Who was/is Linnenzworch ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Linnenzworch
"We are self-willed - peculiarly self-willed
but not selfish
We are hopeful - brave as a fiddle
and without respect for empty popcorn.
What we have in common is a desire for music
the hard work in the field
who is not alienated
by man.
That - we think -
Is good tradition"
(Self-portrayal Linnenzworch)
In order to play "songs from Germany and Swabia, folk dances and Renaissance dances, instrumental pieces and original compositions" (self-portrayal), four Swabian musicians formed the group Linnenzworch in 1976. The name is a pure fantasy product, if you believe the stories of guitarist, bouzouki player and singer Reinhard Fischer. Accordingly, it was created after all group members had written some fantasy names on a sheet of paper. Then the paper was turned around, inserted with a needle and where it came out the name 'Linnenzworch' was written.
Until the group was dissolved in 1983, three LPs were released - 'Vom Kriega ond Bettla' (1978), 'Ghopft wie gschpronga' (1980) and the concept album 'Wer noch einmal eine Waffe angeührt, dem Hand schallen' (1981) - as well as several songbooks.
Die Falschheit is a song from the 19th century, from whose numerous variations Linnenzworch put together his own Swabian one and set it to music anew. The Lilienthal Group later adopted this version and translated the text into High German. A German-German story is connected with this song, which Reinhard Fischer tells: "At that time we had a more or less active exchange with people from the GDR, who wished us to send them our LPs and other West Folk records. Somehow there were always channels between West and East Folkies. Of course we did, and the 'payment' took place for us in the form of records from the East, e.g. from Hungary or Romania, which we didn't get. Now our first LP 'Vom Kriega ond Bettla' got into the hands of Jens-Paul Wollenberg and his former Münzenberger Gevattern Kombo. What I then experienced - the world is a wonder bag - almost knocked me out. The Münzenberger Gevattern Kombo had included our 'falsity' in their repertoire, with the original arrangement they had listened to from the record and sung in Swabian - as Saxons! From this version of the 'falsity' exists a tape recording of a rehearsal evening. Wollenberg burned me this rehearsal, which must have been quite drunken, on CD."
Extract from
Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.3, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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