A L'ARME! Festival Vol. XII FINALE – Day 3

"LONG LIVE MONIKA!" – For Monika Döring (1937–2024)

She needs it loud. She wants power. And she loves drama. Monika Döring, the music-obsessed icon of Berlin’s cultural life, left us for other spheres in May 2024. The last day of the final edition of A L’ARME! is a big farewell party that pays tribute to Döring’s immeasurable influence and idiosyncratic taste. Many of her favourite acts will come together to create a musical evening true to her spirit: loud, energetic and full of drama.  

Geniale Dilletanten, Einstürzende Neubauten and Mythen, Monster, Mutationen were key milestones in Monika Döring’s work. Gudrun Gut has also been active within the same manifestations of Berlin subculture since the early 1980s. Following the period in which she was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and founder of the band Malaria!, she founded a feminist music platform in 1997, which she fittingly called Monika Enterprise. At A L'ARME!, Gut’s set features electronic sounds and her unmistakable voice.

In the late 80s, Döring became acquainted with the avant-garde pop of AG Geige and brought the band to West Berlin. AG Geige then developed into raster in the early 90s, an electro music label which continues to have decisive influence on the global techno scene. Frank Bretschneider and Olaf Bender are exemplary figures in this development and were among Monika Döring’s most beloved acts, as was a younger raster generation with protagonists such as Grischa Lichtenberger and Mieko Suzuki. They all perform on the final evening of A L'ARME! Vol. XII Finale with their distinctive electro sounds.

Yet, Döring never gave up on rock music, as long as it was uncompromising and packed a punch, like Caspar Brötzmann’s music. At A L'ARME! he will be playing together with festival newcomer Farida Amadou for the first time. Also a figure of amassed energy, Keiji Haino performs a solo sets that is situated between meditation, ritual and a departure into the unknown.

→ To the complete programme of A L'ARME! Festival Vol. XII FINALE

An event by Louis Rastig and Karina Mertin/ABOUTNOW. In collaboration with Radialsystem.

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe. With the generous support of the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Japanese Cultural Institute.

Media partnerships: taz, tip Berlin, The Berliner, Cashmere Radio/Pattern Dissection, Bpigs, Rausgegangen, rbb Radio 3.

Set 1hÄK/Danzeisen Bernd Nobert Wuertz (DE) – electronicsPhilipp Danzeisen (DE) – drums

Set 2Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem / Amadou (Premiere)Caspar Brötzmann (DE) – long scale electric bass, vocalsFarida Amadou (BE) – electric bass

Set 3Gudrun Gut (Monika Enterprise)Gudrun Gut (DE) – electronics, voice

Set 4Johansson / JelinekSven-Åke Johansson (SE/DE) – percussionJan Jelinek (DE) – modular

Set 5Frank Bretschneider (raster)Frank Bretschneider (DE) – modular

Set 6Byetone (raster)Olaf Bender (DE) – modular AV

Set 7Keiji Haino SoloKeiji Haino (JP) – electric guitar, vocals

Set 8    Grischa Lichtenberger (raster)Grischa Lichtenberger (DE) – electronics/AV

Set 9Lippok / Gutierrez AVRobert Lippok (DE) – drum machines, computerLucas Gutierrez (AR) – visuals

Set 10 – 12Electric Indigo (female:pressure) Mieko Suzuki (Kokoo) Ara (Kookoo)DJ Sets

A L’ARME! Open Air Deck 6 – 10 pmCashmere RadioLive Show: Pattern Dissections DJsA L’ARME! Concert Films Public ViewingNatural Italian Wine Bar

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 10/August/2024 19:00
• Venue Radialsystem V
• Address Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain