Further processing (tape)
| Further processing | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | East Berlin |
| Genre (s) | New wave |
| resolution | 1982 |
| Last occupation | |
| Ralf "Rustical" Haubert | |
| Jörg "Jovial" Romahn | |
Bass, vocals |
Frank “Fatal” Nietsch |
| Lothar "Larmoyant" Greiss | |
| Peter "The Window" Hertzfeldt (from 1982) | |
Further processing , or WV for short , was a band from East Berlin that in 1981 and 1982 - inspired by New Wave , New German Wave and the everyday absurdities of the GDR dictatorship - created a sound that they themselves as a (self-invented) style "New German Aesthetics". The texts were mostly in German. The band members assigned themselves to the “ Geniale Dilletanten ”. The band did not have (and did not strive for) a so-called play permit required for musicians in the GDR and only performed at "unofficial" concerts. At the last concert by Weiterverarbeitung in April 1982 in a private house in Berlin-Karow in front of around 200 listeners, incidents occurred: the villa was partially demolished, window panes smashed in Karow and GDR flags were burned. Several visitors to the concert and a member of the band were then temporarily arrested.
Further processing used multimedia at concerts with the means available in the GDR at the time: WV used Super 8 and slide projectors for live performances , and they built their own sound effect devices. In 1982, Weiterverarbeitung was supposed to be represented on a GDR sampler by the West Berlin band Leningrad Sandwich , but the band had split up before the recordings.
Some members of this band later played with, among others, Der Demokratie Konsum and Die Firma .
See also
literature
- Michael Boehlke, Henryk Gericke: Ostpunk !: Too Much Future: Punk in the GDR 1979-89 . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-932754-62-X (catalog on the occasion of an exhibition at Künstlerhaus Bethanien)
Web links
- Cassette cover from further processing on "Youth Opposition in the GDR", a portal of the bpb together with the Havemann Society
- Music from further processing from 1981 and 1982 at last.fm