What is Goth?
Gothic culture is a subculture that emerged from the punk and new wave environment in the early 1980s and is made up of several splinter cultures. It existed in the 1980s and 1990s as part of the dark wave movement and formed the hub of the so-called black scene until the turn of the millennium. Source: Wikipedia
How can you recognize a Goth?
If one were superficial, one would say at the friendly black outfit. But that would be too simple and not fair to the many styles. Really firmly I do not want to limit or would not do justice to the openness of the scene. In the future, there will be a few more detailed explanations here ;-).
How did you become Goth?
Darkangel (Michaela):
I actually slipped into the black scene rather by accident. From my youth until my early 20s, techno was my home – shrill, crazy but never really at home. Bands like Rammstein, Depeche Mode and Böhsen Onkelz However, accompanied me since my youth. Annually I watched the WGT on TV and was fascinated, could not yet imagine the black existence, because I was always colorful and flashy.
As it happens in life you get to know other people and so began more and more the interest in the black scene and the slow transformation to the Darkangel. I got to know and love different bands- Eisbrecher, Oomph, ASP, Subway to Sally, VNV Nation, Agonoize etc. ran more and more in continuous loop and became a fixed component in sadness and joy.
My clothing became darker and darker and the makeup too – now I am black and conspicuous. People who could not or did not want to accept me either turned away or I sorted them out. Meanwhile I arrived at home, and that I met Skorpio makes everything in my life perfect.
Skorpio (Andreas):
I see myself more as a casual goth. Never had anything to do with the punk scene and grew up rather conservative. But I was always an outsider, a thoughtful person, socially minded and early as a volunteer confronted with death and finitude.
To that end, I never felt comfortable in the broad measure of my peers. Music was the early hint that the goth scene will be my home one day.
I made my first music experiences in my teens at the beginning of the Neue Deutsche Welle and the New Wave times. Early I found music of Kraftwerk or Visage very interesting. But also many other bands that came up in the course of time. No matter if The Cure, New Order, Blancmange, Sisters of Mercy, New Modell Army or Human League etc…
But the electronic style never really let me go. I would still call myself an electro waver today. One band has a special place in my life and their music accompanies me in every moment of my life, whether in sadness or joy. This band is and remains Depeche Mode.
Early I adapted myself (apart from the hair, because I have always worn “short”) to their outfit. Black leather jackets, black pants, black shirts. This then culminated in an almost black living room in the first own apartment. But I was not so courageous and firm that I in the rural area with conservative, adapted roots to pull through this style in the long run. I adapted and apart from the music nothing remained of the young Scorpio, after family foundation, success in the occupation, children and house brought my courses in the usual course of the life. For this Darkangel had to come into my life first so that I found back to my roots and my positive attitude towards life and brought my black soul back to life. I feel that I have arrived.
What do you like about the Goth scene?
Our impressions, everyone in the scene probably has different but for us the scene is friendly, open, crazy, fun, and tolerant. We have not really experienced stress at any of the festivals or concerts, even if alcohol has flowed in quantities. There is discussion, but not stress. Every newcomer (baby bat) is welcomed with open arms. There is mutual help and also new styles are welcome even if the former Goth often complain that the scene is no longer as it was. But who likes changes…
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