Hip-Hop - die vergessene Generation Westberlins

The book focuses on the emergence of hip-hop culture in West Berlin during the 1980s. At its center is a generation of teenagers and young adults who, in engaging with a culture that originated in New York and was primarily conveyed through the media, developed their own Berlin hip-hop scene. This publication is an exploratory study and material work that includes previously unknown or unpublished testimonies and documents of the culture and its actors. For this purpose, interviews and conversations were conducted with over 20 individuals born between 1940 and 1970. The author aims to give a voice to the West Berlin actors in the overall history of hip-hop in Germany, as until now, the history of West Berlin has been minimally or not at all included in established narratives. It illustrates that the historiography of hip-hop in Germany does not begin in the 1990s with Advanced Chemistry, the Fantastischen Vier, or LSD, but that the West Berlin hip-hop culture of the 1980s must also be taken into account.