Maria Zerfall

The German one-woman-solo-project MARIA ZERFALL started 1982 in Crailsheim named as ZERFALL. The year 1983 was beginning of MARIA ZERFALL and her private cassette distribution MUSIC TO TURN TO, based in Düsseldorf, Germany. The music was recorded and duplicated privately on a 4-track-tape-recorder, and given away to friends and people, who were interested in it. In 1986-1991 MZ often appeared in different projects, like AKTIVE STAGNATION, MARIA ZERFALL IN PHASE PERVERS, ZEROSE, and collaborated with other musicians like KONRAD KRAFT, ROMAN RÜTTEN, etc. From the years 1987 to 1989 MZ gave only three concerts, two in Düsseldorf and one in Nürnberg. MZ has released a lot of recordings, mostly cassettes but also some on Vinyl and CD. The meaning of name MARIA ZERFALL: it is like a little philosophy. MARIA means innocence and ZERFALL is decay of all material things ( physical ). Dead: February 16, 2023 (or before)