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East Germany's punks
FromWitness History
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9 minutes
Released:
Jan 3, 2020
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Podcast episode
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In the early 1980s, thousands of young people in communist East German became punks, attracted by the DIY culture and anti-establishment attitude.
But the East German secret police the Stasi believed the subculture represented an existential threat to the state and tried to crush the movement.
Lucy Burns speaks to former punk Jürgen Gutjahr, aka Chaos, and Tim Mohr, author of "Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall."
Photo: Young punks posing in Lenin Square (now United Nations Square), East Berlin. 1982. (Credit: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
But the East German secret police the Stasi believed the subculture represented an existential threat to the state and tried to crush the movement.
Lucy Burns speaks to former punk Jürgen Gutjahr, aka Chaos, and Tim Mohr, author of "Burning Down The Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution and the Fall of the Berlin Wall."
Photo: Young punks posing in Lenin Square (now United Nations Square), East Berlin. 1982. (Credit: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Released:
Jan 3, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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