Defiance & dreams
Despite & Dreams were a West Berlin music group that achieved a certain response with German-language folk rock around 1980 . Her eponymous self-produced LP Despite & Dreams 1979 remained the only drive the group.
Founded in 1977 by the largely unknown songwriters Rudolf Cacek, Manfred Maurenbrecher and Henner Reitmeier from the West Berlin spontaneous scene, the group moved with changing line- ups mainly through music bars and youth centers in West Berlin and West Germany. Shortly after the establishment, Burkhard Schulze-Darup joined the group as a co-sponsor. All four musicians wrote and composed. The group played only acoustic instruments, including the piano. For her LP she strengthened herself with wind players, including Michael Stein , who also played bass, and a violinist. While Thomas Rothschild felt addressed by this record “from the gay milieu” with “the lack of sentimental self-pity”, the “linguistic precision of the texts” and a “surprising, chamber music sound”, Uli Dornieden complained that the poetry of the texts was often accompanied Chaos of the instruments suffocated. Nevertheless, the record is "better than most in the area and certainly there is currently no German group that formulates everyday experiences, fear of love, erotic moods and future dreams more convincingly."
In 1982 the group disbanded. In doing so, she probably punished Frank Urban, who had assured him the year before that, with Defiance & Träume , interpreters had come together who, despite their “pronounced individuality”, had managed to develop “a group profile”. It was too weak, it didn't work. In addition, there were technical inadequacies of the "interpreters". After the dissolution, only Manfred Maurenbrecher remained loyal to music; he started a solo career. Cacek, Reitmeier and Schulze-Darup became landscape gardeners, artist models and architects. Henner Reitmeier came back to music around 2010.
Individual evidence
- ^ Frankfurter Rundschau , New Records column , January 1980
- ^ One-way sound reinforcement for consumers: "Despite & Dreams" , in: taz 1979
- ↑ Direct line to the audience / The Trio defense & dreams , in: Tagesspiegel , April 19, 1981
- ^ Schulze-Darup website , accessed on April 19, 2012
- ↑ Reitmeier website , accessed on June 20, 2012