Josef Maria Klumb
Josef Maria Klumb (born 1962 in Bingen ), also known under the pseudonym Jay Kay (not to be confused with Jason Cheetham, who is also known by this pseudonym), is a German musician. It is classified as a right-wing extremist by the Documentation Center of Austrian Resistance.
Biography
In the 1980s, Klumb founded the punk band from -98, from the Circle of Sig - Tiu emerged. This music groups resorted to Nazi -inspired aesthetics, but which was not unusual for punk bands of that time. Thus, the Z in the song title was similar to Black Raven on the From -98- single by a Wolf Angel and the lettering of the band and to find a symbol that has similarities to the swastika, but also to the band logo of the anarcho- punk band Crass on the jackets of the band members had. However, pieces of tape were published on punk and hardcore compilations clearly antifascist set labels.
1988 sparked Klumb Circle of Sig - Tiu on and signed up in 1990 with the musical group Forthcoming Fire back. By some remarks Klumbs this made from the mid-1990s nationwide headlines and was also observed by the intelligence that brought them to the dark wave scene in compound from which the band had musically but dissociates in 1995. In 1995 he founded together with his brother Bernard, the group of Thronstahl. Also this is criticized nationalist ideology and martial song titles because of their aesthetics, their confessions.
Its activity as a musician also includes the projects incandescence and a Preussak with. The band broke up in 1999 incandescence of Klumb as a singer and lyricist " on the grounds that Josef Klumb the accusation to represent fairly radical ideas, not seriously have been able to refute ." In addition, he assisted with his bandmates Raymond Plummer ( also at Von Thronstahl and with his solo project, The Days of the Trumpet Call active), the NSBM band Absurd in the setting of written by Hendrik Mobus song Sun Knight, which appeared on the EP Asgardsrei. However, it Klumb indicates neither of the extreme right-wing sentiments Mobius ' nor the murder of Sondershausen known to have.
In 2001 he took part in the song Sacred Divinity of Dark metal band Agathodaimon with guest vocals.
Klumb published several volumes of poetry (eg Iron Age ) and 1999 an autobiography called Easy flammable material which explores particularly his career as an artist and his various skirmishes with left individuals and groups.
His remarks on an allegedly existing Zionist world domination ' and its proximity to Jan van Helsing and contacts with extreme right-wing circles made him - but also his publisher Werner Symanek (owner of VAWS ), the same was accused - in the black scene suspicious that he would influence them with nationalistic and Social Darwinism ideology. Some anti-fascist groups made at lectures on legal-political tendencies in the black scene on Klumb attentive and also prevented some performances of his band. In the documentary From the stag beetle to Swastika (2001, directed by Oliver Lammert and Madeleine Dewald ) come on this topic both Klumb himself and his critic Alfred Schobert to speak. Klumb was also occasionally observed by the intelligence.
Critics accuse him before, to expose themselves to stiffen into a "martyr role " and " behave as Messiah [ to ] ". Already in the liner notes of the 1988 released LP We Come With Love but Not for Peace reveals a self-stylization Klumbs, well that is not officially on Circle of Sig - Tiu, his former band, belonging, but mitspielende on the albums musicians only on small were separate pictures shown and not listed as members. More recently, he complained, inter alia, several web forums " about being ignored by much of the Neofolkpresse and suspected behind this mechanism ' plugged unfair methods. In these texts he castigated essentially hypocrisy '. [ ... ] Perhaps the deeper mystery ' of an alleged VT- silencing has just what to do with the fact that you discuss just prefer recorded music, the less embarrassing one touch, especially as factual negative reviews do not seem to anger the Lord even less. "
In a Spiegel article of 16 February 2009, which deals with the combination of Catholicism and right, is called From Thronstahl by the two authors as "right- Gothic band". They point to continue to worship that Hans milk befalls pages Klumbs who after a personal interview with the " charismatic Pius brother " ( the mirror is wrong here, however, Pastor milk was never a member of the SSPX ) transgressed even to Catholicism and a sermon by the controversial priest under the title pontifex solis set to music. Klumb now trying to "make deceased, reverend friend ' immortal" the. " About the Catholic out ', it says under on the Thronstahl site, Ecclesia Militans ', the priest enjoy great popularity in, our fortified conservative as avant-garde subculture .'"
Klumb has a grown daughter and lives in Munich.
Discography
- See Circle of Sig - Tiu # Discography
- And All Your Glamour Will Turn into Dust
- See Forthcoming Fire # Discography
- See From Thronstahl # Discography
- 2001: Chapter III
- Slightly flammable material, Duisburg 2000. ISBN 3-927773-38-7
- Iron Age. Incongruous, comments and collages at the time 1994-2000, MA 2003. ISBN 3-927773-37-9
Essays
- Mark of Cain; in: Matzke, Peter and Seeliger, Tobias: Gothic! The scene in Germany from the perspective of their makers, Berlin 2000, pp. 156-167. ISBN 978-3896023322
- 30 years punk. Antifa Gestapo & Neofolk Punk; in: radiance - a propaganda organ for Neofolk, Berlin 2010, pp. 12-22.