Darkwave GDR |
I will deliver a talk at the Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig on 14 May 2016 at the Stasi Museum at 1 pm. Entry is free and all are welcome.
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This research seeks to address the historical background of the Gothic “anti-movement” and its associated subculture in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) in the decade of the 1980s. Focussing primarily on the era of social control and political enforcement imposed by the erstwhile GDR through the “Stasi” (Ministerium für Staatssicherheit – Ministry for State Security), the contexts of both state culture and disaffected Gothic or “Grufti” subculture will be examined. The links that abide between the United Kingdom’s original Darkwave Gothic scene and the GDR’s “Grufti” scene will be explored, and the impact of these connections will be examined.
John Heaton Nicholls
Researcher/Doktorand
Researcher/Doktorand