Timo Sonnenschein, Frank Ziegler, David Bonk and Christian Linke of „Nevada Tan“ about the problems of the youth generation, musical rebellion attempts, the beginnings the band and the dependence on the teenage press
Timo, Frank, David and Christian, you describe the situation of the today's youth generation in your songs very pessimistically: Power on the playground and on the mobile phones, suicide attempts and deep lovesickness. To what extent do you find this in your own lives?
Timo: I have written most of the lyrics, and then of course many experiences and observations from my life or my sphere also find themselves there. For example, the colleague of a friend of mine jumped from the roof because he has seen in his life no more sense. This is of course a hard blow if one knew this person personally, and he is suddenly gone. The song „ Warum? “ originated from this, because this subject must be simply appealed.
Do you think that one day an answer to the question of „ Warum? “ will be found?
Timo: The parents are often not there, do not look after the problems of their children. Maybe there is one more clique, but in most cases these youngsters are simply outsiders who have nobody more to whom they can pour out their hearts. Then many look on the Internet for help, but because of the anonymity, and just because the Internet is so gigantic, cries for help are not often heard in the net and at last the young person remains alone with his fears and miseries.
As a musician, to what extent do you feel you are a megaphone of your generation?
Timo: We can only speak for the people of our generation whom we know. Of course there are always different characters and social environments and we cannot speak also for all people at our age. We talk only about our experiences, from what we get about the media and from stories and demonstrate our thoughts. We do not want to swallow everything, but get up and say: There is just something quite wrong! Maybe we get to rouse a few people by our music and give them causes for thought.
In your song "Revolution" you sing I always have to prove myself. Rules here, obligations there. Yeah sure. Am I just here to do whatever you say? School, parents, state. I ask myself what`s going on? Where do you see then, in Germany specifically‚ revolutionary need?
Timo: More money must flow again into the educational systems! I personally had school books which were quite old. Our drummer Juri had at school, for example, a book where was in it that in some years a person would go to the moon for the first time. Nevertheless, this cannot continue! Another example: In our home town of Neumьnster a textile museum is built for umpteen million euros, but with the money for the school it sticks.
What also goes very much against the line for me are the considerations of Minister of the Interior Schдuble to terror and how one should handle it. The fact that private computers are thinned out that everywhere is supervised in towns – nevertheless, this cannot be. Where are we then then in 20 years?
In relation on the parents you sing: „Without you the world doesn`t seem so small. Without you, finally I can feel free “...
David: Of course one must also look to the parents. There are simply many youngsters who suffer from huge pressure at home, and if one has no clique, then one has no friends, a problem. Then one is absolutely alone. This is why there must simply be much more drop-in centers where young people can find help if there is stress at home.
If you take a look around at society you get the feeling that your song "revolution" does not take place basically at all. Headword "Tuition fees" - the fees were introduced, however, the initial protest has dried up meanwhile...
Frank: (interrupts) ... the protest has not dried up. There are not many federal states where those the tuition fees were paid where the students don't also want to go forward with the help of lawyers against it. Absolutely it is hard to go forward against the decision of a government, but I already have the feeling that the protest over this has not died down for long.
However, is there nowadays more youth movements strictly pursuing its own agenda and its own ideals?
Frank: If I think back to the Iraq war, in my hometown of Heidelberg which at that time was still the NATO-Headquarters, there were already 5,000, 6,000 youngsters on the street demonstrating against the war. There are lastingly protests about school reforms, for example. Only at the end it depends on what the media want to build up and what not. Some protests are completely built up on television: If a "reflecting TV" - reporter gives a pupil 50 euros to throw a chair from the window, then you see five months about the screens shimmering. But if somewhere 3000 people protest because there is just no money for books or whatever, and it interests nobody – then nobody will hear about it.
In your opinion, to what
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