Universal Music Group Germany made a distribution deal with Weimar — then dropped it this week after it was revealed that the group has ties to the right-wing scene in Germany and that at least one of its members previously performed in a neo-Nazi band.
, to a one-album deal in 2021 and then abruptly terminated the relationship the day before BMG was due to release the project’s first single. BMG executives had debated internally the pros and cons of signing the French artist and had known that UMG had signed and then dropped Corleone in 2020 after distributing his previous album,, for a week. BMG executives in Berlin ultimately overruled their French team after thoroughly reviewing his older music.
In the case of Weimar, several members come from the neo-Nazi scene in the state of Thuringia, according to. Konstantin P., who Der Spiegel says goes by the name Till Schneider in Weimar, was previously in Dragoner, a neo-Nazi band that recorded songs that denied the Holocaust. Dragoner was watched by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a domestic intelligence organization charged with protecting German democracy. Steffen P., whosays goes by the name Kurt Ronny Fiedler in Weimar, came to the attention of Thuringian law enforcement when he attended a right-wing concert in 2005. says he has known both Steffen P. and Konstantin P.
Weimar’s relationship with Universal was a one-album distribution deal through the band’s label, Harder Entertainment. The article insuggests that the deal might have been made by the manager of Frei.Wild, a band from South Tyrol, Italy, that has been associated with right-wing imagery but has distanced itself from right-wing politics. UMG did not comment on this at publication time.
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