Wahkonda

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Wahkonda
General information
Genre (s) skirt
founding 1973, 2008
resolution 2004
Founding members
Hans Georg Hansi Alt
Current occupation
Axel Hein
Keyboard
 Wilfried Brummack
bass
 Dieter Siebke
Rene Niederwieser
guitar
 Mike Haase
former members
guitar
 Wilfried Zaruba
Ralf Engel
Guitar, vocals
 Bernd Ernie Lehmann

Wahkonda is a German rock band from Frankfurt (Oder) . She achieved her greatest successes in the GDR at the end of the 1980s .

history

Wahkonda was founded in 1972 by Hans Georg Hansi Alt as an amateur band . The name of the band, which can be traced back to the interest of the band founder in the culture of the Indians , comes from Indian literature and has multiple meanings as Wakonda . The drummer's last name was Wahkowski. The singer Ralf Engel joined the band in 1977.

Although the band had been a professional formation since 1980, success did not materialize until the mid-1980s, when the first original compositions were written and produced on the radio of the GDR . Titles like A touch of tenderness by Wilfried Brummack or I need you achieved top spots in the rating programs and increasingly made the band known. TV appearances in the youth program round and a first foreign tour on the Druzhba route in the Soviet Union followed. In the autumn of 1984 the band with the title Will we go to me was featured on the GDR television program Stop! Rock winner.

In 1986 the band was given the opportunity to produce a single on the GDR label . Wahkonda also provided the music for the DEFA film Das Puppenheim in Pinnow . The song-like rock, the cheerful, ironic lyrics by Axel Hein and Bernd Ernie Lehmann and the band's stage show, in which Lehmann imitated Udo Lindenberg , were particularly well received by the young audience .

In the GDR annual hit parade in 1985, Wahkonda reached 20th place with the title Simply Nur so and in 1987 with Ich Such Dich took 17th place.

Even before the first album was recorded, Lehmann left the band. Wilfried Zaruba (guitar) came for him. After the reunification in the GDR, the band got quieter and in the early 2000s they broke up.

In 2008, the front man Engel reunited the band, which had already given several reunion concerts. The previous line-up of Engel, Hein, Siebke and Brummack has been joined by two new guitarists. At the same time, the Amiga heiress Sony / BMG released a CD with the band's greatest successes.

On October 5, 2011, band singer Ralf Engel committed suicide.

Discography

single

  • 1986: Rock'n Roller / helpless (Amiga)

LP

  • 1989: Millions of emotions (Amiga)

CD

  • 2008: Wahkonda - The greatest hits (Amiga / Sony / BMG)

Other titles published on samplers

  • 1985: Find me a bride with a motorcycle on clover leaf No. 15 (Amiga)
  • 1986: Come and feel the hot night on Disco - Non-Stop (Amiga)
  • 2003: Longing for DT-64 Story No. 8 (BMG)
  • 2007: All the wonders of the world on hits & rarities from the radio archive No. 8 (Choice of music)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Martin: Wahkonda In: Melodie und Rhythmus , Issue 7/1986, Berlin (East)
  2. ↑ Melody and Rhythm, Issue 2/2984, Berlin (East)
  3. ↑ Lilian Teuschler: Wahkonda - a Frankfurt rock menu In: Melodie und Rhythmus, Issue 2/1985, Berlin (East)
  4. ^ GDR annual hit parade 1980–1990 ( Memento of October 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ moz of October 12, 2011

literature

  • Götz Hintze: Rock Lexicon of the GDR . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-303-9 .

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