Lasting from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s, Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW) could have been a mere blip in music history. However, the New German Wave genre – which drew inspiration from British punk and ...

In 1981, a radical concert was held at Berlin’s Tempodrom called “Geniale Dilletanten” (Brilliant Dilettantes). The deliberately misspelled title of the show became a catch-all phrase for an ...