Turmoil in the eyes

Turmoil in the eyes
Studio album by Pankow
Publication (s)	1988
admission	1988
Label (s)	Amiga
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	11
running time	40:12
occupation	Singing: André Herzberg Guitar: Jürgen Ehle Bass: Ingo Griese Drums: Stefan Dohanetz Keyboards: Rainer Kirchmann Wind instruments: Fun Horns ( ) Slide guitar: Heiner Witte ( ) 2nd guitar: Heiner Witte ( ) Choir: Ines Paulke , Anke Schenker ( )
production	Rainer Kirchmann Jürgen Ehle Klaus Peter Albrecht
Studio (s)	Sieghart Schubert's studio in Quadenschönfeld
chronology No Stars (1986) Turmoil in the eyes Paule Panke (live 1982) (1989)

Aufruhr im Augen is an album by the band Pankow , which was released on Amiga in 1988 . It is the last album produced by the band in the GDR , apart from the subsequent release of the 1982 recording by Paule Panke in 1989.

Reception and style of music

Pankow's subversive and provocative texts have always been a thorn in the side of many cultural officials in the GDR. With the onset of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s, the SED officials tried to shield their country from similar developments. The statement made by Kurt Hager , who was then responsible for science, popular education and culture in the Central Committee of the SED, became known :

"By the way, would you feel obliged to repackage your apartment as well, if your neighbor was repackaging his apartment?"

- Kurt Hager

which met with rejection and resistance from the Soviet leadership and in large circles of the GDR population.

The album Aufruhr im Augen , which was released in this historical phase, with lyrics for songs like boredom or Gib mir'nzeichen, as well as the provocative appearance of Pankow in the West German media, drew circles as far as the Central Committee of the SED .

Lines like this:

“Seen the same country too long / heard the same language too long.
Waited too long, hoped too long / Adored the old men too long.
I ran around / ran around too much. / Run around too much. / And yet nothing happened "

- Excerpt from boredom

"Come on, I'll get you out, out, out / Then we'll go away.
Give me a sign / the others don't need to see it. / Give me a sign. "

- Excerpt from text give me a sign

led to a violent response in the media, presented by Hans Albrecht , first secretary of the SED district leadership in Suhl:

“Communists and citizens reacted with deep indignation to the provocative slander against our country, the party, leading functionaries and established communists, but also, for example, to the fact that on November 18 a group Pankow appeared in a broadcast of the regional television program of the FRG Hessen III and claimed that she could only sing in the GDR if the Ministry of Culture allowed it, and could produce a song against the men of our party. It is asked why such groups have the opportunity to appear on television in the FRG when carrying out the cultural exchange. "

- Hans Albrecht

The criticism of the GDR superiors could not prevent the production and distribution of the album and the performance on the radio and at concerts of the band. The tour that followed in 1989 with the Big Band of the Staff of the Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany through the GDR was indicative of the already changing times , on which the title of the album was brought to a wide audience despite all resistance.

Musically, the title is turmoil in the eyes characterized by complex arrangements using a horn section (Fun Horns), background vocals and the support of Heiner Witte ( white grub ), one of the most slide guitarists of the former GDR.

On November 12, 2016 the turmoil began in the Frannz Club in Berlin . Pankow play the songs from the album of the same name from 1988 in an unplugged version.

Track list

A side

1. Riot in the eyes - 3:50 ** / ****
   (K: Pankow / T: Herzberg)
2. Lonely - 3:04 *
   (K: Kirchmann / T: Herzberg)
3. Boredom - 4:16 *
   (K: Kirchmann / T: Herzberg)
4. Street noise - 3:12 ***
   (K&T: Ehle)
5. Marilyn - 3:14 * / ****
   (K: Kirchmann, Griese / T: Herzberg)
6. Give me a sign - 3:50 * / ****
   (K: Ehle / T: Herzberg)

B side

1. I am me - 4:22 *
   (K: Ehle / T: Eckhard Mieder)
2. The outlier - 3:57 ***
   (K: Ehle / T: Eckhard Mieder)
3. You won't get me - 2:45
   (K: Ehle / T: Janus Kopf)
4. I'm with you - 3:06
   (K: Kirchmann / T: Herzberg)
5. Back on the road - 4:36 * / ****
   (K: Kirchmann, Ehle / T: Herzberg)

(*) Brass: Fun Horns
(**) Slide Guitar: Heiner Witte
(***) 2nd Guitar: Heiner Witte
(****) Choir: Ines Paulke , Anke Schenker

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} record cover
2. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 228
3. ↑ ^{a b} Fun Horn's homepage . Retrieved December 4, 2011.
4. ↑ : "That released a lot of energy" Interview with the band Pankow on taz.de, accessed on August 23, 2020
5. ↑ Interview with Kurt Hager. In: Neues Deutschland , April 10, 1987, p. 3
6. ↑ Walter Suess : State Security at the End: Why the Powerful Didn't Succeed in Preventing a Revolution in 1989 . 2nd Edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-86153-181-X , p. 79 f.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rauhut: Shawm and leather jacket . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-065-X , p. 257 ff.
8. ^ Text of boredom ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ Text by Gib mir'nzeichen ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
10. ↑ Hans Albrecht. In: Neues Deutschland , 3./4. December 1988, p. 7
11. ↑ Kasper: Double the joy of playing . In: Junge Welt , June 20, 1989 online ( Memento from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Dates 2016-17 . electrocadero.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016.