Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Imhoof, David

Titel

Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punk ed. by Mirko M. Hall, Seth Howes, and Cyrus Shahan (review)

Ist Teil von

• German Studies Review, 2018-02, Vol.41 (1), p.218-220

Ort / Verlag

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]most authors address “the radical transnationality of punk’s history” (7), showing how German punks were often doing the same things punks were doing elsewhere: using détournement to challenge existing social and consumption regimes, opting out of society (if briefly) through DIY (do it yourself) action, imagining potential political options that did not fit with conservative or leftist visions, getting into trouble with authorities, and making lots of noise. [...]many of these pieces illustrate “how paradigmatically German punk traced the global fissures effaced by the construction of two Germanies in the postwar period” (4). Karen Fournier offers one of the most provocative arguments in the book, maintaining that British punks’ use of the swastika served, above all, as a boundary between “insiders” and “outsiders,” the latter being “members of the dominant class, whose position obscures any other possible reading” of the swastika’s significance (106).