Who was/is Reinhold Andert ? - CDs, Vinyl LPs, DVD and more
Reinhold Andert
Reinhold Andert (born 1944) was an altar boy and attended an Episcopal Pre-Seminar before converting and studying Marxist-Leninist philosophy and history. During his studies the political folk song came into fashion internationally, and in the GDR the singing movement came into being. Andert joined the Hootenanny/October Club. He found many traditional songs phrase-like and pompous, and on some new songs he was disturbed by "the fatal proximity to the lyrics with which the 'sing-out' troupe travels through the western countries. So he began to write songs himself. His motto was 'GDR-konkret'. He wanted to "sing about everyday life as it is" and "make jokes about things that are sometimes still handled very religiously." Later he recognized the religious character of some of his own songs. About the song of the fatherland he said: "... I wanted this country to become like this: I designed this picture of the country I love, and everyone knew it wasn't like that yet. And that's the magic, the religious: You pretend a picture and don't say, "This is how it should be or this is how I want it to be, this is how it is."
In the early 70s there was a lot of upheaval and upheaval in the GDR. The singing movement was at its peak and Andert was the leader of the song group at the organizing committee of the X. Weltfestspiele responsible for the production of new songs. He organised meetings of writers and composers, gave commissions and wrote texts himself. Some songs were written, which express the spirit of solidarity and enthusiasm of those years very impressively.
In the second half of the 70's Andert worked as a freelance songwriter, appeared frequently at the festival of political song and published two LPs and several books. In 1980 he was excluded from the SED by petty moral apostles after 17 years of membership. The exclusion had nothing to do with his artistic work, he was not banned from a profession, but his opportunities for appearances and publications became rarer. For the new songs that he now wrote were more critical and bitter, and that was anything but desirable.
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Vol.2, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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