Waste your youth
Verschwende Deine Jugend is a book by Jürgen Teipel that was published by Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt on October 17, 2001 and is subtitled A documentary novel about German punk and new wave .
In his novel, the author recorded the memories of around a hundred artists belonging to the music scene and thus shed light on part of the emerging youth culture punk and the emergence of German-language punk music , New Wave and Neue Deutsche Welle in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf from 1976 to 1983 . The title of the book is derived from the song of the same name by the Düsseldorf band DAF .
Emergence
Jürgen Teipel wrote a review for the Berliner Zeitung in 1997 about Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, a book about the punk movement in America . The high response to his article was the impetus for Teipel to write a similar book for Germany. Over the next three years, Teipel had countless conversations with musicians, fanzine writers , record shop owners and bar owners from the late 1970s to early 1980s, which he first recorded on tape and then put on 1200 pages. He had met almost everyone in a pub and had some conversations over the phone. No appointment was made with Upstart , Milan Kunc , Karel Dudesek, Scumeck Sabottka, Christoph Schlingensief and Walter Moers .
Then Teipel set himself the task of selecting and sorting the essential stories for his book. Annette Benjamin, Norbert Hähnel , Rocko Schamoni , WestBam , Tom Dokoupil from the band The Wirtschaftswunder and Moritz von Oswald gave Teipel little space; Buttocks , Kosmonautentraum , Liliput or Kleenex , Materialschlacht, The Modern Man , Hall 2 , Salinos as well as Andy Giorbino, Dagowops, The Erasers and “Leap from the Clouds” were not mentioned.
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Form and themes
The book begins with a four-page foreword by Jürgen Teipel. The author then divides them into 28 chapters, summarizes them chronologically in three parts, a prologue and an epilogue , and strings together, as he calls it, “a hundred different truths”.
Teipel clearly shows each anecdote as a single quote by prefixing the name of the respective narrator in bold. The author does not appear as a questioner, nor does he comment on the stories. For the book, Teipel only chooses his interlocutors from Berlin, Hamburg and Düsseldorf. Almost all of them played in bands at the time or moved directly into their environment. A retrospective study of the music scene of the time in the form of a social novel is created by stringing together different, individual stories and perspectives that are related to each other and are chronologically coordinated .
The topics deal with self-discovery and personal development, formation of political opinion, protest against the existing order, development of one's own sexuality, friendships and falling out with one another, dealing with alcohol, drugs and all influences on the creativity of young artists. The venues are next to the practice rooms of the bands u. a., in Düsseldorf the Ratinger Hof , the Markthalle Hamburg , the record store "Rip Off", the "Marktstube" and the "Krawall 2000", in Berlin the "Dschungel", the "Music Hall" and the SO36 .
Attached to the book are short notes on the biography of each narrator, as well as a time table with the events from the end of 1976 to July 1983 that Teipel considered to be important for the plot. A selection of eleven photos illustrates the text.
people
From the Düsseldorf scene come: Frank Fenstermacher , Moritz Reichelt , Peter Hein , Martin Kippenberger , Markus Oehlen , Franz Bielmeier , Xao Seffcheque and Muscha from the bands Fehlfarben , Der Plan , Mittagspause , Charley's Girls and Family 5 ; Robert Görl , Wolfgang Spelmanns, Gabi Delgado , Michael Kemner , Pyrolator and Chrislo Haas from DAF ; Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka von Male , later Die Krupps ; Thomas Schwebel , Uwe Jahnke , Harry Rag , Ralf D Körper and their producer Holger Czukay from SYPH ; Trini Trimpop , Captain Nuss , Tommi Stumpf , Meikel Clauss and Tobias Brink from KFC . Campino , Ralf Isbert and Claus Fabian from ZK also comment ; Martina Weith from the women's punk band Östro 430 , the photographer ar / gee gleim and scene host Carmen Knoebel from Ratinger Hof .
Talking about their environment in Berlin: Blixa Bargeld , Alexander Hacke and NU Unruh from Einstürzende Neubauten ; Beate Bartel , Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster from the women's band Mania D , Padeluun and Mike Hentz from Minus Delta t ; Inga Humpe and Annette Humpe from Neonbabies and Ideal ; Wolfgang Müller member of the band Die Tödliche Doris . Ben Becker and his friend Fetish Bergmann remember it . Nina Hagen and Annette Benjamin , singer from Hans-A-Plast and Burkhardt Seiler , owner of the Zensor record shop and label speak a few sentences .
Representing the Hamburg music scene: Margita Haberland , Axel Dill , Frank Z and FM Einheit from Abwärts ; Ale Sexfeind from the band Die Goldenen Zitronen and Thomas Meinecke from FSK ; Ralf Hertwig and Thomas Fehlmann from Palais Schaumburg ; Timo Blunck , Christian Kellersmann and Detlef Diederichsen from Ede & Die Zimmermänner ; Andreas Dorau and Hagar, who had sung in Dorau's band at times, Gode , guitarist with the bands “Coroners”, “Front” and Mona Mur & Die Mieter . Frieder Butzmann electronics technician / saxophonist with "Liebesgier". Jäki Eldorado , the Sounds author and owner of Zickzack Records Alfred Hilsberg , the writer Peter Glaser , the trendy bar owner Kerstin Eitner and Klaus Maeck owner of the “Rip Off” shop and Diedrich Diederichsen , editor of the music magazine “Sounds”, also tell the story "The thoughtful conscripts" and flying class enemy .
Reading tour and documentary film
Under the direction of the computer scientist Sigrid Harder, the original tones of Teipel's interview recordings were cut together over a playing time of around 90 minutes and supplemented with pictures and music examples. On his reading tour in 2002, he presented these data to the audience from his laptop and did not read from his book in person, as is usually the case. In 2004 the material was released as a documentary entitled Verschwende Deine Jugend.doc .
Teipel also presented his documentation in the exhibition Back to Concrete from July 7th to September 15th, 2002 in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf .
Teipel was neither involved in the feature film, Waste Your Youth , nor is it based on his book. In addition, Teipel publicly distanced himself from the feature film and described it as “politically completely unreflective” and “nothing more than a nice story”.
Music album
In 2002 Jürgen Teipel put together an audio edition of his book in collaboration with Frank Fenstermacher , which the Ata Tak label brought onto the market. In addition to the original notes of the protagonists, the double CD contains numerous restored original songs from the period described.
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reception
In the Neue Musikzeitung , Helmut Hein writes that at Teipel "the story of a generation comes across as completely unadorned: as a theater of a hundred voices, as a ceaselessly meandering collage of thoughts and feelings of all those who were there."
From the point of view of the reviewer Aram Lintzel in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung “ Teipel has mastered the problem that incidents from the pop / punk spectrum fundamentally refuse to write a 'linear history'.” Peter Mühlbauer also writes on Heise online about a “temporally and objectively structured collection of oral history historical sources. "
In the Frankfurter Rundschau , Jörg Heiser criticizes “ample redundancy” when Teipel's interlocutor “keeps telling the same dull story of demarcation skirmishes, fighting drinking and hall battles” (“The whole scene must have been permeated by group paranoia”), he finds it exciting polyphonic choir, the older protagonists, "how they perhaps get clarity for the first time about their early triumphs and later collapses".
publication
- Jürgen Teipel: Waste your youth. A documentary novel about German punk and new wave. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt / Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39771-0 .
- Jürgen Teipel, Frank Fenstermacher: Waste your youth. Punk and New Wave in Germany , 2002, Universal Music, double CD.
Web links
- official homepage
- Reading sample for the book
- Take Your Youth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jürgen Teipel in an interview with the taz
- ↑ a b Waste your youth. Jürgen Teipel , foreword, p. 9.
- ↑ Waste your youth.doc. (PDF) arsenal-berlin.de , 2005, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Christina Mohr: ... never too late for the old movements ... satt.org , August 2002, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Interview with Jürgen Teipel about the Berlinale 2005
- ↑ Helmut Hein: Harald Schmidt is a product of punk. In: Edition 12/2001. Neue Musikzeitung , December 2001, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 15, 2001 edition
- ↑ Peter Mühlbauer: RAF, LSD and granini juice. Heise online , December 14, 2001, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau, January 3, 2002
- ↑ Review note at Perlentaucher.de