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Feuertanz is an Ilmenau folk band .

history

Founded in 1979, three weeks before the 2nd Ilmenau Folklore Days at the then TH Ilmenau . Because a band had canceled the opening concert, the founding members Klaus Fröhlich (accordion), Gernot Ecke (mandolin, flutes and guitar), Dieter Kalka (guitar and accordion) and Christian Deather (flute and guitar) formed the group Feuertanz, named after the Bulgarian red wine with a gypsy dancer on the label. Jörg Reuter drew the poster for the Folklore Days and the first band poster.

The first appearance was on October 12, 1979. Shortly beforehand, the founding members, all jazz club members, went to the GDR open chanson days at the Michaelstein Monastery in a spontaneous action . Since then the band has played in changing line-ups. The former founding member and current university lecturer Gernot Ecke is still the head of the group that, even in the GDR era, opposed any kind of appropriation and any professional flair to this day.

Cornelia Henk later joined them as a singer and Joachim Richard as a violinist. The latter married in Hungary and invited the band and musicians friends with them every two years to casual summer workshops in Teresztenye, later to changing locations.

In the summer the band regularly drove with changing programs on 10-day covered wagon tours through Thuringia, a kind of romantic folklore tour. In autumn the Ilmenau Folklore Days were organized by the band, most recently by Knut Hübner.

Important band members

  • Thomas Zillmer, 1981–1984, guitar, accordion, flutes, vocals (today Caravan, Berlin)
  • Nils Würfel, since 1984, double bass, percussion, guitar, vocals
  • Knut Hübner, since 1985, bassoon, bandoneon, vocals, shawm
  • Susanne Würfel, 1985–1989, vocals
  • Sabine Kühn, 1984, vocals
  • Ronald Gensicke, 1986–1990, violin
  • Olaf Bieck, 1989–1990, guitar
  • Daniel Gawendowicz, 1988–1991, violin (today Caravan, Berlin)
  • Dirk Eberhardt, 1989–1999, flutes, bandoneon, vocals
  • Sigrun Hartmann, 1990–1997, violin
  • Carsten Lindig, 1996–1999, guitar
  • Joachim Rosenbrück, 1999–2004, violin, guitar, mandolin, forest zither, vocals
  • Michael Petersen, from 1998, guitar, violin, clarinet, vocals
  • Heike Ludwig, from 2006, accordion, guitar
  • Frank Trebsdorf, from 2008, guitar, violin

Special guests:

  • Wolfgang Lauer, 1986–1988, professional cabaret artist and singer, for many years also artistic guidance
  • Jens Hichert, 1992–1998, guitar, vocals
  • Christian Hahn, from Caravan (Berlin), has been on a covered wagon tour since 2006
  • Thomas Zillmer, from 1981 to 1984 with Feuertanz, now with Caravan (Berlin), since 2006 with covered wagon tours
  • casual collaboration with the puppeteer Frank Ulke

Programs

  • "Sholem Alejchem" (1984)
  • "When the Beggars Dance" (1984)
  • "I laugh through tears" (1985/86)
  • "My family tree is not exactly selected" (1988)
  • "To the audience ..." (1989)
  • "The situation is hopeless, but not serious!" (1992)
  • "Obeying necessity, not one's own instinct" (1996)
  • "... sometime the Grim Reaper will come" (2002)
  • "Holes in the Shoe" (2003)
  • "Water and Wine", Folkoper (1994/95)
  • "It started so well ...", Folkoper (1997/98)
  • "The moon is our sun ..." (2007/08)
  • "Mutiny on the Octopus"

The covered wagon tour

Since 1984 the band has been on a regular wagon tour with a cart and the coachman Joachim Stötzer from Marlishausen. So far more than 15 times through Thuringia to make music on stages, in holiday homes, restaurants, castles and palaces. Overnight stays in tents and barns, on the street or around the campfire. A special program is drawn up for each covered wagon tour.

CDs and publications

Various CDs and live recordings, which are sold by the band without a record label, and some song books, published by Feuertanz.

Stasis reporter

Members of the band were questioned several times on various occasions. Because of copying forbidden scripts, the band around them was de-registered. The student accommodation was searched during the interrogation. Forbidden songs were found at Gernot Ecke, which he had to hand over on instructions. When Dieter Kalka performed [1982] (who was accompanied on some songs by 2 members of the group “Feuertanz”) "... Kalka made allusions to the New Germany in such a way that no one could swallow what was written in it. .. The Kalka song is about a sausage seller in Berlin who watches a man feeding pigeons ... with bread that is wrapped in newspaper. The seller is now surprised that the animals eat what has been thrown, where else 'no one could swallow the stuff in the ND ' ".

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ Dieter Kalka's website
  2. ↑ Band hike in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains
  3. ^ Jörg Reuter, mosaic
  4. ↑ Michaelsstein Monastery
  5. ^ Folk opera based on texts by Dieter Kalka and Gernot Ecke
  6. ↑ Stasi report on the lost song Der Bockwurstmann : Gez. "Jürgen Runge", June 10, 1982, BV Suhl, KD IL, ZMA 10041, BSTU