The band Gewalt poses on a flat roof with thick, chrome-coloured ventilation pipes. The sky is grey. Everyone is wearing black clothes, looking sternly into the camera, their faces appear pale. Singer and guitarist Patrick Wanger stands on the left side on a box connecting the pipes and has his hands in the pockets of his suit trousers. He wears a black T-shirt, and a black jacket with white chalk stains on the sleeve. His brown hair reaches below his earlobes. To his right, guitarist Helen Henfling kneels also on a box, in a skin-tight short dress with see-through long sleeves. Her long black hair rests on her left shoulder. Between the two and further front, bassist Jasmin Rilke is sitting wide-legged on a vent pipe. She wears black jeans, a high-necked, long-sleeved top with one shoulder and one arm transparent. Her dark blonde hair is short, only two thick strands are visible at the back of her head, each draped forward over her shoulder. Her hands are each resting on her thighs, her elbows pointing outwards.
Gewalt (Photo: Frank Egel)
Friday, 26.8.2022
20:00 – 20:30 / 21:20 – 21:50 / 22:40 – 23:10, RambaZamba Theater
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GEWALT: »Du bist Gewalt«

With their Commissioned Work »Du bist Gewalt« (»You are Gewalt«), the Berlin avant-garde trio GEWALT (German for »violence«) shakes the foundations of live music entertainment: the separation of audience and stage. The auditorium changes its basic function, from the usual, safe, voyeuristic standpoint to a brightly and unpleasantly lit site of discomfort. From the first note onwards, the light changes so that the musicians are in semi-darkness while the audience is fully illuminated and projected onto screens above the stage. Audience members can recover from the trio’s exposure and publicisation of their own violence only during the short pauses between songs, when the lights return to the usual setting. GEWALT gives back to violence what Hollywood took from it: presence.

Credits: LMMS (drums), Helen Henfling (guitar), Jasmin Rilke (bass), Patrick Wagner (vocals, guitar), Robert Glanz (management), Bernd Skischally (tour management), Joshua Murphy (video, stream), Pablo Thierman (sound engineering).

Violence – Gewalt
You are Gewalt.
As part of the »Commissioned Work« at Pop-Kultur Festival 2022, Gewalt offers the possibility to overprint your beloved old shirts and jumpers with our Gewalt logo.
Good for the environment and your tortured souls.

Pimp up your shirt, you are Gewalt.

The musicians step out of the centre, the song steps out of the centre. You dominate the scene. Your violence exceeds ours by far.
You may be filmed and streamed.
By entering the auditorium, consent is automatically given.

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The band Gewalt poses on a flat roof with thick, chrome-coloured ventilation pipes. The sky is grey. Everyone is wearing black clothes, looking sternly into the camera, their faces appear pale. Singer and guitarist Patrick Wanger stands on the left side on a box connecting the pipes and has his hands in the pockets of his suit trousers. He wears a black T-shirt, and a black jacket with white chalk stains on the sleeve. His brown hair reaches below his earlobes. To his right, guitarist Helen Henfling kneels also on a box, in a skin-tight short dress with see-through long sleeves. Her long black hair rests on her left shoulder. Between the two and further front, bassist Jasmin Rilke is sitting wide-legged on a vent pipe. She wears black jeans, a high-necked, long-sleeved top with one shoulder and one arm transparent. Her dark blonde hair is short, only two thick strands are visible at the back of her head, each draped forward over her shoulder. Her hands are each resting on her thighs, her elbows pointing outwards.
Gewalt (Photo: Frank Egel)