Friedrichshain Music School
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The Friedrichshain Music School is a music school in Berlin-Friedrichshain . Numerous GDR musicians received their training on it; Such training was necessary in order to receive the professional card and thus to be allowed to perform as a professional musician - with higher salaries. After the fall of the Wall , it was retained as a teaching facility.
building
The music school is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg music school, the Friedrichshain branch of which is still located in Zellestrasse 12. The building was built in 1913/1914 and housed three schools, of which the auxiliary school was rededicated as a music school after it was closed. The building is in dire need of renovation in 2013.
history
The music school established a class for dance music in 1959 on the initiative of the music teacher Kurt Peukert . This class and the later rock and pop department were attended by future entertainment musicians. The genres of pop music, rock music, jazz , chanson and hit music were taught . In addition to vocal training, instrumental lessons were given. The training could last a year or up to six years.
After the reunification , the music school was merged with the Kreuzberg music school to form the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg music school. In 2011, based on tradition, a rock / pop department was set up again.
Other GDR entertainment musicians were trained at the country's four music colleges in Weimar, Dresden, Leipzig and East Berlin and thus received their professional ID.
Well-known artists who emerged from the music school
Well-known graduates include Toni Krahl and Fritz Puppel ( City ), Tamara Danz ( Silly ), Herbert Dreilich , Bernd Römer and Ed Swillms (among others Karat ), Dieter Birr , Dieter Hertrampf , Klaus Scharfschwerdt , Udo Jacob ( Puhdys ), André Herzberg ( Pankow ), Peter Gläser ( Klaus Renft Combo ), Dirk Michaelis ( Karussell ), Mario Peters ( Klaus-Lenz-Modern-Soul-Big-Band ) and Franz Bartzsch (among others Lift and Veronika Fischer Band ). Well-known jazz musicians were Manfred Hering , Uschi Brüning and Ulrich Gumpert . The later entertainer Wolfgang Lippert and the pop singer Gerd Christian also received their professional IDs at the music school. In the 1960s and 1970s, 90 percent of the GDR entertainment musicians were trained there.
Web links
- There is still music in it ( memento of November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), building and history of the music school, article in Friedrichshain , magazine for urban renewal, 11 (2005), issue 4; dated December 3, 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Building and history of the music school ( Memento from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 7
- ↑ Press release of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District Office on November 25, 2010 , accessed on August 3, 2013
- ↑ a b The School of Rockstars Berliner Kurier from March 30, 2011, accessed on August 3, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 6 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 34 ″ E