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Butterflies
General information
origin Vienna , Austria
Genre (s) Folk , political rock
founding 1969 as a political rock band
1985 as a children's theater
resolution 2013
Founding members
Singing, piano, guitar, banjo
 Georg Herrnstadt
Vocals, bass guitar, accordion, piano, guitar, saxophone
 Erich Meixner
(* 1944, † May 24, 2013)
Vocals, drums, harmonica, congas
 Willi Resetarits (until 1985)
Vocals, guitar
 Fredi Rubatschek (until 1973)
Last occupation
Piano, guitar, banjo, vocals
 Georg Herrnstadt
Vocals, bass guitar, accordion, piano, guitar, saxophone
 Erich Meixner
(* 1944, † 2013)
Electric guitar, mandolin, bass, vocals
 Herbert Zöchling-Tampier (from 1973)
(born May 5, 1948)
Singing, flute, saxophone
 Beatrix Neundlinger (from 1976)
former members
Singing, percussion
 Brigitte Schuster (1970–1971)
Singing, percussion
 Pippa Armstrong (1971-1976)
guitar
 Günter Grosslercher (1973–1985)
Drums
 Helmut Grössing (1982–1985)
(* 1957)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Songs for life
  AT 9 December 15, 1975 (4 weeks)
Singles
Boom boom boomerang
  AT 10 04/15/1977 (12 weeks)

The Butterflies were an Austrian folk - political rock band of the 1970s and early 1980s with critical-political texts, most of which were written by Heinz Rudolf Unger .

history

The butterflies were founded in Vienna in 1969 . In 1970 Brigitte Schuster joined the band, but in 1971 she was replaced by Pippa Armstrong. In 1973 Fredi Rubatschek left the band and was replaced by the versatile Herbert Tampier. In 1976 Pippa Armstrong finally handed over the female vocal part to Beatrix Neundlinger , who was to accompany the other “Butterfly” productions as a singer. In addition, Günther Großlercher, who was actually responsible for the recording direction, management and the sound of the hall at concerts, played the acoustic guitar on many records.

At the Eurovision Song Contest in London in May 1977, the Butterflies represented Austria with the song Boom Boom Boomerang . The song, written by Lukas Resetarits and intended as a satirical criticism of the record industry, followed 3 onomatopoeic winning song titles (1968, 1969 and 1975) and reached the penultimate place. Beatrix Neundlinger had already represented Austria in 1972 with the Milestones group at the same competition in Edinburgh ( Scotland ).

In the summer of 1977, some of the band members visited Albania as part of a group tour of the Austrian-Albanian Friendship Society to explore the conditions in the socialist country that was then allied with China.

In 1977 the Proletenpassion appeared , in which the ruling structures and social issues of the early 16th to the late 20th century were discussed. It is based on texts by Heinz Rudolf Unger . It was premiered in 1976 at the Wiener Festwochen .

The LP Herbstreise , released in 1979, is probably the butterflies' most political as well as musically sophisticated record. It takes a position on the topics that predominated in Germany in 1979 - from sensitivities in the climate of the RAF , denouncing in the course of the radical decree, to emancipation, the work of old forces of the Nazi era in the Federal Republic of Germany , to the fight against nuclear power plants and for the 35- Hour week. The LP can be seen as the soundtrack of the “ German Autumn ”.

In 1979 the butterflies sang the title song Die goldene Acht from the German film Die Abfahrer by Adolf Winkelmann . From 1982 Helmut Grössing strengthened the band and played drums. In 1983 the "Unterhaus" in Mainz awarded the group the annual German Cabaret Prize in the "Cabaret" category. In 1985 the butterflies played the revue "Nix is ​​fix" in the Vienna Academy Theater. In the same year Willi Resetarits and Helmut Grössing left the group to play in the lead role under the pseudonyms Kurt Ostbahn and Eduard Jedelsky . In 1987 there was a major tour with a slightly different performance of the Proletenpassion in various cities in the Federal Republic of Germany (including Munich, West Berlin, Bochum, Bremen, Oldenburg, Cologne). In 1989 there was a series of introductions to the program “Forward - and forgotten?”, Then the group became quiet. In 1995 the programs “Years like Tears” and “Songs at the Right Time” followed . After that, the band only gave a few benefit concerts - the last concert for the time being took place in March 2001.

In the summer of 2008 the group (without Willi Resetarits) got together again and played concerts with the Jura-Soyfer program. Founding member Erich Meixner succumbed to cancer on May 24, 2013.

On the occasion of the commemoration "75 years commemoration of the first transport of Austrian prisoners in the concentration camp Dachau" (1938) voiced Beatrix Neundlinger and Willi Resetarits, accompanied by Herbert Zöchling-Tampier, on April 8, 2013 at the Westbahnhof Vienna, Dachau song .

On December 2, 2018, the butterflies - with the cast Willi Resetarits, Herbert Zöchling-Tampier, Georg Herrnstadt and Beatrix Neundlinger - appeared in the ORF program "Ö1 Christmas Quiz". There they played the songs "Drei Rote Pfiffe" from the LP "Herbstreise" and "We learn in advance" from the "Proletenpassion".

Discography

LPs and albums

  • 1973: butterflies
  • 1975: songs for life
  • 1977: Proletenpassion , triple album (3 LPs)
  • 1977: Appeasement Show
  • 1978: All doors open (& October)
  • 1979: Farmer bigwigs and money
  • 1979: Autumn trip
  • 1981: Jura Soyfer - displaced years
  • 1982: the last world
  • 1986: With your head through the turning point

Singles

  • 1971: Tschotscholossa / Sano Duso
  • 1971: Free, free, free as a butterfly / Tschotscholossa
  • 1972: Lord Raised His Voice / We've Got Together
  • 1973: Movie Queen / We Are Waiting
  • 1973: 500 Dollars / Hopeless Lovin '
  • 1974: Deep Water / When the Ship Comes In
  • 1975: Luminal City / partnership song
  • 1977: Boom Boom Boomerang / Mr. Moneymaker's music show
  • 1985: Said Soltanpour / Said Soltanpour (instrumental)

literature

  • Heinz Rudolf Unger: The Proletenpassion: Documentation of a legend . Europa Verlag, Vienna / Zurich 1989; ISBN 3-203-51059-6 (the author's book of many titles of the butterflies on the most famous work of the group)
  • Inge Karger: Political Music and Naive Music Therapy - An investigation into experiencing political concerts in the 80s using the example of performances of the scenic oratorio “Proletenpassion” by the political rock group “Butterflies”. BIS-Verlag Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-8142-0757-2 (Phil. Diss. - Contains, among other things, a description of the history of the origins of butterflies and excerpts from interviews on the production process of the proletarian passion) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schmetterlinge-kindertheater.at
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: AT
  4. ↑ Note Contained in the LP appeasement show , as well as the song (We are the) butter band . There you can find the passage: "And if a song already has words, then they should mean something."
  5. ↑ Butterflies Lyrics songtexte.com, accessed November 2, 2019.
  6. ↑ [2]
  7. ↑ Erich Meixner is dead. In: Wiener Zeitung of May 29, 2013, accessed on May 29, 2013
  8. ↑ Renate Sassmann: Dachaulied, sung by the butterflies April 8, 2013 youtube.com, video 4:39 min, uploaded April 9, 2013, accessed February 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ oe1.orf.at: The Ö1 Celeb Quiz for light in the darkness. Retrieved April 20, 2019 .
  10. ^ Oe1: Butterflies - Three Red Whistles. December 12, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  11. ↑ oe1: Butterflies - We learn by walking forward. December 12, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019 .