Doctor Death Metal.

Brute sounds, guttural grunting, billowing Haarmähnen: Sarah Chaker interested in for tough guys - purely academic, wrote her doctoral thesis about Black and Death Metal. Headbanger Most are polite, she says, but everyone chooses Tenth right.

 

Again jostled does nothing. With a strong push Sarah Chaker encountered the man back to his "playground," she says laughing. "Moshpit" is the slang of the initiated in the combat zone arises at every death-metal concert when the band their first playing guitar riffs.

On a 5-meter wide and 20 meters long jump area about 50 dunkelgewandete figures against and over each other. If one goes to the ground, he immediately pulled up, then the testosterone-show continues in the "K17" in Berlin-Friedrichshain.

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Researcher Chaker, singers misanthrope (left), members of the band Neithan 'desire for stability and long ties "

Hate Eternal is the Vorband, Misery Index is thereafter turn, both from the USA. The audience consists mainly of men who set the pace with the head nod, or their long hair to be circling. The few women hold on to the edge.

For Sarah Chaker, all these research content Details: The band name, the many men that a few women, and of course the music. You must ensure that when the drum set and when the singer with his guttural grunting. The 30-year-old music historian doctorate at the University of Oldenburg. Her dissertation topic: "Black and Death Metal. The sound, the market, the scene". It is the first expert in Germany, the gloomy music style in a doctoral dissertation empirically investigated.

After each Amoklauf is the PhD student asked an expert

The results will be available soon, but now their expertise is needed: more then that, if consumers of metal music wreak terrible things. To hear the school running amok in Erfurt and Emsdetten, but also in the American and Finnish Littleton Kauhajoki preferred metal.

The genre has been a reputation for violence to make or at least the willingness to fuel violence. In the U.S. parents send their children hearing heavy metal even in special withdrawal clinics because they fear that this preference is the first step in a career as a mass murderer.

UNIblogs 1 / 2009

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Play me the song of death
A music scholar doctorate on Death Metal

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Sarah Chaker sees it differently. The Knack of the perpetrators were already there, you like the music was only one indicator. "Who a thriller or a horror film looks, but also brings not to his neighbors," she says. Violent Death or Black Metal followers have mostly been preceded by a reality of loss, for example through social defects or by excessive computer games. "In such cases, the music then just the drop that overflows the barrel to bring."

You might even be the best counter-evidence serve ten years since Metal fans, and yet happy, no trace of Satanism, not even a black leather depends gap in her wardrobe. Black uses it like Kajal. But also other women who want to emphasize her eyes. Chakeres are dark brown, she has inherited from the Algerian father, her mother is German. Born in Gera, she fled with her parents a few years before the turn of the GDR on Algeria to Kissing at Augsburg. Now she lives in Berlin.

The Metal researcher played recorder, piano and oboe

Your apartment in Berlin-Friedrichshain adorn no dragon heads and skeletons with hood and sickle, but a bust of Johann Sebastian Bach on the piano and books about Gustav Mahler and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Initially, they are especially interested in classical music, she played flute, oboe and piano and won the competition "Youth makes music" in their region. You do not read "Bravo", in clubs until she went when she was 18 years old.

In the Augsburg "Rockfabrik" she had her awakening experience than Marilyn Manson "The Beautiful People" booms from the speakers. "That was half an enlightenment for me," recalls Chaker. She is thrilled by the varied development of the Heavy Metal. "The text is not so important," she says. Much more brute counting the overall sound.

In their study the city of Oldenburg was Chaker quickly to a size of the local metal scene. Together with her friend Inga Mohr Beck organizes them in a cellar "Neck Fracture" parties - the name is an allusion to the risks of long hours Headbangers. 250 fans come to the monthly party, two women, good metal music hang up so quickly speaks a little rum.

As a music professor Chakeres hears them, he proposes to her, her thesis in musicology on Black and Death Metal to write. Chaker creates a smooth one, receives an Award and receives the prestigious Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes a scholarship for a doctorate.