Turbojugend

The fan club was originally designed as a joke in 1995 to include on Turbonegro's album sleeves, as guitarist Euroboy explained in a 2007: "We thought about how Kiss had the Kiss Army so we thought that Turbonegro should have our own Navy. It started as a joke in Happy-Tom's apartment in 1995. We put his address on the album sleeves and it was all just for laughs."{{Cite web |last=Carman |first=Keith |date=September 10, 2007 |title=Turbonegro |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/turbonegro |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Exclaim! |language=en}}{{cite book

| title = Rock 'n' Roll High School

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1W7JQYhIsF0C&pg=PA204

| year = 2009

| publisher = Reading Rocks

| isbn = 978-90-79947-03-4

| pages = 204–

| quote = "We thought about how Kiss had the Kiss Army so we thought that Turbonegro should have our own Navy" is a line the band often use to explain the birth of Turbojugend. What started off as a joke ended up as a worldwide network of fan clubs …

}}{{Cite web |last=Daniels |first=Craig |date=January 1, 2006 |title=Turbonegro's World Youth Days |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/turbonegros_world_youth_days |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=Exclaim! |language=en}}

Following Turbonegro's break-up in 1998, German label Bitzcore Records bought the rights to the band's music catalog and began reissuing their previous albums.{{Cite news |last=Holen |first=Øyvind |date=2002 |title=Turbo himmelfartsdag |url=https://oyvindholen.wordpress.com/2008/08/06/turbo-himmelfartsdag/ |access-date=March 1, 2023 |work=Dagsavisen}} Bitzcore label owner Jürgen Goldschmitt attempted to contact the Turbojugend address from the band's album sleeves, but received no answer. He subsequently decided to form Turbojugend St. Pauli as "the real fan club" and took the nickname "El Presidente", in addition to creating the Turbojugend website. Goldschmitt gifted several Levi denim jackets embroidered with the band's logo and the Turbojugend St. Pauli chapter name to friends in the local music business.{{Cite web |last=Campion |first=Chris |date=April 23, 2005 |title=Clowns of evil go on the rampage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/observer/omm/reviews/story/0,,1487714,00.html |access-date=2024-03-01 |website=The Guardian}} The jackets would soon become sought-after by fans and Bitzcore started producing them as a merchandising venture. The popularity of the jackets, in addition to the release of the Turbonegro tribute album Alpha Motherfuckers assembled by Goldschmitt, eventually led to the formation of multiple Turbojugend chapters around the world, with Goldschmitt assuming the role of worldwide president. In 2012, official leadership of Turjojugend was handed over to the groups Turbojugend Amb-ASS-adors and Jugendwart, both composed of long-time Turbojugend-members.

File:Turbojugend fischmarkt.jpg

Once a year, Turbojugends from all over the world meet in St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany to celebrate Turbonegro themselves as well as punk rock in general. This two-day event is called Welt-Turbojugend-Tage ("World Turbojugend Days") with concerts and meetings in different clubs.{{cite web |author=Campion, Chris |date=22 May 2005 |title="Clowns of Evil Go On The Rampage" |url=http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,,1487714,00.html |work=Observer Music Monthly}}{{cite web

| url = http://www.mopo.de/news/-welt-turbojugend-tage--nicht-ohne-meine-kutte-,5066732,5292760.html

| title = "WELT-TURBOJUGEND-TAGE": Nicht ohne meine Kutte!

| author = Hamburger Morgenpost

| work = mopo.de

| date = 15 July 2009

}}{{cite web

| url = http://www.mainpost.de/archiv-ueberregional/dailyx/xprint/Wehe-ihr-wascht-die-Jacken;art1005,3658763

| title = Wehe, ihr wascht die Jacken!

| work = mainpost.de

| date = 2 August 2006

}} In 2011 the 7th edition of WTJT was held featuring the comeback of Turbonegro, with Duke of Nothing on vocals.

In addition to the Welt-Turbojugend-Tage in Hamburg, in recent years, the Punk Rock Bowling festival in Las Vegas has served as meeting point for Turbojugend chapters worldwide.{{cite web

| url = http://www.slugmag.com/slugmag/punk-rock-bowling-2015/

| title = Punk Rock Bowling 2015

| work = SLUG Magazine

| date = 2 June 2015

}} Each year, several hundred members can be encountered there.{{cite book

| author = SPIN Media LLC

| title = SPIN

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=3jk52QtJvGoC&pg=PA44

| date = December 2007

| publisher = SPIN Media LLC

| pages = 44–

| quote = Yacht Rock Much like the Hitler Youth that perhaps inspired their name, the Turbojugend are nothing if not organized. Just a couple weeks ago, the New York chapter put together a boating trip, despite the fact that the group's president went …

}}

Although Turbojugend is the fan club of Turbonegro, Turbojugend has also taken an interest in other rock bands as well. Some of the bands include:

• The Dogs
• Silver (former band of Turbonegro drummer Tommy Manboy)
• Brainerd
• Peter Pan Speedrock
• The Turbo A.C.'s
• Trashcan Darlings
• The Dukes of Nothing (former band of Turbonegro vocalist Tony Sylvester)
• Valient Thorr

• Aero Force One
• Blue Army
• Kiss Army

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book

| title = Kundenbindung durch Kundenclubs am Beispiel "Turbojugend" [Customer loyalty via customer clubs e.g. "Turbojugend"]

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=FwOymwEACAAJ

| year = 2005

| publisher = Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen, Studiengang Wirtschaft

| language = German

}}

• {{cite book

| author = Håkon Moslet

| title = TRBNGR – Sagaen om denimfolket

| edition = 1st

| publisher = Gyldendal

| isbn = 9788205362420

| year = 2007

}}

• {{cite book

| author = Falk Sluga

| title = Denim Demons und Scandinavian Leather: die Turbojugend – der etwas andere "Fanclub"

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r3xcPgAACAAJ

| year = 2008

| publisher = Tectum-Verlag

| isbn = 978-3-8288-9609-3

}}

• {{cite book

| author = Uta Heuser

| title = Give me friction, baby!: Turbonegro und die Turbojugend

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=r0iaMQAACAAJ

| year = 2007

| publisher = Reiffer

| isbn = 978-3-934896-66-6

}}

• [http://www.turbojugend.net/ Turbojugend official website]
• [http://www.boardtodeathpunk.com/ Turbojugend World forum]

{{Turbonegro}}

Category:Music fan clubs

Category:Turbonegro