Kölschrock

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Kölschrock is a variant of rock music with lyrics in Kölsch or in related Ripuarian dialects .

background

Kölschrock is rock music in the 'language of the normal / simple people' in Cologne and the surrounding area, which was also the original target group of Kölschrock. In many cases, no 'deep dialect' is used; Sentences and vocabulary are often based more or less strongly on standard German. In addition, the Kölschrock, at least in its original self-image, sharply distinguished itself from the Cologne carnival music . The texts are serious to socially critical (BAP) or proletarian-alternative (Zeltinger). In 1982, BAP even took an explicit position against the Cologne carnival and its main forms of appearance with the song Nit für Kooche (bliev ich Karneval he) .

history

Rock music in Kölsch was first known around 1980 when BAP and the Zeltinger Band celebrated their first major successes. BAP is considered to be the band that made Kölschrock popular across Germany. Both groups are still active today and BAP in particular continues to dominate the public image of this music genre.

After great, nationwide successes, especially by BAP, interest declined somewhat in the course of the 1980s. In 1988, The Piano Has Been Drinking, a jazz and blues-heavy Kölschrock band, took the stage for a few years. At the beginning of the 1990s, another Kölschrock band, Brings, was added. In 1992 all four successful Kölschrock bands took part in the Cologne campaign against right-wing violence, Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander . After the dissolution of Piano Has Been Drinking, their singer Gerd Köster pursued various solo projects, but still performs with bandmate Frank Hocker in the formation Köster and Hocker .

Trends

Economically, Kölschrock has to struggle with the fact that, firstly, the Ripuarian language area is limited and, secondly, the spread of the dialect is declining, especially among younger urban audiences. Thirdly, there is no possibility of income from the session carnival, with which most of the other Cologne bands derive the majority of their income. Only BAP, who are successful in the entire German-speaking area and have recorded eleven German number one albums in their band history , can still make a living from the “classic” Kölsch rock.

These reasons led to Brings 'changing sides' from 2000, when their song Superjeilezick also had great success at the carnival, and now mainly make mood music. While this change was hotly debated at the time, today there is hardly any clear dividing line to be drawn between Kölschrock and Carnival. In addition to Brings, newer bands such as Kasalla and Cat Ballou also add rock elements in the Cologne dialect to the carnival music.

The main performers

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ADAC image Guides Cologne, ADAC Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3899056877 , page 51, limited preview in Google Book Search