Jeff Hayton - Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany

Culture from the Slums could not have been completed without the encouragement and support of my colleagues, friends, and family. Researched and written across North America and Europe, my debts are many and one of the great pleasures in completing such a big project is the opportunity to offer formal thanks to all those who contributed in ways big and small.

This book began as a dissertation at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. My advisor, Peter Fritzsche, was instrumental in challenging my ideas and pushing me toward new frames of understanding: his always insightful comments have stayed with me for a long time, and they remain imprinted on the text in all sorts of wonderful ways. At Illinois, I had the good fortune of sharing my work with many scholars and students whose consideration and critiques allowed me to transform my vague thoughts into tangible reality. Before heading off to Illinois, I was inspired to study German history by Pamela Swett, and over the years, she has become one of my closest friends, and a model of scholarly wisdom and integrity. Since arriving in Wichita, my colleagues have been incredibly supportive of my endeavors and have made Kansas a great place to teach and learn.

This book has only been possible thanks to the generosity of friends and colleagues who have volunteered their time and energy to ensure its success. Tim Brown, David Imhoff, Julia Sneeringer, Pamela Swett, and Jonathan Wipplinger, as well as four anonymous reviewers at Oxford University Press, all read parts or the whole manuscript. Their comments were critical to the final product, and I could not have asked for better readers. Over the years, I have had numerous conversations with many brilliant individuals, exchanges which have shaped my thinking about popular music and the study of history more generally. I would like to thank the following for helping me to clarify my thoughts: Celia Applegate, Julie Ault, Jovana Babovi, David Blackbourn, Timothy Brown, Mary Fulbrook, Juliane Frst, Neil Gregor, Joachim Hberlen, Scott Harrison, Seth Howes, David Imhoff, Mark Keck-Szajbel, Eric McKinley, Josie McLellan, Bodo Mrozek, Klaus Nathaus, Katherine Pence, Michael Rauhut, Martin Rempe, Eli Rubin, Detlef Siegfried, Edith Sheffer, Julia Sneeringer, Pamela Swett, Toby Thacker, Katharine White, and Jonathan Wipplinger. Without any of them, this book would be a much poorer affair. If it remains so, that of course is my fault.

In Germany, I received tremendous support from many institutions and the great people who work at them. With no punk archive, I have visited dozens of archives in the faint hope of finding traces of my subjects, and it is thanks to the professionalism and diligence of archivists at these institutions that I was able to do so. I would like to thank staff at the following archives for their generous help: Archiv der Jugendkulturen (especially Klaus Farin), Berlin; Archiv fr alternatives Schrifttum, Duisburg; Archiv fr populre Musik im Ruhrgebiet, Dortmund; Archiv fr Sozialer Bewegungen, Hamburg; Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich; Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Munich; Bayerisches Staatsarchiv, Munich; Bibliothek fr Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung, Berlin; Bundesarchiv Berlin; Bundesarchiv Koblenz; Bundesbeauftragte fr die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen DDR (especially Frau Annette Mller), Berlin; Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, Babelsberg; Evangelisches Landeskirchliches Archiv, Berlin; Evangelisches Zentralarchiv, Berlin; Landesarchiv Baden-Wrttemberg, Hauptstaatsarchiv, Stuttgart; Landesarchiv Berlin; Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duisburg; Lippmann+Rau-Musikarchiv, Eisenach; Matthias-Domaschk-Archiv in der Robert-Havemann-Gesellschaft e.V., Berlin; Niederschsisches Landesarchiv, Hannover; Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Hamburg; Schsisches Staatsarchiv, Hauptstaatsarchiv Dresden, Schsisches Staatsarchiv Leipzig; Staatsarchiv Hamburg; Stadtarchiv Dsseldorf; Stadtarchiv Essen; Stadtarchiv Hannover; Stadtarchiv Mainz; Stadtarchiv Mnchen; Stadtarchiv Stuttgart; Stadtarchiv Wuppertal; Stadtarchiv Stadt Nrnberg; and the Thringer Archiv fr Zeitgeschichte, Jena.

Over the course of my research and writing, I have also met numerous protagonists and enthusiasts from the era under study, and their assistance has been essential in my understanding of German punk. I would like to give special thanks to the following for their willingness to help a foreigner understand their culture: Christian Baumjohann, Annette Benjamin, Franz Bielmeier, Gunther Buskies, Tobias Cremer, Ray Ebert, Dirk Eisermann, Christiane Eisler, Klaus Fiehe, Bettina Flrchinger, Holger Friedrich, Ronald Galenza, Peter Hein, Alfred Hilsberg, Andreas Hhn, Michael Horschig, Annette Humpe, Burkhard Inhlsen, Axel Klopprogge, Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt, Andi Kttner, Edmund Labont, Michael Max, Michael Mayer, Romy Meijer, Karl Nagel, Herne Pietzker, Maik Reichenbach, Ilse Ruppert, Sabine Schwabroh, Xao Seffcheque, Che Seibert, Dr. Enno Stahl, Mike Stanger, Martina Weith, Piotr Wierzbicki, and Frank Ziegert. These are their stories, and I could not have told them without their help.

This project would not have been possible without the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Central European History Society, the Department of History and Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Department of History and Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wichita State University. I would also like to thank the staff at the Interlibrary Loan Department of Ablah Library for their heroism in bringing obscure German publications to Kansas. My wonderful editors at Oxford University PressStephanie Ireland, Christina Wipf Perry, and Cathryn Steelewere enthusiastic about the project from the beginning and their support was essential for its completion. Brian North was a superb copy editor, Rosalba Putrino a meticulous indexer, and Scott Greenway designed a fantastic cover. Thanks especially to Bhavani Govindasamy for doing a fantastic job at getting the manuscript to final production. I have been able to present my work at numerous forums over the years and I would like to thank panelists, commentators, workshop participants, audiences, and students for all the excellent questions and debate we have had; while only a single name stands on the cover, monographs are truly collective endeavors.