Frei.Wild. South Tyrol's conservative antifascists by Klaus Farin.
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“Deutschrock” is booming, and the headliner of this genre comes from Brixen. The South Tyrolean band Frei.Wild is currently one of the most successful German-speaking bands and provokes and polarizes public opinion like no other. Klaus Farin not only met the four Frei.Wild musicians repeatedly over two years, accompanied them on tour, and visited them at home in South Tyrol, but also surveyed more than 4,000 fans of the band, spoke with historians and musicologists, 59 other Deutschrock bands, and many other artists and Frei.Wild critics, as well as conducted biographical interviews with relatives and former members of the far-right scene, among other things about the role of music in the right-wing scene. Thus, this book has become not only a band biography but also one of the largest fan studies in the German-speaking world, a confrontation with the newly awakened regionalism in Europe and the impact and significance of music, with media representations and prejudices. A home story of a special kind between rock’n’roll and patriotism, freedom and fascism, faith and pop culture. Edutainment literature on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
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Klaus Farin, born in 1958 in Gelsenkirchen, published his first magazine at the age of 15 in his Gelsenkirchen high school, and by 18 he was the youngest adult education lecturer in Germany; he published his first book at the age of 20, with a foreword by Günter Wallraff. After working as a concert promoter and security, bookseller, and journalist, he is now a freelance author as well as a lecturer and speaker in schools and universities, youth clubs and correctional facilities, academies, and companies. The volume Krieg in den Städten. Jugendgangs in Deutschland, co-authored with Eberhard Seidel, became a "standard work of modern youth social research" (Ralph Giordano) due to its innovative approach of letting the youth speak for themselves. This work led to a longer engagement with the topic of "skinheads," followed by numerous publications on other youth cultures as well as the biography Buch der Erinnerungen. The fans of Böhsen Onkelz (http://shop.jugendkulturen.de/publikationen-des-archivs/346-bohsen-onkelz-2014-buch-der-erinnerungen.html). To date, Farin has authored 25 books and edited two dozen more. The total print run of his books currently stands at over 350,000 copies. From 1998 to 2011, Klaus Farin was the head of the Archive of Youth Cultures e. V., which he also initiated. Today, he is the chairman of the Respekt Foundation (www.respekt-stiftung.de) and a board member of Aktion Courage e. V., the sponsor of the project "School without Racism" (www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org). More information: http://farin.jugendkulturen.de/
The first edition was delivered last week – and is already sold out except for nearly 2,000 copies!
If you're interested, it's better to order quickly: http://shop.jugendkulturen.de/375-freiwild.html
About the content:
“Deutschrock” is booming, and the headliner of this genre comes from Brixen. The South Tyrolean band Frei.Wild is currently one of the most successful German-speaking bands and provokes and polarizes public opinion like no other. Klaus Farin not only met the four Frei.Wild musicians repeatedly over two years, accompanied them on tour, and visited them at home in South Tyrol, but also surveyed more than 4,000 fans of the band, spoke with historians and musicologists, 59 other Deutschrock bands, and many other artists and Frei.Wild critics, as well as conducted biographical interviews with relatives and former members of the far-right scene, among other things about the role of music in the right-wing scene. Thus, this book has become not only a band biography but also one of the largest fan studies in the German-speaking world, a confrontation with the newly awakened regionalism in Europe and the impact and significance of music, with media representations and prejudices. A home story of a special kind between rock’n’roll and patriotism, freedom and fascism, faith and pop culture. Edutainment literature on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
More information: http://shop.jugendkulturen.de/375-freiwild.html
Klaus Farin, born in 1958 in Gelsenkirchen, published his first magazine at the age of 15 in his Gelsenkirchen high school, and by 18 he was the youngest adult education lecturer in Germany; he published his first book at the age of 20, with a foreword by Günter Wallraff. After working as a concert promoter and security, bookseller, and journalist, he is now a freelance author as well as a lecturer and speaker in schools and universities, youth clubs and correctional facilities, academies, and companies. The volume Krieg in den Städten. Jugendgangs in Deutschland, co-authored with Eberhard Seidel, became a "standard work of modern youth social research" (Ralph Giordano) due to its innovative approach of letting the youth speak for themselves. This work led to a longer engagement with the topic of "skinheads," followed by numerous publications on other youth cultures as well as the biography Buch der Erinnerungen. The fans of Böhsen Onkelz (http://shop.jugendkulturen.de/publikationen-des-archivs/346-bohsen-onkelz-2014-buch-der-erinnerungen.html). To date, Farin has authored 25 books and edited two dozen more. The total print run of his books currently stands at over 350,000 copies. From 1998 to 2011, Klaus Farin was the head of the Archive of Youth Cultures e. V., which he also initiated. Today, he is the chairman of the Respekt Foundation (www.respekt-stiftung.de) and a board member of Aktion Courage e. V., the sponsor of the project "School without Racism" (www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org). More information: http://farin.jugendkulturen.de/
