Burning down the Haus
by Tim Mohr · first published 2017
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"The history of how teenage East German punk rockers played an indispensable role in bringing down the Berlin Wall"--
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For those interested in some good history of the punk movement in East Berlin, I recommend the book Burning Down the Haus by Tom Mohr. Really gives a window into the courage, creativity, and motivation of the youth, and their oppression by the Stasi.
on “Youth Cultures in East Germany 1985 / Stasi (East German Secret Police)” ↗If you find this era interesting, I recently read the book "Burning down the Haus"[0]. Most histories I've read of the region and era focus a lot on the mechanics or politics of it, but the book was interesting to me in that it made you aware of the changes, the ebbs and flows of the…
on “Schoolgirls who defied the Stasi” ↗If you liked "Burning Down the Haus" you'd probably like Ian Walker's "Zoo Station" which was written actually at the time -- Walker was a British journalist who lived in Berlin for a time and spent time on both sides of the Wall, and was…
on “Schoolgirls who defied the Stasi” ↗…post-Wall city would look like. “I thought all of Germany was Oktoberfest basically,” he told punk writer Legs McNeil at Brooklyn record store Rough Trade last week to celebrate the release of his new book Burning Down the Haus. “I was shocked when I got off the plane and everyone wasn’t wearing lederhosen and holding giant beer steins.” And that person, with that knowledge of global culture, was a journalist? At least in…
on “Schoolgirls who defied the Stasi” ↗