Wartburgs for Walter

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Wartburgs for Walter
General information
origin East Berlin , GDR
Genre (s) Punk , avant-garde
founding 1987
resolution 1989
Last occupation
Ina Pallas
guitar
 Boriz Becker (Bernd Hennig)
Jörn Schulz
Dirk "Scholle" Scholz

Wartburgs für Walter was a short-lived punk and avant-garde band from Berlin that was formed shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall .

history

Wartburgs für Walter, a play on words with the Wartburg car brand , was founded in 1987 by singer Ina Pallas and bassist Jörn Schulz (ex- Antitrott ), who initially lived in the apartment of guitarist Bernd Henning (who, based on tennis star Boris Becker, “Boriz Becker “Called) composed first songs in English with a drum computer . In November 1987 the newly formed band was able to do a six-day tour of Poland together with nameless and no talent . This was organized by the tape label QQRYQ and the punk band Trybuna Brdu . The last gig in Szczecin was later published on MC through self-distribution. In addition, recordings for the tape sampler We Are the Flowers in the Red Zone Vol.1 followed .

The tour turned the rather loosely organized group into a permanent band, to which Dirk “Scholle” Scholz came as a drummer. Most of the band's songs were written in the first few months. Progress was made more difficult by the fact that the group had no permission to play and, accordingly, all appearances had to be conspiratorial or as part of church events. The group performed on April 21st and 22nd at the Alösa Spring Festival, a punk festival with around 2500 visitors. This gig was also later published as an MC.

In 1988 the group succeeded in obtaining a state classification after a few temporary performance permits. In 1989 a self-titled demo tape was released . Then the band broke up again.

The band is on the first part of the sampler series Sure there are better times, but this one was ours (1991) from Höhnie Records with the title Springtime and with More More Anymore on Wenn kaputt, then wir FUN - Berlin Punk Rock 1977–1989 (2002) from Weird System . In 2016 a double LP was released under the title Complete Works with all the pieces on the labels Sick Suck Records and Hörsturzproduktion.

Dirk “Scholle” Scholz later played in Die Art and the medieval rock band Corvus Corax . He is also a founding member of Cultus Ferox , with which he is still active today.

Discography

Albums

  • 2016: Complete Works (Sick Suck Records / Hörsturzproduktion)

Cassettes

  • 1987: Live 11/87 Szescin, Poland (in-house production)
  • 1989: Demo tape (in-house production)
  • 1989: Wartburgs for Walter live (in-house production)

Compilation Contributions

  • 1988: What Will You Do if You Had a Lot of Money? / After Nuclear War on We Are the Flowers in the Red Zone Vol.1 (MC, QQRYQ Tapes 002)
  • 1988: Mightmachine / Out of Thought at Spring Festival '88 (MC, QQRYQ Tapes 005, Poland)
  • 1991: Springtime on Sure there are better times, but this was ours (LP / CD, Höhnie Records )
  • 2002: More More Anymore on If broken, then we have fun - Berlin Punk Rock 1977–1989 (CD, Weird System )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Willmann: Lick Me Alive: Punk in the East . Neues Leben, 2012, ISBN 978-3-355-50005-0 ( google.de [accessed on September 26, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Head Attack: Tape Attack: Wartburg For Walter - Live Szescin, Poland 11/87. In: Tape Attack. August 1, 2016, accessed September 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Wartburgs for Walter - Parocktikum Wiki. Retrieved September 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Discography and Cassettography . In: Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister (eds.): "We always want to be good ..." Punk, new wave, hiphop and independent scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990 . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-637-2 , p. 387 .
  5. ^ Jasper André Friedrich and Ray Schneider: Leipzig from below: punk and independent scene, actions, magazines and bands . In: Ronald Galenza and Heinz Havemeister (eds.): "We always want to be good ..." Punk, new wave, hiphop and independent scene in the GDR from 1980 to 1990 . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-89602-637-2 , p. 146-149 .
  6. ↑ Wartburgs for Walter at Discogs (English)