Nameless (band)

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Nameless
General information
Genre (s) Punk rock
founding 1983, 2007
resolution 1987
Founding members
Frank Masch
Michael Horschig
Mita Shamal
Jana Schloßer
Current occupation
Electric bass
 Frank Masch

Nameless is a German punk rock band that was founded in the GDR and is still active today with interruptions. The formation was known for its system-critical texts, whereby its members were exposed to massive state repression. The formation never saw itself as part of the fun punk culture since it was founded and has always been political.

Band history

The band was founded in early 1983 on the initiative of Frank Masch and Michael Horschig, who had already played together in the punk band Alternative 13 , as well as Mita Schamal and Jana Schloßer in East Berlin . At the time, Schloßer was co-organizer of the first punk festival in the GDR on April 30, 1983 in Halle .

From the beginning, the members did not want to give themselves a name. At their first concert, "nameless" was painted on the announcement posters as a placeholder in the program. The Ministry of State Security came to the conclusion that this was the name of the band and initiated a so-called operational process with this designation. In a roundabout way, the nameless band was given a name by the State Security .

In the early 1980s, the conscientious objector Günther “Holly” Holwas brought the idea of ​​a blues mass to life - a church service with live concerts that offered freedom for criticism of the socialist system of the GDR. He was able to win over the pastor of the Samaritan Church in East Berlin, Rainer Eppelmann , for this idea. Although the word "blues" was used in the name, rock or punk bands also played at these events, which were regularly monitored by the MfS.

In order to solve the “punk problem”, because they openly denounced the system's faults - in particular the Nazis song again in East Berlin was displeased by the State Security - and worried the political caste because of their lifestyle, the MfS made an example of the band nameless: After At a concert in August 1983 as part of the blues fairs, the formation's only third public appearance, all band members were arrested after they had played system-critical numbers such as song about the state border and MFS . The basis was a decree from the same year, which was aimed at infiltrating and smashing the state-critical punk scene with informal employees . Schloßer was also contacted to work as an IM. Schloßer was defended by Lothar de Maizière . According to Section 220 of the GDR Criminal Code (“public degradation of state organs”) Jana Schloßer and Michael Horschig were sentenced to eighteen months and Frank Masch to twelve months in prison. Mita Schamal, a minor, was held in custody for seven weeks. The tough crackdown on the part of the state elicited violent protest and solidarity campaigns on the Berlin scene. For example, posters for the release were printed underground or graffiti was sprayed on to arrest the band. By September 1984 all members were dismissed and the band got back together. The musicians also appeared again and played the numbers that caused them to endure repression.

As Frank Masch was imprisoned again shortly afterwards, Daniel Kaiser from the formation Planlos joined as bassist. In the following year, Schamal and Kaiser left the GDR for the Federal Republic and Italy, respectively . From then on, Schamal devoted himself to the fine arts, Kaiser to theater work. Schloßer and Horschig continued to play and replaced the missing band members with various musicians from the Virus X and Kein Talent formations . In November 1987, Namenlos toured Poland for a short time together with Kein Talent . Concert performances were recorded on cassette and published as a sampler under the title We are the flowers in the red zone Vol. 1 . In 1987 the formation broke up. After Schloßer, Horschig, Kaiser and Schamal worked on the documentary Ostpunk! Too Much Future had performed on punk in the GDR, the band reunited in 2007. Masch also joined them again. Nameless recorded new titles that were released on the Höhnie Records label. The line-up changed again and again until Masch was the only member of the original line-up to remain in the band in 2019. The above-mentioned documentation is accompanied and recommended by the Federal Agency for Political Education with a film booklet for school lessons.

Discography

Album title year Label annotation
Demos 1986 Self-published distribution Music cassette , available for download today
Dead love 1988 QQRYQ tapes together with Kein Talent on the sampler We are the flowers in the red zone Vol. 1
The hate 1988 QQRYQ tapes together with Kein Talent on the sampler We are the flowers in the red zone Vol. 1
Left two three four 1988 QQRYQ tapes together with Kein Talent on the sampler We are the flowers in the red zone Vol. 1
Nazis 2000s Elbtal Records, Heimat Kassetten u. a. on various compilations
1983-1989 2007 Höhnie Records LP
MfS 2008 good! movies DVD compilation Ostpunk! Too Much Future
window 2008 good! movies DVD compilation Ostpunk! Too Much Future
terrorist 2008 good! movies DVD compilation Ostpunk! Too Much Future
Freedom! Equality! Fraternity! 2009 Höhnie Records LP
Poverty turns humans into animals 2013 Höhnie Records Mini LP

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Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Sonja Häder: Evidence of Eigen-Sinn - Punks in the late GDR . In: Sonja Häder, Heinz-Elmar Tenorth (Hrsg.): The course of education of the subject. Educational theoretical analyzes . Zeitschrift für Pädagogik , supplement 48, Beltz, Weinheim / Basel 2004, pp. 68–84, here pp. 70, 73. urn : nbn: de: 0111-opus-78045 .
  3. ↑ Florian Stark: 16 women in one room, wet room, one toilet . In: Die Welt , November 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ Short biography of Mita Schmal. In: ostart-festival.de. Retrieved October 30, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Tim Mohr: Don't Die in the Waiting Room of the Future: The East German Punks and the Fall of the Wall . Heyne Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-27127-2 .
  6. ↑ Valerie Schönian, Michael Schlieben: How was it in the GDR? / Punk in the GDR: "That puked me a lot" . Podcast in Zeit Online , June 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Ole Detlefsen: Whisper and Scream. Pogo until the fall of the Berlin Wall: The musical underground in the GDR . In: Esslinger Zeitung , November 7, 2009.
  8. ↑ Rebecca Hillauer: Stasi horror with mohawk . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , March 9, 2003.
  9. ↑ Sometimes we were also scared. In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 20, 2004, accessed December 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Geralf Pochop: The underground was strategy - punk in the GDR: between rebellion and repression . Hirnkost, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-945398-85-2 .
  11. ^ Carsten Fiebeler, Michael Boehlke: Ostpunk! Too Much Future . bpb in the Filmheft series, Berlin 2007.

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