The epoch-making motif of the first Angeschissen record that revolutionized German punk

The first cover of the record label Buback by the punk band Angeschissen was designed by the painter Daniel Richter, who owns the label. It is the 7-inch single of “Angst macht keinen Lärm” (Fear Makes No Noise). It was Buback's first release. Alongside Slime, Angeschissen was one of the most influential and style-defining bands of the Hamburg punk scene in the 1980s.“The label only exists because of this single,” Daniel Richter once said in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Der Freitag.” The record is now not available anymore. Jens Rachut, one of the central figures of the Hamburg punk scene, sings in it: “Every barrel overflows at some point. Every pit is full at some point ... And fear makes no noise.”

Now the motif is available again from Works on Skin as a print aka tattoo template and a collector from Cologne has already had it tattooed on himself.

Funnily enough, the band Egotronic released “Macht keinen Lärm” in 2011, whose cover is a reference to Richter's motif, but with the face of bandleader Torsun Burkhardt, who sadly passed away in January 2024, on the male figure.