Feeling B

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Feeling B
General information
Genre (s) punk
founding 1983
resolution 1993, 2000
Founding members
Aljoscha Rompe († 2000)
Alexander Kriening (until 1984)
Paul H. "Paulchen" Landers (until 1993)
Otto "Bass-Otto" Leimer (1983, before Flake joined the company)
Keyboard and bass
 Christian "Flake" Lorenz (until 1993)
Last occupation
singing
 Aljoscha Rompe († 2000)
Guitar, keyboard
 "Sascha" Alexandar "Tadic" Goldmann
guitar
 Daniele Pecora
former members
Drums
 Christoph Schneider (1990-1993)
Drums
 Falk Schettler (while filming Whispers and Screams )
Drums
 Winfried Knoll (1984–1987, 1989–1992)
Electric bass
 Christoph Zimmermann († 1999)

Feeling B was a GDR punk band that was founded in East Berlin in 1983 under the name Feeling Berlin by Arthur Alexander "Aljoscha" Rompe together with Alexander Kriening and Paul Landers . It was one of the so-called other bands in the GDR and was the first amateur music group to receive permission under the GDR regime to record a punk music record on the state-owned Amiga label . Several musicians have belonged to the Rammstein band since Feeling B broke up in early 1994 .

style

Feeling B were primarily a live band. The music of their time in the GDR can be classified as fun punk , with experiments also being carried out with alternative sounds and Dadaist structures, which were often found in the group of so-called other bands . At the beginning of the 1990s, Feeling B helped shape the developing scene of medieval rock , which is already beginning to be felt in the 1991 album Wir get dich alle. The following album, The Mask of Red Death, can be clearly assigned to medieval rock . Characteristics of the music of Feeling B in the original line-up (until 1993) are the anarchic, wild rompes vocals and comparatively aggressive e-guitar sounds, combined with bizarre or simple keyboard sounds. The last two elements can clearly be found in the style of the Neue Deutsche Hardness band Rammstein - three former Feeling B members have been playing there since the band was founded in 1994. In public reporting, Feeling B is therefore often referred to as the "nucleus of Rammstein".

The Feeling B project continued by Rompe after 1993 went stylistically in a different, electronic direction.

Feeling B was not commercially successful until after the fall of the Wall when the group began to produce their music on their own label Pirat Music Production - P-Music for short . Feeling B never worked professionally. Among the well-known in the German punk scene titles of the song counts like .

Band history in the GDR

Founding phase and band culture

Feeling B was founded in 1983 under the name Feeling Berlin . Since there was already a chapel with this name, it was called in Feeling B to. The band essentially consisted of Paul Landers ( guitar ), “Flake” Lorenz ( keyboard ) - at that time 18 and 16 years old - and the much older Aljoscha Rompe ( vocals ). For the first year and a half, drummer and founding member Alexander Kriening also belonged to the band, while Flake Lorenz only joined the band a few weeks after it was founded.

In the years before, Kriening had already made music with Rompe in his group Feeling 14 , who, according to their own account, played hiking guitar, folklore and international songs. When the old Feeling 14 line- up split up and Rompe was looking for musicians for a rock band, Kriening first introduced him to the guitarist Landers, whom he had met in 1982 at a concert in the Plänterwald cultural park . When the bassist of the group, Otto "Bass-Otto" Leimer, was canceled, Kriening got in touch with the only 16-year-old Lorenz, whom he had met two years earlier at a school concert. Lorenz recently owned a so-called world champion organ , which had the technical option of separating bass notes and thus replacing a bass player. Both Landers and Lorenz got involved in the band project. The group had their rehearsal domicile in Rompe's apartment at Fehrbelliner Strasse 7 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg .

The first concert in front of an audience took place on May 14, 1983 in the blues club "Sacken" in the Brandenburg town of Teltow . The band - which at that time was still without the required playing permit in the GDR - accompanied the blues rock group Freygang there and played there illegally at the invitation of the band's founder André Greiner-Pol in a break between two music rounds of Freygang. The second appearance took place in the Herzberge Psychiatric Clinic in Berlin-Lichtenberg , before the group finally gave their first real - but still illegal - concert together with the punk bands Rosa Extra and Tantrum in the Auferstehungskirche in Berlin-Friedrichshain . Kriening switched to the former band in 1984 when he left Feeling B. All drummers and other musicians who played with Feeling B in the following years were from then on considered by Rompe, Landers and Lorenz only as guests without a say.

The band and fan culture of Feeling B included a comparatively carefree alcohol consumption. The title Slamersong describes one of the drinking practices, the band built a slamermachine for this purpose - a board rotating around its own axis on which concert-goers and band members could be strapped and turned while they drank a mixture of champagne and tequila. According to Feeling-B companion and Steinbrücken Festival organizer Uwe Hager, the device was created from an idea by Paul Landers. Rompe in particular was heavily drunk at many concerts. According to Flake Lorenz, the group was only able to finish four concerts before the fall of the Berlin Wall, all other auditions ended prematurely because Rompe could no longer sing. Nevertheless, Rompe was considered the head of the band. He managed the finances, organized concerts and the necessary technology, whereby the freedom to travel thanks to a Swiss passport was an advantage for him. Nevertheless, Feeling B - like most punk bands - was often broke and mostly used the simplest means.

The sale of self-made costume jewelry, which was difficult to come by in the GDR, became an important source of secondary income. Rompe used his freedom to travel to buy silver-plated copper wire in West Berlin, which the members processed into earrings and sold the pair for 20 East German marks . With this and with the help of a Swiss scholarship, which Rompe received for studying theater studies in West Berlin and instead exchanged it for Eastern currency, the band made some money and was able to afford their own vehicle. Rompe first acquired a Trabant 500, later an old Robur armored interference suppression vehicle , which the band expanded into a mobile home. The "LO" became a trademark of Feeling B, although the musicians often stayed with it. In the early nineties, this vehicle was the place where the name for the later band Rammstein originated, to which Landers and Lorenz as well as the later Feeling B guest drummer Christoph Schneider belong today.

In the further course the band members walked the path of a tightrope walk between punk and a state-recognized music group. They saw themselves less as accusers of the state, but as happy, independent people who consistently rejected and ironicized the classic life of a GDR citizen - without being clearly critical of the system.

Classification as a state-recognized GDR amateur band

The band in his own words half a year decided by the foundation, a government classification to graduate to a recognized amateur music group performance permit to be. This disturbed the punk scene, which mostly operated illegally in the underground and was persecuted by the state, especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but made it possible for Feeling B to receive remuneration for concerts.

If a new classification was due - this had to be repeated every two years - they translated sensitive song texts into English, according to Landers, so that the jury did not understand them or only understood them little or did not even play them. In addition, they staged elaborate show elements for these auditions in order to win over the committee.

According to Flake Lorenz, Feeling B completed a total of three classifications between 1983 and 1988. The first took place on October 27, 1983 in the Kulturhaus Karlshorst in the district of Berlin-Lichtenberg , the second in the Berlin Prater in the then independent district of Prenzlauer Berg, and a third in the Langhansstrasse youth club in Berlin-Weißensee . Twice the band received the more lucrative special level with an hourly wage of 7.50 marks at the time - in the first classification there was the addition "with concert entitlement", which meant the highest level and enabled the band, in contrast to lower-rated groups, the length and To determine the type of concert herself - once she had to be satisfied with an upper level (6.50 marks / hour).

Both Landers and Lorenz later stated again and again that they fulfilled the obligation to work in the GDR - another basic requirement for a game permit - through real or sometimes simulated part-time jobs and thus avoided any threatening consequences until the reunification. For example, Paul Landers worked part-time as a stoker in the Treptow City Library . Later, after the shooting of the DEFA documentary whispering & screaming - a rock report - Feeling B was one of the protagonists in this film - after the shooting of the DEFA documentary published in 1988, Lorenz and Landers managed to have some people in charge of the film appear to be employing them. In order to be able to prove the activity required for the amateur playing permit, Flake officially worked as secretary, Paul Landers as music editor.

Live performances at home and abroad

The band played throughout the GDR, often in village halls and in front of a mixed crowd, but also with the help of car batteries on the beach on the Baltic islands of Rügen and Hiddensee . The latter was regularly visited by the band in the summer.

According to the members themselves, the quality of the Feeling B foreplay remained rather poor in the 1980s, owed to the low rehearsal intensity, the frequent exposure to alcohol and a rather weak musicality of Rompes - he often had difficulty finding and keeping the beat should be. The group tried to compensate for this shortcoming with entertaining effects and show parts. Rompe, Landers and Lorenz experimented with long intros and stroboscopic light, stretched transparent tarpaulins sprayed with color in front of the stage and performed unclothed at a concert in an open-air swimming pool in Freiberg, Saxony .

In 1986, despite the tense political situation caused by the Solidarność Revolution, the band succeeded in sneaking a business trip through contacts with a Berlin member of the FDJ cultural department in order to be allowed to travel to Poland. There they attended the Jarocin Festival and were so impressed by the size of the event that they decided to want to play here. A year later Feeling B gave a concert there - not on stage, but on the festival meadow.

From 1987 until their separation in 1994, the band also performed every year at the privately organized Steinbrücken Festival , where numerous alternative GDR blues, rock and punk bands such as Freygang or Die Firma , but also West German groups such as Abwärts or Normahl in front of several A thousand visitors played.

In July 1988 Feeling B performed with the British indie rock group The Wedding Present . The latter participated at the invitation of the Berlin FDJ and the GDR radio station DT 64 at a GDR music festival in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle in East Berlin . The other line-up included the American punk-singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman , the Polish punk band Voo Voo and the GDR group The Expander of Progress . On the eve of the concert, musicians from Wedding Present and Feeling B fought a guitar duel at the Tierpark-Club youth club in Berlin-Lichtenberg , which contemporary witnesses describe as "legendary".

Participation in the DEFA film whisper & SCREAM

The band was one of the protagonists in the 1988 DEFA film whispering & shouting - a rock report . The fact that the group became part of this GDR film production at all was due, among other things, to the change in attitude of the authorities towards the alternative music scene, which began in the late 1980s. At this time, the GDR had increasingly opened up to its underground culture, because with the pale puhdys and karats the question of the next generation in the rock music landscape arose. Here were the other bands increasingly become the focus.

Originally the band was not intended for whispering & screaming . The DEFA film team wanted to record performances by the group Chicorée and a local band called Glocke und Pohl in the course of an annual Schwerin bathtub regatta and an associated rock night . But the rock night was banned and canceled at short notice. Since Feeling B should have played there at noon during the regatta, the musicians were already there and came into contact with the film crew. This then decided to shoot with Feeling B and to introduce it as a musical and social alternative to the established rock band Silly , which should also be accompanied on film. According to the dramaturge Jochen Wisotzki, part of the filming team at the time, the chance meeting with the band had a strong influence on the face and character of the film.

First releases and first official GDR punk album

In the course of the changed attitude of the state towards alternative music groups, Feeling B published some titles on samplers of the monopolistic GDR label Amiga . These included the clover leaf no. 23 The other bands (1988) and Parocktikum (1989).

From the early summer of 1989, Feeling B was allowed to record its own LP on Amiga . Hea Hoa Hoa Hea Hea Hoa was the first officially released punk album by a GDR band in the GDR - because previous LP releases by GDR punk bands such as the 1983 album DDR von unten mit Schleim-Keim und Zwitschermaschine and the 1985 sampler Live in Paradise with Ornament & Verbrechen were published in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin and were therefore only available in official stores there.

According to the Amiga editor in charge at the time, Wolf-Dietrich Fruck, Feeling B received production conditions in the Amiga studio - 24 studio days with a total of 128 hours are reported - as they had previously been completely unusual:

“Up until now, only 4-hour sessions were possible in the studio, so three different productions a day. First there was a rock band, then a pop singer and in the evening a songwriter. Since it was clear to me that nothing could be brought into line with this production method with Feeling B (...), I talked my mouth off and convinced the superiors of my company to make the studio completely available to the band. In retrospect, this caused a lot of trouble, by the way, because an article in the youth magazine Neues Leben made serious mockery about this waste of capacity, as the 'good' bands didn't get such privileges. "

- Wolf-Dietrich Fruck, Amiga editor 1983–1990

According to Fruck, the album was not released until January 1990, despite some internal resistance. In particular, a verpunkte version of the Russian Komsomol song Sabota (song of the restless youth) from the pen of the poet Lev Ivanovich Oschanin outraged members of the so-called eavesdropping committee, who considered this an insult to the Soviet Union felt.

Hea Hoa Hoa Hoa Hea Hoa Hea came onto the market with an initial edition of 16,000 pieces. The band received a fee of a little more than 30,000 marks, but had thereby also assigned the marketing rights to their songs to the state company. Rompe bought them back from Amiga after the reunification.

Role of state security

All three band members were temporarily observed by the Stasi . Rompe has been recruited as an IM several times , but has repeatedly declined to collaborate. A so-called IMS preliminary run was opened against Landers in 1987 , a kind of preliminary stage to the recruitment attempt, which was archived by the MfS two years later due to his lack of willingness to cooperate. The ministry suspected Lorenz of exploiting his work at Feeling B to promote and legalize unlicensed music groups that are “distant from socialism” and therefore targeted him in 1985 in the course of a so-called operational identity check (OPK). The OPK was terminated as unfounded a year later.

How it was possible that the members of Feeling B - suspected of the asocial way of life due to their proximity to the punk existence - were able to live their lives largely undisturbed in the GDR state is not clear. On the one hand, they avoided being clearly critical of the system; on the other hand, Rome's stepfather - an SED functionary - could have held a protective hand over the group. However, there is no evidence of this. In May 2018 Flake stated in an interview that according to his Stasi files, musicians from Feeling B had also been active as IMs for the Stasi. He didn't give any details.

History of the band: Political change in 1989/90 and reorientation

First appearances in West Germany

The political changes in their country, it was the band managed to get a Western-day visa for May 26, 1989, so that it Berlin East this evening together with the groups other and Tina Has Never Had A Teddy Bear in Ecstasy Club gave a concert in Berlin-Schöneberg . For the gig, Feeling B had rewritten Udo Lindenberg's special train to Pankow and also played this version. Although an official companion of the GDR Ministry of Culture suggested to the musicians after the performance not to prevent them from staying in the western part of the city, they returned to East Berlin.

From then on, a permanent service visa in the passport enabled the Feeling B members to use the diplomatic crossings on the inner-German border and to commute freely between East and West Berlin, which the musicians said they used mainly to stay at night To go shopping for alcohol as soon as the pubs in the east part were closed.

In the summer of 1989 the band undertook a tour in West Germany, which took them to Braunschweig and Reutlingen, among others. For this she received a Lada from the state along with a trailer and driver as a tour vehicle.

On the evening of November 9, 1989, Feeling B performed together with the others in Pike , a backyard club on Glogauer Strasse in the West Berlin district of Kreuzberg . They only found out about the fall of the Berlin Wall when acquaintances from the eastern part of the city appeared in the club at the end of the concert who had not been able to travel freely until then.

The change from October 1989 had been received with mixed feelings by the band members. Flake in particular found life as a punk in the GDR to be quite beautiful and the political changes in 1989 were rather disturbing. Feeling B saw itself as a "healthy" counterpart to the ossified GDR state and initially even opposed reunification. With the GDR one of the foundations of the previous band's acting and making music disappeared. The need to create a new contrast to society later flowed into the character of Rammstein .

Tours in western countries

From January 18 to 25, 1990, Feeling B took part in a cultural exchange in Paris organized by the GDR art historian Christoph Tannert and the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang as part of a 200-strong East German artist group. They performed in front of just a dozen listeners in the Grande Halle de la Villette during the exchange and, as part of the group, followed a dinner invitation from the wife of then President François Mitterrand , Danielle Mitterrand , to the Elysée Palace . Two of the three band members stayed in town for a total of three weeks with the eastern bands Die Firma and Tom Terror & das Beil in order to take advantage of further opportunities to perform. During this time the musicians lived in dilapidated houses, club and rehearsal rooms. In the further course of the year Feeling B traveled to Zurich together with bands like Die Art and performed there in the alternative cultural center Rote Fabrik .

In 1993 Feeling B wanted to use the freedom to travel to increase its international profile. Rompe, Landers, Lorenz and their guest drummer Christoph Schneider - Landers got to know him in the joint band Die Firma and brought him to Feeling B in 1990 - were the father of Feeling B sound engineer Andreas "Vadda" in February and March of that year (now part of the Rammstein sound tour crew) in the southeastern United States, where they wanted to go on tour. Among other things, they gave a few concerts during the Carnival season in New Orleans , but they caused little enthusiasm among the audience. However, more than 20 years later, Schneider reported in the course of the documentation Rammstein in America that the seriousness of American musicians impressed them on this tour and also influenced their later work.

Album productions after the reunification

Feeling B released two more albums after the fall of the Berlin Wall. For this they founded their own label P-Musik. In 1991, Wir get you all, their second album, was released, on which they addressed the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification in the songs Ich Such die DDR and Revolution 89 . They also designed the covers themselves. The drawings that can be found in the booklet of Wir kriegen you all come from Flake's brother Peter, who today works as a comic artist under the name of Auge Lorenz .

On their third album The Mask of Red Death in 1993, Feeling B mixed medieval instruments and melodies with punk rock elements after they had been present at medieval markets and similar events with sometimes bizarre stage shows for some time. The album itself is considered to be one of the early representatives of the medieval rock scene. In addition, the band staged a medieval show with costumes and theatrical elements and went on tour with it. Part of the show was, among other things, a fire eater that demonstrated various pyro inserts. On September 25, 1993 Feeling B contacted the show at the time of Frank Castorf led Volksbühne Berlin on. Frank Keding, musical director of the Berlin group Bolschewistische Kurkapelle schwarz-rot , which took part in the performance at the time, later said in an interview book about Feeling B about the performance:

“Paul and Flake floated onto the stage with a martial opening, impressively supported by fans, fog and light. At that time there were already signs of what would be completed in later Rammstein shows. "

- Frank Keding, Bolshevik Kurkapelle black-red

With the slam song contained on the second Feeling-B album , the group appeared on the youth TV show Elf 99 of the MDR , moderated by Ines Krüger , and demonstrated their slam machine in front of the cameras, to which singer Rompe was buckled up. The band borrowed parts of the medieval-looking stage decoration, which included burning torches and stuffed wolves, from the Volksbühne.

Band crisis, dissolution and aftermath

Landers, Lorenz and Schneider had already prepared a fourth Feeling B album in the course of 1993. In doing so, they used computer technology for the first time, a new machine-poppy sound should be created. According to Schneider, several songs were already finished. When they presented the work to singer Rompe - who was on vacation during the production - in November 1993, he rejected the new songs. He found, as he said years later in a radio interview, “no thread to it”, it had been noticed that Landers - Rompe explicitly mentioned him in this interview - wanted to go in a different musical direction. The album was no longer released.

Several companions and contemporary witnesses report that the Feeling B guitarist apparently played a leading role in the musical direction of the band, including the Amiga editor at the time Wolf-Dietrich Fruck, who was responsible for the 2010 reissue of the first Feeling B album Hea Hoa Hoa Hea Hea Hoa left a detailed foreword in the CD booklet:

"As early as 1987 (note: the year of recording the Kleeblatt-Sampler) it turned out that Paul Landers was the clear musical head of Feeling B. He can rightly call himself the producer of the album, whereby the sound engineer Gerd Puchelt was certainly a somewhat uncomfortable, but ultimately a very helpful partner for him. (...) By the way, my favorite song on the LP was always 'Tschaka', actually the first Rammstein number for me today. But that's a completely different chapter ... "

- Wolf-Dietrich Fruck, Amiga editor 1983–1990

According to other musicians involved, Landers also took over the work of the producer on the mixing desk for the recordings for the 1991 album Wir get dich alle , which was recorded in the Berlin Vielklang studio, as well as for the 1993 work The Mask of Red Death .

After a concert on Christmas 1993 in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei, Landers announced that he would be leaving Feeling B. He and Lorenz joined the band project Rammstein , which was just emerging , and to which drummer Schneider had already switched. While Landers was already working on a multi-day professional studio production of the new project in February 1994 - the previously four-person formation had applied to the Metrobeat Musikpoll with four first demo songs, was allowed to perform there as one of 14 Berlin up-and-coming bands and received the studio days from the Berlin Senate as Funded funding - Lorenz only officially got involved later. As Landers said, Flake rejected the new band's music, but still came to rehearsals from time to time and didn't want to commit. He was persuaded by the remaining five members because they saw in him not only a good keyboard player, but also an important human opponent.

According to Schneider, parts of the unpublished material - actually composed by Landers, Schneider and Flake for Feeling B - have been incorporated into some of the Rammstein songs.

An official Feeling-B farewell concert took place the following year on May 1, 1994 at the Steinbrücken Festival, where Landers, Schneider and Lorenz also performed with their new band Rammstein.

Rompe was then initially active in the band project Aljoscha and the Santa Clan, but then looked for two new musicians and thus continued the band's history under the name Feeling B New, without being able to build on the old successes. He died of an asthma attack in his mobile home on November 23, 2000 in Berlin . On the occasion of a memorial concert for him, Flake, Schneider and Landers appeared on December 19, 2000 under the name Die Magdalene Keibel Combo - an old side project by Flake and Landers - in the Kulturbrauerei Berlin. They played four songs from the Feeling B and Keibel combo repertoire: Artig , Tschaka , John and Kim Wilde .

The former paid and Corvus Corax musician and companion Jagbird said in retrospect in an interview book at the beginning of the 2000s about the original band Feeling B and their work in the GDR :

“Feeling B was ridiculed by some professional musicians. But I think every musician in the East understood that Feeling B was an extremely explosive band. Feeling B arrived and immediately pulled people up and nobody knew how they did it. Paul and Flake later played as guest musicians in many interesting projects and Paul actually advised and influenced the entire underground youth league. "

- Jagbird, GDR musician

Feeling-B-Album Green & Blue

On November 16, 2007, at the request of Christian Flake Lorenz, Motor Music released a kind of best-of album by Feeling B under the name Grün & Blau . Lorenz had old 24-track tapes from the GDR brand ORWO with Feeling in his basement -B recordings found. Since he had heard from a friend that the magnetic layer could peel off on tapes of this brand after 20 years, he let them "bake" for three days at 60 degrees Celsius - this process was intended to increase the durability for playback - and then afterwards digitize.

On the album, which is named after a song recorded by Landers and Lorenz in 1983 but never released, there are 13 tracks, including well-known Feeling B songs like Alles ist so eheimlich smell , No time , you will never reach the top or Space Race in a partially revised version. This CD has also been enriched with previously unreleased songs from the fourth Feeling B album, which was no longer realized at the time, such as, for example, no time again , ugly or pacemaker . The guitar riffs played there by Landers are reminiscent of the music style of the band Rammstein , of which Lorenz, Landers and Schneider belong to this day. The album is flanked by a 160-page book with private photos, texts and finds from the band's history.

Others

In 2002, the a cappella formation Rostkehlchen from Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, founded in 1994, released a CD with eleven songs by the fun punk group under the name Rostkehlchen sing Feeling B a cappella , including early pieces such as Artig and Hopla He and Unter dem Pflaster , but also songs of the later formation Feeling B new . The songs are sung in the style of the twenties. With the cover designed in red, white and black, the singers leaned on the look of the first Feeling B album Hea Hoa Hoa Hea Hea Hoa , which at the time was in the style of the green and white emergency exit pictogram. Today's left-wing politician , mayor and cultural and European leader of Berlin belonged to the quintet, which, according to media reports in 1998, stood together with Feeling B singer Aljoscha Rompe for recordings in a recording studio , Klaus Lederer .

Since the beginning of the 2000s, a Dresden cover band called Feeling D has also appeared with Feeling B songs, but according to their own account only with pieces from the band's "early and middle creative period".

In his novel Kruso , published in 2014, the author Lutz Seiler describes one of the band's real appearances on the beach on the island of Hiddensee, including a variant of the Slamer drinking practice, but without using the name Feeling B.

Discography

  • Hea Hoa Hoa Hea Hea Hoa (1989)
  • We Get You All (1991)
  • The Mask of the Red Death (1993)
  • Green and Blue (2007, Motor Music)

literature

  • Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister (ed.): We always want to be good ... Revised and expanded new edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-637-2 .
  • Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister: Feeling B - Mix me a drink; Punk in the East - extensive conversations with Flake, Paul Landers and many others. 3. Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89602-905-8 .
  • Motor Music: Feeling B green & blue , book accompanying the CD, 2007 Motor Music, catalog number MOTO7952.
  • Tim Mohr: Don't Die in the Waiting Room of the Future - the East German Punks and the Fall of the Wall , Heyne Verlag Munich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-27127-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tagesspiegel.de: Nur so out of boredom , November 10, 2007, accessed on April 11, 2017
  2. ↑ rbb-online.de: We were the generation of the indifferent , accessed on April 11, 2017
  3. ↑ NMI & MESSITSCH: We don't want that - Paul Landers on Feeling B , issue 1/92, page 50
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  7. ↑ Tim Mohr: Don't Die in the Waiting Room of the Future - the East German Punks and the Fall of the Wall , Heyne Verlag Munich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-453-27127-2 , p. 308.
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  14. ↑ Viva Jam episode 176: Rammstein: Who they are , original sound from 2:22 min., 1997
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