Brigitte Stefan & Meridian

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Brigitte Stefan & Meridian
General information
Genre (s) Rock , Neue Deutsche Welle
founding 1969
resolution 1990
Founding members
Brigitte Otto
Vocals, guitar
Heinz Putz
Michael Strauss
guitar
 Erhard Kostka
guitar
 Christian boy
Günther Leonhard
Last occupation
singing
 Brigitte Stefan
Frank Zückmantel
bass
 Torsten Grossmann
Drums
 Arndt Schmidt
Stefan Schulze
former members
guitar
 Michael Lehrmann
guitar
 Bernd Fleischer
guitar
 Christian Lohs
guitar
 Jürgen Punkt
bass
 Matthias Langenfeld
Keyboard
 Wolfgang Schweimer
Drums
 Günther Putz
Drums
 Rolf Epperlein
Annual hit parade of the GDR
title
When you think I'm stupid
  GDR 29 1982
Line 6
  GDR 33 1982
Alone
  GDR 39 1984

Brigitte Stefan & Meridian , originally JTO Meridian , is a German band that was founded in the GDR in 1969 and existed until 1990. The band turned to the Neue Deutsche Welle in 1981 and achieved their greatest successes.

history

In 1969 the group was founded by Heinz Putz - back then as JTO Meridian. The abbreviation “JTO” stood for “youth dance orchestra”, a term used in the GDR music scene for music bands.

In 1976 the band was renamed Brigitte Stefan & Meridian. With the acquisition of professional IDs, which was a prerequisite for professional work in the GDR, the band switched to the professional camp. The band now made regular radio recordings. The first record was released in 1976 with the song Oh, was that a guy.

With the success of the Neue Deutsche Welle, the band found its musical role in GDR popular music. Line 6 in the style of the West Berlin band Ideal was a first hit. This was followed by other successful songs like When you think I'm stupid, men and alone. Songs sung by Ideal were also part of the repertoire .

In 1985 the band released their first album after various radio productions and deployments on Amiga samplers.

At the end of the 1980s the group was renamed Brigitte Stefan & Band. After the reunification , the band broke up in November 1990.

Brigitte Stefan

Brigitte Stefan was born Brigitte Otto in Chemnitz in 1952 . After her apprenticeship as a hairdresser, she completed a vocal training in the studio for entertainment arts in Dresden. From 1975 to 1977 she studied singing at the Dresden Music Academy .

She borrowed her stage name Brigitte Stefan from the middle name of her husband Heinz Stefan Putz. She has had the real name Brigitte Putz since her marriage. From 1990 to 2007 she was the managing director of the music house CHARTS 9001 at the Rosenhof in Chemnitz.

Discography

Albums

  • 1985: Brigitte Stefan & Meridian ( Amiga )
  • 1996: Moments (Noiseworks / BuschFunk )
  • 2007: The greatest hits (Amiga)

Sampler

  • 1979: Schlagersterne 1 '79 (Amiga)
  • 1980: Kleeblatt (2/1980) (Amiga)
  • 1982: The album Rock-Bilanz 1982 (Amiga)
  • 1982: Line 6 - New Dance Music (Amiga)
  • 1987: Jugendliebe Vol.4 CD 2 (Amiga)
  • 2003: Strong Women ( BMG )
  • 2003: Dt-64 Story Vol.6 (BMG)

Singles

  • 1984: Alone (Amiga)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rock Lexicon of the GDR
  2. ↑ Portrait at ostbeat.de ( memento from October 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 3, 2014
  3. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , pp. 43 .
  4. ↑ Portrait at deutsche-mugge.de
  5. ^ Christian Hentschel , Peter Matzke: When I went away ... The great GDR rock book . New Life, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-355-01733-6 , pp. 157 .
  6. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , pp. 296 .
  7. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , pp. 295 .
  8. ↑ Ostrocklexikon P70
  9. ↑ https://www.online-handelsregister.de/handelsregisterauszug/sn/Chemnitz/M/Musikhaus+CHARTS+9001+GmbH/941285 , accessed on March 7, 2019