Freygang
| Freygang | |
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.jpg) Freygang at the Sun Flowers Festival 2008 in Freiberg |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Blues rock , rock |
| founding | 1977 |
| resolution | 2019 |
| Website | www.freygang-band.com |
| Founding members | |
| André Greiner-Pol († 2008) | |
guitar |
Pure Gaszak |
bass |
Jens Saleh |
| Peter Talmann | |
| Pure Lorenz | |
| Frank Nicolovius | |
Blues harp |
Michael Mirek |
| Last occupation | |
Guitar, vocals, mandolin |
Egon Kenner |
Vocals, bass, flute, accordion |
Tatjana Besson |
Guitar, vocals |
Brian Bosse |
Drums |
Maik Smolle Smolarczyk |
Bass, keyboard |
Andreas Kick |
| former members | |
bass |
Christian Liebig today: Karat , Andreas Kersten, Wolf-Dieter Mohr, Ulli Schauf, Kay Lutter today: In Extremo , Hansi Müller-Fornah |
Keyboard |
Marek Buck, Joe Seemann |
Bass, keyboard |
Peter Cichy |
singing |
Bobby Tolupo |
guitar |
Gerhard Eitner , Sebastian Mucci-Reichel, Rainer Hensel today: Hensley , Michael Lefty Linke today: Monokel , Michael Codse Malditz today: Mama Basuto , Peter Falkenhagen, Karl-Heinz Prochaska, Detlef Nitz, Hans-Peter Lange , Michael Lehmann, Gerry Franke , Kurt Schimmelpfennig, Detlef Maler, Gerhard Bächer, Wilfried Eckstein |
Drums |
Karl-Heinz Kestner, Wilfried Eckstein, Reiner Morgenroth, Bernd Verch, Ronald Vorpahl |
Frey transition in 1977 by André Greiner-Pol as a blues-rock band in East Berlin founded and developed in the 1980s to one of the most important bands of the GDR - underground movement . Freygang saw himself as part of the political and social underground and expressed this clearly in her texts and was involved in various projects (including Wydoks , Occupation of the Eimers in Berlin and Halt's Maul Germany ).
history
Freygang was founded in 1977 when the blues euphoria in the GDR was peaking. The band achieved a top spot in the blues scene and retained their amateur status until 1989 . Under the motto The blues must be armed, otherwise no pig will believe you , AGP , inspired by Rio Reiser , began to write system-critical texts in the early 1980s. The result was a one-year performance ban .
Undeterred, the band continued after the forced break, performed at the blues fairs in East Berlin and won their favor with their German-language, direct texts (for example in bureaucracy , talkers and hate what, biste what ) and because of their closeness to the audience, while the distance to the other bands on the scene grew and Freygang was considered by the musicians to be the weird birds of the scene. At the same time, the band's musical style also changed. Freygang increasingly oriented himself towards the West German band Ton Steine Scherben . Cover versions like I don't want to become what my age is from clay, stones shards or I am a murderer from Mon Dyh were created and are still part of the band's program today. In 1983, before Freygang once again experienced a two-year revocation of the performance license by the GDR authorities, a concert took place in Ketzin in front of over 7,000 spectators, a recording of which was released on CD in 1998.
Despite the renewed ban, the band had not lost their popularity. About 3000 fans came to one of the first concerts after the re-admission in 1985 in the Leipzig Congress Hall. But just a year later, the band members were arrested on stage during an open air concert near Dresden and were banned from performing for life. From 1986 to 1989, individual band members appeared in order to circumvent the ban, sometimes using pseudonyms in various projects ( André and the rockets ) and bands ( Pasch ). In 1988 Freygang made a guest appearance under the name OK on the Druzhba route in the Soviet Union .
Freygang has been active as a band again since 1989. The blues became hard rock and soft punk rock . At the beginning of 1990 Freygang participated together with the bands Die Firma and Ichfunktion in the squatting to save the bucket and founding the alternative art house Tacheles in Berlin as well as other political and social campaigns. Together with Feeling B and Die Firma, the Autonome Aktion Wydoks was founded in April 1990 , which ran for local elections in East Berlin on May 6, 1990 , but remained unsuccessful. Within three days and three nights, Freygang, Ichfunktion and Die Firma, with the support of the punk band Herbst, recorded the GDR's last long-playing record in Beijing in May 1990.
On October 3, 1990, the band performed on Berlin's Alexanderplatz under the motto Halt's Maul Deutschland . The event was violently broken up by the police. Following the record release tour when the wind turns , the band gave a guest performance in Italy . In April 1993 Freygang recorded a live album at the Knaack Club in Berlin and then went on tour again. Since this year Tatjana Besson from the befriended and disbanding band Die Firma at Freygang has been playing bass. In the summer of 1994 the band organized a biker meeting for the first time in Hohenlobbese near Wiesenburg / Mark , which takes place every year to this day and has become a well-known open-air festival in East Germany. In 1996 AGP went into the studio, digitally edited recordings from the 1980s and released them on the CD Steil & Geil . At the end of the 1990s, when many squatters had become homeowners and numerous alternative art projects of the past were increasingly inferior to commerce , the band became quieter.
From 2000 to 2008 Freygang played with an unchanged line-up. In 2000, the Berlin publishing house Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf published the Freygang biography with a foreword by Michael Rauhut , in which he provides insights and background information on the scene. In P eitsche. O costs. In over 100 short stories, Pol loves to tell the then 22-year history of Freygang. The out-of-print book is an insider tip for insiders, fans and others interested in GDR rock music . With Berlinverbot , a concert recording from 1985, the band once again successfully presented their earlier titles, which could not be released in the GDR.
Another high point in Freygang's history came with the joint appearance with Ton Steine Scherben Family on January 14, 2005 in the Ufa factory in Berlin . A year later the band successfully gave eight concerts in Scotland and England .
In 2007, Freygang once again drew attention to himself in front of the US Embassy in Berlin with a protest concert for the civil rights activist Mumia Abu-Jamal, who was sentenced to death . In 2007 the anniversary concert for the 30th anniversary of Freygang took place in Packebusch in Altmark .
At the beginning of 2008, the band took part in the production of a tribute CD, which their record label Buschfunk released in June 2008 on the occasion of the commemorative concert for the tenth anniversary of Gerhard Gundermann's death . In summer 2008, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Freygang went on tour again under the motto 30 Years Freygang - 30 Years of Movement .
On December 15, 2008, the band's founder André Greiner-Pol died of a heart attack. Since then Freygang has performed under the name Freygang-Band . On January 16, 2009, a farewell concert for André Greiner-Pol took place in the Berlin Kulturbrauerei . At the end of 2009 the studio album Orange was released , some of which still contains tracks with André Greiner-Pol and was completed by the Freygang band. On the occasion of the band founder's 60th birthday, a memorial concert took place on May 12, 2012 in the Berlin Kesselhaus in the Kulturbrauerei , which was released a year later as a concert film on the DVD Anarchy and Ocean . In May 2013 the group went on a multi-week tour through South Africa and Mozambique. In 2015 the band released the album Tanz global . The band broke up in the summer of 2019.
Discography
- 1990: The last days of Pompeii (split LP with the punk bands Ichfunktion and Die Firma)
- 1992: When the wind turns
- 1993: The Children Keep Playing (Live)
- 1994: Golem
- 1996: Steep & Horny (recordings from 1986)
- 1998: Ketzin Live (CD, recording of a live concert in Ketzin from 1983, Flint Records)
- 1998: Land under
- 2001: For love
- 2003: Berlin ban
- 2004: No 9
- 1997/2005: 20 years of movement (VHS / DVD, 45 min documentary film and 20 min live concert Christmas 1996 in Lüttewitz)
- 2005: Am Wegesrand Live (DVD, concert in Hohenlobbese 2005)
- 2007: Live from onion market 2006 (DVD as an encore to the book XXX-Songs 1977–2007)
- 2008/09: Rau & Live in Hohenlobbese (festival sampler, CD double album, Freygang and seven other bands)
- 2009: orange
- 2012: Fairground owner (Best Of)
- 2013: Anarchy and the Ocean (DVD, memorial concert for the 60th birthday of André Greiner-Pol)
- 2015: Dance Global
See also
literature
- André Greiner-Pol: Lash East Love - The FREYGANG book. Edited by Michael Rauhut. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-319-5 .
- André Greiner-Pol: XXX Songs 1977-2007. The Freygang songbook. Buschfunk, Berlin 2007.
- Michael Rauhut, Thomas Kochan: Bye Bye, Lübben City . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89602-602-X .
- Jens Blankenagel: The band Freygang celebrates its 30th birthday , In: Berliner Zeitung of January 7, 2008.
- Christian Schirmer: Pirates in the inland sea GDR: the band Freygang as a model of the "subculture of the long-haired" . Bachelor thesis University of Paderborn 2010.
- Kay Lutter: Bluessommer: A story of freedom, love and music beyond the iron curtain. Lago, Munich 2017, ISBN 9783957611710 . (Novel with adaptations from the Freygang story)
Web links
- Current official website of the band
- Previously the band's official website
- Short article on the band's history
- Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Rauhut , In: Bye bye, Lübben City. P. 60
- ↑ Kay Lutter, In: Bye bye, Lübben City. P. 408
- ↑ Kay Lutter, In: Bye bye, Lübben City. P. 409
- ^ Paul Kaiser, In: Bye Bye, Lübben City. P. 269
- ↑ Simone Schmollack: Freygang , In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Berlin, issue 8/1990
- ↑ http://www.sechzig-vierzig.de/html/punk.htm
- ↑ Torsten Wahl, In: Berliner Zeitung of May 19, 2000
- ↑ Klötzer Volksstimme , January 2, 2009