Mona Lise
| Mona Lise | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | pop |
| founding | 1982 |
| resolution | 1989 |
| Founding members | |
Keyboard, vocals |
Lieselotte Liese Reznicek |
guitar |
Antje Wittösch |
Electric bass |
Manuela Rehberg |
Drums |
Christina Tina Powileit |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Elisabeth Phaid Illes |
Electric bass |
Thomas Hergert († 2007) |
guitar |
Peter Scheffler († 1988) |
guitar |
Uwe Weidling |
guitar |
Michael Nass |
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Mona Lise was a German women's band from 1982 to 1989 in the GDR .
Band history
The Pankow manager Wolfgang Schubert founded the women's formation Mona Lise in 1982. Band members were:
- Lieselotte Liese Reznicek (* 1955), ( keyboard , vocals )
- Antje Wittösch (* 1962), ( guitar )
- Manuela Rehberg (* 1962), ( electric bass )
- Christina Tina Powileit (* 1959), ( drums )
Powileit and Rehberg had previously played in the Femini band .
In 1984 her title Tina reached 45th place in the GDR annual hit parade. In the same year Rehberg left the band because of their maternity leave. For this the Hungarian rose
- Elisabeth Phaid Illes joins the band.
Fritz Rau , the promoter of Udo Lindenberg , wanted to engage the band as the opening act for Lindenberg's tour in 1984, but this was rejected by the GDR artist agency.
Annette Humpe tried to market the band in 1986 in the Federal Republic of Germany . However, this failed because she did not get a visa for the GDR for the meeting with the band . In the same year Illes left the band, and they brought in male reinforcements
- Thomas Hergert and
- Peter Scheffler (guitar), who came from Setzei .
In 1988 Peter Scheffler died, then Antje Wittösch left the band,
- Uwe Weidling (guitar) came, also joined
- Michael Nass from P 16 of the band.
The band dedicated the title Come Home to their deceased band member.
In 1989 the front woman Reznicek left the band to work as a teacher and to take care of her son more. Then the band broke up. Today Reznicek also runs a dance and music school and occasionally appears again as a singer. She uses the pseudonym "Mona Liese" based on the earlier band name.
Drummer Tina Powileit played the lead role in the DEFA film Die Alinseglerin .
After the band broke up, Nass, Hergert and Powileit joined Gundermann & Seilschaft in 1993 .
Discography
- 1984: Tina , hello sweetie , that leaves me cold on clover leaf 11 ( Amiga )
- 1989: Mona Lise (Amiga)
literature
- Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9
Web links
- Portrait at ostmusik.de ( Memento from July 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Interview from 2004 with Lieselotte Reznicek at ostmusik.de ( Memento from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Interview from 2012 with Lieselotte Reznicek at deutsche-mugge.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9