Rex Joswig

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Rex Joswig (born January 22, 1962 in Anklam ) is a German musician and radio host.

biography

Joswig was born in Anklam and grew up in Neubrandenburg, where he was expelled from school in 1980 shortly before graduating from high school. He moved to Berlin in 1981, worked as a psychiatric nurse and gravedigger and from 1984 as a roadie for a jazz musician.

At night school, Joswig met Dr. Totenhöfer , with whom he started to write music. In the spring of 1987 they founded Herbst in Beijing with a few other musicians . From the beginning the band had problems with the GDR authorities due to their name (the Ministry of Culture feared diplomatic complications with China) and Joswig's politically inconsistent position. He often began concerts with the sentence "Today is the day the system collapses - let's celebrate this day". In July 1989, the band's permission to perform was withdrawn after Joswig had recently called for a minute's silence for the victims of the massacre on Tian'anmen Square in Beijing on the Brandenburg Rock Night .

Joswig left for Budapest in October 1989, and from there to West Berlin. In early 1990 he moved back to East Berlin and founded Peking Records, the first independent record company in the GDR .

In addition to his singing work for Herbst in Beijing, Rex Joswig runs The Hidden Sea Sound System . He worked with Babylon 23 , Badphish , Column One, and the poet Bert Papenfuß-Gorek .

From 1991 to 1998 he presented the radio program Grenzpunkt Null on DT 64 and MDR Sputnik and has been producing Grenzpunkt Null Reloaded since 2009 , which has been broadcast on Reboot.FM since 2010 .

Today he lives in Berlin and works as a freelance artist, musician, producer and DJ - u. a. in the coffee burger .

Discography (selection)

with autumn in Beijing

  • Baksheesh Republic (7 "single) (1989/90)
  • To Be HIP (1990)
  • Terrible Fall (1993)
  • The Year of Snow (1996)
  • Merry X-Mas (1996)
  • Fire Water & Trumpets (1997)
  • Les Fleurs du Mal (1999)
  • German Fool (23 minutes of federal sickness) (2004)
  • German Fool (the versions) EP (2011)
  • Ex Oriente Lux (1987-2012) (2012)

with Badphish

  • The Making ov Rakija (1996)

with Babylon 23

  • The Bible in Dub (2003)

with The Hidden Sea

  • Lighthouse Madness (2011)

Web links

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  1. ^ Website of Rex Joswig
  2. Interview with Rex Joswig
  3. Nicol Ljubic: System failure. Rex Joswig, the wildest rocker in the GDR, wanted to make it big in 1989. It turned out differently. Still, he doesn't feel cheated. In: Die Zeit of October 28, 2004.