Timur and his squad (band)
| Timur and his squad | |
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 Timur and his team, 2016 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Weimar , Germany |
| Genre (s) | Punk , hits |
| founding | 1986, 2011 |
| resolution | 1999 |
| Founding members | |
| Holm Kirsten | |
| Jörn Luther | |
| Burkhard Blum | |
| Jens Ferber | |
| Current occupation | |
| Holm Kirsten | |
| Wolfgang Hempel (since 1989) | |
| Burkhard Blum | |
| Andreas Kurdinat (since 2015) | |
| Robert Boddin (since 2016) | |
| Maik Plewnia (since 1988) | |
| former members | |
| Silke Gonska (1987–1988) | |
| Helfried Menchén (1987-1989) | |
| Conrad Hoffmann (1988-2016) | |
The band Timur and his troop , named after the children's book of the same name by Arkadi Gaidar , was founded in Weimar in 1986 .
history
The tendency to create legends and several failed attempts to play a typical band instrument led to the founding of the band Timur and his troop by Jörn Luther and Holm Kirsten at the end of 1986 . Jens Ferber and Burkhard Blum, who not only played bass, but also built effect devices and mixers himself, joined them. In 1982 Luther and Ferber had their first musical experience with the band Unankbare Brut . After a short interlude by guitarist Jens Ferber, Helfried Menchén and Silke Gonska joined the band.
In terms of lyrics, the band combined lyrics from Christian Morgenstern to Boris Vian through to hits and Russian songs. The band also mixed many styles musically: punk , pop and heavy metal sounds.
At the beginning of 1988 Silke Gonska left the band, but Maik Plewnia came on the drums. At the same time guitarist Conrad Hoffmann joined the band. After Jörn Luther announced several times that he would leave the band, Wolfgang Hempel could be won for vocal support. Since Luther dragged his exit until 1999, the band had three singers for a time. Especially through adaptations of pioneering songs, the Timur project became increasingly ironic about the outdated pathos of the toothless GDR state ideology . The band, which quickly became a local cult, was not interested in a classification right from the start and instead produced their MC Das wir sind wir in 1988/89 in an edition of 100 pieces.
The final departure of Helfried Menchén and the brief departure of Burkhard Blum, Conrad Hoffmann and Maik Plewnia as a result of several waves of emigration led to the band's temporary breakup. The Timur members Wolfgang Hempel, Holm Kirsten and Conrad Hoffmann founded the band The Naked Lunch in 1989 together with Frank Hruschka, Maik Sonnet and Maik Vollmann, as well as Jörg Sittig . From the mid-1990s onwards, Timur and his troop only played sporadically until the band broke up in 1999.
From 1992 Jörn Luther, Holm Kirsten and Burkhard Blum briefly joined forces with Gabi Hultsch to form the Tumor project and his trip . Maik Plewnia and Conrad Hoffmann founded the band Hateful Birthday in 1992 . Conrad Hoffmann played bass with Die Art from 2001 . He has been part of the re-union cast of Die Art since 2007 . From 2010 he started the solo project Bering Sea .
In 2011 “Timur and his squad” was re-established. From 2015 Andreas Kurdinat joined the band with a second guitar. At the end of 2016 Conrad Hoffmann retired for artistic reasons. That was why Robert Boddin got on board.
Discography
- 1989: That's us (tape, in-house production)
- 1997: This is us (CD, remaster from 1989)
- 1998: Kamchatka / Whore , on: We are the unleashed average (CD compilation)
- 2009: Teenager Love , on: The Other Consumption (Tape Compilation)
- 2017: Do you want to go with me (CD)
Exhibitions
- Boheme and dictatorship in the GDR. Groups, conflicts, quarters 1970 to 1989. Exhibition in the German Historical Museum , Berlin 1997.
- OstPunk! - too much future. Punk in the GDR 1979 - 1989 , exhibition at Salon Ost, Berlin 2005.
Movies
- 2012: Timur and his squad Live (DVD, paradiesFILM PRODUKTION)
- 2015: Platonow (feature film, co-production ZDF / 3sat and paradiesFILM PRODUKTION)
Web links
literature
- Frank Brauer, Weimar bands under red dictation. Timur & the rest, in: Thüringische Landeszeitung v. August 8, 1991.
- Claus Bach, portrait of the band, in: CD We are the average unleashed. Music from the "underground": Weimar 1979-1990 , 1998.
- Michael Boehlke / Henryk Gericke (eds.): OstPunk! - too much future. Punk in the GDR 1979 - 1989 , exhibition catalog, Berlin 2005.
- Ulrich Jadke / Holm Kirsten / Jörn Luther / Thomas Onißeit: Making cucumber salad out of the state. Another youth. Weimar 1979-1989 , ed. by Rüdiger Haufe, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3937989716
- Anne Hahn: Pogo in Bratwurstland. Punk in Thuringia , Erfurt 2009. ISBN 978-3-937967-49-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claus Bach: Eckermann and the Faustian. Punk in Weimar . In: Ronald Galenza, Heinz Havemeister (eds.): We always want to be good ... Punk, New Wave, HipHop and the independent scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990 . Berlin 1999.
- ^ Claudia Petzold, Paul Kaiser: Boheme and dictatorship in the GDR. Groups, conflicts, quarters 1970 to 1989. Exhibition catalog . Berlin 1997.