Paranoia (band)

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paranoia
General information
Genre (s) Punk rock
founding 1982, 2007
resolution 1985, 2007
Founding members
"Spot" miner
Olaf Wiedemann
Jörg Löffler ("Sonic")
Oliver Knoblich
former members
Drums
 Mario Meusel

Paranoia was a punk band from Dresden that was active from 1982 to 1985.

Band history

Paranoia was founded in 1982 in Dresden from the Rotzjungen group. The group quickly became the focus of the small punk scene in Dresden and played concerts throughout the territory of the GDR, including in the Erlöserkirche in East Berlin , Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig . In 1983 a gig took place in Budapest . The group maintained contact with the western punk scene through punk fanzines and letters.

In December 1984 the cassette Here We Are for Everyone Who Needs a cult band was made . A friend from Bremen spread the demo in her city. One copy also came to Weird System Records , but they refused to sell the 60-minute tape due to the sound quality. There were further demos and live recordings, which were distributed in the GDR scene via tape trading .

Starting in 1984, the band members were regularly fined for appearing without permission to play. The Ministry of State Security also investigated the group. Paranoia was encouraged to seek an official classification, but the group's members declined on ideological grounds. Sascha Anderson arranged a rehearsal room and performance opportunities for the group. Paranoia played a few concerts until mid-1985, after which the group broke up. The reasons were to be found in the new developments in the punk scene, which was becoming more and more differentiated, the constant persecution by the state power and new musical projects of the members.

In October 1985 Jörg Löffler ("Sonic Paranoia") was arrested for "unlawful connection" with the West and spent four months in custody . The State Security accused him of having "seriously damaged the GDR" in numerous letters and fanzines. He was eventually sentenced to three years probation . “Fleck” was also convicted of similar offenses. Both of them refused to go to the West, which the Stasi had offered them.

In 1993 the extended play Goodbye Annaki was released on the punk label Nasty Vinyl . In 2007 Paranoia had a one-time reunion appearance as part of the exhibition ostPUNK - Too Much Future . In the same year the CD 1984 appeared , which brought together some songs from 1984.

Further projects of the band members

In the days of paranoia, Jörg Löffler founded the project last diagnosis , a German punk band with absurd texts. Fleck Bergmann and Löffler then founded the skinhead band Cheruskerfront , which only existed for a few months. By that time, the skinhead and punk scenes had already separated and become incompatible. Jörg Löffler finally founded Blitzkrieg (Suizid), Kannä and Donald Kaltfront in 1985 together with Jänz , who actually received a state classification. Olaf Wiedemann released a solo cassette with Russian folklore in 1985 , traveled to the West in 1986 and founded the Apparatschik group there .

literature

  • Ronald Reagan: In the Valley of the Clueless: Underground in Dresden . In: Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister (eds.): "We always want to be good ..." Punk, new wave, hiphop and independent scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990 . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-637-2 , p. 146-149 .

Discography (selection)

Official publications

  • 1985: Here We Are for Everyone Who Needs a Kultband (cassette, reissued in 1988 as Paranoia )

Later publications

  • 1993: Goodbye Annaki ( EP on Nasty Vinyl )
  • 2007: 1984 (CD re-release of various songs on major label)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ronald Reagan: In the valley of the clueless: Underground in Dresden . In: Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister (eds.): "We always want to be good ..." Punk, new wave, hiphop and independent scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990 . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-637-2 , p. 149 .
  2. ↑ Reagan 1999, pp. 153f.
  3. ↑ a b Reagan 1999, p. 154
  4. ↑ Release info. Major Label, accessed April 12, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Reagan 1999, p. 156