29 July 1978, Düsseldorf in a summer so hot like a thousand July`s, we decided to form an all girl band. Karin had drum lessons with Fred Maher, Lou Reeds drummer and I:

 

„Eva Gossling lived in my Berlin flat while I was away. Since we both came from Dusseldorf, we often met there. (In D’dorf we were together with the guys from Kraftwerk) Eva was always a lot of fun and that we wanted to make a band was one of these spontaneous ideas. One day she told me that she met a girl on the underground platform and she also wanted to make a band. So we met Beate, who was still married to a musician at the time. Beate then brought Gudrun and Bettina with her, and so Mania D. was born. Mania D. was the name Beate wanted, and after some discussions we all agreed.“ Karin Luner to Jürgen Teipel on the subject of  „Verschwende Deine Jugend“.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was Karin`s idea to shoot a Super8 film for our performances. She did the direction, styling, make-up and our fashion for the film „Fashion Intellection“. The film was shot at the ICC and on the Teufelsberg, supported by Michael, my brother.

 

 

„Anyway, our first concert was in a gallery in Wuppertal. Volker Anding was a gallery member and gave me the space to organise a show. I put together a Super 8 programme with films by Rainer Fetting and I also exhibited fashion, „Art as Art as Fashion“ was a concept that was later much more recognised. The gallery members hated the concept…The film „Fashion Intellection“, a film with exclusively Mania D, unfortunately got lost in my eternal moves“,  so Karin Luner, the driving force, which brought us to NYC when the Lower East Side was decaying in nineteen hundred and seventy-nine.

 

 

 

 

At A`s, Arleen Schloss/ Schloß, 330 Broome Street, I shared a chamber with the 18-year-old SAMO© aka Jean Michel Basquiat.

 

And then: most glorious music, I assume. Bettina Köster with „Der Novak“. „Kaltes klares Wasser“ and „Geld/Money, Malaria mit Bettina und Gudrun, Director Brigitte Bühler. Beate Bartel with her band Liason Dangereuses „Los niños del parque“, produced by Conny Plank, who gave Kraftwerk, Eurythmics, DAF, Ultravox a.o. their sound. BLÄSSE with „Lieben Sie Saxofon“ SAMO© idea of two sax melodies playing around each other. „Die Sonne“ Gudrun and Blixa Bargeld, just cool.