Chaos Days

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Chaos Days (German: Chaostage) was an annual punk gathering, often violent, held in Hanover, Germany starting in 1982 and revived in the mid-1990s.

History[]

In 1982, after several punk meetings in Wuppertal, considered forerunners of Chaos Days, the first Chaos Days occurred in Hanover.[1] The gathering was intended to protest a police plan to create a reference library of photographs of German punks.[2] Thereafter, "official" Chaos Days were held in 1983, 1984, and 1985.[1]

The most well-known Chaos Days took place in August 1994, 1995 and 1996.[3] In 1995, 2,000 punks and squatters fought with police, resulting in over 100 injured police officers and 450 arrested young people.[4] The program had listed: "Friday 3 pm: Street fights. Saturday 11 am: Games with fire. Sunday: Glass-breaking demonstration."[5] The result was riots and the destruction of cars and buildings. Two supermarket were looted.[5][4] These "chaos days" were the main topic of TV debates and newspapers for several weeks. Popular bands like WIZO spontaneously played a show there, and Terrorgruppe wrote a now-classic song about it ("Wochenendticket", named after a train ticket that most punks used in order to get to Hanover from all across the country).[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Tosoni, Simone; Zuccalà, Emanuela (30 March 2020). Italian Goth Subculture: Kindred Creatures and Other Dark Enactments in Milan, 1982-1991. Springer Nature. p. 81. ISBN 978-3-030-39811-8.
  2. ^ ""The Feeling of Punk is Universal." Deutschpunks Alarmsignal Interview". Punktuation! Magazine. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  3. ^ Karapin, Roger (November 2010). Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s. Penn State Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-271-04550-4.
  4. ^ a b "German Punks turn 'Chaos Days' into an orgy of violence". The Independent. London. 7 August 1995. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
  5. ^ a b "Chaos Days". Gainesville Sun. 5 August 1995. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013.

External links[]

  • Media related to Chaostage at Wikimedia Commons
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