12. “One Day You Will Wish We’d Only Played Music”: Some Remarks on Recent Developments of Germany’s RechtsRock Scene

THORSTEN HINDRICHS


 

1. ZSK, “Make Racist Afraid Again”

 

 

Apart from the fact that several RechtsRock song examples are criminally relevant at least in Germany, but partly also in other countries, I don’t want to offer the right-wing music scene any platform for their self-portrayal. Instead, it is much more effective to focus on songs that are directed against right-wing extremists: “Make Racist Afraid Again” by ZSK, for example, is a song full of ‘self-empowerment’ to position oneself against Nazis and racists, because #rechtsrocktnicht.