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Still collapsing after all these years: Einstürzende Neubauten on their fifth decade as a Berlin legend

The band’s newest member, Josefine Lukschy, was born the year their fifth album was released. They and founding member Blixa Bargeld talk about leading the counter counter-culture ‘Everything already written, everything already said,” – the words Blixa Bargeld chose to open Rampen, the latest Einstürzende Neubauten record, released in 2024 to comparatively little fanfare, felt ominous. Would this mark the end of the band that has defined German music, at least to the outside world, for close to five decades? “No!” Bargeld replies, his voice thundering across the small dressing room backstage at the National Theatre of the Netherlands in The Hague. “Take it for granted – we’ll make another record.” Later that night, Einstürzende Neubauten (“Collapsing New Buildings”) are the closing act of the Rewire festival’s 15th edition, an anniversary for the city’s celebration of experimental music

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According to The Guardian’s source item, Still collapsing after all these years: Einstürzende Neubauten on their fifth decade as a Berlin legend, The band’s newest member, Josefine Lukschy, was born the year their fifth album was released. They and founding member Blixa Bargeld talk about leading the counter counter-culture ‘Everything already written, everything already said,” – the words Blixa Bargeld chose to open Rampen, the latest Einstürzende Neubauten record, released in 2024 to comparatively little fanfare, felt ominous. Would this mark the end of the band that has defined German music, at least to the outside world, for close to five decades? “No!” Bargeld replies, his voice thundering across the small dressing room backstage at the National Theatre of the Netherlands in The Hague. “Take it for granted – we’ll make another record.” Later that night, Einstürzende Neubauten (“Collapsing New Buildings”) are the closing act of the Rewire festival’s 15th edition, an anniversary for the city’s celebration of experimental music

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Still collapsing after all these years: Einstürzende Neubauten on their fifth decade as a Berlin legendThe Guardian - 2026-05-18T04:00:57+00:00

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