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Kraftschlag is a right-wing rock band from Itzehoe , founded in 1989 , which is known in neo-Nazi circles and has close ties to the neo-Nazi network Blood and Honor , which is banned in Germany .

Band history

The line-up of the band around singer Jens-Uwe Arpe has already changed frequently. Steve Bramekamp from All- Clear, Mattze from Soldiers of Freedom , Klapmeier from Ostseefront and Miika from Mistreat played . Haiko Feyerabend, founding member of the band, was a member of the FAP . The band especially maintains contacts with musicians from the Blood and Honor environment in Scandinavia, from which some split CDs have emerged. Arpe, who temporarily lived in Sweden, is involved in the production of the neo-Nazi Blood and Honor sales videos War Reporter and also works for the Danish neo-Nazi music distribution company NS88-Records .

In the songs of the band, National Socialism is often openly glorified and calls for racially motivated violence against foreigners and members of other subcultures. The recordings of the group are mostly indexed because of their inflammatory content, in the case of the albums Despite Ban not dead and Nordwind also moved in.

Front man Jens Uwe Arpe is one of the most active forces in Germany's right-wing extremist music scene. He has worked in countless other right-wing extremist bands or at least looked after them from the background. He was also involved in international neo-Nazi projects (mainly in Scandinavia) and a good friend of Marcel Schilf, the now deceased operator of the NS88 label, which illegally sent racist and inciting CDs from Denmark, including those from Kraftschlag, to Germany. Arpe has already been sentenced to probation and imprisonment several times, for example in 1993 by the Itzehoe District Court to a seven-month suspended sentence for collective incitement to hatred and in 1999 for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations, incitement to hatred , approving of crimes , insulting and denigrating the memory of deceased to two years imprisonment without probation .

At a concert in Wuppertal in September 1996 in front of around 50 neo-Nazis, Arpe had approved the attacks in Mölln , Hoyerswerda, Rostock and Solingen as well as the extermination of the Jews under National Socialism. The Holocaust was partly denied and partly approved. The whipped by him audience acknowledged his performance with Hitler salute and Nazi slogans.

As early as the beginning of the 1990s, the band's line-up was featured in a television program in which excerpts from the racist and the Ku Klux Klan glorifying play Klansman ( "white race and pure blood. We are Klansmen." Watch out black man and be on your guard '” ) Were asked about their opinion on the then increasing number of arson attacks on asylum seekers' homes and homes of foreign citizens. One member said he was not sad about what had happened and would welcome it if it increased.

Due to numerous performance bans, the band has recently only played concerts outside of Germany. After a concert in Dessau in 1999 , the band had their first live appearance in 2004 at the press festival of the NPD party newspaper German Voice in Mücka . Another concert at the NPD Open Air Rock for Germany on July 9, 2005, Kraftschlag canceled due to conditions imposed by the city of Gera .

In 2004 the album Gods of War was released . On this album Michael Regener , the former singer of Landser and The Lunikoff Conspiracy , was involved in two songs as a singer. A year later, the best-of album Die wilden Jahre - Hits vom Index was released . Here the old songs were played in metal style. The objectionable passages of the songs were removed and replaced by more harmless, new texts.

A project by Jens Arpe with the musicians of the Swedish band Odins Änglar exists under the name Kraftschlag Solo . They have released the albums White Music (1997) and White Music 2 (1999) so far .

Other members are also involved in Camulos and Soldiers of Freedom.

In 2018 the singer of the band Jens-Uwe Arpe Kraftschlag declared that he would disband. They wanted to play one of the last concerts at the “Days of National Movement” in Themar, southern Thuringia, and then another one in Sweden. In addition, a sound carrier should appear.

meaning

In particular, the band's first radical releases are considered to be a milestone in right-wing rock in the right-wing scene. With the increasing legalization of the lyrics in the mid-2000s, the band's importance within the scene dwindled, but Kraftschlag is today one of the most influential and internationally known bands in the white power scene.

Publications

  • 1990: Kraftschlag ( demotape ), indexed
  • 1991: In the name of the Führer (demotape), indexed
  • 1991: Live in Weimar (demo tape), indexed
  • 1992: Not dead despite the ban , indexed, drafted on July 15, 1994
  • 1993: Our future , indexed
  • 1995: North wind , indicated, moved in on April 16, 1998
  • 1996: Brothers in Arms split CD with Mistreat (Finland), indexed
  • 1996: all or nothing
  • 1996: Right rock
  • 1996: headwind , indicated
  • 1996: Fortress Europe , indexed
  • 1997: World Champion '98 (Mini-CD)
  • 1997: After ten years
  • 1997: White Music (as Kraftschlag Solo)
  • 1998: born German
  • 1999: White Music II (Kraftschlag Solo)
  • 1999: My name is Germany
  • 2001: Voor Rike / Unser Reich , published under the name Northman, collaboration with the Swedish band Storm
  • 2003: Music attack
  • 2004: Gods of War , indexed
  • 2005: The Wild Years - hits from the index
  • 2007: purity obligatory , indicated
  • 2011: Doomed to win , indexed to List A May 6, 2011
  • 2016: It begins on FreilichFrei - Acoustic Covers

The Bootleg Live in Club Valhalla is also indicated . In addition, Kraftschlag are involved in more than 30 right-wing rock compilations and published the indexed sampler To Guest at Us for the 2006 Football World Cup .

literature

  • Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe , David Anbich : "... ready to take up arms" - power stroke . In: RechtsRock - made in Saxony-Anhalt . Magdeburg, State Center for Civic Education Saxony-Anhalt, 2007, pp. 21–23.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Daniel Eggers . In: Thomas Grumke and Bernd Wagner (eds.): Handbuch Rechtsradikalismus . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 3-8100-3399-5 , p. 470-471 .
  2. ^ Apabiz eV: Directory of right-wing rock bands . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventory and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 444 .
  3. ↑ Text excerpt from the song Scheiss Punks : "His jaw smashed through the Doc steel cap, now one more egg kick and there he lies on the mat. It is bleeding from the skull and is still moving, I step in again with my 14 holes, with my 14 holes, always on the head. "
  4. ↑ a b AG Berlin Tiergarten, BB date unknown, Az. 350 Gs 1146/96, LG Itzehoe, EB from July 15, 1994, Az .: 9 Ns 71 (VI) (CD), LG Ulm, EB from August 30 1994, Az. II Ns 11 Js 17955/92, only the last decision is now time barred
  5. ↑ a b AG Ulm, EB of April 16, 1998, Az .: 6 Ds 11 Js 498/98 - 6 AK 26/98
  6. ↑ a b Excerpts from the indexing report: "Der Untermensch (with the name Christ)" ( Memento of October 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive ).
  7. ↑ Oire scene. Retrieved July 2, 2018 .
  8. ↑ a b BAnz No. 120 of June 30, 1994, indexed again on May 8, 2019, BAnz AT May 29, 2019 B6
  9. ↑ BAnz. No. 66 of April 30, 2010
  10. ↑ BAnz. No. 20 of January 30, 1993 (LP) / BAnz. No. 40 from February 27, 1993 (CD)
  11. ↑ Federal Gazette No. 183 of September 30, 1998
  12. ↑ BAnz. No. 119 of June 30, 2004
  13. ↑ BAnz. No. 204 of October 31, 1997
  14. ↑ BAnz. No. 241 of December 28, 2007
  15. ↑ BAnz AT 08/30/2019 B6
  16. ↑ BAnz. No. 186 of September 30, 2005
  17. ↑ BAnz. No. 95 of June 27, 2008
  18. ↑ BAnz. No. 99 of May 31, 2005
  19. ↑ BAnz. No. 41 of February 28, 2007