Zwischen Subkultur und Realposie. „Mit Echten singen“ von Tanja Krone

In the organizer's words:

What did NOT actually take place in the Palace of the Republic?

In the first part of the evening, academics and experts will speak in Pecha Kucha format. This means that they will give short talks, each lasting only 6 minutes and 40 seconds, about subcultures in the GDR and what did not take place in the Palast. The speakers are Dr. Verda Kaya, Dr. Dirk Moldt and Dr. Nikolai Okunew.

The evening will be hosted by author and poetry slammer Aron Boks.

The second part will be musical:

"Singing with real people"

30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, performer and musician Tanja Krone sets off for Chemnitz and talks to her classmates, teachers, friends and family from back then: What was actually going on in 89/90? In her search for connections between the past and the present, the unheard emerges in the landscape of her youth. Real poetry in real existing capitalism... Together with musician Friedrich Greiling, Krone brings together the "real" voices from back then to create a new musical fabric. Pop, rock, techno, disco or trance - no one knows exactly what it is, but in 2024, listening carefully seems more important than ever.

The PalastBar is the format for informal discussions and artistic interventions. It combines debate and art around the theme of the Palace of the Republic. Scientists meet writers, musicians meet publicists and music meets sparkling drinks.

Participants

Aron Boks was born in 1997 in Wernigerode and lives as an author, slam poet and presenter in Berlin, Neukölln. Together with Jonathan Schmitz, he forms the spoken word band Das Zappelnde Tanzorchester. In 2019 he received the Klopstock Prize for New Literature. Since 2021, he has written mainly for the taz and the FUTURZWEI column Stimme meiner Generation. In spring 2023, Aron Boks published his book Nackt in die DDR with literary approaches to his great-granduncle Willi Sitte.

Friedrich Greiling is a freelance composer, lyricist and producer. He is also a performer, singer and songwriter in various groups. He runs school and youth theater projects in Berlin. There, the participants develop and perform their own pieces of music. Greiling produces sound installations for theater. He composes for radio plays and films and creates technoid electronic dance music. He fronts a band that plays country music. It is called The Trees.

Verda Kaya is an ethnologist and has been working academically on various topics in the field of migration and subcultures in Berlin and Istanbul since the 1990s. She worked as a curator for participation for the Berlin Global exhibition at the Humboldt Forum, where she curated the hip-hop station, among other things. In 2023, she curated the HipHop Day at the Humboldt Forum and brought together hip-hop activists from West and East Berlin. She is the author of the book "HipHop zwischen Istanbul und Berlin. A (German-)Turkish youth culture in the local and transnational network of relationships".

Tanja Krone is a director, performer and musician. For her, art is a space of possibilities. She asks how the most diverse people can participate in art. To this end, she invents various spaces for action: she founded the biggest women's rock band in the world. She invented unreal states in Africa and even managed to run for mayor of Mannheim.

Nikolai Okunew was born in Berlin-Mitte and studied history and social sciences at Humboldt University and in Israel. He then went to the Leibniz Center for Contemporary History in Potsdam, where he completed his doctorate on GDR metal. His doctoral thesis Red Metal: The Heavy Metal Subculture of the GDR was published by Ch. Links in 2021. Today, Okunew is researching the history of public broadcasting in East Germany in the 1990s in Potsdam.

Further information: free of charge, no ticket required. Language: German. Room 3, ground floor. Part of: PalastBar. Belongs to: There and gone. The Palace of the Republic is a