Die Tödliche Doris

Die Tödliche Doris was a performance art and music group based in West Berlin from 1980 to 1987, founded by Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen. Part of the Geniale Dilletanten (Brilliant Dilettantes) movement that also included Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria!, their approach was deliberately anti-stylistic — in opposition to any coherent aesthetic position or technical mastery — informed by the post-structuralist theory of Baudrillard, Foucault, and Guattari.

Their recordings and performances were exercises in productive incompetence, appropriation, and conceptual play, producing music, film, and visual work that refused the conventions of any single medium.