Gudrun Gut (born in 1957 in Celle as Gudrun Bredemann) is a German musician, DJ, presenter, music producer and owner of the music label Monika Enterprise.
Gudrun Gut grew up in Lüneburger Heide. She has lived in Berlin since 1975. She studied visual communication at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1978 to 1984. She has been active in Berlin's alternative music scene since the late 1970s: in 1977 she was a member of the performance band DIN A Testbild with Mark Eins and others. In 1979 she founded the band Mania D with Karin Luner, Bettina Köster, Eva Gössling and Beate Bartel. With Bettina Köster she opened the Eisengrau shop in Goltzstrasse in Berlin-Schöneberg in 1978. Clothes, tapes, fanzines and other items from Berlin producers were sold there. She later continued the shop with Blixa Bargeld. Gudrun Gut, N. U. Unruh and Beate Bartel were founding members of Einstürzende Neubauten along with Blixa Bargeld. In Women in Rock, a documentary from 1980, Mania D is represented with two pieces, and in 1995 this documentary was re-released. At the beginning of 1981 she founded the band Malaria! with Bettina Köster. The band's best-known title Kalter Klares Wasser was released in April 1981. In 1982 she founded the experimental project Matador (with Manon Pepita Duursma and Beate Bartel).
In 1990 she voiced Ophelia (with Blixa Bargeld as Hamlet) in the radio play production of Heiner Müller's Hamlet Machine. This was followed by several music for radio plays with Wolfgang Rindfleisch as dramaturge and in 2002 music for the children's educational play Brand im Hafen? From 1991 she worked with the Canadian Myra Davies in the performance/spoken word project Miasma. Since 1993, Gudrun Gut has been running the Ocean Club project. In 1996, she released the pop CD The Ocean Club, and from August 1997 to July 2012 she hosted and produced the weekly show Ocean Club Radio on Radio Eins together with Thomas Fehlmann.
In 1990, Gudrun Gut founded her label Moabit Musik, on which she (re)releases mainly her own music and cultural affinities. In 1997, Monika Enterprise followed as her second label, on which Quarks, Komëit, Barbara Morgenstern and Contriva, among others, are released. In 2005 she released the 7″ single Move me on the Irish label Earsugar. After the success of the single she finished her album I put a Record on, which was released in 2007. Worldwide concerts followed.
In 1990, Gudrun Gut founded her label Moabit Musik, on which she (re)releases mainly her own music and cultural affinities. In 1997, Monika Enterprise followed as her second label, on which Quarks, Komëit, Barbara Morgenstern and Contriva, among others, are released. In 2005 she released the 7″ single Move me on the Irish label Earsugar. After the success of the single she finished her album I put a Record on, which was released in 2007. Worldwide concerts followed.
