The world is not beautiful

Chris Korda

Text: Katja Schwemmers

A nasty feeling creeps into the pit of your stomach. Somewhere between anger, fear and curiosity about what has been read, what has been thought, what to expect. Because the musician you have to meet at London's Heathrow Airport thinks differently than the average person, more radically, perhaps even "inhumanely". Chris Korda is also the "Reverend of the Church of Euthanasia", the religious community that propagates suicide, abortion and cannibalism through provocative actions, writings and - in relation to Korda's person - in electronic songs. The members of the COE view reproduction as the only prohibition and engage in sex only for fun. "Fuck the pain away" so to speak, because humans - "the cancer of the world" - must be destroyed and removed from this planet. This is also why the question is so pressing: What does the misanthrope do and how should we deal with him?

The flight from Boston is delayed, you won't miss each other. Probably also because Korda sometimes travels as a woman and sometimes as a man, those involved agreed on a T-shirt as a symbol of identification: "Save the planet, kill yourself" will be written on his, Korda said in advance on the phone. In this case, not a trashy pop culture statement, but his "best-known work." Korda is an inconspicuous man in a straw hat - today. His finely drawn face is surrounded by hair the color of a street dog, which he wears half-length, probably so that wigs can be attached to it more easily. Because Chris Korda is the extremely attractive Chrissie, who can be seen in the booklet of the new CD with the even more curious title "The Man Of The Future". "I was a cross-dresser before the church came into being, and I believe one thing led to another," he says politely. "Crossdressing stands for the imbalance of socially defined gender roles, whereas our church deals with the imbalance between humans and nature. So the imbalances of gender are to be understood as a microcosm of the planetary imbalance. And by restoring the balance within myself, I opened up my Awareness of the problems of our species, which are at the roots of the Church." Korda refers to Valerie Solanas' "SCUM Manifesto," which furiously takes the idea that men are just unfinished women to the extreme. "I could also argue that dominance is essentially male. And by embracing my feminine side, I shed this dominance."

A jungle of theses, ideologies and controversies surround this musician. His records are released on Gigolo Records, and not just because DJ Hell once discovered one of his records in an independent shop in New York and Korda now calls him his friend. Germany is Korda's spiritual home. "If a nation is ashamed of being German, it is close to being ashamed of being human," sums up Korda, who recently lay down in a concentration camp oven in Dachau for a promotional photo. When he sings the lines "I belong to the master race" in the title track of his CD, this is primarily intended to be heard in Germany. Korda himself is currently recovering from inhumanity and his own shame in a book. "Part of this recovery process is allowing myself to just be a musician, to enjoy it. There are non-political songs on the new record, which is very liberating. It's more musical, less ideological. That allows me to be more concrete in both become." The artwork speaks another, his usual language with depicted sperm, stick figures and a red planet Earth as a reference to overpopulation. In the new songs, Korda brings lively 90s electronica to life. His musical background corresponds to that of a technician, not a DJ: "I work on compositions, harmonies, melodies and rhythm. It is very strong, emotionally soulful music grounded in tradition. In the future it should sound even more sophisticated and ahead of its time." Nevertheless, it is the ideological songs that provide the topic of conversation. "The Man Of The Future" makes a direct reference to the statements of the imprisoned Ted Kaczynski. He delivered with his "Unabomber Manifesto" is an indictment against genetic and computer technologists who have enslaved people and deformed their nature and are in the process of dooming the earth. Also controversial is "I Like To Watch", the sexually-obsessed look at Nine-Eleven, which is also why a lot of dust was raised because the WTC played the role of two phallic symbols in the accompanying video. At the time, ten labels refused to release the piece as a single, but Korda consolidated his image as an enemy of society - something that the anti-humanists did Anti-Christians should ally. But no: "If someone as notorious as Marilyn Manson only talks about harmless things without meaning, that is criminal. Manson has long since been absorbed into the system. My work could never become part of the system. I'm careful with that."

"The Man Of The Future" by Chris Korda has already been released by International Deejay Gigolos/EFA. More at: www.churchofeuthanasia.org

The preceding is a translation. The original language is here.