Karl's grandson
| Karl's grandson | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Musical theater , song |
| founding | 1976 |
| resolution | 1986 |
| Founding members | |
| Hans-Eckardt Wenzel | |
| Elke Wenzel | |
| Ralf Kober | |
| Stefan Koebel | |
| Rolf Fischer | |
| Thomas Bruhn | |
| Werner Karma | |
| former members | |
| Steffen Mensching | |
Karl's Enkel was a song theater group that was founded in East Berlin in 1976 and existed until 1986.
Band history
Karl's grandson was founded as an independent theater group, whose program consisted of musical and theatrical elements. The name referred to Karl Marx as well as Karl Valentin , the texts dealt with the then current conditions in the GDR . The members were Hans-Eckardt Wenzel , Elke Wenzel, Ralf Kober, Stefan Körbel, Rolf Fischer, Thomas Bruhn and Werner Karma . In 1979 the group received the FDJ's art prize , the Erich Weinert Medal . However, the Zieharmonie program in the same year was displeasing to the authorities. Karl's grandson took part in the festival of political song almost every year during its existence .
In 1980, Karma left the group and became a freelance poet and rock lyricist . In the same year Steffen Mensching joined the group. In 1982 Hammer = Rehwü was performed together with the Beckert & Schulz duo and the Wacholder band , a revue in the style of Erwin Piscator from the 1920s. From 1982 Wenzel and Mensching performed successfully as the clown duo Weh & Meh. In 1986 Karl's grandson was dissolved and re-established as the Bolshevik spa orchestra .
Well-known songs are Sektlied (1977) and Flieg, Siggi, flieg (1978), which refers to the cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn , as well as Streit und Kampf, published on record in 1979 , the setting of a poem by Erich Mühsam .
Discography
Albums
- 1994: Hammer = Rehwü (Nebelhorn / Buschfunk )
Pieces on compilations
- 1979: Controversy and struggle at the 9th Festival of Political Song ( Amiga )
literature
- Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd edition, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .
- David Robb: Clown-like cabaret aesthetics using the example of Karl Valentins and Wenzel & Menschings . In: Joanne McNally, Peter Sprengel (ed.): Hundred years of cabaret. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2003, ISBN 978-3826024887 , p. 127/128. ( Online )
- David Robb: Two clowns in the land of lost laughter. The song theater Wenzel & Menschings . 1st edition, Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-86153-156-9 .
Web links
- Report on the 25th anniversary of Hammer = Rehwü ( Memento from June 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article in Folker! on Hans-Eckardt Wenzel , accessed on December 28, 2010.
- ↑ Proof of spelling , accessed on December 29, 2010.