Christina Schnekenburger

German musician and painter. Tina Schnekenburger was painting since childhood and kept doing it until the age of 16, when she left school. Her mother took her to an art school in Stuttgart (at the time they were living in Heilbronn) to apply – successfully, but I never entered. Instead she hitchhiked to Torremolinos in Spain, where she lived until she moved to Düsseldorf. Tina was staying with Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft singer Gabi Delgado's family in Wuppertal for several months. Together with Eduardo Delgado-Lopez and his sister Olga Delgado she formed the punk band "Die Rächer" where she played bass. Co-Editor of punk fanzine "Stomp" from Wuppertal in 1980. She relocated to London and formed The Jamming Jahs, an all girl Reggae Band with two Australian girls where Tina played drums. Daniel Miller of Mute Records wanted to sign them after one of their gigs - if they change their name. They didn’t! In 1981 she joined Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft as a tape operator for live gigs, then joined Die Krupps, where she is credited for production and songwriting. When she joined, Volle Kraft voraus was nearly finished but it still needed lyrics. So she wrote some of the lyrics, together with Jürgen Engler. After she left Die Krupps, she founded the label Atom H with Jürgen Engler, releasing bands like Rumble Militia and Protector. After some time she left Atom H. She moved to Berlin, just in time for the wall to come down, and took up photography again. In May 2017 she started taking drum lessons.