Gudrun Gut (born 20 May 1957) is a German

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

ian, DJ, presenter,

music producer A record producer or music producer is a music creating project's overall supervisor whose responsibilities can involve a range of creative and technical leadership roles. Typically the job involves hands-on oversight of recording sessions; ensu ...

and founder of the

Monika Enterprise Monika Enterprises is a Berlin, Germany-based independent record label. In 2001, Wallpaper magazine described the label's musical style as " cupying a twilight zone between electronic pop, easy listening and bedsit angst" and " earheading a new g ...

record label. She grew up in the Lüneburger Heide and moved to

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in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the

Hochschule der Künste The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the second largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research uni ...

from 1978 to 1984. She was an early member of

Einstürzende Neubauten (, 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The band currently comprises founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard) and N.U. Unruh (custom-made instruments, percussion, ...

and a founding member of music groups

Mania D Mania D was a German Neue Deutsche Welle underground band at the end of the seventies to the beginning of the eighties in West Berlin. They had been part of the ''Geniale Dilettanten'' (Ingenious Dilettantes) movement. Members were the predeces ...

Malaria! Malaria! was a German post-punk experimental electronic music band from West Berlin, formed in 1981 by Gudrun Gut and Bettina Köster following the dissolution of Mania D with Karin Luner, Eva Gossling later Die Krupps and Beate Bartel (of L ...

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and spoken word project with Myra Davies, Miasma, evolving into a prolific solo career. She is the head of the labels

and

Moabit Musik Moabit () is an inner city locality in the boroughs of Berlin, borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2022, about 84,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial sector, industr ...

. She co-presented the Oceanclub weekly radio program in Berlin with

Thomas Fehlmann Thomas Fehlmann (born 1957) is a Swiss composer/producer who lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been active in electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based m ...

. Her debut solo album, ''I Put a Record On'' was released on 5 February 2007. Music critics saluted the openness and approachability of the music on the record. According to ''

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'' magazine's April 2008 issue, which featured Gudrun Gut on the cover, "this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years". In 2023 Gut will produce an autobiographical 3-episode miniseries for the platform rbb (

Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (; "Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to RBB (; stylized as rbb), is an institution under public law (national broadcaster) for the Germany, German states of Berlin and Brandenburg, based in Berlin and Potsdam. RBB was estab ...

Works

Selected discography

* 1980: ''White Christmas'' 7″ (with

Tabea Blumenschein Tabea Blumenschein (11 August 1952 – 29 February 2020) was a German painter, actress, film director, screenwriter, costume/set designer and musician. Blumenschein was born in Rietheim, Germany. She studied art at Kunstschule Konstanz and moved ...

Frieder Butzmann Frieder is both a surname and a masculine given name, a variant of Friedrich. People with the name include: Surname: *Armin Frieder (1911–1946), Slovak Neolog rabbi *Bill Frieder (1942), former basketball coach *Katalin Frieder (1915–1991), Hun ...

and Bettina Köster) * 1993: Myra Davies & Gudrun Gut – Miasma * 1996: ''YadiYAdi'' maxi single (with

Anita Lane Anita Louise Lane (18 March 1960 – 27 April 2021) was an Australian singer-songwriter who was briefly a member of the Bad Seeds with Nick Cave and Mick Harvey and collaborated with both bandmates. Lane released two solo albums, ''Dirty Pearl ...

) * 1996: ''Die Sonne'' maxi single (with Blixa Bargeld) * 1996: ''Members of The Ocean Club'' CD (v. a. with Anita Lane,

Danielle de Picciotto Danielle de Picciotto is an American-born artist, musician and filmmaker. She was born in Tacoma, Washington, USA and currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In 1989 she founded, along with her then partner Dr. Motte, the first Berlin Love ...

, Blixa Bargeld, Jovanka von Willsdorf,

Jayney Klimek Jayney Miriam Klimek (born 18 August 1962 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian singer-songwriter based in Berlin. Early years Jayney Miriam Klimek was born on 18 August 1962 and grew up in Melbourne. Her father, Alfons Klimek, and moth ...

Inga Humpe Inga Humpe (born 13 January 1956) is a German singer, songwriter and producer. She performed with Neue Deutsche Welle bands such as Neonbabies, DÖF and Humpe & Humpe. Her sister is the singer and producer Annette Humpe, with whom she performed ...

, Myra Davies,

Katharina Franck Katharina Franck (born July 28, 1963) is a German singer, songwriter, and musician. She first achieved fame as singer, songwriter, and guitarist of pop rock band the Rainbirds in the late 1980s. Besides her work with Rainbirds, she was also a me ...

and Manon P. Duursma) * 1996: ''Firething'' maxi single (with Anita Lane) * 2004: ''Members of The Ocean Club'' double CD (reissue with a remix CD containing mixes from

Ellen Allien Ellen Fraatz, known professionally as Ellen Allien, is a Berlin-based German electronic musician, music producer, and the founder of BPitch Control music label. Her album '' Stadtkind'' was dedicated to the city of Berlin, and she cites the cu ...

, Thomas Fehlmann,

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Ian Pooley Ian Pooley (born Ian Pinnekamp in 1973) is a German record producer and DJ. While incorporating samples of various musical genres, Pooley's creations are usually classified as house or tech house with Brazilian influence. Biography Pooley's mu ...

The Orb The Orb are an English electronic music group founded in 1988 by Alex Paterson and Jimmy Cauty. Known for their psychedelic sound, the Orb developed a cult following among clubbers "coming down" from drug-induced highs. Their influential ...

Paul van Dyk Matthias Paul (; born 16 December 1971), known professionally as Paul van Dyk () is a German DJ, record producer and musician. Van Dyk was the first artist to receive a Grammy Award nomination in the newly added category of Best Dance/Electron ...

Klaus Schulze Klaus Schulze (4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) was a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers ...

, Spinout and

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) * 2005: ''Move Me'' 7″ * 2007: ''I Put A Record On'' CD * 2007: ''In Pieces'' 12″ (remixes from Burger/Voigt, Pole, Dntel) * 2007: ''Pleasure Train'' 7″ * 2008: ''Apples, Pears and Deer in Poland'' EP * 2010: ''Baustelle'' CD (with AGF as

Greie Gut Fraktion Greie is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Antye Greie (born 1969), German musician and new media artist * Johanna Greie Johanna Greie (1864–1911), also known as Johanna Greie-Cramer, was a German-American writer, s ...

) * 2011: ''Rekonstruktion'' CD (remix CD of the Baustelle record) * 2012: ''Wildlife'' CD * 2012: ''500m'' CD (with Jochen Irmler as Gut Und Irlmler) * 2016: ''Vogelmixe – Gudrun Gut Remixes Heimatlieder aus Deutschland Berlin / Augsburg'' CD / Vinyl * 2017: ''Instrumentals For "Sirens"'' LP (with Beate Bartel) *2018: ''Moment'' CD / vinyl / digital *2024: ''GUT Soundtrack –'' Moabit Musik Moa24

Filmography

* 1988: ''Dandy'' – directed by

Peter Sempel Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a sur ...

* 1995: ''Girls Bite Back'' – directed by Wolfgang Büld * 2005: '' Verschwende deine Jugend'' – directed by

Benjamin Quabeck Benjamin ( ''Bīnyāmīn''; "Son of (the) right") blue letter bible: https://www.blueletterbible.org/lexicon/h3225/kjv/wlc/0-1/ H3225 - yāmîn - Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (kjv) was the younger of the two sons of Jacob and Rachel, and Jacob's twe ...

* 2015: '' B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989'', documentary with

Mark Reeder Mark Reeder (born 5 January 1958) is a British musician and record producer. He grew up in Manchester, England. At a young age, Reeder became interested in progressive rock and especially early electronic music. In his teens, he worked in a sma ...

* 2024: GUT, minidocuserie – directed by Heiko Lange / Creative Director: Gudrun Gut

Radio drama music

* 1991:

Paul Zech Paul Zech (19 February 1881 – 7 September 1946) was a German expressionist writer and poet. Biography Paul Zech came from the large family of a craftsman as the eldest of six surviving children. At the age of 5, he was entrusted to his matern ...

: ''Das Trunkene Schiff'' – directed by

Wolfgang Rindfleisch Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

(Radio drama – Funkhaus Berlin)

Bibliography

* ''Marke B, Berliner Labels''. Verbrecher Verlag ed., Berlin 2002. (with Thomas Fehlmann and

Daniel Meteo Daniel commonly refers to: * Daniel (given name), a masculine given name and a surname * List of people named Daniel * List of people with surname Daniel * Daniel (biblical figure) * Book of Daniel, a biblical apocalypse, "an account of the activi ...

References

External links

*
Gudrun Gut: Memory Podcast
(

, April 2008)
the Ocean Club
*
Gudrun Gut at El RUIDO es el Mensaje (NOISE is the Message)
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