Keine Macht für Niemand - Ton Steine Scherben - Songcomic

Comic strips about one of the most important albums in German music history 

‘They'll kill you alone!’, “We were born to be free!”, ’We have to get out of here!’ - Hardly any album in German pop history has produced as many slogans that were chanted by thousands of people at hundreds of demos as ‘Keine Macht für Niemand’, the 1972 classic by the agitrock band Ton Steine Scherben.

It's hard to believe that the album will be 50 years old in October 2022. Alongside songs that were topical at the time, such as the ‘Rauch-Haus-Song’ or ‘Menschenjäger’, there are timeless classics such as ‘Schritt für Schritt ins Paradies’ or ‘Komm, schlaf bei mir’. As a total work of art between agitprop, love song, demo slogans and biblical quotations, they have written music history,

To mark the anniversary, we asked eleven comic artists to each take a look at one of the songs and ask whether it is still relevant to the current political situation in the world. The result is eleven unconventional interpretations that capture the many facets of the album, the sloganeering as well as the tender, the criticism but also the utopia.

The line-up:

Kathrin Klingner

‘We have to get out of here’

Nicolas Mahler

‘Feierabend’

Bianca Schaalburg

‘We will win the last battle’

Sheree Domingo/Rahel Suesskind

‘Paul Panzer's Blues’

Reinhard Kleist

‘Manhunters’

Mia Oberländer

‘Alone they make you a’

Sascha Hommer

‘Step by step into paradise’

Daniela Heller

‘The

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