This weekend we are celebrating five years of Crazewire.de. Before this I had been working on crazewire.com since 2002. A magazin originally founded by Zach Klein and Will Fresh. Zach knew that I was very interested in writing about music, so he gave me the title European Editor and set me up with my first interview. Mareen did a lot of the photo jobs and some interviews as well. Soon after that I started contacting labels as well and had interviews with bands like, The Good Life, Azure Ray, The Get Up Kids, Koufax, Supergrass, Interpol etc. Being the European Editor of and American Music Mag sounded quite great to them, plus there weren’t that many magazines around, so I got a lot of practice. In the fall of 2003 after having completing a crazy summer of attending five major festivals in Germany and Denmark (Rock am Ring, Hurricane, Roskilde, Terremoto Haldern). I met some other people that were into writing about music. One guy from Bremen, Kai Buda that I stumbled into drunk at Terremoto Festival has stayed in touch with me and started writing for the magazin as well.
In the fall of 2003 at some law party I met Lasse Paulus. Lasse has been organising concerts and also worked on his own label to escape his law studies for some years. He was fixed by the idea and brought a few other people included one of my best pals nowadays Tobias Gnädig. It was obvious that we needed our own plattform in german, to get our message across and spread the word in Germany. I concacted Mareen, who just started setting up her first company designing websites for local businesses. Mareen designed the website and another friend helped me with the programming and the server. For five euros a month we had our own independent magazin. In the past five years Crazewire has grown from a few articles a month to a weekly routine with more than 20 reviews each week. Through Crazewire I met a lot of people that I consider some of my best friends. It brought people together and that makes me even more proud than the fact that we are taken more and more seriously as a magazin. In the past two years I had to stop working on it more and more, since I was busy studying abroad, working for 1live ( a job that I wouldn’t have gotten without Crazewire) and now my law degree. Michael Weber and Bastian Küllenberg the current chief editors have been doing a tremendous job to keep Crazewire more alive than ever before. Next week we will launch finally our new website! Until then party with us on Saturday with three great bands.
