25.10.25 19:00
Willkommen im Magnetbanduntergrund! explores the musical subversions of the late GDR. The program will take place at several locations from October 24 to 26. Beek is hosting the night on Saturday, featuring a book presentation, concerts and DJs. Alexander Pehlemann, editor of Magnetizdat DDR, presents his book in discussion with music and cultural scholar Prof. Dr. Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer. EOG (Erweiterte OrGasmus Gruppe) collide with the young neo-punks supergroup Kompilation Masturbation and give one of their rare performances. The operators of Iron Curtain Radio and Sozialistischer Plattenbau labels expose us to a stress test regarding magnetic tape music from the FRG and GDR.
Photo: Archiv Gabriele Stötzer
Photo: Archiv Alexander Pehlemann
MAGNETIZDAT DDR. MAGNETBANDUNTERGRUND OST 1979-1990
Book presentation
Magnetizdat* DDR sheds light on the resistant art scene of the late GDR from many, often subjective perspectives. The result is a panorama of diverse nonconformism, a “GDR from below” that rebelled against the narrowness, desolation, and oppression of authoritarian state socialism.
Prof. Dr. Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer (born in 1964 in East Berlin) is a musicologist, professor, and music activist. In 1986, she joined the pop musique concrète group Der Expander des Fortschritts, (Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle of the east), as a saxophonist. She has been teaching at the Institute of Music at Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg since 2005. Her research focuses on questions concerning the relationship between music and media, developments in the music and culture industry, and the historiography of pop music.
Alexander Pehlemann (born in 1969 in East Berlin) is an art historian, former wrestler, and provincial punk. But above all, he is the incarnation of the Encyclopædia Britannica when it comes to underground artistic practices in the former GDR. He is the author and editor of countless groundbreaking publications on the East German underground music scene. His latest work, Unearthing the Music – Footnotes to Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe (1950-2000), has just been published by Spector Books in Leipzig.
*Magnetizdat is derived from the terms Samizdat and Tamizdat, which in Eastern European countries referred to self-published literature and works published in Western countries, respectively.
The book presentation and the following discussion will be held in German.
https://www.verbrecherverlag.de/shop/magnetizdat-ddr-magnetbanduntergrund-ost/
EOG (Erweiterte OrGasmus Gruppe) X Kompilation Masturbation
Concert performance
EOG (Erweiterte OrGasmus Gruppe) emerged in 1986 as a splinter group (self-styled “primal scream therapy”) from the Erfurt Women Artists' Group Exterra XX, which had been founded in 1984. Its members include Verena Kyselka (born in 1959 in Erfurt), Gabriele Stötzer (born in 1953 in Emleben), and Ina Heyner (born in 1964 in Erfurt). The group organized exhibitions, initiated art fashion shows, and created provocative intermedia art. EOG provided the soundtracks for numerous films by the Erfurt Women Artists' Group with their music.
The three art enfants terribles Juliana Zimmer (born in Hamburg in 2002), Sayizan Stange (born in Hamburg in 2001), and Leonie Maltz (born in Hamburg in 1994) romp around in changing line-ups in groups such as blowjobs are real jobs and Luzifer and the Machine Girls: With Korg MS-20, transverse flute, and self-soldered instruments under their arms, they knock, hammer, laugh, cry, sample, distort, accelerate, and sometimes even reverse the opposite.
https://parocktikum.de/wiki/index.php/Erweiterte_Orgasmus_Gruppe_(EOG)
Iron Curtain Radio X Sozialistischer Plattenbau
DJ set
Alexander Pehlemann runs the Iron Curtain Radio label, which is dedicated to releasing music from Yugoslavia and the Warsaw Pact countries.
Felix Karl Raeithel (born in Munich in 1972) works tirelessly as a modular musician and operator of the label Sozialistischer Plattenbau. Sometimes he also hides behind the drums (Heimatglück) and the bass (PAF). His relentless Hamburg punk socialization (Unterm Durchschnitt, Rip-Off) can be heard in his record collection, from which he plays monthly obscurities from East, West, Above, and Below on his radio show on Freier Sender Kombinat (FSK).
A recording of the evening will be broadcast on Torfstecher Radio on November 28, 2025, at 10 p.m. on FSK.
https://www.iron-curtain-radio.de/
https://sozialistischer-plattenbau.org/home/
Curated by Judith Behre and Florian Bräunlich
BEEK
Marschnerstraße 21
22081 Hamburg