Normahl

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NoRMAhl
General information
Genre (s) Fun punk , formerly German punk
founding 1978, 2002
resolution 1996
Website www.normahl.de
Current occupation
Lars Besa
Mick Scheuerle
Manny Rutzen
Raimund "Scobo" Skobowsky
former members
guitar
 Jürgen "Pipi" Pirpamer
Drums
 Rudiger Stamer
Drums
 Jogi Venxion
Drums
 Helmut Krizsan

NoRMAhl is a German punk band that was founded in 1978 in Winnenden .

history

Singer Lars Besa

NoRMAhl was founded in 1978 by five high school students from Winnenden. The band had their first live appearance a short time later in a Stuttgart high school .

In 1981 the first EP Stuttgart über alles was released on Mülleimer Records , the cover of which was based on the Dead Kennedy's single California über alles . The band performed with provocative political texts. In the same year the album Verarschung total was released.

In the course of the 1980s, the band approached more and more fun punk . Publications such as No Beer before four, Hard Nights, Beer Vampire and Flowers in the Garbage were created - including the songs Drecksau and the ballad Geh wie ein Tiger, which still enjoy cult status today. In 1992 the group, together with their music publisher Hans Derer and the magazine Prinz, as well as the broadcaster SDR, today SWR , initiated one of the largest nationwide campaigns against xenophobia and violence with No Hass in the Wild South . The title Never Forget, originated after the radical right-wing riots in Hoyerswerda in 1991 , was written by the members and recorded in two versions - one German and one multilingual called Let's Come Together. More than 150 artists can be heard as guest singers and musicians - including Hartmut Engler from Pur , Matt Sinner , Jasmin Tabatabai , Markus , Chorlight and many others. Two samplers were produced - and at a presentation concert with a rally on the market square in Stuttgart, the band performed together with the Fantastischen Vier in front of around 40,000 schoolchildren. Besa was awarded the star of the week by Stern magazine and appeared in shows such as the NDR talk show . Auszeit, published in 1993, contained two songs that received a lot of media attention with Sex on the Telephone, later actually used by a provider of telephone number advertising, and a cover version of the song Diplomatic Hunting by Reinhard Mey . With the latter, the band was invited to a ZDF show with Mey and Sissi Perlinger . Despite the elaborate production, good criticism, massive PR efforts and a large-scale tour, the band did not achieve the planned chart success. So the group broke up in 1995, after a tour and the two live CDs Serious is Life and Cheerful is Art, after 18 years of conflict in 1996. Then the singer of the band, Lars Besa, started his solo project LARS

The band was also featured on several of the samplers of the series Schlachtrufe BRD , including the first of these albums.

In 2002 the band returned with the new album INRI 21 and has been on tour again since then. In 2003, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary, the best-of CD Das ist Punk was released, on which all songs were re-recorded. In 2005 a new album called Voll Assi followed. In 2008 the members began to work on the script for a film documentary.

In November 2010, after more than 30 years of punk, NoRMAhl established its own artistic legacy with the film and soundtrack Jong'r . The film not only deals with the history of your band, but also depicts contemporary German history and the development of punk music in Germany. In 2011 the band contributed a song for the benefit CD Bunt instead of brown for the Winnender Foundation against violence in schools .

Although the group never managed to get into the official sales charts, a great influence on the punk and German rock scene is ascribed to it, especially in the 80s and 90s.

The Stuttgart label Zounds, otherwise known for its audiophile sound productions, honored the now 33-year-old musical work of the punk legend with a musical retrospective as part of their best series, which was launched in November 2011 under the title Punk is not a religion .

On January 31, 2013, the Dresden public prosecutor obtained searches of the band members' houses at the Stuttgart Regional Court and had records with the song Bullenschweine from the album A People Behind Us (1982), which had been classified as glorifying violence , confiscated . In response, some fans of the band launched a buying campaign on social media with the aim of getting the most famous indexed title " Bull Pigs " up the charts. In fact, although it was listed on both Amazon and I-tunes bestseller lists, it did not make it into the official sales charts. The album A people stands behind us was included in the list of media harmful to minors, but was removed from the list on December 11, 2015. In February 2016, the indexes of Verarsche Total and Lebendig I - Live in Switzerland were lifted. In 2015 the album "Friede den Hütten Krieg den Palästen" was released on the new label D7, the title "Söldner" on it was chosen by the jurors of the "best song list" in its Top20. In 2018 the band celebrates its 40th anniversary.

Discography

Albums

  • 1981: Fooling Total (LP)
  • 1982: A people stand behind us (LP)
  • 1984: The Eagle Has Landed (LP)
  • 1985: Hard Nights (LP)
  • 1986: Lebendig I - Live in Switzerland (Live-LP)
  • 1988: Biervampir (maxi single)
  • 1989: No beer before four (LP)
  • 1990: Verarschung Total (Remix 1990) (CD / LP)
  • 1991: Flowers in the Garbage (CD / LP)
  • 1993: Time out (CD / LP)
  • 1994: Lebendig II - Life is Serious (Live-CD)
  • 1994: Lebendig III - Art is cheerful (Live-CD)
  • 1994: Lebendig II & III - Life is serious ... ... art is serene (live double LP)
  • 2002: IN RI 21 (CD)
  • 2003: This is Punk - Best of (CD)
  • 2005: Voll Assi (CD)
  • 2010: Jong'r (CD / DVD)
  • 2011: NoRMAhl Best: Punk is not a religion (CD)
  • 2015: Peace to the huts, war to the palaces (CD and LP)

Singles and EPs

  • 1980: Stuttgart above everything (EP)
  • 1987: Hard Nights (single)
  • 1987: Fraggles (single)
  • 1988: Beer vampire (single)
  • 1989: Hans im Glück (single)
  • 1990: Merry Jingle (single)
  • 1991: Walk like a tiger (Single / Maxi-CD)
  • 1992: Drecksau (Maxi-CD)
  • 1992: Diplomatic Hunt (Maxi-CD)
  • 1993: Far Away (Maxi-CD)
  • 2000: Sex on the phone (maxi CD)
  • 2005: Sun in December (Maxi-CD)
  • 2006: When a goal falls ... (Maxi-CD)
  • 2011: After all these years (Download only)
  • 2016: Capitalist Song (Download only)
  • 2017: Freedom (Download only)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schwarz: The whole normahle madness . In: Winnender newspaper . February 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Peter Schwarz: House searches at the Normahl punks . In: Winnender newspaper . February 6, 2013
  3. ↑ Arno Frank: Big raid in Baden-Württemberg: Police discover punk classics . In: the daily newspaper . February 7, 2013
  4. ↑ Silja Kummer: House search of "Normahl" singer because of a 31 year old song . In: Südwest Presse . February 8, 2013
  5. ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People: Announcement No. 3/2014 on carrier media harmful to young people of March 19, 2014
  6. ↑ BAnz AT 12/30/2015 B9
  7. ↑ Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People Announcement No. 2/2016 on carrier media harmful to young people of February 19, 2016