Alyosha Rompe

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Arthur Alexander "Aljoscha" Rompe (born October 20, 1947 in Berlin-Buch ; † November 23, 2000 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg ) was a German - Swiss punk musician , singer and founder of the GDR punk band Feeling B , formed in 1983 .

Life and first musical steps

Aljoscha Rompe's mother, an interpreter, emigrated with her father Arthur Baumgarten from Switzerland to East Berlin shortly before his birth . Rompe was born as Arthur Alexander Jessen, his biological father was the Swiss actor Jörn Jessen (Kübler). Aljoscha Rompe is said to have known of its existence - according to his aunt - but Jessen / Kübler did not maintain any contact with his son and did not pay any alimony for him. Other sources say that Rompe only found out about his biological father after his death in 1975.

Aljoscha Rompe's mother divorced Jessen / Kübler in the winter of 1947/48 and married Robert Rompe, then Professor of Physics and Director of the Second Physics Institute at Humboldt University , in East Berlin . Aljoscha, who got his nickname from Robert Rompes, who came from Russia, was adopted by his stepfather on August 21, 1954 and grew up privileged as an SED functionary child in Berlin-Johannisthal and later Berlin-Köpenick . According to the book author and GDR music expert Ronald Galenza, Gregor Gysi was a playmaker when he was a child. In the course of his mother's marriage to Robert Rompe, Aljoscha Rompe had four half-siblings.

After years of primary school in Berlin-Johannisthal and attending the Polytechnic High School in Berlin-Köpenick, Rompe switched to the Extended High School Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin-Köpenick. There he first graduated from high school from 1962 to 1966 and then completed an electrical mechanic training course. From 1967 to 1971 he studied physics at the Humboldt University in East Berlin and graduated with a diploma. A college colleague and friend was the future actor Henry Hübchen , another the later GDR civil rights activist and Green politician Carlo Jordan . According to the latter, Rompe moved to the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in 1974 after his army service - he was a driver in the National People's Army in Frankfurt / Oder from 1971 to 1973 . He moved into a small apartment there at Metzer Strasse 14 by occupying it. From 1971 to 1974 he worked as a problem analyst at the Building Academy of the GDR (DBA), but then quit together with others; According to Jordan, for political reasons, according to Rompes aunt, because he was supposed to move into an open-plan office with numerous colleagues and refused to do so.

In order to meet the obligation to work in the GDR , he took part-time jobs. He worked temporarily as a waiter in restaurants on the Baltic Sea island of Hiddensee , including in 1974, 1975 and 1979 in the restaurant Zum Klausner , in 1978 according to his own information as a dishwasher in the island bar . On Hiddensee he met musicians like Michael Stappenbeck at the evening beach get-together, the latter was later active in the band of GDR singer Chris Doerk and at Winni 2 . In addition, he was employed by his stepfather Robert Rompe at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW) as a private secretary or recorded bird voices on a fee basis for a professor at the Humboldt University.

Aljoscha Rompe got direct access to the music scene when he started working as a sound engineer and driver for music bands such as Faible , Vulcan , Monokel , Drudenfuß and for Mondie in the early 1980s .

In the 1970s he founded a session band called Feeling 14 , which , according to his later Feeling-B colleague Paul Landers , was named after their home, Rompe's apartment at Metzer Straße 14, and played bongo and acoustic music. According to Landers, the lyrics of later Feeling B songs such as Hopla He and Mix me a drink date from that time and were only re-edited musically by Feeling B. The text of You will not reach the summit was also created in this phase of life, according to the presentation of Rompes' companions at the time.

After Rompe suddenly enjoyed travel freedom in 1980 by changing his nationality (see chapter Swiss citizenship ) , he spent two years largely abroad, according to Carlo Jordan . According to this, he visited western countries such as America, where he stayed for half a year, but also Scandinavia, Greece, France and Italy. At times he also worked in the western part of Berlin, among other things as a driver at Otto-Versand , as a construction worker and tried his hand at button sales and travel agency operator. During this phase he lived in squats in Berlin-Kreuzberg during the week . However, after this time he moved back to the GDR. He justified this to friends like Jordan with the fact that many people in the West just "hung around", while people in the East were more creative and more enthusiastic about projects.

Up until his death in 2000, Rompe repeatedly expressed his rather negative attitude towards capitalism as an economic and social order and the way of life of the people in West Germany in numerous interviews.

Feeling B

In March 1983 Rompe founded the group Feeling Berlin , for which he hired three much younger musicians: the then 18-year-old guitarist Heiko Paul Hiersche (now Paul Landers ), the drummer Alexander Kriening , who was around the same age, and the 16-year-old keyboardist Christian Flake Lorenz . Since there was already a band with this name in Berlin, the group renamed itself to Feeling B a short time later . Kriening left the band after about a year and a half and then played for a while with the band Rosa Extra (later Hard Pop ).

In Feeling B, Rompe took over the microphone. His distinctive voice, his seemingly anarchic singing style as well as the fast, punky-amateurish music with mostly playful-chirping keyboard melodies became the trademark of the band, which after Kriening's departure in 1984 until the separation in 1993 only consisted of Rompe, Lorenz and Landers as well Guest musicians existed.

In retrospect, Rompes bandmates and guest musicians reported that the Feeling B singer repeatedly had problems with his sense of rhythm and tact. His fellow musicians tried to compensate for this. Feeling B's third guest drummer, Christoph Schneider , who is now a drummer with the Rammstein band , said in an interview book that was published in 2002 about Feeling B:

“We had our own term for the musical confusion among each other: Aljoschen . We still use it today, we still sometimes say that to Till ( Till Lindemann , Rammstein singer), when he is not singing to the rhythm. (...) He (Aljoscha) started in the wrong places and stubbornly sang a whole stanza wrongly. At Feeling B it was easy for us at some point, we all looked at each other and switched to the right rhythm. "

- Christoph Schneider, guest drummer Feeling B (1990–1993)

Rome's real strengths describe his companions to this day in the creative-networking area. Through his extensive contacts and his open-minded and carefree nature, he was able to motivate people and get them carried away. In this way he gave his band many appearances in the first few years and thus contributed to the fact that Feeling B achieved a high level of awareness as an amateur group in the GDR - up to a participation in the 1988 DEFA film Whispering & Screaming - A Rock Report . The band was not originally intended for this production. In the end, however, she became one of the protagonists of the film through coincidental circumstances and Rompe's persistent advertising with the camera team and was subsequently allowed to record the first official punk music record of the GDR label Amiga in 1989 . It was published in early 1990 with an edition of 15,000. His two band mates Lorenz and Landers, who today are often given the greater share in the musical development of the group, always referred to him as the head of the band and himself as the feet because of such initiatives and successes.

The band practiced only little and because of Rompe's attitude towards commerce and capitalism, they deliberately played at an amateur level for many years. Keyboardist Flake Lorenz reported on this in an interview book in the early 2000s:

“The first thing Alyosha taught us was that money ruins people. And he was very right about that! Aljoscha often drove to the West, he was considered Swiss. Whenever we ordered anything from him, we had to pay in advance. (...) Aljoscha really taught us a very good relationship with money, also with the West in general. "

- Christian Flake Lorenz, keyboardist Feeling B (1983-1993)

Bandmate Paul Landers added in the same book:

“Aljoscha told us terrible stories about the West and the people there. In the villages they measure their lawns to the centimeter, the country lanes are tarred and in the car repair shops the fitters wear smocks. We threw ourselves away from laughing. "

- Paul Landers, guitarist Feeling B (1983-1993)

An important source of income in the early phase of the band was the sale of self-made costume jewelry. According to his band mates, Rompe brought silver-plated copper wire with him from his trips to West Germany, which the musicians used to make earrings. Rompe managed the proceeds.

According to some companions, Rompe apparently did not let his young band colleagues know for a long time that Feeling B did not earn so badly for an amateur band with increasing popularity. So reports Uwe Hager, organizer of the unofficial Steinbrücken Festival , at which Feeling B performed every year from 1987 until the separation:

“In the beginning, Aljoscha kept Paul and Flake tight when it came to fees. (...) Aljoscha used to be so baggy that he could no longer receive her fee. So I gave Paul the fee and Paul was amazed and asked, do we always get that much money? That wasn't so nice. Aljoscha represented his philosophy of money, just don't give the boys so much money, that spoils the character. "

- Uwe Hager, organizer of the Steinbrücken Festival

Guitarist Landers reported in 2002 that there was a fee of 1500 East German marks for each “normal” concert . Of this, the musicians participating in the concert - including the guests - received only 150 marks each. The rest went into a so-called action fund, from which the band took part in larger undertakings such as a sightseeing flight over Rügen or an anniversary dinner for the fifth year of existence. These private ventures were only enjoyed by the regular band members, so the guest musicians were the ones who had been overreached.

Swiss citizenship

Aljoscha Rompe received his Swiss passport in 1980 as a result of his efforts. As the son of the Swiss Jessen / Kübler, who died in 1975, he was entitled to Swiss citizenship due to the principle of descent in Switzerland . He submitted the application without the knowledge of his parents, out of concern that they might hinder or prevent his advance due to their position of power in the GDR.

At the age of 14, Aljoscha Rompe had nevertheless received the identity card of the GDR and was therefore listed as a GDR citizen when applying for it. However, since his parents failed to apply for a formal GDR naturalization procedure when he was born or in the following years , Rompe was formally Swiss. Shortly before his death, Rompe said in 2000 that he needed two years to prove this and to be able to cross the inner-German border safely with his Swiss passport. After his Swiss citizenship was recognized, Rompe had to surrender his GDR identity card and from then on lived in the GDR with a residence permit.

The freedom of travel used Rompe repeatedly to instruments and equipment from West Berlin to introduce the GDR. In addition, it enabled him to enroll in West Berlin at the Free University of Berlin as a theater studies student. He received a Swiss scholarship for this, exchanged the amounts in East German marks and was able to finance his life and projects for some time - above all parts of the equipment for the amateur band Feeling B, which is well-known but commercially rather moderately successful. Among other things, he acquired a decommissioned armored interference suppression vehicle from Robur LO as a band bus , which the band expanded into a kind of mobile home. The "LO", as the band called it from the beginning, shone above all because of its unreliability - many times the musicians got stranded with the vehicle.

Working in Prenzlauer Berg

After his first few years in Metzer Strasse in the Prenzlauer Berg district, Rompe moved into an attic apartment at Fehrbelliner Strasse 7 on October 7, 1979, which he occupied like the previous accommodation. According to his companion Carlo Jordan , the rear building of Fehrbelliner 7 had already been almost completely occupied by young alternatives by this time - Rompe was the first to also occupy a residential unit in the front building as an initially illegally. According to Jordan, a three-time rent payment accepted by the landlord - at that time the municipal housing administration (KWV) - was considered recognized at the time.

The address Fehrbelliner Straße 7 is still a term in connection with the topic of youth opposition in the GDR . Carlo Jordan and other active members of the GDR peace, environmental and third world movement called the Environment Library , which was founded in 1986 , lived at this address. In addition, Günther Spalda , a musician from the avant-garde punk band Rosa Extra (Hard Pop), founded in 1981, lived here . According to the internet platform jugendopposition.de, a cooperation project between the Federal Agency for Civic Education and the Robert Havemann Society , a conspiratorial apartment belonging to the Ministry for State Security was located directly across the street.

Rompe was already active in various cultural opposition groups in the 1970s, for example together with Jordan in the Berlin youth club Box on Boxhagener Strasse in Berlin-Friedrichshain . After moving in, his apartment on Fehrbelliner Straße became a meeting point for alternative young people of all kinds, including members of the punk scene of the time, such as today's actor, director and musician Bernd Michael Lade , and his group Planlos. Rompe got to know the band during his time at Metzer Straße 14, where their rehearsal room was located. When it was searched by the Stasi in 1983, Rompe offered the musicians his attic apartment at Fehrbelliner 7 as a rehearsal room. The band Die Firma, formed in 1983, and Rompes' own group Feeling B , formed in the same year, also used its space for this.

In 1990 Rompe occupied the vacant building at Schönhauser Allee 5, which was just one street away and comprised 32 apartments in a front and a rear building, with the aim of establishing a cultural venue there with concerts, band rehearsal rooms and other places for creative work. Together with like-minded people he founded the association Independent Autonomous Action Wydoks , the association received the approval of the municipal housing administration to give the apartments to new tenants within a period of time and thus to actively influence the selection of residents. Rompe received an ABM position and, together with a fellow campaigner, was coordinator for youth and media in the house. The basic principle of the house was similar to that of a commune , but according to companions, there were often arguments between the residents of the front and rear buildings, many of whom belonged to the punk scene. The house became the property of an investor in 1998. Rompe lived there until 1999, when he was the last resident to leave the house in May of that year. Rompe had previously filed a criminal complaint against the investor. He accused him of coercion, two "thugs" threatened him on May 17th, beat him and forced him to sign the termination of his rental contract. The investor denied this.

Spy and imprisonment

Rompe was continuously monitored from 1972 to 1989 by the Ministry for State Security (MfS). The MfS used various means, for example the imposition of pre- trial detention , the use of unofficial employees , postal surveillance and observation . On February 3, 1978, an arrest warrant was issued against him for participating in the 1978 fat cats fear calendar, which was classified as subversive . He was in custody for three months. He was released much earlier than others involved in the calendar campaign. The preliminary investigation against him was discontinued, while the other three persons involved received prison terms of between two and a half and three and a half years and were then expelled from the country. Following companion Alyosha Rompes reported that the parents of the Ministry of State Security in this period, one of three houses belonging to the family on the Baltic island Hiddensee ceded or sold cheap for 20,000 East German marks. In the period that followed, until the fall of the Wall, the property was said to have been used regularly by Markus Wolf , then head of the Stasi’s intelligence department, as a holiday home. Rompe himself believed that an article published in Western newspapers about the arrest of an official's son had spared him from prolonged imprisonment. His college friend Carlo Jordan had set this up to help Rompe. However, there is no evidence for a connection between these events.

When the MfS was dissolved in 1990, Rompe worked actively in the operational group of the security group of the Central Round Table . He worked with the Stasi dissolution committee and, with friends, prepared the organization and construction of a Stasi museum, which was also to serve as a general secret service museum. The museum, which, contrary to his plans, he did not realize himself, but for which he selected numerous exhibits at the time and "temporarily stored" them in a building on Normannenstrasse in Berlin, has existed at the same location since November 1990 and bears the name Normannenstrasse Research and Memorial Site .

Separation of feeling B and further life path

Rompes band Feeling B split up around Christmas 1993 when his two permanent co-musicians Paul Landers and Flake Lorenz got out after a concert in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei . After three albums together, the musicians had not been able to agree on a common musical style a short time before. Landers, Lorenz and the already retired guest drummer Schneider had prepared a fourth, stylistically changed album in the course of the year. Rompe refused this when his bandmates played it for him after his return from a stay abroad.

Landers and Lorenz joined the new, then unknown band project Rammstein at the beginning of 1994 , of which Schneider was one of the founding members. The band Feeling B gave a farewell concert at the Steinbrücken Festival at Whitsun 1994. Rompe was then still active as a singer - now exclusively in his previous music side project Santa Clan , which he renamed Aljoscha and the Santa Clan .

At the end of 1997 / beginning of 1998 he reactivated Feeling B with two new musicians. The group first played the old Feeling B songs, but also developed new songs in a musical style that was expanded to include techno elements. The group could no longer build on the popularity of the old formation in Eastern times. According to a bandmate, there were also more and more concert cancellations because Rompe was under the influence of drugs. Feeling B neu gave their last concert on October 2nd, 1999 in Weißwasser / Oberlausitz .

In the 1990s, Rompe increasingly devoted himself to esoteric topics. For fear of poisoned food, he began to commute all dishes and underwent strict fasting cures several times, experimented with forms of oxygen therapy and purchased devices that were supposed to positively influence the radiation in the room. Among other things, he had an orgone accumulator built and was a supporter of Wilhelm Reich's theories . Companions report that during this time he increasingly lost interest in and contact with his social environment in Berlin.

Death and remembrance

Aljoscha Rompe died at the age of 53 on the night of November 23, 2000 in his mobile home parked in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg near Schönhauser Allee 5 of a severe asthma attack. He had gone out with friends that evening and had problems with asthma there too, which he suffered from throughout his life.

Friends, former band members and other companions paid tribute to Rompe and his work on December 19, 2000 - initially at a memorial service at the Friedrichsfelde central cemetery , the so-called cemetery of the socialists, and in the evening at a memorial concert in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei . In addition to his new Feeling B co-musicians from the late 1990s, many musical companions from the 1970s and 1980s performed here, including numerous other bands such as The Yellow Wahnfried , the Bolshevik Kurkapelle black-red and the others . His old Feeling B colleagues Flake Lorenz, Paul Landers and Christoph Schneider, who have all been successful with the Rammstein band since leaving Feeling B , also gave a short concert. That evening they played under the name Die Magdalene Keibel Combo - an old side project by Landers and Lorenz from the eighties - four songs from the repertoire of Feeling B and the Keibel Combo.

On the day of the funeral, the Berliner Zeitung wrote:

“The band, in which hardly anybody had mastered their instrument and whose most important demand was 'Mix me a drink', was classified as a 'special level band'. So she was able to demand a good fee and mileage allowance from the organizers. The recordings in the Amiga studio turned into wild barbecues, hundreds of guests poured into the courtyard on Brunnenstrasse. Feeling B was the only GDR band to manage their own record with real garage sound with their roaring rompes, roaring guitars and a quacky Casio turmoil. "

- Torsten Wahl, Berliner Zeitung

A few days earlier, the taz had already written:

“Everyone agreed that Alyosha couldn't sing, but that was definitely not his problem. He sang. He sang loudly. Guitarist Paul Landers and bassist / Casio expert Flake Lorenz provided the hectic, galloping sound of Feeling B, which by their very existence and this rhythm showed many that everything was possible if you only dared. "

- Thomas Winkler, taz

Rompe was buried in the Inselfriedhof Hiddensee, where his stepfather is also buried.

Aljoscha Rompe was the father of one daughter. However, the two never met in person.

In 2014, the author Lutz Seiler published the novel Kruso , which takes place on the island of Hiddensee and whose eponymous hero bears a clearly recognizable resemblance to Aljoscha Rompe.

Movies

Aljoscha Rompe documented the development of the squatter and musician scene in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg for several years from 1989. The film What does a chameleon see when it looks in the mirror (2007, director: Matthias Aberle), which is composed of some of his short films and documentaries, was created from his previously unpublished estate .

In addition, Rompe can be seen together with his band Feeling B in the DEFA production whispering & screaming - a rock report published in 1988 , in which the band was portrayed together with eastern rock groups such as Silly , Sandow and Chicorée .

radio

Rompe operated the pirate station Radio P from 1990 to around 1994 , which broadcast alternately from the occupied houses in Schönhauser Allee No. 5 and No. 20 and the Kunsthaus Tacheles .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Rompe, Alyosha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rompe, Arthur Alexander; Jessen, Arthur Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin book
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 2000
Place of death Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg