Gille Lettmann

Gerlinde (Gille) Lettmann (* around 1950) is a trained textile designer and record producer from Cologne . At the side of Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser , she was involved in numerous business and musical publications by German music groups on the labels Ohr , Pilz and Kosmische Kuriere from 1970 to 1975.

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In 1968 Gille Lettmann met Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser , who also worked as a freelance author in the Panoptikum team, through Hubert Maessen , the co-founder and editor of the monthly radio collage Panoptikum of the NDR / WDR . Lettmann and Kaiser became a couple. From 1971 she got more and more into Kaiser's record label Ohr und Pilz , which he built up as managing director from 1970 with the financial support of Peter Meisel .

In 1972, Lettmann came under the influence of former Harvard professor and drug advocate Timothy Leary . She internalized his views and found in him a kind of guru . Under the increasing influence of LSD on her production activities, her and Kaiser's record companies gradually broke up and ended in contractual disputes with the artists of the time such as Edgar Froese or Klaus Schulze .

In 1974 Kaiser and Lettmann again founded a record label called Kosmische Kuriere . During this phase of her musical and artistic work, Lettmann took over the helm in her record company, which Kaiser and she had since acquired from Peter Meisel. They published - sometimes without the knowledge of the musicians and after secretly administered drug cocktails to the artists - recordings that they subsumed under the term cosmic music . Lettmann's large-scale Cosmic Jokers campaign with the design of tarot cards as an addition to an album and with self-designed cosmic costumes for the musicians to wear was met with incomprehension in the trade press . As a last step, Gille Lettmann acquired a new personality and called himself the star girl .

From 1975, after her company went bankrupt, she and Kaiser withdrew from the public eye.

Musical participation

• Guest on Witthüser & Westrupp , Trips + Träume , Label Ohr, 1971
• Hum, Indian and Mexican wind chime on Witthüser & West Rupp, The Jesus Mushroom , Mushroom label, 1971
• North Cambodian greyhound, stamping feet, choir on Witthüser & Westrupp, Bauer Plath , Label Pilz, 1972
• Voice on Cosmic Jokers, Galactic Supermarket , Label Cosmic Music, 1974
• Voice on Cosmic Jokers, Sci Fi Party , Label Cosmic Music, 1974
• Story on star girl, Gilles Zeitschiff , label Kosmische Musik, 1974

Web links

• Gille Lettmann at Discogs (English)
• Jan Reetze: Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser & Gille Lettmann: The Story of the Cosmic Couriers , Blog Jan Reetze. Music, media and more , May 23, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Done, said - and written ( memento of the original from October 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homepage Hubert Maessen  
2. ^ ^{A b} Jan Reetze: Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser and Gille Lettmann 2011 . Unsent radio manuscript from 1998, 2011 updated and expanded in collaboration with Archie Patterson. Retrieved December 27, 2012
3. ^ Affaires: Principle of Joy , Der Spiegel , accessed December 20, 2012
4. ↑ Achim Breiling: Cosmic Jokers. Gilles time ship , baby blue pages
5. ↑ Werner Pieper : Everything seemed possible ..., The green branch 252, ISBN 978-3-925817-52-6 , p. 55.
6. ↑ Johannes Waechter: The Return of the Krautrock Couriers ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Music blog SZ-Diskothek , Sueddeutsche Zeitung , June 18, 2009 
7. ^ All information according to: Gille Lettmann , Krautrock-Musik Zirkus, accessed on December 20, 2012