Try to wake up with a smile on your face!

Try to wake up with a smile on your face! is a photocopied punk perzine by Chriz from Berlin, Germany.

Chriz describes the zine as a posicore-zine. The first issue came out in May 2004 and the content is DIY, a North-East Germany scene report, an interview with Ed Spudmonkey from www.zinetrade.net and Lucidity zine, short interviews about Straight Edge with Matthias from the German hardcore band Highscore, Laura Synthesis, Felix Rosales from the Philipinian band Forgiveness Denied and Robert Matusiak from Refuse Records, plus a few zine reviews. The entire zine is in English.

The 2nd issue came out in November 2011 as a split with Zwerghain #1. It contains personal stories and zine reviews.

Issue #3 came out in November 2012. The format is A5. 36 pages. 1/3 in German, 2/3 in English. It contains texts about topics like punk, kids and growing old. Furthermore there is an interview with Luke (On't Road zine), memories about football in the UK back in the 60s, a travel report from Pakistan, a short story by Mika Reckinen (Alleiner Threat zine) and fanzine reviews.