The Caufner sisters

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The Caufner Sisters was a singing trio that was founded in 1977 in the GDR . Members of the group were the three sisters Juliane Albrecht geb. Kaufner, Isa Kaufner and Irina Kaufner. The group played mostly disco music .

Band history

Even as children, the four sisters Iris, Juliane, Isa and Irina Kaufner sang polyphonic movements together in Rostock. Juliane and Isa received a vocal training from 1972 to 1973 and were members of the college formation . The pieces to your and my , When I later walked away from you and from dreams was with Isa Caufner as a solo singer on the compilation -LP in music exams published 1,973th Juliane Kaufner married musician and later Amiga - music producer Klaus-Peter Bee Albrecht. In 1976 the four sisters founded the vocal quartet Caufner Collection . In 1977 they were featured on the TV show Family Disco . Iris Kaufner left the group. The band had to rename itself to the Caufner sisters . By 1978, five episodes were created for the family disco . In 1978, the first single was released Come ; the follow-up single Let this "he" was released in the same year. For their tour program Drei on the go they were awarded the advancement award of the general director of the committee for entertainment arts. The Caufner sisters appeared in the TV show Ein Kessel Buntes and also gave concerts abroad.

In 1980 Isa Kaufner left the trio to appear as Isa Caufner. Among other things, from November 1980 she played for three months in the play The Ogre by the Bulgarian playwright Ivan Radojew at the Volksbühne Berlin . In 1982, Isa Caufner published the pieces You never know by the Caufner sisters and I am I on a compilation . Juliane Albrecht and Irina Kaufner performed as a duo until 1987, Irina died of cancer in 2010. In 1989 Juliane Albrecht founded the country band Country Delight with her husband and other musicians , of which they are still a member (as of 2016).

Discography

Singles

  • 1978: Come on / I love you ( Amiga )
  • 1978: Leave this "he" / What now (Amiga)

Pieces on compilations

  • 1982: You never know and I'm me (solo by Isa Caufner) on Do you still love me? (Amiga)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Juliane Albrecht ( memento from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 14, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Götz Hintze: GDR Rock Lexicon . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
  3. ^ Portrait of Klaus-Peter Albrecht ( Memento of April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 14, 2010