After getting their kickstart as an ambitious art project at Stuttgart’s State Academy of Fine Arts, Horizontaler Gentransfer (HGT) quickly became a sensation: six female artists with a migrant background who combine german Punk and K-Pop in their songs, building cultural bridges through their pointed lyrics: “Empowerment Karaoke”, as the group calls it. There are songs about being foreigners in the most bureaucratic city in Germany: Stuttgart. Songs with diverse subjects as racism, the Swabian staple butter pretzels – are combining quotes from fine art or literature – such as the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard.

In concerts they try to establish the whole package of Punk as a total artwork – moderations, video animations, self made costumes: „The aim of the HGT is to make people dizzy and nobody knows what’s going on.”