Honest song
| Honest song | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Folk |
| founding | 1978 |
| resolution | 1987 |
| Founding members | |
| Stephan Krawczyk | |
Singing, guitar, mandolin, recorder |
Jürgen Quarg |
Singing, guitar, recorder, forest zither |
Kay Frotscher |
Liedehrlich was a folk group in the GDR that existed until 1987. The best-known member was the later songwriter and GDR dissident Stephan Krawczyk .
Surname
The name is a play on words. On the one hand, the performed songs were apostrophized as "honest", on the other hand, the band described themselves as "dissolute", that is, in a broader sense, as "unadjusted".
Band history
Liedehrlich was founded in January 1978 in Gera by the musicians Stephan Krawczyk, Jürgen Quarg and Kay Frotscher. They played mostly folk songs from the 19th century, especially political songs and drinking songs . Some of the songs were written specifically for song honesty. In 1979 the mocking song Schützenliputzhäusl was banned because it could be understood as an allusion to the GDR reality. The band took part in the festival of political song in 1980.
In November 1981, Krawczyk received the main prize of the GDR Chansontage . In the same year they received one of the three main prizes at the III. Puppet theater festival of the GDR for the staging, composition and musical accompaniment of the play The Princess with the Echo . From 1982 Liedehrlich dealt with the setting of contemporary GDR poetry. In the same year, the band's only LP, Liedehrlich , was released on the GDR record label Amiga . It mainly contains traditional songs, but also pieces that Krawczyk, accompanied by Quarg and Frotscher, performed at the chanson days . From 1984 to 1987 Liedehrlich only worked in twos after Krawczyk left the group at the end of 1983.
Discography
LP
- 1983: Ehrlich Lied (Amiga)
literature
- Lutz Niethammer , Roger Engelmann (Ed.): Stage of dissidence and dramaturgy of repression. A cultural conflict in the late GDR. Göttingen 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-35035-5 .