Song (magazine)
The song magazine with the subtitle Chanson Folklore Bänkelsang existed from 1966 to 1970 and was the first German-language folk magazine . It originated in the vicinity of the Burg-Waldeck-Festivals and took part in their development from folk and chanson to committed political song to rock music and revolutionary-political debate. In the first few years she was the most important mouthpiece for the new folk and protest song movement in Germany and reported extensively on the songwriters , with many renowned authors participating.
History and Editions
In 1966, just in time for the third Burg Waldeck Festival, the organizers published the magazine song , which was initially subtitled Chanson Folklore Bänkelsang . The project was initiated by Rolf Gekeler, who comes from the Bundestag youth group ; he became the first editor. With increasing politicization and radicalization, the magazine later changed its name twice , influenced by the 1968 movement . The following editions were published from 1966 to 1970:
- under the title song. Chanson Folkore Bänkelsang 1966 numbers 1 to 3, 1967 number 4 and (without year) number 5,
- under the title song. German underground magazine 1968 numbers 6, 7 and 8 (each without year)
- and under the title song. Journal for progressive subculture 1969 numbers 1 to 4 and the last issue number 1/1970.
In addition, song published extensive program booklets for the Waldeck Festivals in 1967 and 1968 as well as three editions of the "song library".
Employee
Changing editorial team
In the first year, Rolf Gekeler's editorial team included the illustrator Gertrude Degenhardt , Martin Degenhardt, Reinhard Hippen , the art educator and later cultural historian Diethart Kerbs , the later sociologist and political scientist Arno Klönne , Erdmann Linde and Thomas Schroeder. In the next few years the group of employees changed, journalists Klaus Budzinski and Henryk M. Broder joined them, along with many others, Carsten Linde, Jürgen Jekewitz, Rolf Schwendter and Thomas Rothschild .
Other authors
In addition to the editorial staff, other well-known authors contributed regularly or occasionally to the design of the editions, for example the music journalist Joachim-Ernst Berendt , the Swiss cabaret artist Franz Hohler , the songwriters Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Dieter Süverkrüp, and Klaus Kuhnke , one of the co-founders of the archive for popular music in Bremen. The writer Horst Tomayer , Joachim Sonderhoff , the later screenwriter and director Horst Königstein and the journalist Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser were also there .
Content orientation
The first edition began with a contribution by Gerd Semmer on the beginnings of modern chanson , the songs of the French Revolution and an essay by Peter Rohland on the songs of German democrats at the time of the revolution in 1848 . As was the case with many subject areas in later editions, numerous text and sheet music examples were printed. Gertrude Degenhardt provided illustrations for Franz Josef Degenhardt's chansons .
In the following editions, Hanns Dieter Hüsch and Dieter Süverkrüp had their say, and in addition to the Waldeck festivals, there were reports on foreign festivals (Folk Festival Di Torino, Folk Festival in Newport ) and there were regular book and record reviews. Not only about Bob Dylan , but also about the "Bob Dylan of the Soviet Union ", the opposition artist and co-founder of the Russian author's song Bulat Okudschawa , as well as about Catalan chansons or Mikis Theodorakis and other musicians. The editions of recent years have been about rock music, for example Xhol Caravan or Mick Jagger . In addition, there were now many theoretical discussions about political song, underground and subculture with titles such as "Apolit poprop", "Politics instead of music", "Underground alchemy and trip therapy", "That's underground", "On the theory of subculture" or "Art and Socialism".
Cultural meaning
song was the first German-language magazine that, based on the American folk song movement, dealt with new song forms and content. She was the mouthpiece for the committed and political song and a journalistic platform for the new scene and the songwriters and their songs made famous by the Waldeck Festival. The sociologist and political scientist Arno Klönne wrote: “Two years before the“ 68er Movement ”, a publication“ for chanson, folklore, bank song ”, which revived democratic song traditions and broadened the horizon towards the international one, had an impact on the young music scene in Germany for the first time Folk and song culture opened up. ” When the cultural environment changed from 1969 and“ progressive subculture ”became fashionable, there was little left of the original idea. "But a number of the song booklets have become an integral part of the history of the West German cultural opposition in the 1960s."
Quotes
- From the first edition: “It is time to combine the songs of Schwartenhälsen, the poor Jewess and the deserter, with the songs of the revolution of 1848, the workers' struggles and the songs from the concentration camps with the term“ German folk song ”. We finally have to correct this term. ” Peter Rohland
- From the last issue: “How can one be so advanced politically and socially that one can hardly go any further, and at the same time remain aesthetically so behind that one cannot even understand Peter Handke ? And that in whole seminars! The courage of the dumb companion's own goal. " Joachim E. Berendt
literature
- Rolf Wilhelm Brednich: Song. Magazine for chanson, folklore, bank song . No. 1 (1966). In: Yearbook for Folk Song Research . 12th year, 1967. pp. 215-217. German Folk Song Archive. Freiburg, ISSN 0075-2789
- Arno Klönne: Remembering “song” . In: brains . No. 1/1999. Page 11. Waldeck Castle, Dorweiler
- Hotte Schneider: The Waldeck - Lieder rides adventure. The history of Waldeck Castle from 1911 to the present day . Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2005, ISBN 3-935035-71-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journal database . Retrieved July 19, 2018 .
- ^ Carsten Linde: Hootenanny song book 85 ; also Colin Wilkie - The bells of London and Hedy West - Song Book
- ↑ a b memory of "song" . In: brains . No. 1/1999. Page 11
- ↑ From: in memoriam. Bernhard E. Wette in conversation with Peter Rohland . In: song . No. 1/1966. Page 36
- ↑ From: Questions . In: song . No. 1/1970. Page 34