Paule Panke (live 1982)

Paule Panke (live 1982)
Live album from Pankow
Publication (s)	1989
admission	1982
Label (s)	Amiga
Format (s)	LP, MC, CD
Genre (s)	skirt
Title (number)	14th
running time	51:00
occupation	Singing: André Herzberg Guitar: Jürgen Ehle Bass: Jäcki Reznicek Drums: Frank Hille Keyboards: Rainer Kirchmann
production	Luise Mirsch
Location (s)	House of Young Talents , Berlin, February 4, 1982
chronology Troubled Eyes (1988) Paule Panke (live 1982) Four Pack (1994)

Paule Panke is the first rock spectacle by the band Pankow with elements of a theatrical performance and tells a day from the life of an apprentice.

History of origin

In 1981 Herzberg brought the music style and conception from the juggler rock band to Pankow. The play planned for the jugglers Hans Currywurst with texts by Frauke Klauke , Herzberg's brother, was staged in a modified form by Pankow in 1981 under the title Paule Panke .

The following year there were first productions in the studio as well as a live recording of the radio of the GDR of a concert in the House of Young Talents in Berlin, the publication of which failed in the year of its creation because of the texts that were perceived as not conforming to the system and which only shortly before the end der DDR in 1989 on the state label Amiga .

Music style and reception

In 1983, in his standard work on the rock scene in the GDR, West Berlin 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 raw, vital - driving rhythm ”.

Already in earlier times there had been in the GDR theater performances, which were accompanied by popular music in the field of jazz and rock music, so among other things in 1972 in the German Theater with the band SOK that the Plenzdorf -Stück New Sorrows of Young W. with compositions by Ulrich Gumpert or the rock opera Rosa Laub performed in 1979 based on a libretto by Waldtraut Lewin .

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.

The intention of the author Frauke Klauke was to reach young people in their language and with their problems and to show, using the example of Paule Panke , that active participation in the solution of existing social questions and problems is worth striving for, but without enduring, articulating and carrying through of conflict cannot be achieved.

Musically, Pankow processes different elements: New wave , waltz up to the break performed as a canon or the song-like after the disco . The style and performance of the music are adapted to the content of the pieces.

Paule Panke finds a dramaturgical climax in the title After Work , when Herzberg breaks out for a moment after a furious guitar solo by Ehle from the presented window frame, which with its limits could stand for paternalism, passivity and helplessness, and screams:

“Oh, if I know where I'm going,
my trip to somewhere.
When will I finally get my happiness,
yes , that's what I long for. "

- After work excerpt

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 had been submitted.

The documentary film Paule in Concert was shot under the direction of Lew Hohmann in 1983 , in which the everyday life of young people in the GDR is accompanied by songs from Paule Panke .

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 York and Stefan Dohanetz as apprentices. After seven performances, the performance was stopped for “political and ideological reasons”.

Another production, enthusiastically received by the audience and critics, was experienced by Paule Panke in 1988 as part of the Theatertage der Jugend at the Thomas-Müntzer-Theater in Eisleben . The musical accompaniment was provided by the Berlin amateur rock band Switch up.

The DVD The Miraculous Story of Pankow , released by Amiga in 2004 , contains a 47-minute recording of Paule Panke live in 1982.

Track list

A side

1. Speech - 0:43
2. Overture - 2:30
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
3. I can't get up - 3:17
   (K: Joachim Kielpinski / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
4. Breakfast waltz - 0:30
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
5. Tempo - 3:50
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
6. Omnibus song - 2:52
   (K: Hille / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
7. Workshop song - 5:23
   (K: Ehle / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
8. Break - 3:25
   (K: Ehle / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
9. Session - 3:58
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg / Ehle / Wolfgang Schubert)

B side

1. After work - 5:40
   (K: Ehle / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
2. Friday - 5:40 am
   (K: Ehle / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
3. Discosong - 4:10
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
4. After the disco - 3:30
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)
5. Come out of the ass - 5:32
   (K: Pankow / T: Wolfgang Herzberg)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 123 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Pankow biography. Sony Music. ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Michael Rauhut : Shawm and leather jacket . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89602-065-X , p. 257 ff.
4. ^ Olaf Leitner: Rock scene GDR: Aspects of a mass culture in socialism . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1983, ISBN 3-499-17697-1 , p. 448
5. ^ HP Hoffmann: Rock - Rhythm & Blues - Soul . Lied der Zeit (Musikverlag), Berlin 1976, p. 195
6. ↑ 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
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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. 90ff.
9. ^ Text from After Work ( Memento from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
10. ^ Ingrid Poss, Peter Warnecke (ed.): Trace of the films: contemporary witnesses about DEFA. 2nd Edition. Links, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-86153-401-0 , p. 411ff.
11. ^ Bernd Lindner: GDR Rock & Pop . KOMET, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-715-8 , p. 153
12. ^ Bernd Lindner: GDR Rock & Pop . KOMET, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-715-8 , p. 153
13. ^ Paule in concert . DEFA Foundation . Retrieved November 8, 2019.
14. ↑ 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
15. ↑ Regina Schneider: Who is Paule Panke. In: melody and rhythm. ISSN  0025-9004 (1987), 7, online ( Memento from November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Burkhard Zemlin: A large review-like picture sheet. In: Liberal-Demokratie Zeitung , April 7, 1988