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On the death of Bruno Kramm: A weirdo in the very best sense
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Musician and internet activist Bruno Kramm died unexpectedly last Friday. He fought for better copyright law and had a hand in many protests, which he inspired and enriched. An obituary.
You can read many different obituaries about Bruno Kramm. Because there is the musician, the “Grufti star”, the made-up gothic artist with the horns, the co-inventor of the musical stylehttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neue_Deutsche_Todeskunst">NeueGerman art of death– and then there is the internet activist and pirate who fought against GEMA, ACTA, TTIP, unfair copyright law and for a free internet.
For a long time I only knew Bruno Kramm as the person with the hat and the cropped beard from the Pirate election posters. Until suddenly I had to do a lot and intensively with him during the protests against himhttps://netzpolitik.org/tag/eu-urheberrechtsreform/">EU copyright law...2019. I was able to get to know him as a creative, friendly, funny and combative person.
What a cool, engaging and engaging guy! Bruno was the one who called at 8 a.m. with a lot of energy and already had 1,000 ideas in his head about what could be done. Someone who wanted to make things possible and initiate things. And initiated it.
I didn't know anything about his music at the time. A friend who saw me and Bruno together at a demo told me that he was almost thrown out of his parents' house in Karlsruhe in the 1990s because he kept taking them with himhttps://youtu.be/cqdVExo8un8?si=uMxea7df29jBcm1i">GodDeathof thehttps://dasich.de">Band"That I"sounded. Bruno was one of the two musicians in the legendary band, which I had no idea about because I only knew Bruno as an internet activist.
Social movements fueled and inspired
It was fun at the time and Bruno, even surprised by the YouTube-driven wave of protests, was very happy to add fuel to the fire and use the momentum: for a copyright that didn't punish users and endanger freedom of expression. In the end we went nationwidehttps://netzpolitik.org/2019/demos-gegen-uploadfilter-alle-zahlen-alle-s...In spring 2019, almost 200,000 people took to the streetsfor a better Internet - and Bruno Kramm played a part in making this movement so big.
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The fight by Bruno Krammhttps://www.bpb.de/themen/digitalisierung/urheberrecht/186177/das-urhebe...for another copyrightand better internet had begun earlier. Kramm sat down earlyhttps://netzpolitik.org/2013/remixer-13-bruno-kramm-code-is-poetry/">ffor the right to remix and remix cultureone, he was the German voice of many Anonymous videos, such ashttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LEhf7pP3Pw">forExample of the one against the ACTA agreementor againsthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqJyRcoqV8">TTIP. He also took legal action against those he calledhttps://netzpolitik.org/2016/kreative-muessen-einzelkaempfermentalitaet-...perceived distribution of funds by the collecting society GEMA.
Bruno Kramm is a crazy person in the best sense of the word, a jack of all trades and a fine, friendly person. A person who has fueled, enriched and inspired social movements and protests. He was only 58 years old. May the earth be light.
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