Mania D

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Mania D.
Mania D. in September 1979 in Berlin
Mania D. in September 1979 in Berlin
General information
origin Berlin , Germany
Genre (s) experimental music , punk
founding 1979
resolution 1981
Last occupation
Bettina Köster
Gudrun Good
Beate Bartel
Karin Luner
Eva-Maria Goessling

Mania D. was a Berlin underground band in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band initially consisted of five women. It is the predecessor group of malaria! . Their music combined elements of free jazz with those of new wave with the particularly strong dominating saxophone .

history

In May 1979, Beate Bartel , Gudrun Gut , Eva-Maria Gößling , Bettina Köster and Karin Luner decided to found an all-girl underground band. The aim was to develop a musical language of its own that was not based on conventions. Karin Luner studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. After her preliminary apprenticeship, she went to New York to study abroad in 1977, where she shot the Super 8 film "Bored", which Martin Kippenberger showed in SO 36 in Berlin . Fred Maher , Lou Reed's drummer , gave Karin Luner drum lessons in New York. During a visit to Düsseldorf in July 1978, she met Eva Gößling in Ratinger Hof and made the proposal to found an all-girl band as soon as she was back in Berlin. Eva Gößling, who studied in Berlin, met Beate Bartel in May 1979 at the Wittenbergplatz underground station . The bassist and sound engineer brought Bettina Köster, a tenor saxophonist, and Gudrun Gut, who owned a Mini Moog, to an initial meeting together.

In the summer of 1979 Mania D. rehearsed in the practice room on Martin-Luther-Straße. The idea for the band name "Mania D." came from Beate Bartel while Karin Luner had the idea of ​​making a Super 8 film that was to be shown at concerts. Karin Luner developed the styling for the Super 8 film Fashion Interlection , while Eisengrau, Claudia Skoda and Karin Luner designed the outfit. Martin Kippenberger, Volker Anding and Oswald Wiener support the band by organizing concerts in “Exile”, Oswald Wiener's restaurant. The music magazine Sounds already wrote in September 1979 about girl bands like Mania D. The first concert outside Berlin was in September 1979 in the Wuppertal Nordstadt collective gallery.

The early successes led to an invitation to New York, where Mania D. played on October 24, 1979 in Arleen Schloss Performance Loft, Broome Street, downtown Manhattan. The “first German All-Girl-Punk Band” band was particularly enthusiastic about the New York audience. So Mania D then played in Tier 3 at the end of November. Since she was already without Eva Gößling, who lived with SAMO alias Jean-Michel Basquiat at Arleen Schloss, A's. There they both experimented with music, sounds and tapes. Karin Luner stayed in New York and Eva Gößling was invited by Alexander von Borsig alias Alexander Hacke and Richard Hirsch to play in the Berlin band “Paleness”. Mania D. appeared in a smaller line-up from December 1979, before Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster joined Malaria! reformed, while Beate Bartel founded Liaisons Dangereuses with Chrislo Haas . In the documentary Woman in Rock , which was broadcast on ARD in 1980, Mania D. appeared in two pieces. The band combined elements of free jazz and experimental music with the dominant saxophone . Mania D. also received its special note from the singing of Bettina Koester, who made New Yorkers associate the Berlin of the 1920s. With Eisengrau, Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster developed their own fashion label and the first concept store and they designed their stage outfits under this name. From the “Nebel-Konzert” in SO 36 on January 18, 1980, the previously unseen original video material was discovered in the archive of the video artist and filmmaker Werner Schmiedel. Mania D did not belong to the commercially oriented Neue-Deutsche-Welle, which started in early 1981 after the success of bands like DAF and Fehlfarben .

John Peel , the legendary British DJ and radio presenter, called Mania D his “Queens of Noise” and named it after the band broke up and reformed to malaria! in July 1981 Mania D's track 4 was named single of the year on his radio show.

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Commons : Mania D  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Hilsberg: Girls, Girls, Girls (Interview) In: Sounds 11/79 , p. 46, Hamburg 1979
  2. A's * A's . In: Ethan Swan (Ed.): Bowery Artist Tribute , NEW MUSEUM, New York 2010
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