Ragnaröck

Ragnaröck was a German right-wing rock band.

Band history

The band came from the environment of the extreme right-wing National Democratic University Association . It was founded in 1977 by Dietmar Lohrmann, son of the then NPD chairman of Markgröningen . As one of the first German music groups, Ragnaröck, who borrowed their band name from Germanic mythology , consciously tried to combine rock music with neo-Nazi ideas.

For their two singles, which appeared in 1979 and 1980, in which they paid homage to Rudolf Hess and set NPD demo slogans to music as well as spreading anti-Semitism subliminally , they earned protests. Appearances of the group outside of neo-Nazi circles are not known. The two singles were sold, among other things, through the mail order business of the NPD-affiliated magazine Mut . The national conservative magazine also published an article about the band in 1980.

The LP, submitted later in 1983, was finally a new release of the demo in LP format. The album worked on well-known national democratic propaganda topics such as the air raids on Dresden in 1945, the victorious powers of World War II , the Berlin Wall , drug addiction and sex crimes . The band failed to achieve its declared goal of convincing young people of the ideas and goals of the NPD and of “breaking down the inhibitions towards national ideas”. Both the music and the lyrics seemed too conservative and not up-to-date at the time. They lacked any rebellion and were purely politically and ideologically motivated. Ragnaröck are the first right-wing rock band in Germany. Despite its failure, the recordings were reissued several times. Record labels such as Rock-O-Rama and Funny Sounds & Vision GmbH released some new songs. Rock-O-Rama, for example, pressed a split CD with the similarly early but politically and lyrically more radical band Kraft through Froide . In 1996, a compilation of her recordings between 1977 and 1979 was published, which was published by right-wing extremist songwriter Frank Rennicke .

Discography

1977: Finally, demo tape 1977 (demo recording)

1979: The Old Man (single, self-published 1979)

1980: Die Mauer muss weg (single, self-published 1980)

1983: Finally (LP, self-published, 1983)

1995: Sieg und Vaterland / Endlich (split LP with Kraft by Froide , Rock-O-Rama )

1996: The wall must go (compilation, published by Frank Rennicke )

Web links

Ragnaröck at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b apabiz eV: Directory of RechtsRock-Bands . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 443 .
↑ ^a ^b Katja Eddel: The magazine MUT - a democratic opinion forum ?: Analysis and classification of a politically changed magazine . Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-93368-9 , pp. 217 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : 20 years of legal rock . In: Christian Dornbusch, Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 19 .

[VRR-1] A ^b apabiz eV: Directory of RechtsRock-Bands . In: Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 443 .

[MUT-2] Katja Eddel: The magazine MUT - a democratic opinion forum ?: Analysis and classification of a politically changed magazine . Springer-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-93368-9 , pp. 217 .

[20J-3] Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe : 20 years of legal rock . In: Christian Dornbusch, Jan Raabe (Ed.): RechtsRock. Inventories and counter-strategies . Unrast Verlag, Münster 2002, ISBN 3-89771-808-1 , p. 19 .