Kiev Stingl: No Erklaerungen (2020)

With his radical sound, Stingl was one of the German pioneers of punk and new wave who had just spilled over from England and the USA. His second record "Hart wie Mozart" with the band Sterea Lisa was received by the critics in 1979, with astonishing or even negative reception; the provocative cover led to a ban. In his texts and poems, Stingl consistently indulged his obsessions, which he reflected in increasingly extreme literary poetry and text volumes. His contempt was less for "the system" than for the prevailing mediocrity, which he punished with provocation and arrogant refusal. In the meantime, more feared than a kind of Klaus Kinski of the musical underground, his last album was released in 1989 with the title "Grausam das Gold und jubig die Pest".