Gudrun Gut
Gudrun Gut is a German electronic musician, DJ, presenter, music producer and founder of the Monika Enterprise record label.
She grew up in the Lüneburger Heide and moved to West Berlin in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the Hochschule der Künste from 1978 to 1984. She was an early member of Einstürzende Neubauten and a founding member of music groups Mania D, Malaria!, Matador and spoken word project with Myra Davies, Miasma, evolving into a prolific solo career. She is the head of the labels Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. She co-presented the Oceanclub weekly radio program in Berlin with Thomas Fehlmann. Her debut solo album, I Put a Record On was released on 5 February 2007. Music critics saluted the openness and approachability of the music on the record.
According to The Wire magazine's April 2008 issue, which featured Gudrun Gut on the cover, "this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years".
In 2024, Gut produced an autobiographical 3-episode miniseries for the German broadcaster RBB.
Works
Selected discography
- 1980: White Christmas 7″
- 1993: Myra Davies & Gudrun Gut – Miasma
- 1996: YadiYAdi maxi single
- 1996: Die Sonne maxi single
- 1996: Members of The Ocean Club CD
- 1996: Firething maxi single
- 2004: Members of The Ocean Club double CD
- 2005: Move Me 7″
- 2007: I Put A Record On CD
- 2007: In Pieces 12″
- 2007: Pleasure Train 7″
- 2008: Apples, Pears and Deer in Poland EP
- 2010: Baustelle CD
- 2011: Rekonstruktion CD
- 2012: Wildlife CD
- 2012: 500m CD
- 2016: Vogelmixe – Gudrun Gut Remixes Heimatlieder aus Deutschland Berlin / Augsburg CD / Vinyl
- 2017: Instrumentals For "Sirens" LP
- 2018: Moment CD / vinyl / digital
- 2024: GUT Soundtrack – Moabit Musik Moa24
Filmography
- 1988: Dandy – directed by Peter Sempel
- 1995: Girls Bite Back – directed by Wolfgang Büld
- 2005: Verschwende deine Jugend – directed by Benjamin Quabeck
- 2015: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989, documentary with Mark Reeder
- 2024: GUT, minidocuserie – directed by Heiko Lange / Creative Director: Gudrun Gut
Radio drama music
- 1991: Paul Zech: Das Trunkene Schiff – directed by Wolfgang Rindfleisch