Gerulf Pannach

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Gerulf Pannach (born June 24, 1948 in Arnsdorf ; † May 3, 1998 in Berlin ) was a German songwriter and lyricist.

Life

After graduating from high school and doing military service with the NVA , Pannach began studying law in Halle , which he broke off. Between 1970 and 1971 he was a consultant in the cabinet for cultural work of the city of Leipzig and worked with the Klaus Renft Combo , Renft for short . Since 1972 he has been working as a freelance artist. During this time he also developed contacts and friendships with singers and writers critical of the regime. In 1974 he appeared together with Christian Kunert and was a friend of the writer Jürgen Fuchs , with whom he also appeared.

Performance bans and limited gaming permits followed , and he was only allowed to appear at unofficial events . In November 1976 he signed the declaration of protest against the expatriation of Wolf Biermann . On November 21, 1976, he was arrested by the MfS on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin . Together with Christian Kunert and Jürgen Fuchs, who had been arrested two days earlier from the car of the regime critic Professor Robert Havemann , Pannach was taken to the central remand prison of the State Security in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . After nine months of interrogation, all three artists were released from prison without trial on August 26, 1977, expatriated and expelled to West Berlin.

As a result, Pannach lived in West Berlin , performed with Biermann, worked with Christian Kunert and worked as a text writer and actor in film and theater. In 1986 Pannach played the leading role in the feature film "Vaterland" by British director Ken Loach . On November 12, 1989, Pannach and Kunert were among the few musicians from the GDR who took part in the concert for Berlin in Berlin's Deutschlandhalle . After the fall of the Wall he was able to perform again in the GDR on December 2, 1989 together with other recognized artists.

Pannach died of kidney cancer on May 3, 1998 in Berlin at the age of 49 . The suspicion that his death was due to the fact that the MfS exposed him to X-rays as a prisoner has not yet been proven. His wife Amrei Pannach died on April 2, 2019 in Berlin.

plant

The best known were his songs Apple Dream and When I Was Like a Bird, written for Renft . The following song lines are characteristic of Pannach:

Man, we are fed fat.
Always new with campaigns.
And I get sick of vomiting.
Man, I already ate loads of hay.

from overtaking without overtaking

With his texts and songs, Pannach is an example of those artists and members of the opposition who got caught between the fronts in the Cold War , found few friends as cross-border commuters in East and West and suffered from strange German-German exile . This is what his lines, written shortly after the forced citizenship , stand for :

Whether in the east or west
where you are, it's never best to
search, soul search
curse, soul, curse.

after the poem Weiter and weiter by the poet Erich Mühsam, who was murdered by the National Socialists .

Honors

In November 2008 a memorial plaque for him was unveiled at the “Sonne” cultural center in Schkeuditz , where Pannach spent his childhood and youth.

Discography

plates

  • Fuchs, Pannach, Kunert: For Us Who We Still Hope (CBS, 1977)
  • Pannach and Kunert live in Sweden: singer mot Rädslan (1978)
  • Pannach and Kunert (CBS, 1979)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Fluche Seele, curse (MOOD Records 1981 / as CD on Nebelhorn / Buschfunk, 1996)
  • Pannach and Kunert live: Pretty Woman don't look like that! (Bluesong, 1991)

CD

  • Gerulf Pannach: Yorck 17 (BMG Ariola, 1996)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Give me a handful of luck . Live 1977–1993 (Buschfunk, 2000)
  • For us who we still hope. Songs by Gerulf Pannach & Christian Kunert . Prose by Jürgen Fuchs . Leipzig 1976, West Berlin 1977. Edited by Doris Liebermann and Bodo Fahrt . Audiobook, 3 CDs (Marktkram, 2013)
  • Pannach and Kunert: Fluche, Seele, curse (reissue of the record released in 1981 by the MOOD label)

Movie

literature

  • Gerulf Pannach: Adapters or Aufmüpfer. A songwriter about bands and legends. In: Irmela Hannover, Peter Wicke (Ed.): Puhdys. A cult band from the east. Berlin 1994, pp. 31-36.
  • Detlef Kriese: After the battle. The Renft story - told by the band itself. Written down by Delle Kriese. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-170-2 .
  • Salli Sallmann (Ed.): When I was like a bird. Gerulf Pannach: The texts. With comments by Christian Kuno Kunert. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-186-9 .
  • Heike Buhmann / Hanspeter Haeseler (eds.): Ballads, blues and rock legends . Rock and Song Poetry East. Best of Collection, Schlüchtern 1999, ISBN 978-3927638044 .
  • Gerulf Pannach: From an interview from 1992. In: Wolf Biermann and other authors: The expatriation. Beginning of the end of the GDR. Edited by Fritz Pleitgen , Munich 2001, pp. 95-105.
  • Rainer Bratfisch:  Pannach, Gerulf . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Christian Kunert : The red that burns. Gerulf Pannach on the 20th anniversary of his death. In: Gerbergasse 18 , Thuringian quarterly magazine for contemporary history and politics , 2/2018, issue 87, pp. 39–41.
  • Doris Liebermann : Forbidden songs in Bad Köstritz. About a concert with Gerulf Pannach, Bettina Wegner and Jürgen Fuchs in February 1975. In: Gerbergasse 18 , Thuringian quarterly magazine for contemporary history and politics , 2/2019, issue 91, pp. 42–46.
  • Doris Liebermann : The secret tape from Pannach, Fuchs and Kunert , Feature, Hessischer Rundfunk 2019, [1]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Prominent protest from November 17, 1976 on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Center for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Contemporary witness Christian Kunert on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Agency for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ Fuchs, Kunert and Pannach on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Agency for Civic Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  ), viewed on March 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ Peter Wensierski : Stasi: Aligned at head height . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1999 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Song Fluche, Seele, curse in the net Live recording 1985 in Flöz on  jugendopposition.de  ( Federal Center for Political Education  /  Robert Havemann Society  eV), viewed on March 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Pannach, Gerulf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsdorf
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1998
Place of death Berlin