Team 4
| Team 4 | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Beat music |
| founding | September 1964 |
| resolution | 1973 |
| Founding members | |
| Thomas Natschinski | |
| Gerrit Graefe | |
Bass guitar , vocals |
John Knepler |
Rhythm guitar , vocals |
Hartmut König until 1971 |
| former members | |
singing |
Petra Rechlin |
singing |
Sanda Weigl |
Rhythm guitar, vocals |
Detlev Haak for King |
Team 4 (from 1965: Thomas Natschinski and his group ) was a German beat band that significantly influenced the development of rock music in the GDR . The band's pioneering achievement consisted in being the first rock band in the GDR to have produced exclusively German-language titles of high quality and thus promoted the acceptance of rock music in the eyes of party and state officials.
Band history
The band was founded in September 1964 as part of Beatlemania , which did not stop at the borders of the GDR, and was discovered and promoted a short time later by the radio editor Marianne Oppel . All band members were self-taught . Inspired by the music of the Beatles , they began to play their music. Like all "guitar groups" ( GDR parlance ) in the GDR, they had to struggle with insufficient equipment and were dependent on improvisation and inventive talent. For example, the band used a “Beethoven Super” tube radio as an amplifier for the bass guitar during their first appearances .
The band's home was the youth club on Gutenbergstrasse in Berlin-Köpenick. The first concert took place on March 27, 1965. The band developed their own musical style and produced their own German-language compositions by Natschinski with texts by Hartmut König on the GDR radio . This represented a novelty in the development of GDR rock music and was seen by the cultural officials in the GDR as the right step towards the development of an independent socialist dance music. As the first rock band in the GDR, the band ran the risk of being politically co-opted because of their independent path. On September 10, 1965, the band appeared as one of the first beat bands in the youth program “Basar” on GDR television , and in the same year several singles were recorded on the GDR label Amiga , which were only released in the following years. The turn in the cultural policy of the GDR initiated with the 11th plenary session of the Central Committee of the SED led to restrictions for the band, so that Team 4 was renamed Thomas Natschinski and his group in 1967 . The group broke up after the album We About Us was released and Natschinsky was drafted into the army . He was succeeded by the band Brot & Salz .
Discography
Singles
- 1966: Song of Dreams / Song of Us (Amiga)
- 1966: The road / I show the way (Amiga)
- 1966: Frank Schöbel and Team 4: It's not just you / Truth (Amiga, for the DEFA film Wedding Night in the Rain )
- 1967: I looked her in the face / The evening has come (Amiga)
LPs
- 1968: The Street (Amiga)
- 1970: Stories (Amiga)
- 1972: About us (Amiga)
See also
literature
- Michael Rauhut: Beat in the gray area . BasisDruck Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-86163-063-X .
- HP Hofmann: Beat Lexicon. Performers, authors, technical terms . VEB Lied der Zeit Musikverlag, Berlin (East) 1977.
- Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .
Web links
- Portrait of Natschinski, among others with Team 4 as well as Thomas Natschinski and group
- Portrait at ostbeat.de ( Memento from May 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
- Band portrait team 4 (excerpt)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Rauhut In: Beat in der Grauzone, p. 191
- ↑ Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR. 2nd Edition. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 , p. 288.