig Wild (CD)
  • 2010: Old School (CD, new edition of CD Sport Frei 98 )
  • 2010: full contact (CD)
  • 2011: German Boys (CD)
  • 2012: Enemies for Life (CD)
  • 2012: Pub Crawl (CD)
  • 2013: One for All (CD)
  • 2014: On the big journey (CD)
  • 2015: Lived Wrong (CD)
  • 2016: Pure EMotion (CD)
  • 2017: God with Us (CD)

Sampler contributions

Hannes Ostendorf, singer of the band Category C, was represented on several samplers, for example in 1999 on the sampler Die Deutschen Come II and on the 2004 sampler Category A, B & C. On the latter under the pseudonym football rocker RMC.

Category C - Hungry Wolves took part in 2006 in the soccer sampler " To Guest at UNS", on which some right-wing extremist bands and songwriters are represented, with the song Deutschland dein Trikot. Apart from singer Ostendorf, no other band members were involved in this.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bremer Hooligan Trial - Manageable Penalties . In: taz , September 29, 2011
  2. ↑ a b Andreas D. Becker: Man apparently injured at right-wing rock concert . In: Weser-Kurier , January 26, 2011; Retrieved February 4, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d Mario Assmann: Rocker Club turns its back on Bremen. "Red Devils" are apparently withdrawing / common cause with rights? / Police warn of hooligan concert. In: Weser-Kurier , February 4, 2012, p. 9.
  4. ↑ Constitutional Protection Report 2010 , p. 31 ( Memento of the original dated February 7, 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; 3.4 MB), Senator for the Interior and Sport of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.bremen.de
  5. ↑ Bremen must allow right-wing rock concerts . In: Weser-Kurier , November 21, 2011
  6. ^ Demonstration against the right in Bremen . ( Memento of the original from November 24, 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. radiobremen, November 22, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiobremen.de
  7. ^ Conspiratorial, violent, anti-democratic . In: FAZ , August 14, 2010
  8. ↑ Quoted in the article category C . Network against Nazis , April 2, 2008; Retrieved December 8, 2011
  9. ↑ Right-wing rock group flashes in court . In: Weser-Kurier , November 25, 2011
  10. ↑ Neo-Nazi party stopped at the racetrack . In: BZ
  11. ↑ Landlord quits right rockers . In: Der Tagesspiegel
  12. ^ Köpenick prohibits Nazi concert . In: Berliner Zeitung
  13. ↑ City office forbids concert of the band category C in Bremen . Press office of the Bremen Senate , November 25, 2011
  14. ↑ Bremen judges adhere to the ban on concerts . ( Memento from November 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) In: Weser-Kurier , November 26, 2011
  15. ^ Andreas Speit: Concert with consequences . In: taz , January 3, 2013
  16. ↑ [Der Tagesspiegel: "Hooligans against Salafists" in Cologne - police warn of "new dimensions of violence"], October 27, 2014
  17. ↑ http://www.bnr.de/artikel/aktuelle-meldung/hungrige-w-lfe-am-ijsselmeer
  18. ↑ http://www.bnr.de/artikel/aktuelle-meldung/brauner-hiphopper-und-hooligan-band
  19. ↑ Football Festival `98 (indexed) . In: Category C - Hungry Wolves . January 7, 2017 ( hungrige-woelfe.eu [accessed June 25, 2017]).