{"product_id":"p27858_aus-dem-leben-eines-bastards-buch-uwe-von-trotha","title":"From the Life of a Bastard - Book (Uwe von Trotha)","description":"\u003c!-- Require BlockEditor assets --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"row clearfix g01 sf-cb\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"column full\"\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe autobiography of the founder of Checkpoint Charlie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rock concert with police action\", \"Junge Union outraged by offensive political lyrics of the group Checkpoint Charlie\" or \"Music, political agitation, sex and a smashed guitar\" were headlines used by the bourgeois press to warn against the political rock band Checkpoint Charlie. Without success: Between 1970 and 1982, the band, living communally in a commune in the Palatinate, released five albums and performed countless gigs. Furthermore, Checkpoint Charlie, together with Embryo, Ton Steine Scherben and other bands, founded the label April-Records and the Schneeball distribution, thus becoming pioneers of the German independent scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn his autobiography, singer and actor Uwe von Trotha, as the founder of this radical-anarchist rock group, looks back on the wild years, on provocations and court cases, life on tour and in the commune. His gaze reaches back to his childhood in Nazi Germany, which laid the foundation for him to later position himself against the state, military and discipline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Aus dem Leben eines Bastards\" (From the Life of a Bastard) is an entertaining ride through the counterculture of the 1970s and 1980s, a polemical reckoning with the politics and cultural understanding of the FRG, and the portrait of a life beyond bourgeois conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ventil Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58634696294732,"sku":"27858","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/4034\/8492\/files\/l_aus_dem_leben_eines_bastards_buch.jpg?v=1788180074","url":"https:\/\/shop.steeltownrecords.de\/en\/products\/p27858_aus-dem-leben-eines-bastards-buch-uwe-von-trotha","provider":"Steeltown Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}