Prinzz

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Prinzz was an Erfurt teenage band that made its first appearance in the Erfurt Musikantenclub in September 1981 with Kerstin Radtke (vocals), Tommy Feiler (guitar), Gerrit Penssler (drums) and Jens Hellmann (now Vicki Vomit , bass). At that time the band didn't have a name, from 1982 the band called itself Prinzz. After several line-up changes, keyboardist Karl Heinz Schüller joined the band at the end of 1982 and composed the songs together with Tommy Feiler. The band had a song on the radio for the first time in 1982: “Ich stand auf DT64 ”, a Neue Deutsche Welle song that was originally meant to be parodic and which was heard on the radio as a hymn of praise for the GDR youth station following textual intervention by the radio rectorate . In the summer of 1983 the band played together with Heinz Jürgen Gottschalk at a festival, after which they became his studio and accompanying band. Prinzz's music, originally strongly oriented towards the NDW, slowly got a little harder. However, the singer Kerstin Radtke won in 1985 at the Dresden Schlager Festival " Goldener Rathausmann " as a soloist with a hit pop song.

In 1986 the band split up due to internal tensions and a dispute about direction. Kerstin Radtke, Tommy Feiler and Jens Hellmann went on alone and, after their style had increasingly approached the heavy metal that had become very popular in the GDR in the middle of the 1980s , brought the drummer of the heavy metal band Macbeth, which had just been banned by the authorities , Frank Fiebach (Fips Ascon). In 1987 the now English-speaking heavy metal band changed their name to Blitzz . Nevertheless, they appeared again on July 13, 2013 as Prinzz at the Stadtgartenfest in Erfurt.

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