Kerstin Grether

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Kerstin Grether (* 1975 ) is a German journalist , author and singer .

Kerstin Grether

journalism

Kerstin Grether wrote articles about indie pop for Spex while she was still at school in the 1990s . She was then influenced by the British star columnist and punk icon Julie Burchill . Burchill wrote groundbreaking polemics at a young age about Madonna , John Lennon , the working class, post-feminism, and teen idols. After graduating from high school, Grether got a job as a culture editor at Spex. There she was initiated into the art of writing about pop and politics by Clara Drechsler and Diedrich Diederichsen .

Kerstin Grether also studied philosophy and English . She was a culture editor during the cultural studies phase at Spex, where she was in charge of the amplifier section , which brought together art, pop, politics and theory. She also campaigned for the US riot grrrl movement. In her articles she provided information about the diverse networks and discourses that this suddenly created for young women in Europe and North America. She also wrote articles for the art magazine Texte zur Kunst .

Even her texts from this early phase were style-defining for pop journalism in this country and for a pop feminism co- defined by Kerstin Grether . This is often emphasized in articles and reviews of Kerstin Grether's work. The cultural scientist Katja Kauer also serves Grether as one of the leading protagonists in this country. In its anniversary issue for the fifth anniversary of November 2013, the pop-feminist Missy Magazine highlights Kerstin Grether's early journalistic role in importing deconstructivist, feminist theories.

In the noughties, Kerstin Grether worked as a freelancer a. a. for the magazines Intro and Frieze , wrote pop-cultural editorials for the Frankfurter Rundschau and moderation texts for the TV station MTV . She also wrote sporadically for Die Zeit , Berliner Tagesspiegel , Badische Zeitung and other publications.

Since her first success as a writer in the mid-noughties, Kerstin Grether has rarely published journalistic texts. Since 2012 she has been writing the (band) blog Freundinnen der Nacht , as well as regular articles on music and literature for Spex since 2013.

literature

In 2004 Kerstin Grether published the novel Zuckerbabys in Ventil Verlag . In 2006 the novel was published as a paperback by Suhrkamp and developed into a long seller. Sugar babies anchors the story of anorexia both in the individual and in the social. The novel explains the taboo of anorexia as "lifestyle fashion".

In 2007, Suhrkamp's Grether's music story collection was followed by Zungenkuss, you call it cosmetics, I call it rock`n roll . Kissing in Tongue , originally the title of her column of the same name in Intro magazine, contains the texts of this column as well as revised versions of her essays, reports, interviews, short stories, reviews, which were originally published in the features of national newspapers and anthologies.

In 2008 the anthology Madonna und Wir, Confessions was published , which she edited together with her twin sister Sandra Grether . The editors commissioned the curator Caroline Nathusius to create an “art exhibition” on the subject of Madonna and her era . The book was finally published, along with many texts about Madonna, with drawings and collages by twelve contemporary artists, among others. a. Josephine Pryde , Andrew Gilbert and Maria Tokyo. The book release party was also the exhibition opening and took place in August 2008 in the Galerie Nagel in Berlin. During these years, Kerstin Grether was on many reading trips at home and abroad, constantly developing new mixed forms of text, images and music.

music

Since 2008 Kerstin Grether has been a singer, songwriter and keyboardist for the electronic chanson rock band Doctorella, for which she forms the songwriting team together with her twin sister, the former Parole Trixi singer and guitarist Sandra Grether. Other members are Mesut Molna and Jakob Groothoff.

Due to the first demo tape, the band received a label contract with Warner in 2010, which enabled them to record the first album drugs and psychologists with producer Tobias Siebert . The original line-up of Doctorella included a. the singer Jens Friebe and Ja-Panik mastermind Andreas Spechtl. The band was voted into the Newcomer Top 10 of 2012 by Spex readers.

In May 2014, a new novel by Kerstin Grether with the title On a Day for Red Shoes was published by Ventil Verlag . In this context, a new Doctorella single called I Need a Genius was also released.

In July 2015, Kerstin Grether and her twin sister Sandra Grether and their band Doctorella wrote the song Testosteron, Get It On! published with video. You have positioned yourself for same-sex marriage and against homophobia. The lesbian couple appearing in the video are activists Theresa Lehmann and Mercedes Reichstein from Behind the Breasts . The director was the activist Josephine Witt and the music is by Andreas Spechtl.

Political commitment

Kerstin Grether is one of the first signatories of the Juli Zeh u. a. initiated (international) appeal by writers against surveillance and the open letter to Angela Merkel on the NSA's spying actions. She also took part in the writers' march to the Chancellery .

She was also involved in the Slutwalk movement and the women's rights organization Pinkstinks Germany . She also campaigned for the release of Pussy Riot's band members . In May 2013 she helped shape the protest against the Barbies Dreamhouse in Berlin.

Kerstin Grether lives in Berlin.

Publications

Release

music

  • Let's be fairy tale creatures by Doctorella, Art Edition by Cosima von Bonin, Edition Fever, 2010
  • I'll get you out of the Doctorella madhouse , single, Haute Areal, 2011
  • Drugs and Psychologists by Doctorella, Album, ZigZag , 2012
  • I want to know everything about you from Doctorella, album, Bohemian Strawberry, 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Katja Peglow (ed.), Jonas Engelmann (ed.): Riot Grrrl Revisited !: The story of a feminist movement. Ventil Verlag, Mainz, 2011, ISBN 978-3931555474
  2. ↑ Katja Kauer: Pop Feminism! Question mark !: An introduction. Frank & Timme, 2009, ISBN 978-3865962454
  3. ↑ Sonja Eismann in Missy Magazine , November / December 2013
  4. ↑ Sugar Babies. Interview with Kerstin Grether. (June 2007) from satt.org, accessed February 28, 2014
  5. ↑ My dream is to be the female strokes! at exberliner.com, accessed on February 28, 2014
  6. ↑ I was looking for you, Kung-Fu, suddenly everything was fine at faz.net, accessed on February 28, 2014
  7. ↑ Doctorella - I need a genius ( memento of the original from July 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spex.de, accessed on July 22, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  8. ↑ Against homophobia: See Doctorella's new clip "Testosteron, Get It On!" At musikexpress.de, accessed on July 22, 2015
  9. ↑ Testosterone, Get It On! at doctorella.de, accessed on July 22, 2015
  10. ^ Democracy in the digital age: The writers' appeal at faz.net, accessed on February 28, 2014
  11. ↑ It's the beginning of a new movement at jungle-world.com, accessed on February 28, 2014.
  12. ↑ Kerstin and Sandra Grether at pinkstinks.de, accessed on February 28, 2014.
  13. ↑ Doctorella: In conversation with Kerstin, Sandra and Mesut at roteraupe.de, accessed on February 28, 2014
  14. ↑ Demonstration against Barbie Dreamhouse in Berlin ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at lora924.de, accessed on February 28, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / lora924.de
personal data
SURNAME Grether, Kerstin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, author and singer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975