PC records

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PC records
Active years since 2000
founder Hendrik Lasch
Seat Chemnitz , GermanyGermanyGermany 
Genre (s) Right skirt

PC-Records is a right-wing extremist commercial distribution company operating throughout Germany with a shop, online trade and music label from Chemnitz . PC should stand for " Political Correctness , no thanks!" A large number of the publications produced by the music label were indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People.

history

PC-Records was founded in 2000 by Hendrik Lasch as a music label. In 2004, the former employee Yves Rahmel took over the business. PC Records has had its own shop in Chemnitz since 2003. Before that, it was only a label for legal rock affiliated with the Chemnitz legal rock shop Backstreet Noise . Steve Birthig has run the company since 2014.

The former operator Yves Rahmel was in November 2014 (now only employed by PC-Records) by the Chemnitz District Court due to the production and distribution of four incendiary CDs on the PC-Records label in 2009 and 2010 with a total fine of 7200 euros (120 daily rates sentenced to 60 euros). Including the album Adolf Hitler is alive! the band Gigi & Die Braunen Stadtmusikanten around the singer and neo-Nazi Daniel Giese , which contains the song Döner-Killer , which despises the victims of the NSU series of murders . In 2012 Rahmel was sentenced to a fine of 6,000 euros for the production of a schoolyard CD published by Kameradschaften .

reception

In a joint picture of the situation by the constitution protection authorities Brandenburg and Saxony on developments in right-wing extremism, PC-Records is described as "by far the most active record label of the right-wing extremist scene in Germany" as of August 2008.

According to the evaluation of the business documents of PC records by the Saxon Office for the Protection of the Constitution, exact sales figures are only available for the dispatch area of ​​PC records . According to this, sales of almost EUR 300,000 were achieved in the shipping sector in 2008 and 2010 and around EUR 370,000 in 2009.

According to the 2017 report on the protection of the constitution in Saxony , PC-Records has “a high reputation in the right-wing extremist scene at home and abroad”. The sales revenue is estimated at several hundred thousand euros annually. The profits should not only enable the business owners to earn a living, but also to finance and promote the activities of the right-wing extremist scene. Accordingly, the company was also involved in the organization of right-wing extremist concerts and events in 2017. According to this constitution protection report, Steve Birthig is the owner of the sales company, which has been active since 2000.

Productions

As of 2014, around 200 records were released on the label. Of these, over 50 were indexed by the Federal Inspectorate for Media Harmful to Youngsters , including anti-Semitic hate propaganda .

The label produces and sells u. a. Albums by right-wing rock bands such as Die Lunikoff Conspiracy from Germany and from other countries such as Brutal Attack from Great Britain, which is one of the world's oldest bands of the right-wing rock genre.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Backes and a .: Right-wing motivated multiple and intensive offenders in Saxony (= reports and studies . No. 69). Published by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism . V&R Unipress, Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-8471-0374-5 , p. 201.
  2. ^ PC records (Chemnitz, Saxony) . In: Amadeu Antonio Foundation (Ed.): Belltower.News , May 2, 2008, accessed on November 29, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c PC Records & Backstreet Noise . In: DGB Region Südwestsachsen (Ed.): “Right” are the others! Last updated April 16, 2018, accessed November 29, 2018.
  4. ↑ Johannes Grunert: "Döner-Killer" song and Holocaust denial . In: Blick nach Rechts , November 27, 2014, accessed on November 29, 2018.
  5. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Saxony , Ministry of the Interior of the State of Brandenburg (ed.): Joint situation report by the authorities for the protection of the constitution in Brandenburg and Saxony on current developments in right-wing extremism in 2008 . As of August 2008, p. 18. Retrieved on November 29, 2018 (PDF).
  6. ^ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony (ed.): Evaluation of the business documents from PC-Records, Nordsachsenverlag, DS-Verlag. P. 107. Quoted from: Uwe Backes u. a .: Right-wing motivated multiple and intensive offenders in Saxony (= reports and studies . No. 69). Published by the Hannah Arendt Institute for Research on Totalitarianism. P. 202 f.
  7. ^ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony (ed.): Saxon Constitutional Protection Report 2017 . Dresden 2018, p. 90 (PDF; 6 MB).
  8. ^ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony (ed.): Saxon Constitutional Protection Report 2017 . Dresden 2018, p. 91.
  9. ^ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Saxony (ed.): Saxon Constitutional Protection Report 2017 . Dresden 2018, p. 94.
  10. ↑ Anton Maegerle : "Beat him dead, the Jew": neo-Nazi rock bands propagate anti-Semitic extermination fantasies and calls for murder . In: Jüdische Allgemeine , May 12, 2014, accessed November 29, 2018.