Protestsongs.de

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Protestsongs.de
Compilation album by various artists

Publication
(s)

2004

Label (s) Favorite song records

Format (s)

2CD

Genre (s)

Protest song , various

Title (number)

44

Protestsongs.de (subtitle: A cruise through the history of the German-language protest song) is a compilation published by Favorite Song Records in 2004 , which has been reissued in different versions. Among other things, a license press for the Federal Agency for Civic Education was published in book format with 207-page liner notes .

History of origin

The compilation was done by George Lindt, label founder of Favorite Song Records and Fly Fast Concepts . The idea came to him when his old politics teacher retired early because he “didn't feel like teaching any more students who didn't even know what the wall was”. This gave Lindt the idea of ​​a "cruise through the history of the German protest song from 1944 to today or from Lili Marleen to Die Ärzte ". Lindt thus adopted an artificial timeframe that began with the play Lili Marleen in the anti- Hitler version by Lucie Mannheim and ended with modern interpreters such as Tocotronic , Die Ärzte, chosen as an example, and Jan Delay . The current song on the compilation was Monkey in a TV show by Neoangin feat. Coming Back to You from 2003. It took a total of two years to put it together. During this time, Lindt selected from a pool of 200 to 300 songs.

On CD 1, songs were recorded that were composed after German reunification , on CD 2, songs from 1944 to 1989 are collected. The songs should be in German. For the period before 1989, recordings from both the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic were taken into account. Lindt pointed out that it shouldn't be a complete anthology , but rather a selection of what was possible in terms of licensing and what was subjectively liked. The album contains detailed liner notes on 28 pages in German and English.

The album was released on October 25, 2004 by Alive.

License pressing

In 2009 a license press for the Federal Agency for Civic Education was published in book format with 207-page liner notes , which, in addition to a detailed outline of the history of the protest song and the creation of the sampler, also contained some information on the artists and the respective songs. In September 2010, teaching materials for use in schools followed. The new edition from the end of 2011 has also been out of print since 2013.

Track list

CD 1
Here and now
  1. Intro ( The three ??? ) - 1:37
  2. The Doctors : Rebel - 3:52
  3. The golden lemons : That bit of homicide - 4:00
  4. Tocotronic : The accident must be fought back - 4:20
  5. The Stars : Risk Biography - 3:17
  6. Jan Delay : Sons of Stammheim - 3:27
  7. Brothers Keepers : Adriano (Last Warning) (Radio Mix 1) - 4:38
  8. Afrob , David Pe , DJ Emilio : Everything is a lie - 3:41
  9. Xavier Naidoo : Maids and Servants - 4:40
  10. Advanced Chemistry : Foreign in your own country - 4:50
  11. Neoangin feat. Coming Back to You: Monkey in a Tv-Show (Bagdad Mix) - 2:57
  12. Rocko Schamoni : CDU - 3:49
  13. Peter Licht : Dear 68ers - 3:51
  14. Helge Schneider : The politicians - 2:37
  15. Lassie Singers : Where's the Man - 3:24
  16. Funny van Dannen : Capitalism - 2:48
  17. Gundermann : I make my peace - 4:10
  18. Left-sentimental transport worker friends : Welcome Germany - 3:30
  19. Feeling B : I'm looking for the GDR - 3:20
  20. Autumn in Beijing : Baksheesh Republic - 2:52
  21. Sandow : Born in GDR - 3:30
  22. Deutschlandlied (Schöneberger version) (feat. Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Helmut Kohl , Jürgen Wohlrabe , Walter Momper and Willy Brandt ) - 2:59
CD2
Enduring values
  1. Andreas Dorau : Democracy - 4:01
  2. Hans Söllner : Hey State - 5:07
  3. Wolf Maahn & support: Tschernobyl (The Last Signal) ( feat.Anne Haigis , Henni Nachtsheim , Herbert Grönemeyer , children's choir of class 5c of the Lise Meitner School, Leverkusen, Klaus Lage , Marian Gold , Sabine Sabine , and Wolfgang Niedecken ) - 4:49
  4. Bettina Wegner : From Germany to Germany - 3:08
  5. BAP : Deshalv Spill 'Mer He - 5:04
  6. Goosebumps : Karl the Beetle - 2:53
  7. Nena : 99 balloons - 3:51
  8. Vulture nosedive : Visit Europe (while it's still standing) - 2:50
  9. Nicole : A little peace - 4:29
  10. Joseph Beuys : Sun instead of Reagan - 3:04
  11. Ina Deter : The country needs new men - 3:48
  12. Slime : Announcement / Germany must die - 5:02
  13. Konstantin Wecker : (It reigns again) Peace in the country - 4:12
  14. Udo Lindenberg : We just want to be together - 3:04
  15. Otto : Dupscheck - 1:12
  16. Clay stone shards : No power for nobody - 4:07
  17. Hanns-Dieter Hüsch : March of the minority - 2:42
  18. FJ Degenhardt : I'll do something - 4:10
  19. Hazy Osterwald Sextet : Business Cha Cha - 3:04
  20. Wolfgang Neuss : Chanson from the economic miracle - 2:35
  21. Ernst Busch : No Susanna - 2:30
  22. Lucie Mannheim : Lili Marleen - 2:45

In the license pressing, the song Reklamation ( Wir sind Helden ) was used instead of the intro and the outro Deutschlandlied , sung by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Helmut Kohl , Jürgen Wohlrabe , Walter Momper and Willy Brandt, was omitted. Instead rebel was The doctors -Stück cry for love added. In addition, instead of the Neoangin title, Augen auf was added by Sido . On CD 2 was held Germany to die of Slime the song Hey Punk used. In addition, In spite of all of Hannes Wader added.

Song info

A bit of peace has been included in the compilation in a multilingual version. In Adriano (Last Warning) is a special radio mix.

reception

According to George Lindt , the compilation was perceived very differently in the reviews:

“The reactions to Protestsongs.de were very different. Unfortunately, only a few people understood them, not even the taz. But the German trade union federation bought a few thousand for its young members ... "

- Georg Lindt : Interview in the Tagesspiegel

A summary of the reviews can be found on the website of Favoritlied Records, whereby negative reviews or contributions from problematic media such as Junge Freiheit were not dispensed with.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Achim Fehrenbach: Songs of love and protest. Interview with Georg Lindt. Der Tagesspiegel , January 14, 2006, accessed on July 11, 2011 .
  2. ↑ The Protest of Others. Interview with Georg Lindt. Radio report from FM4 . Sent on October 28, 2004. Available at [1] .
  3. ↑ George Lindt: On the history of the German-language protest song: An introduction . In: Federal Center for Political Education (Ed.): Protestsongs.de (2CD) . 2009, p. 7 .
  4. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education (ed.): Media package ProtestSongs.
  5. ↑ Press review. Favorite Song Records, accessed July 12, 2011 .