Abstract

This essay argues that the Prenzlauer Berg's poets, artists, and musicians incorporated punk aesthetics into their artistic practice in much more substantive ways than scholars have explored so far. Not only did East Berlin artists make rhetorical and design elements of this Western subculture function within their own artistic endeavors, but punk's participatory emphasis on do-it-yourself musicianship provided them with a new means of circulating and performing their poetry and art. This essay, the first in English on the Prenzlauer Berg's work with punk, has implications for the study of both punk and the literature of the Prenzlauer Berg.

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