Beyond No Future Cultures of German Punk [Paperback]

The first book of its kind in English,Beyond No Future: Cultures of German Punkexplores the texts and contexts of German punk cultures. Notwithstanding its no future sloganeering, punk has had a rich and complex life in German art and letters, in German urban landscapes, and in German youth culture.Beyond No Futurecollects innovative, methodologically diverse scholarly contributions on the life and legacy of these cultures. Focusing on punk politics and aesthetics in order to ask broader questions about German nationhood(s) in a period of rapid transition, this text offers a unique view of the decade bookended by the German Autumn and German unification.

Consulting sources both published and unpublished, aesthetic and archival,Beyond No Future's contributors examine German punk's representational strategies, anti-historical consciousness, and refusal of programmatic intervention into contemporary political debates. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the importance of punk culture to historical, political, economic, and cultural developments taking place both in Germany and on a broader transnational scale.

Mirko M. Hallis Associate Professor of German Studies and Chair of the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Literatures at Converse College, USA.

Seth Howesis Assistant Professor of German Studies at the University of Missouri, USA.

Cyrus M. Shahanis Assistant Professor of German at Colby College, USA.

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements

1. Punk Matters: An Introduction
(Seth Howes, University of Missouri; Mirko M. Hall, Converse College; Cyrus Shahan, Colby College)

Punk Spaces

2. I'd rather choose the curb: Topographical Writing in Recent German Punk
(Dennis Borghardt, University of DuisburgEssen)
3. Beyond Boredom: Engaged Living in the WilhelmineWanderv?geland West German Punk
(Matthew Sikarskie, MichigalS(