Antics (band)

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Possenspiel was a GDR music group that existed from 1980 to the mid-1990s. With their humorous texts between nonsense and satire, they were considered to be the most important fun band alongside MTS .

history

The band was founded in 1980 by Hans Knippenberg, Malte Freyer and Detlef Topolinski, who already knew each other from the Erdmann & Co. formation . The three artists wanted to stand on a stage with guitars and drink alcohol. But already at the first concert on November 11, 1980, there was almost chaos: It was already noted on the tickets that the band wanted to abuse the audience at 11:23 p.m. - which then happened. Then some visitors wanted to beat up the musicians. "Over time we learned that having fun is associated with hard work, you couldn't leave anything to chance," Hans Knippenberg is quoted as saying.

The band then began to compose well-engineered rock and hit songs with funny lyrics. The song Sommer Sonne Sunburn , published in 1984, describes the GDR citizen's classic Baltic vacation, combined with the ironic comment “What should we do on the Black Sea?” Because even the Black Sea coast of the socialist “ brother states ” Bulgaria and the Soviet Union was for them most GDR citizens hardly reachable for financial and organizational reasons. In the song Wir ham die Stones ruined the band satirized the ideological claim to superiority of the socialist states over the West, which allegedly was also expressed in an independent, highly developed popular music culture that was even superior to the Rolling Stones . Other well-known songs are Auf dem Korridor (the artist agency) or Who throws cheese into the elevator shaft so late after midnight? . The song is about the very special needs of a caretaker in the East Berlin prefabricated building district of Marzahn and at the same time satirizes the block housingism in house communities in the GDR.

Shortly before the fall of the Wall in 1989, singer Heinz-Jürgen Meyer was killed in a traffic accident. When attempts to start again with Mario Pohl as the new singer failed, the band broke up in the mid-1990s.

In 2007 Hans Knippenberg released the solo CD Knippe , with new recordings of antiquity songs. Since 2002 he has been working again with Possenspiel bassist Malte Freyer - in the DTSB project (Die dicke Tine and the clever Bruno) .

occupation

  • Heinz-Jürgen Meyer (vocals, 1981 to 1989)
  • Hans Knippenberg (vocals, guitar)
  • Malte Freyer (vocals, bass)
  • Detlef Topolinski (drums)
  • Bernd Meyer and Bernd Wichmann (guitar, from 1981)
  • Bernd Wendemacher (vocals, 1980 to 1981)
  • Mario Pohl (vocals, from 1989)

Discography

  • 1986: First comic interest group ( Amiga ) - split LP together with MTS
  • 1989: Down with the gummy bears (Amiga)
  • 1992: Dance of the Cockroaches (Pleitegeier Records)
  • 1994: Best Of Posse (P & C / Hansa)
  • 2007: Knippe (Buschfunk) - Solo album by Hans Knippenberg with new recordings of some antiquity songs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait at ostbeat.de ( memento from June 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 6, 2014
  2. ↑ a b portrait at ostmusik.de ( memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 12, 2014