Pankow (German band)

Pankow
Pankow (2011)
General information
Genre (s)	Rock , new wave
founding	1981
Website	electrocadero.de/pankow
Founding members
Guitar, vocals	Jürgen Ehle (since 1981)
singing	André Herzberg (1981–1990, since 1996)
Drums	Frank Hille (until 1985, † 2004)
Keyboard	Rainer Kirchmann (until 1996)
bass	Jäcki Reznicek (until 1986)
Current occupation
Guitar, vocals	Jürgen Ehle (since 1981)
singing	André Herzberg (since 1996)
Drums	Stefan Dohanetz (since 1985)
Keyboard	Kulle Dziuk (since 1996)
former members
Bass, guitar, vocals	Jens Jensen (1991-1996)
bass	Ingo Griese (1987–1990)
Live members
bass	Jacki Reznicek
Keyboard	Ritchie Barton (2009)
Keyboard	Wolfram Boddi Bodag (2016-2017)
Bass, guitar	André Drechsler (2016-2019)

Pankow is a rock band founded in the GDR in 1981 . The band emerged from the former support band of Veronika Fischer , who continued to work as 4 PS from 1977 . After Franz Bartzsch left , the other members Jäcki Reznicek , Frank Hille , Jürgen Ehle and Rainer Kirchmann were looking for a new front man, whom they found in André Herzberg with the juggler rock band . The new line-up was renamed Pankow in 1981 . They named themselves ostensibly after the Berlin district of Pankow . In the 1950s, however, Pankow was a West German disgraceful term for the GDR regime. In addition, the " punk " was on stage.

Already one of the most famous bands in the country during the GDR era, their pieces often had a critical and provocative undertone. “Like many other writers, they were among the established greats of aesthetic subversion,” wrote journalist Christoph Dieckmann in an article published in Rolling Stone in 1999 . As a result, some of their pieces have had publication problems. So her first work Paule Panke could only appear in 1989 on the state record label Amiga . The song Langeweile from the album Aufruhr in die Augen was temporarily not allowed to be broadcast on GDR radio . However, these pieces were played at Pankow's public appearances.

Musically, Pankow are occasionally compared to the Rolling Stones and have processed numerous styles of music and realized theater projects in their band history.

history

Turmoil in the eyes (1981–1989)

Paule Panke

From the beginning, the band received a lot of media attention. In 1983, in his standard work on the rock scene in the GDR, West Berlin's Olaf Leitner described the enthusiasm with which the hero of the rock spectacle Paule Panke was accepted as a new cult figure and Pankow thus "finally eliminated the GDR-typical song-like in favor of a rough, vital - driving rhythm ”and prophesied the band the way“ to the top of all rock bands in the country ”.

In 1981 Pankow brought Paule Panke on stage, a rock spectacle staged with elements of a theatrical performance, which tells a day from the life of an apprentice and for which Frauke Klauke alias Wolfgang Herzberg , brother of André Herzberg, is almost exclusively responsible as a copywriter . In the following year there were first productions in the studio as well as a live recording by Paule Panke .

Pankow (2011)

With Paule Panke , action and music were almost equally important. The visual representation of the plot was essentially limited to the front man of the band André Herzberg, who, like Peter Gabriel in the early years of Genesis, visually reinforced the texts with theatrical elements. Paule Panke was the first rock spectacle in the GDR, the performance of which was not limited to theater stages and thus to a relatively small audience. Thus Paule Panke in the cultural centers and on the outdoor stages of the GDR played about 200 times before about 50,000 live in other sources even before some 100,000 young people in the concert.

Despite the tremendous success at live concerts across the country, the multiple broadcasts of Paule Panke on state radio, the band's financial support during rehearsals from the General Directorate of the Entertainment Arts Committee and an award in the 1982 entertainment artists competition, the Band ultimately denied publication by the state record label Amiga.

In 1983 the band performed at the Rock for Peace Festival in the Palace of the Republic and provoked a scandal when André Herzberg came down from the stage and loudly proclaimed parallels between Nazi Germany and the GDR in front of the SED and FDJ officials in Wehrmacht uniform . The GDR television then interrupted its transmission.

A project planned by Heiner Carow to film the Paule Panke story in the style of a rock opera was stopped by the HV Film department at the Ministry of Culture after the treatment was submitted, while the documentary Paule in Concert was shot in 1983 under the direction of Lew Hohmann where the everyday life of young people in the GDR is accompanied by songs from Paule Panke .

Here and in the following years, the ambivalence of the “GDR cultural and political system” is expressed. On the one hand there were supporters of the band who campaigned for the band in the official media and with the responsible authorities, gave positive reviews of texts and performances, as well as a great interest in implementing the material as a film or stage play. On the other hand, there were opponents, such as the editor-in-chief of Amiga, René Büttner, who acted under ideological and economic premises, who withdrew the record contract he and the band had already signed for Paule Panke after intervention from an unspecified body, a breach of contract, the Pankow in the following negotiations with the artistic director of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin , Hansjürgen Schaefer , in an unlimited and contractually guaranteed option for the annual release of an album.

The writer Gisela Steineckert , from 1984 president of the committee for entertainment arts, judged Paule Panke in 1982 :

“The work that the young artists have undertaken is suffering from the fact that the“ human ”design is too small and does not even shine through overall. [...] The reflective world of this young man, who is led here on the periphery, leaves me cold. What if he came "out of the ass"? What would then be, what would he strive for, who could his cheesiness please? You have to be happy that this chronic bad-mouthed, complainer and grouch is not more active, otherwise he would be completely unbearable. "

- Gisela Steineckert

Published in a collection of letters in 1984, after seeing the band live and getting to know the band, she publicly revised this harsh criticism and subsequently supported Pankow's concept.

The reasons for this ambivalence can certainly be seen in the consequences and the uncertainty of the cultural officials after the Biermann expatriation and the protests and exodus of well-known GDR artists that followed.

“Pankow tried to make use of the resulting free spaces from the start. Associated with this was the desire to set itself apart, aesthetically and in terms of content, from the GDR rock music, which was already heavily used politically at the time. Instinct and “gut feeling” were at least as pronounced a drive as the socio-political debate, also within the band. "

- Jürgen Ehle

Songs instead of concept albums

In 1983, under pressure from the band's popularity, a first compilation of titles was released with Kille Kille . André Herzberg writes about this in his autobiographical novel Mosaik :

"So the band had developed single songs as a counter-tactic in order to be able to make another record."

- André Herzberg

Despite the first edition of 110,000, which was sold out in a short time, this compilation by Amiga, without any conceptual connection between the individual pieces , fell short of expectations for the band and their audience, who had hoped and waited for the release of Paule Panke after the many live concerts .

When Pankow succeeded in publishing the concept rock spectacle Hans im Glück at Amiga in 1985, the content of the play again led to controversial discussions and, in many cases, to rejection from the officials and organizations responsible for youth culture in the GDR .

If Paule Panke still outweighed the fiction of introducing a society capable of development ( Come out of the ass ), the tones that were perceived as critical of the system increased in the texts by Frauke Klauke on Hans im Glück . Lines like the following from Hans Negativ were also related to the socialist system of the GDR by the audience :

"The air is poisoned / the waters mucked / the land sucked out / stolen
by vultures plagued by hunger / gnawed by disease / without rest, without rest / if
cities go to ruin / people become stupid / hacked through work / in families versackt
drowned in the consumer / sunk into Fernseh'n / without rest, without rest '/ Go's the downfall to
all shit / Whether in North, East, South or West / Always Horror / and mental plague "

- Excerpt from Hans Negativ

André Herzberg described the effect of the texts on the young audience:

“With Hans im Glück these were all more or less anti-figures. The audience got on the rhythm of the music and applauded the negative hero. It was sometimes a completely stupid situation when the philistine was suddenly cheered with gratefulness, many shouted "all shit" or "always with my ass along the wall" and as if people identified with these roles, which we even had not intended. "

- André Herzberg

After sometimes violent controversies and discussions about Hans im Glück in public, which not only questioned the lyrics but also the concept of the band, Pankow and her copywriter Frauke Klauke separated. From then on, the lyrics to the songs were written by Herzberg and Ehle or other lyricists such as Ronald Galenza. In concerts, individual songs by Paule Panke, such as Freitag or the workshop song , were still present. There was a remake of Stille , the final title of Hans im Glück , on the 2006 album Nur aus Spass .

In 1985 Pankow went on tour through the Federal Republic of Germany . After the tour, Frank Hille left the GDR and with it the band. He was replaced by Stefan Dohanetz .

The 1986 album No Stars was published by Teldec in Germany. The album contains the title He will be different , written by Ronald Galenza , which became the motto of large parts of the young generation in the second half of the 1980s in the GDR and whose refrain was chanted loudly in the choir by singers and audience during live performances.

“He has more to say besides complaints /… /
Sometimes he wants to go somewhere anyway /. /
But he doesn't run off to another place / He doesn't run away from problems. /
He can't think of to run away / He wants to be completely different. / ... /
He wants to be different / He wants to be completely different. / He wants to be different / He wants to be completely different. "

- Excerpt from text He wants to be different

At the end of 1986 Jäckie Reznicek left the band for Silly , but was present again on many tours and studio recordings by Pankow, especially from 1996 onwards. In 1987, Ingo Griese from Rockhaus joined him for him .

1987 saw the successful world premiere of Paule Panke as a rock musical in the theater of the city of Schwedt . The musicians von Pankow also appeared as actors: André Herzberg as Paule Panke, Rainer Kirchmann as the operetta buffo, Jürgen Ehle as a man with a harmonica, Ingo Griese and Stefan Dohanetz as apprentices. After seven performances, the performance was stopped for “political and ideological reasons”.

In June 1987 Pankow was the first GDR rock band to perform at the Provinssirock Festival in Seinäjoki alongside international acts such as Bob Geldof , Iggy Pop , Elvis Costello and Hüsker Dü . This was followed by a tour with the Dutch band Gruppo Sportivo until mid-July .

Turmoil in the eyes

With the onset of perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union from the mid-1980s, the SED functionaries tried to shield their country from similar developments. The album Aufruhr im Augen , which appeared in this historical phase in 1988, with lyrics for songs like boredom or Gib mir'n Zeichen, as well as Pankow's provocative appearance in the West German media, drew circles as far as the Central Committee of the SED . Lines like this:

“Seen the same country too long / heard the same language too long.
Waited too long, hoped too long / Adored the old men too long.
I ran around / ran around too much. / Run around too much. / And yet nothing happened "

- Excerpt from boredom

"Come on, I'll get you out, out, out / Then we'll go away.
Give me a sign / the others don't need to see it. / Give me a sign. "

- Excerpt from text give me a sign

led to a violent reply in the central organ of the SED.

At that time, the criticism of the GDR superiors could no longer prevent the production and distribution of the album, as well as its performance on the radio and at concerts of the band. The tour that followed in 1989 with the Big Band of the Staff of the Group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany through the GDR was indicative of the already changing times , on which the title of the album was brought to a wide audience despite all resistance.

In September 1989 the musicians von Pankow were among the signatories of the resolution of rock musicians and songwriters , which called for necessary changes in the GDR with the involvement of grassroots democratic organizations like the New Forum . On October 15, Pankow took part in the “Concert Against Violence” in front of about 2000 visitors in East Berlin's Church of the Redeemer , where numerous new resolutions on the situation in the country were read out.

Pack of four (1990-1996)

With the political change in the GDR and the associated collapse of the cultural-political framework , which, in addition to restrictions and control by the state organs, also brought financial security for the established artists, new opportunities but also necessities for bands and musicians opened up from 1990 onwards to show presence on the international music market. In the following years, the musicians from Pankow were active in a large number of other projects and bands. André Herzberg left the band in 1990 to realize his own projects. In the same year Jens Jensen joined the band for Ingo Griese.

In 1989/90, the American musician Ben Vaughn toured the GDR with Pankow as a backing band. One of the concerts was broadcast on East and West German television. Also in 1990 Pankow performed together with Rio Reiser in Berlin.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the associated open access to media outside Germany, Pankow also briefly moved into the focus of Anglo-Saxon journalism. The American historian Timothy W. Ryback , known for his work Rock around the bloc: a history of rock music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , published in 1990 , characterizes Pankow, alongside Silly, as one of the two most respected and professional groups of East Berlin rock music. Scene, "originally showed the influence of the Rolling Stones, but has developed into a dynamic band that combines the energy of the Clash with the innovation of the Talking Heads ".

On December 13, 1991, the 10-year Pankow concert took place in the hall in Berlin-Weißensee, which was sold out with over 4,000 visitors and is now the Motorwerk . Pankow played in the line-up of Ehle, Herzberg, Kirchmann, Dohanetz and Reznicek. Frank Hille, Heiner Witte von Engerling , Volker Schlott and the big band of the staff of the Soviet Armed Forces group performed as guest musicians . The concert was broadcast live on the radio on DT64 . The video recording of the concert 10 Years Pankow was released in 1992 . Also under the title 10 years Pankow Amiga published a best-of compilation in the series Rock aus Deutschland Ost 1991.

The album Ende der Märchen was recorded, produced and released in 1992 with Barbara Thalheim from December 1991 to January 1992 .

In 1994 Pankow composed and played for the theater production of Clockwork Orange , a rock musical based on Anthony Burgess , at the State Theater of Saxony-Anhalt in Eisleben. In the same year the album Vierer Pack was released , recorded with the line-up of Ehle, Kirchmann, Dohanetz, Jensen. Contributing guests were Blanche Elliz , Paul Brady , Jens Streifling , Jean Pacalet and Jäcki Reznicek. At the end of 1994 the Herzberg-Pankow-Tour followed , played together by Pankow and the Herzberg-Band.

On May 1 , 1996, the album Paparazzia was released by Grauzone as the last production by Pankow as a "pack of four" Kirchmann, Jensen, Dohanetz and Ehle.

Reunion (1996-1999)

André Herzberg (2011)

Herzberg returned in 1996, with Kulle Dziuk for Rainer Kirchmann and Jäcki Reznicek for Jens Jensen. At the end of 1996 Pankow was back on stage with the line-up of Herzberg, Ehle, Dohanetz, Reznicek, Dziuk. The single Am Rande vom Wahnsinn was released, the album of the same name followed in spring 1997. The concerts for the reunification of the band took place at the end of 1996 in the Tränenpalast in Berlin. For the first time, part of the Pankow songs were performed unplugged during the concerts, which lasted up to two and a half hours.

In 1996 the band played the song Hooray for published by Gringo Records 1997 The doctors -Tributealbum Götterdämmerung one.

In the Brecht year 1998 there was a tour under the title Kille Kille, Bertolt in addition to the regular concerts with a program that was performed exclusively on theater stages. Important stations were Brecht's long-standing place of work, the Berliner Ensemble , and Brecht's birthplace Augsburg .

Pankow's last concert for the time being took place on December 23, 1998 in Berlin's Prater . In March 1999 the band performed one last time with Kille Kille, Bertolt and on the occasion of the Kurt Weill Festival in Weill's hometown Dessau .

The musicians then pursued their own projects until the beginning of 2004.

2004 until today

In 2004 there was a short reunification and concert tour through eastern Germany with concerts in Berlin and Leipzig, among others. In May 2006, after a long time, a new studio album was released on the Buschfunk label , Just for fun . From August to October 2006 there was an anniversary tour for the band's 25th birthday. On March 28, 2009 Pankow ended their - as Herzberg said, temporarily last - tour (January to March 2009) with the final concert in the Berlin Postbahnhof.

The revival of the rock spectacle Hans im Glück , which started in March 2009 - together with actors from the Berliner Volksbühne and supervision by Frank Castorf  - was continued in April 2009 in the Prater .

On November 3, 2011, Pankow started the tour for the 30th stage anniversary with their album Neuer Tag in Pankow with Herzberg, Ehle, Dohanetz, Dziuk and Ingo York as guest musician on bass.

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In the years that followed, the band repeatedly gave individual concerts, took part in the Ost-Rock Klassik music project, and in 2014 started a tour with several concerts in East Germany and the Czech Republic . In November 2014, Pankow performed at the concert for the winners of the Memory of Nations Award alongside John Cale , Gábor Presser , Marián Varga and Pražský výběr at the National Theater in Prague .

On November 12, 2016 the turmoil began in the Frannz Club in Berlin . Pankow played the songs from the album of the same name from 1988 in an unplugged version. As guests, Pankow accompanied Wolfram Boddi Bodag von Engerling on keyboards and André Drechsler on bass and guitar.

In 2018 Pankow performed in Yekaterinburg as part of the Ural Music Night, a multicultural festival that took place in one night on almost one hundred stages with the participation of around 2000 musicians from 26 countries.

In November 2019, Pankow was in the line-up of Herzberg, Ehle, Dohanetz, Dziuk and Drechsler

"Back on the road, back on the road."

- Text excerpt Back on the street

In the concerts, the songs and the lecture of the front man André Herzberg traced the chronicle of the band's almost 40 years of existence. The band succeeded impressively in sending their protagonists and the audience on a journey through time with the music and the lyrics in a tangible relationship to social upheavals and upheavals. In addition to some newly arranged songs, the haunting performance of the Kunert / Pannach song The Day they took the Wall away 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall was a highlight of the concert. The final concert of the tour took place on November 30, 2019 in the Kesselhaus of the Berlin Kulturbrauerei .

Discography

→ Main article : Pankow (German band) / discography

Annual hit parade of the GDR

title

Workshop song   GDR 16 1982   GDR 19th 1983 Inge Pawelczik   GDR 44 1982 The miraculous story of Gabi   GDR 15th 1983 Song of sea addiction   GDR 23 1983 He wants to be different   GDR 17th 1984   GDR 42 1985 The girl and the moth Lotte   GDR 34 1984 Good night   GDR 40 1985 Bet you want   GDR 43 1985 Isolde   GDR 34 1986 Doris   GDR 48 1986 give me a sign   GDR 9 1989 boredom   GDR 14th 1989

Discography
1983: Kille Kille 1985: Hans in luck 1986: No stars 1988: turmoil in the eyes 1989: Paule Panke (live 1982) 1994: pack of four 1996: Paparazzi 1997: On the verge of madness 2006: Just for fun 2011: New day in Pankow
Only studio albums with the exception of Paule Panke.

See also

• Music of the GDR

literature

• André Herzberg: Mosaic . 1st edition. Avinus Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-930064-22-9 .
• André Herzberg: What became of us . 1st edition. Ullstein Buchverlage, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-550-08164-4 .
• Wolfgang Herzberg : Paule Panke. Hans im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . 1st edition. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00292-7 .
• Michael Rauhut : Rock in the GDR . 1st edition. Federal Agency for Political Education , Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89331-459-8 .
• Michael Rauhut: Shawm and leather jacket . 1st edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-065-X .
• Christian Hentschel : You forgot the color film ... and other Ostrock stories . 1st edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 .
• Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . 1st edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , pp. 216 f .
• Timothy W. Ryback : Rock around the bloc: a history of rock music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . Oxford Univ. Press, New York 1990, ISBN 0-19-505633-7 , pp. 204 ff .
• Jürgen Balitzki: Rock at first hand . 1st edition. Lied der Zeit, Musikverlag, Berlin 1985, p. 113 ff .

Web links

Commons : Pankow  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Pankow at deutsche-mugge.de
• Pankow at ostmusik.de ( Memento from April 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Pankow at ostbeat.de ( Memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• Pankow on MusicBrainz (English)
• Pankow bei Discogs (English)
• Website by André Herzberg
• Jürgen Ehle's website
• Jäcki Reznicek's website
• Rainer Kirchmann's website
• Works by and about Pankow in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Olaf Leitner: 10 years of Pankow . Booklet accompanying the CD. Retrieved December 4, 2011.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Christoph Dieckmann: Well take care, Inge Pawelczik, you savage! The "Stones of the East" are now leaving. In: Rolling Stone , 1999, issue 2, p. 14
3. ↑ Michael Rauhut : Rock in the GDR . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89331-459-8 , p. 103
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rainer Bratfisch: Turmoil in the eyes . In: Die Welt , December 16, 1996, ostmusik.de ( Memento from April 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ ^{a b} News from the rock band Pankow. The singer has returned. The guitarist was IM. There's a concert coming soon. An arrangement. ( Memento from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Zeitung , November 21, 1996
6. ^ Pankow press reports ( Memento from April 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
7. ^ Olaf Leitner: Rock scene GDR: Aspects of a mass culture in socialism . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17697-1 , p. 448
8. ^ ^{A b} Wolfgang Herzberg: Paule Panke, Hans Im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1990, dialog, ISBN 3-362-00292-7 , p. 89
9. ↑ Wolfgang Herzberg. In: Art and Culture in the GDR: 36th meeting of the commission of inquiry "Dealing with the history and consequences of the SED dictatorship in Germany" on May 5, 1993. 2nd part. German Bundestag, Public Relations Department, Bonn 1993, p. 72.
10. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rauhut: Shawm and leather jacket . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-065-X , pp. 257ff.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Pankow biography. Sony Music. ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
12. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: between Paule and Hans. Jürgen Balitzki in conversation with André Herzberg and Frank Hille. In: Melodie und Rhythmus , 1984, 11, ostmusik.de ( Memento from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), ISSN  0025-9004 .
13. ^ Peter Wensierski : Scandal about GDR band Pankow: explosive punk in the Palace of the Republic . Spiegel Online . May 19, 2015. Accessed March 12, 2016.
14. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Balitzki: Pankow . Interview with Heiner Carow. In: Melodie und Rhythmus , 1982, 11, ostmusik.de ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ISSN  0025-9004
15. ↑ ^{a b} Ingrid Poss, Peter Warnecke (ed.): Trace of the films: contemporary witnesses about DEFA. 2nd Edition. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-401-0 , p. 411 ff.
16. ↑ ^{a b} Bernd Lindner: GDR Rock & Pop . KOMET, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-715-8 , p. 153
17. ^ Paule in Concert . DEFA Foundation . Retrieved November 8, 2019.
18. ↑ Jürgen Balitzki: Paule, Pankow and Pawelczik . In: melody and rhythm. ISSN  0025-9004 (1983), online ( Memento from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
19. ↑ Stefan Körbel: Pankow premiere. In: Sunday , 13/82
20. ↑ Bianca Dancer: Gaining Reality in Our Republic. In: Music and Society , December 1982
21. ^ ^{A b} Wolfgang Herzberg: Paule Panke, Hans Im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . Henschelverlag Art and Society, dialog, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00292-7
22. ↑ Christian Hentschel : You forgot the color film ... and other Ostrock stories . Interview with Wolf-Dietrich Fruck. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 , pp. 144 ff.
23. ↑ Christian Hentschel: You forgot the color film ... and other Ostrock stories . Interview with André Herzberg. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 , p. 44 ff.
24. ^ André Herzberg: Mosaic . Avinus Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3-930064-22-9 , p. 116
25. ↑ ^{a b} Jürgen Ehle, email dated February 13, 2012 to the author
26. ↑ Gisela Steineckert: Letters: 1961 to 1983 . Neues Leben, Berlin 1984, p. 323 ff.
27. ↑ Jürgen Ehle, email dated January 25, 2012 to the author
28. ↑ Christine Wagner: Pankow's reunification . In: Freie Presse , January 11, 1997 ostmusik.de ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
29. ^ André Herzberg: Mosaic . Avinus Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 978-3930064229 , p. 120
30. ^ Text by Hans Negativ ( Memento from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
31. ↑ Wolfgang Herzberg: Paule Panke, Hans Im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . Henschelverlag Art and Society, dialog, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00292-7 , pp. 178–179
32. ↑ Wolfgang Herzberg: Paule Panke, Hans Im Glück: Texts for and about the Pankow group . Henschelverlag Art and Society, dialog, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00292-7 , pp. 175–176
33. ^ Bernd Lindner: GDR Rock & Pop . KOMET, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-715-8 , p. 151
34. ↑ Michael Rauhut: Rock in the GDR . Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-89331-459-8 , pp. 103f.
35. ↑ Text by He wants to be different ( Memento from May 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
36. ↑ ^{a b} Jäcki Reznicek (PDF; 16 kB) Jäcki Reznicek. February 17, 2015. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
37. ↑ Christian Hentschel: You forgot the color film ... and other Ostrock stories . Interview with Jäcki Reznicek. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-89602-317-9 , p. 214ff.
38. ↑ Stefan Gebhardt: Bass Besser Reznicek . Interview with Jäcki Reznicek. In: melody and rhythm . 2008, 2, pp. 52-55, jackireznicek.com (PDF; 3.2 MB), ISSN  0025-9004
39. ^ Pankow (official website) . Retrieved January 6, 2012.
40. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 262
41. ↑ Regina Schneider: Who is Paule Panke. In: melody and rhythm . 1987, 7, ostmusik.de ( Memento from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), ISSN  0025-9004
42. ^ Lutz Bertram: On Tour - Pankow and Gruppe Sportivo. In: Melodie & Rhythmus, 1987, 9, ostmusik.de ( Memento from February 17, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), ISSN  0025-9004
43. ^ Text of boredom ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
44. ↑ Text by Gib mir'nzeichen ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
45. ↑ Hans Albrecht . In: Neues Deutschland , December 3rd, 1988, p. 7
46. ↑ Kasper: Double the joy of playing . In: Junge Welt , June 20, 1989 online ( Memento from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
47. ^ GDR journal on the November revolution 1989 . Die Tageszeitung , 1990, p. 50
48. ↑ October 15 . In: DDR Chronicle 1989 . Retrieved February 21, 2012.
49. ↑ Junghänel: No more closed time for GDR rock: PANKOW guitarist Jürgen Ehle on perspectives . Interview with Jürgen Ehle. In: Melodie und Rhythmus , 1990, 7, ostmusik.de ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), ISSN  0025-9004
50. ↑ Thomas Pilz: Paule P. has emigrated . In: Junge Welt , June 5, 1991, ostmusik.de ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
51. ↑ see Wikipedia article by the band members
52. ↑ Ben Vaughn . Bar None Records. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
53. ↑ Timothy W. Ryback: Where the East Bloc Rocks . In: The New York Times , March 18, 1990. Retrieved December 28, 2011. 
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