Snow White (band)

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Snow white
Snow White (band)
Snow White (band)
General information
origin Hamburg , Germany
Genre (s) Folk , pop , chanson
founding 1977
resolution 1981
Last occupation
Singing, guitar, flute, percussion
 Angi Domdey
Vocals, guitar, violin, viola, flute, bass
 Bruni rainbow
Flute, saxophone, guitar, harmonica, vocals
 Anka Hauter
Piano, cello, accordion, drums, bass, vocals
 Rotraut Colberg

Schneewittchen was a German women's music group that was founded in Hamburg in 1977 and existed until 1981. She named herself after the fairy tale character Snow White . In their songs, the four musicians in the group advocate the liberation and self-realization of women. The compositions, texts and arrangements of the songs, which were initially influenced by folk songs, ballads, classical and blues, and later also by rock, come mainly from the band members Angi Domdey and Bruni Regenbogen. The musicians also took care of the management, technology and transport themselves. Snow White was one of the first female professional bands. There are also collaborations with the writer Peter Maiwald , the writer Hildegard Wohlgemuth , the guitarist André Rebstock u. a. who contributed lyrics or music. Snow White's songs accompanied the women's movement in Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s.

history

The jazz singer Angi Domdey and the artist and musician Bruni Regenbogen met in March 1977 at a women's music meeting in Göttingen. After their first appearances as a couple (e.g. at the Hamburg Literature Center), they founded the beginning of 1978 together with Anka Hauter, who they met on a jazz practice evening, and with the studied historian and musician Rotraut Colberg, who had also learned to compose and arrange who have favourited Snow White. 1979-80 the LP Tu was was created together with the drummer Sabine Neufeldt. The group toured Germany and Austria. She was played on the radio and had various appearances on television, e.g. B. on January 13, 1979 in the song circus of ZDF (where Juliette Gréco also appeared). On December 3, 1978, the NDR showed the film Snow White sets the tone in the documentary series Not as passive as you might think . On February 8, 1979, Snow White, along with politician Hans Apel , boxer Jörg Eipel and Dina Vierny, were guests in the first edition of the talk show Talk nach Neun, hosted by Christine Brinck , Dagobert Lindlau, Hermann Schreiber and Wolf Schneider, which came from the Hamburg pub "Uncle Pö" was broadcast.

The beach is under the pavement

Under the pavement lies the beach, one of the best-known songs by the group Schneewittchen, was written and composed by Angi Domdey in 1976. According to Domdey, the title goes back to a saying by the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon . “Sous les pavés, la plage!” (Literally: “under the cobblestones, the beach”) was a popular slogan of the 1968 May revolt in Paris and was written on the walls by workers and students.

“It is a song for the imagination and against the deadlocked, hardened structures of our society, against the hard concrete of our cities and the petrification of our thoughts and actions. It's an emancipation song, not just for women. The stones should not be used for throwing, but the sand under the stones should be exposed for dancing. "

- Angi Domdey

Discography

Albums

  • 1978: Snow White, smash your glass coffin ( Phonogram )
  • 1979: Fireball (Phonogram)
  • 1981: Snow White Live - Do something (Phonogram)
  • 1981: Girls Who Whistle (Phonogram)

Appearances (selection)

  • March 22, 1979 Münster, F1, Fürstenberghaus, Domplatz
  • May 28, 1979 Münster, H1, Hindenburgplatz
  • July 18, 1979 Hamburg, ASTA concert in the Audimax
  • July 20, 1979 Bad Cannstatt, Kursaal
  • July 21, 1979 Frankfurt, songs in the park

literature

  • Snow White and the Stones . In: Der Spiegel . No. 52 , 1978 ( online ).
  • Meike Wolff (editor): Snow White's song book. All texts of the women's music group with notes and guitar fingerings. Reinbek b. Hamburg 1982.
  • Sabine Zurmühl: Tours only during the school holidays . In: Courage . Berliner Frauenzeitung, 4, 1979, issue 7, pp. 42–43.
  • Lottemi Doormann: Trobadoras of a new female reality . The women's music group Schneewittchen, in: Moving what moves me. From questions of women, images of men and utopias, Cologne 1988, pp. 231–234.
  • Angry and gentle. The women's group Snow White . In: Badische Zeitung Freiburg, July 19, 1979.
  • Ingrid Kolb: The man is an object of pleasure . In: Stern , 47/1986.
  • Lutz Röhrich: Collected writings on folk song and folk ballads research. Waxmann, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1213-7 , p. 280.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Angry and gentle . In: Badische Zeitung . 17th January 1979.
  2. ↑ a b Petra Meister: Snow White no longer needs a prince . In: Brigitte . No. 16 , 1979, pp. 73-77 .
  3. ↑ In this regard, comparable to the Bonn blue stockings around Inge Latz , the Flying Lesbians and the Munich women's song group.
  4. ↑ Annemarie Rufer: The 68er and the women's movement . Radio Z, July 28, 2011
  5. ↑ July 18, Hamburg, ASTA concert in the Audimax, July 20, 1979 Bad Cannstatt, Kursaal Bad Cannstatt and July 21, 1979 Frankfurt, Lieder im Park
  6. ↑ Not as passive as one might think (1977-80) was a series of documentaries about “normal people who, e.g. B. organize in women and men groups in order to take their fate into their own hands ”. wunschliste.de
  7. ↑ On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1979 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Max Matter, Nils Grosch (Ed.): Song and popular culture Song and Popular Culture . 2009, p. 285 ( google.de ).
  9. ↑ angidomdey.de