After moving to East Berlin in 1986, Meier became involved in oppositional politics with the Church from Below (Kirche von Unten [de]).

[1] He trained as a toolmaker,[2] before moving to East Berlin in 1986 where he quickly became involved in the punk movement and oppositional politics.

[3] With others, he ran a radical library at the church at Zionskirchplatz and published a samizdat newsletter called Infoblatt mOAningstar (the capital letters "OA" referencing Offene Arbeit [de]).

One such event was a clandestine concert in the Zionskirchplatz church on 17 October 1987 which attracted one thousand people, with the band Die Firma supporting the headliners Element of Crime, who were from West Berlin.

[5][6] Meier had good connections to the West Berlin anarchist scene because his older brother was living in exile there.

[5] After the bands had played, the gig was attacked by neo-Nazis and the police watched but did not intervene, causing a controversy in both East and West German media (Überfall auf die Zionskirche [de]).