The East German Punk Scene in the 80's

[glenm64]

I found these interesting articles on the Punk movement in East Germany under the Socialist State rule.

I wonder how desperate people become under those conditions. And the courage to openly oppose those dictatorships.

 

https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/46734/1/east-german-punks-fall-of-berlin-wall-30th-anniversary

https://www.dw.com/en/you-should-be-gassed-what-it-meant-to-be-punk-in-east-germany/a-51163866

https://lithub.com/how-the-first-punk-in-east-berlin-became-an-enemy-of-the-state/

 

[Stump]

Back in 1977

Iggy Pop and I were a couple of very naughty boys, who went to Berlin to learn how to be good...I remember one morning, after a particularly mischievous night out, we both met up at a coffee bar we used to frequent and discussed the doings of the night before, and Iggy - or Jim - related most extraordinary events. He said that he'd been to a punk club...It was the anniversary of the building of the Wall, that you must remember, and he went to a punk club that was holding an anniversary party and they built an entirely accurate replica of the Berlin Wall, and at the stroke of midnight, fifty savage, demented punks leapt on this wall and tore it to pieces with their mouths and teeth and fists...but he said that it was the aftermath that was the most affecting, because after all this had happened - they demolished the wall - there were small groups of them, standing around the corners, pitifully crying, tears streaming down their faces.

[metal beat]

@Stump

  surprised you or Iggy can remember back then considering the smack and booze you two were consuming at the time 

[Stump]

24 minutes ago, metal beat said:

@Stump

  surprised you or Iggy can remember back then considering the smack and booze you two were consuming at the time 

If you remember the 70s you weren't there!!!

[mrbuzzardstubble]

1 hour ago, Stump said:

Back in 1977

Iggy Pop and I were a couple of very naughty boys, who went to Berlin to learn how to be good...I remember one morning, after a particularly mischievous night out, we both met up at a coffee bar we used to frequent and discussed the doings of the night before, and Iggy - or Jim - related most extraordinary events. He said that he'd been to a punk club...It was the anniversary of the building of the Wall, that you must remember, and he went to a punk club that was holding an anniversary party and they built an entirely accurate replica of the Berlin Wall, and at the stroke of midnight, fifty savage, demented punks leapt on this wall and tore it to pieces with their mouths and teeth and fists...but he said that it was the aftermath that was the most affecting, because after all this had happened - they demolished the wall - there were small groups of them, standing around the corners, pitifully crying, tears streaming down their faces.

Jim Jarmusch?