This is our fourth and final photolog of Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2025 held in Leipzig. We will be back to Wave-Gotik-Treffen next. You will find links to this year’s previous photologs, and to other editions next year. It was a pleasure. We will see you in 2026.
Here is our third photolog of Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2025. You can see the previous and last photologs of this edition of the festival below the photos. As well as find your way to other years we attended.
We continue our 2025 Wave-Gotik-Treffen photologs. Here is the second one of four, through, as usual, Gustavo Hochman’s lens. We will be at Wave-Gotik-Treffen next year. Meanwhile you can take a look at the 2025 edition, and other years photologs. You can find them below the photos.
We’ll be bringing you the 2025 Wave-Gotik-Treffen photologs over the next few weeks. As usual, Gustavo Hochman captured the festival for us.Wave-Gotik-Treffen is the world’s largest gothic festival, celebrating gothic, Victoriana, steampunk, and related subcultures. The festival happens yearly in Leipzig, Germany.We will return to cover the festival next year.
words: Paulo Carmona (freely translated by Raquel Pinheiro); photos: Telma Mota
Just kids. Some because they were it, some because they had been it. From 16 to 70, all were represented. Like recicled teenagers, unrestrained, in frantic rodeo mode. Parody, fun, good mood and peaceful provocation, mixed with punk rock and classic hardcore, served in a cold sweat-sour typical of that generation, was what Dead Kennedys brought on their luggage and spilled, at once, on stage. We have a video of the raw punkness on our insta instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine/
It was impossible to remain indifferent to all the human warmness. Interactivity and symbiosis between band and audience. Those waiting for punk is not dead spirit got it, in double serving, with jumps, screams, crowd surfing and mosh among heat and sweat.
The Dead Kennedys run through all their landmark songs, from Police Truck through Kill the Poor, Too Drunk To Fuck, Nazi Punks, to Holiday in Cambodia, with endless energy. Only after a few verbal outbursts an stings realized most of the audience understood English perfectly well.
East Bay Ray (guitar) and Klaus Flouride (bass), Dead Kennedys’ main core, were up to the demands, interacting with the audience when necessary. Steve Wilson, on drums, gave it all to be at D.H. Peligro’s level, and did it very well, not withdrawing from remember the band’s late drummer.
Above all, the concert showed punk spirit is alive and well, and it’s transversal to several generations, and still a war cry against oppression and oppressors. As for old people? Which old people? I saw none. What else?…
We conclude our photo view of Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Leipzig, 2024 portraited by Gustavo Hochman with the fourth photolog of the series. Links for previous photologs below the photos. We will bring you Wave-Gotik-Treffen again next year.
As usual we have a photographic overview of Wave-Gotik Treffen, the world’s largest gothic, cybergoth, steampunk and rivethead festival, captured by the lens of Gustavo Hochman. Over the next few weeks we will be showing Gustavo’s amazing photos of this year’s event in four instalments.
Links for following photologs, and other years, below the photos.
Gustavo Hochman photographed Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival 2023, in Leipzig, for Mondo Bizarre Magazine. What better time to showcase is amazing photos than the mourning and festive season of Halloween/All Saints Day/Dia de Los Muertos?
You can see more of Gustavo’s photos from Wave-Gotik-Treffen on our Instagram: Instagram.com/mondobizarremagazine over the next few days.