The central bank

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The central bank was a musical television show on GDR television . It ran from 1969 to 1972 in a total of eight episodes. The central bank was the first German television show that played German rock music . Many bands celebrated their television premieres on this show. The program was directed by Bernd Maywald, who also designed the concept.

procedure

The production consisted of a day of rehearsal and the recording the following day in various event centers in the GDR. The pieces had already been recorded in the GDR radio station's Nalepastraße and were played back on the days of shooting using the playback method. Young people danced freely in front of the stage to the music, mostly in pairs. Cardboard signs were used as decoration to create a club atmosphere. The pieces performed were almost exclusively in German, rarely in Polish. There were also interviews with the musicians. The musicians were mostly amateurs. The second episode is known to last 50 minutes and was originally intended to be broadcast from 9:25 pm to 10:15 pm.

history

The central bank took into account the desire of many young GDR citizens to experience interpreters of the emerging beat and rock music on television. Bernd Maywald, who had already shot a portrait of the Diana Show Quartet with an 8 mm camera converted into a sound film camera , was commissioned as a director at his request, but repeatedly had to fight resistance from the authorities. The first broadcast was produced in 1969 with a random young audience in Berlin-Rauchfangswerder . Before the broadcast, however, it was found that the hair of the male audience was too long, so that the production had to be repeated with the same musicians and titles, but with a more adapted audience. Beat music, songs and hits were played, and the program was presented by Irina Veldre and Thomas Lück . The second, rockier production in February 1970 was recorded in the cellar of the Moritzburg television theater , but was not allowed to be broadcast despite the announcement in the program guide due to the “cellar children's atmosphere”. This led to letters of protest, including from NVA soldiers . It was not broadcast until December 1970, when rock music was being promoted more strongly in the GDR. Instead of Veldre, Evelyn Opoczynski and Thomas Lück continued to moderate .

The title Launched by the Joco Dev-Sextet , produced in 1970, had to be cut out of the third episode produced in East Berlin's Müggelbaude near Müggelsee on instructions from the authorities due to “decadence” . However, other tracks by the band were broadcast. The fourth and fifth episodes were produced in Neubrandenburg , but after that the SED district management banned further productions in the district capital because of “endangering young people”.

In the sixth episode, which was recorded in the youth college of the FDJ at Bogensee near Wandlitz and broadcast in December 1971 , the Puhdys appeared on GDR television after an appearance a few weeks earlier on the show Basar . The band, which previously only played hits in English, presented their first own title with German text in the program: Doors open to the city. Another Puhdys song, Don't get out of the way of the wind, was recorded but cut out and only broadcast in the seventh episode. The eighth and last episode was called NOTENBANK because it was completely dedicated to the Polish band Skaldowie , with only German adaptations.

The following bands and musicians also appeared in the central bank , some as a television premiere.

In 1972, the central bank was closed after attempts by the authorities failed to remove Maywald from directing the program. He had referred to his copyright on the title and sequence of the program.

DVD

  • 2015: The best from the central bank ( Buschfunk )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 211.
  2. ↑ a b c Torsten Wahl: Central Bank Deutschrock in the GDR - launched with short hair. In: Berliner Zeitung . March 19, 2015, accessed October 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ a b c Report on the central bank on NDR television (video; around 6 min), accessed on October 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g The best from the central bank ( Buschfunk ; DVD)