Born in 1957 in East Berlin, Ronald
Galenza was intimately connected with the alternative music scene
of the former GDR. He is still living in his old Berlin neighborhood
and has described his experience and the punk scene in the GDR
in various articles and radio- broadcasts. He published the book Wir
wollen immer artig sein – Punk, New Wave, Hip Hop, Independent-Szene
in der DDR 1980-1990 and Mix mir einen Drink – Feeling
B – Punk im Osten.At the Punk! Kongress Ronald Galenza will talk about living in the GDR in the eighties and about punk as a subversive art.
In the beginning of the eighties Ronald Galenza was arrested twice at concerts that where staged by the FDJ, the official youth organization of the GDR. "Conspicuous behavior" was reason enough for the authorities to turn him in, so he had to spend a night in prison each time he was arrested. He became a punk because of his anger and frustration with a society that criminalized a youth movement. "In the West punk soon became a musical genre like many others, but in the GDR the movement grew more radical and political. In the very beginning the kids only wanted to show their objection against their environment, later they got more and more political, radical and criminal, because they where living under a government, that employed its entire police apparatus to monitor and solve the problem "punk". (Ronald Galenza) After 1986 Ronald Galenza works for DT 64 (radio station for young people in the GDR) and tries to create a format for alternative music- broadcasting. In 1990 he starts do do his first shows. Today he is working as a cultural editor for Radio Fritz (RBB) and when he is not playing boule or table ice hockey, he is djaying under the name of DJ Electric Galenza. Besides that Galenza was co-founder of the first independent discotheque X-Mal in East Berlin and organized legendary musical events. He was a member of the rock- advisory board for the Berlin cultural Senate, wrote various rock lyrics (Pankow) and liner notes for other bands. |
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