Tyske Ludder is a German EBM band. Their members include Claus Albers, Olaf A. Reimers, Ralf Homann and Sebastian I. Hartmann. In 2008 they appeared at the Infest in Bradford. And in May 2009 they appeared at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig and the M'era Luna Festival in Hildesheim, Germany. The phrase Tyske Ludder directly translated means "German whores" in Danish and Norwegian and was used in Denmark to describe a native woman that was romantically involved with a German soldier during World War II.
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Claus Albers and Olaf A. Reimers met during the early 1980s in school. Reimers played in various rock and punk bands, but after becoming frustrated with the arrangements approached Albers to start a new band. The duo started out with a third member as a bassist under the name Der Kleine Rosa Plüschelefant, Der Kleiner Haben Wollte as a punk and new wave project. They later renamed to The Leaders of Men and drifted towards a more industrial/EBM sound. After a few live performances and a demo recording, the band reverted to a duo of Albers and Reimers and took a deliberate turn into an all-electronic format circa 1989. Ralf Homann joined as live support while the band considered a name change. Desiring a Nordic-sounding, provocative name, they settled on Tyske Ludder, essentially a Norwegian slur for women who consorted with occupying German soldiers in World War II.