Norman worse

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Worse when performing with UFD in 1988

Norman Schlimmer (born March 4, 1967 in Hanau ) is a German author, poet, musician, concert organizer and illustrator. He publishes his texts and drawings in his small publishing house Violess War , his music often under the signet Bomb It! Records . From 1987 to 1992 he was the singer and lyricist of the hardcore punk band UFD. He describes his aphoristic texts as "Hardcore Punk Literature" and "Trash Theoretical Topographies".

Career

Schlimmer uses various pseudonyms for his publications such as Violess Warlord, The Norman, Dang Hideously, Instant Fisherman and Wahnfried von Mannteufel.

He publishes all of his works without copyright. In all of his artistic and cultural activities he is self-taught and follows the principles of do it yourself . He refuses to work with publishers, agencies or labels unless he is personally friends with their operators.

literature

Logo from Schlimmers Kleinverlag

Since 1989 Schlimmer has published poetry, prose and drawings in self-designed notebooks and books. He also sells the publications himself. Since the beginning of the 2000s, he has mainly published digitally on the Internet. To this end, he has been running the literature blog Violess War since 2015 .

In the early 90s he published in various music, literature and comic fanzines. He gave readings in the punk and hardcore scene, repeatedly together with the Hanau poet and publisher Robsie Richter .

Worse is active as a street artist . He produced several series of art stickers with sentences from his own texts, but also from texts by classical and modern philosophers, which he placed in public spaces. He also publishes leaflets with poems or short prose texts that he deposits in public spaces.

In 2017 he created the culture magazine Tinnitussi with the Hanau comic artist Rautie , which Rautie self-published. In his publishing house Violess War , Schlimmer recently published a booklet with comics by the illustrator Klaus Cornfield . The magazine presents the stories that Cornfield had published in the Hanau comic magazine KiX from 1991–1992 .

music

In 1986, Schlimmer founded the punk band Hirnsäge with the drummer Jochen Schiffner . They dissolved this in 1987 and founded the hardcore band UFD (Uncounted Faces of Death) with guitarist Arno Hartmann. Worse was the band's singer, who wrote the lyrics that were distributed on flyers at concerts. He laid out the lavishly designed text flyers, booklets and covers for sound carriers, T-shirts and concert posters to a large extent himself. Until 1992, Schlimmer played several tours with UFD throughout Germany and other European countries. He released two albums with UFD (one on tape), an EP and various contributions to samplers.

After his stint at UFD he played for several years, again with ex-drummer UFD Schiffner and guitarist Sebastian Obländer, in the instrumental - noise rock band Advanced Chemistry Set For Girlz Bass. Schlimmer learned important basics of bass playing from the singer-songwriter Reverend Schulzz in the late 1980s . In 1997 the band released 2 CDs with recordings of two freely improvised live performances. The band broke up in the late 1990s.

In 2005, Schlimmer released a CD entitled Deprotation . The music, which is mostly stylistically assigned to Doom Metal and Stoner Rock , he himself produced entirely on the computer. In 2010 he added the CD to his book Ein Selbstsamer Egozentrip as a soundtrack. The recordings are also attached to the e-book as audio files.

With Sebastian Obländer and drummer Oliver Kaib, Schlimmer formed No We Can´t , another instrumental noise rock project, in 2009 . The band broke up in the same year, but produced some recordings of freely improvised music. A selection of these recordings is attached to Schlimmer's e-book Mein Kämpfchen in digital form.

In 2011, Worse played a zombie in the band Nude's music video Panic Attack .

Between 1986 and 2003, Schlimmer organized over 100 concerts in the autonomous cultural center Metzgerstrasse in Hanau, at which bands from all over Europe as well as North and South America performed. He mostly designed the posters and flyers for these events himself. Since the end of 2016 he has been involved in organizing and conducting concerts again from time to time.

Biographical and personal life

Schlimmer was born in Hanau and still lives and works there today. He attended the Eberhard Realschule, which he left in 1982 without a degree. He completed an apprenticeship as an electrical system installer, but never worked in this profession afterwards. He is intensely involved in alternative cultural projects, for example 1986–2003 in the Autonomous Cultural Center Metzgerstrasse or 1993–2004 in the Kulturcafe Matrax in Hanau.

Worse is unmarried and has no children.

Publications

  • What do I know what (Violess War, Hanau 1989)
  • A Paraschizzo Laughing Love-Thing ... Laughing Tears (Violess War, Hanau 1991)
  • Cutting poem (Violess War, Hanau 1993)
  • The great emancipator's selfish ego-zen trip (Violess War, Hanau 1993)
  • Hitler reincarnation of Jesus (Violess War, Hanau 1993)
  • Virus B23 - The Story of William S. Burroughs and a Strange Number (Violess War, Hanau, 1997)
  • A self-centered egocentric (Violess War, Hanau 2009)
  • Mein Kämpfchen (Violess War, Hanau 2015)
  • Klaus Cornfield: UUUUAH (Violess War, Hanau 2019)

Discography

with UFD

  • 1989: Uncounted Faces of Death (UFD self-published, tape)
  • 1990: Betonstadtkinder (Bomb It! Records, 7 ″ -EP)
  • 1991: be dead! (Bomb It! Records, LP)

with Advanced Chemistry Set For Girlz

  • 1997: Fuck Music - Live in Hanau / Germany / 1997 (Fuck Music Productions, CD)
  • 1997: Fuck Music - Live in Langenselbold / Germany / 1997 (Fuck Music Productions, CD)

as Violess War

  • 2004 Deprotation (Bomb it! Records, CD)

with No We Can't

  • 2009 Bullshit to Me - The Soundtrack to a Book (Bomb It! Records, Violess War, digital album)

Web links

swell

  1. ↑ Violess War. Official Facebook Page, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Norman Schlimmer: From a letter to a friend and publisher . In: A Self-Ego Zen Trip . Violess War, Hanau 2009, p. 3-9 .
  3. ↑ Irene Stumpf: Norman Schlimmer Interview . In: AFN all for nothing . Fanzine, No. 11 . Jens Gutermann self-published, Niedermittlau 1992.
  4. ↑ Frank Schütze: Norman Schlimmer / Robsie Richter . In: ZAP . Fanzine, No. 49 . Michael Arndt self-published, Bexbach June 1992, p. 52 .
  5. ^ Norman Schlimmer: Pamphlets and street art pieces. on Schlimmers Violess War Wepage, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Bernd B .: Uncounted Faces of Death interview . In: amok . Fanzine, No. 4 . Heidelberg 1989.
  7. ^ Frank Schütze: UFD Interview . In: ZAP . Fanzine, No. 46 . Michael Arndt self-published, Bexbach 1992.
  8. ^ Advanced Chemistry Set For Girlz. on Discogs, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ A Self-Ego Zen Trip. on Schlimmers Violess War webpage, accessed July 10, 2007 .
  10. ↑ My fight. on Schlimmers Violess War webpage, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  11. ^ Nude - Panic Attack. on Youtube, 2011, accessed July 10, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Anonymous: It must be possible to live differently . In: Better a long line-up than a short present - 15 years of AKZ Metzgerstrasse . Magazine. AKZ Metzgerstrasse self-published, 2001, p. 18-20 .
personal data
SURNAME Worse, Norman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Violess Warlord
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, poet, musician, concert promoter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau