Password Trixi
| Password Trixi | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | In the |
| founding | 1998 |
| resolution | 2004 |
| Founding members | |
| Sandra Grether | |
| Almut Klotz (1998) | |
| Elmar Günther | |
| Last occupation | |
Vocals, guitar |
Sandra Grether |
guitar |
Christine Schulz (from 1998) |
bass |
Cordula Ditz (2001-2004) |
Drums |
Elmar Günther |
| former members | |
bass |
Sandra Zettpunkt (1998) |
bass |
Jule Kruschke (1998-2001) |
Parole Trixi was a band founded in Hamburg . Inspired by the US riot grrrl movement , Parole Trixi played German rock music with both punk and avant-garde influences. The head of the band was singer, guitarist and lyricist Sandra Grether, who polarized with wild stage performance, idiosyncratic singing and slogan-like, lyrical lyrics.
history
The band was formed in autumn 1998. The former Spex journalist Sandra Grether suffered from anorexia during her time at Spex and at some point no longer felt at home in the editorial office. To draw a line, she moved to Hamburg. Grether met the drummer Elmar Günther in a trendy bar in Hamburg. Together with the former Lassie Singers singer Almut Klotz and the former five-friends drummer Sandra Zettpunkt , the first line-up was complete, and the first tour through five countries was completed in the spring of 1999; it was also a reading tour, where their own riot-grrrl-inspired manifestos and texts were presented.
Musically, the group orientated itself from the beginning on the "Riot Grrrls", z. B. to the bands Sleater-Kinney and Hole , as well as to German-language poetic acts like Blumfeld , who had their rehearsal room in the same building as Parole Trixi, and Ideal . Parole Trixi put emphasis on lyrical texts, "wild messages" and sprawling guitar solos. After Almut Klotz's early departure, Christine Schulz joined the band as a girtarist.
Bassist Sandra Zettpunkt was soon replaced by Jule Kruschke (later a renowned comic artist); this in turn was replaced after two years by the former sluts-fuck-better singer and guitarist Cordula Ditz.
With the line-up of Sandra Grether, Elmar Günther, Christine Schulz and Cordula Ditz, the band released their album Die Definition von Süß on Alfred Hilsberg's label What's So Funny About . The album was produced by Bernadette La Hengst and Peta Devlin (both The Bride Skin In The Eye ). La Hengst also played organ on the album. The Tocotronic singer Dirk von Lowtzow , who sings along in the chorus of the song Mutter , and Pascal Fuhlbrügge , who played the organ on Der Igelsong , made a guest appearance on the album .
Your cartoon animation video for the single Greetings was regularly shown on Viva and Vivaplus . The chorus lines of the song read: "Greetings, young women of today / I hope you will regret it at some point / when everything you see / is only made up of clichés".
The album received mixed press coverage. Alex Bohn wrote in Jungle World :
"The judgment" completely superfluous "is imposed on the first assessment of" The Definition of Suss ". (...) Forget the record info. Parole Trixi make music. Not more. Exciting music. "
On the other hand, Thomas Kerpen wrote in the punk magazine Ox :
"Musically you could turn a blind eye, but the" singing "of the Grether gets on your nerves very quickly - which is probably even intended - because not singing has to be learned too. (...) The worst thing about this record, however, is its reception so far, which almost borders on buttocks. You just have to throw a few keywords to some clever journalist and everyone will think they have the next big pop culture thing at hand, which they can then work on thoroughly. "
In the Visions , Andreas Kellner described the music as follows:
“Three women plus drummers rumble furiously and thundering the impetuous instruments through bulky landscapes and rhythms, creating the space that the committed, life-telling songs need. And life is bad, so authentic music can't sound nice either. Intense and annoying, poetic and bitterly noisy. Whether this is ultimately an aesthetic or political concept or just fun at Parole Trixi remains open. There are demands. And "The definition of sweet" is always challenging or difficult to digest. "
Parole Trixi played numerous live performances from 1999 to 2004, among others with Tocotronic, Blumfeld , Surrogat, Le Tigre , Blackmail and Tomte .
The farewell tour of Parole Trixi took place under the motto “Girls Got Rhythm”, which led through 15 cities together with the bands Schlampen ficken better and TGV as well as a reading program by Sandra Grether's sister Kerstin; a farewell single with the song Lipstick Blues (Girls Got Rhythm, 7 "EP) was released.
The band's farewell concert took place on February 27, 2004 in Knust , Hamburg . The dissolution of the band was put under the motto “Mission accomplished!”. The performance took place as part of the sampler release party of the sistars ** project of the Hamburg women's music center fm: z with coach Pyranja, among others .
Riot grrrl icons
In an interview, Sandra Grether told how it felt in the first half of the 2000s to translate the American Riot-Grrrl-Movement in Germany into its own language and its own music and to transfer it to local conditions. She describes Parole Trixi as a " utopian design". It was always important to her to support as many girls and women as possible. Together with her twin sister Kerstin Grether , she informed the magazine Spex about the third wave of feminism and the diverse networks that it suddenly created for young women in Europe and North America.
Parole Trixi was characterized by a very individual design of the Riot-Grrrl-idea and was described among other things in the Spex as "the only true German-speaking Riot-Grrrl-Band".
Discography
Albums
- 2002: The Definition of Sweet ( What's So Funny About / Indigo )
Contributions to compilations
- 1998: Pride and Prejudice - A Compilation of Female Vocals, Guitars and Electronics ( Flittchen Records )
- 2003: Girls Got Rhythm (7 ″ - EP , What's So Funny About)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b SUSANNE MESSMER: The Bohemian . In: The daily newspaper: taz . April 23, 2002, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 16 ( taz.de [accessed on March 5, 2020]).
- ^ "Riot Grrrl Revisited, History of a Feminist Movement", Ed. Katja Peglow / Jonas Engelmann, Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2011
- ↑ Whats So Funny About..Parole Trixi. In: wsfa.de. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Sonja Eismann: Parole Trixi. In: Intro.de. February 21, 2002, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ Alex Bohn: Parole Trixi Saves Us , in: Jungle World May 22, 2002, accessed March 5, 2020
- ↑ Thomas Kerpen: PAROLE TRIXI: The definition of Süss CD . In: Ox-Fanzine . 47 (June / July / August 2002) - ( ox-fanzine.de ).
- ↑ Andreas Kellner: Parole Trixi - The definition of sweet . In: Visions . No. 108 ( visions.de ).
- ↑ INTRO (March edition, 2004)
- ↑ Katja Strube: Parole Trixi give their farewell concert: Sampler release party from sistars ** in Knust: School of Rock, girls class . In: The daily newspaper: taz . February 26, 2004, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 1004 ( taz.de [accessed on March 5, 2020]).
- ^ "Sisterhood is forever", author: Katja Peglow in the book Riot Grrrl Revisited, Mainz, 2011
- ↑ Dominikus Müller: Let's be fairy tale girls . In: Spex . 236 (May / June 2010), pp. 153 ( sounds.de ).
- ^ Moritz Baßler, Eckhard Schumacher: Handbuch Literatur & Pop . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2019, ISBN 978-3-11-034065-5 , p. 123 ( google.de [accessed on March 5, 2020]).