Elaste 80s Bash:
New Wave, Electro, Cold Wave, ElectroKraut, Proto-Disco, Post-Punk, Industrial, EBM, 80s

- Program -

Reading: 21:00
Thomas Elsner and Michael Reinboth read from the new 560-page book "ELASTE - 1980 - 1986".

Erika Thomalla reads from her book: "Gegenwart Machen - Eine Oral History des Popjournalismus".

Afterwards:
DJs: Michael Reinboth / Thomas Elsner
Special support: Alles Ander

- Info -

At the end of 2025, two titles on the rebellious new journalism of the early German 80s will be published:

"ELASTE 1980-1986" (DCV) edited by Thomas Elsner and Michael Reinboth (Compost Records) "Elaste 1980 - 1986", 560 pages (German/English), sets a long overdue memorial to one of the most influential and innovative zeitgeist magazines of the New Wave era. The legendary magazine ELASTE was nothing other than the soundtrack of a generation, only in print. ELASTE received several awards for its graphics, renowned authors and photographers such as Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jon Savage, Thomas Meinecke, Ellen von Unwerth and Sheila Rock as well as hundreds of exclusive photos and interviews (with Andy Warhol, Kraftwerk, Pedro Almodovar, Yello, Duran Duran, Rolling Stones, DAF) now also make the new best-of volume an experience: a book like a mixtape and a must-read for all those who not only want to consume pop culture, but also want to understand it. The pulse of a generation. First-hand accounts from the frontline of pop, wave, post-punk, style and subversion. Raw archives. Rare voices. Real history. This is ELASTE.
"ELASTE 1980-1986" book store link: https://ELASTE.lnk.to/Elaste.1980-1986.book

Erika Thomalla - "Making the Present - An Oral History of Pop Journalism" (Schöffling & Co)
Loud, subjective. Eager to experiment. Gossip instead of commentary, rankings instead of analysis, fashion instead of discourse: a new kind of writing has been emerging since the end of the 1970s. In magazines such as Mode & Verzweiflung, Spex, Wiener, Elaste and Tempo, young authors and editorial teams broke down the boundaries between journalism and literature. They don't just write about the present, they reinvent it. They interview pop stars about their deodorant or their model of glasses and turn the everyday into a spectacle. Erika Thomalla traces the development of pop journalism - with the voices of all those who were there. An insight into an era in which writing in German-language journalism was more uncompromising than ever before or since.