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Schneewittchen

"They looked like they came from a folk high school course in folklore." (Ina Deter)

Orchestrated with guitar, flute, violin and double bass, the women's quartet Schneewittchen with pleated skirt and knitted sweater sang this song at the end of the 1970s, when women were in action against male domination throughout the Republic. The confession "I have had an abortion" in the magazine 'stern' had hit the patriarchal structures in the market in 1971. As a result, autonomous, non-partisan women's centres, women's groups, women's shelters, and women's and health centres of their own were established in all major German cities. A network was formed with which women developed their own culture. Their own women's bookstores sold the ever richer offer of women's literature, and women's bands such as Snow White made women's music.

"This song is sung by women, and 6000 men and women understand that this is not a song for railwaymen, although there is something about switches in it, and that it is not a song for election candidates, although it says in it that you can choose yourself, and that it is not a song for dancers and for stone throwers. These 6000 people understand that this is a central question of our contemporary history, that it is a question of women. These 6,000 people express this by their applause.

The Prime Minister, however, makes a vicious and slanderous connection between this song of emancipation and a violent demonstration. That's infamous." The Prime Minister who was addressed by the Social Democratic Member of Parliament Gisela Böhrk during an excited debate in 1979 was Gerhard Stoltenberg. He had left the Kieler Ostseehalle outraged after an appearance of the group Schneewittchen in front of 6000 visitors, after the four women had sung their song Unter dem Pflaster liegt der Strand. The line "... come, tear a few stones out of the sand" was enough for Stoltenberg to connect the women's song with the policemen hit in Frankfurt (Main) during a demonstration of cobblestones.

When Schneewittchen released the song on the album 'Zerschlag deinen gläsernen Sarg' in 1978, a very old-fashioned image of women still prevailed in the minds of many men. The woman therefore belonged to the stove, while the man made a living. Angi Domdey, Bruni Regenbogen, Anka Hauter and Rotraut Colberg had met at a women's meeting. They dedicated their album to the countless nameless women who had fought for their cause over the centuries and yet cannot be found in any history book.

The quartet sang in their songs about sexual liberation as well as about the new female self-image. "In the spring of 1979, singer Angi Domdey described Schneewittchen's concern as follows: "She rejects political recipes," wrote Margot Schroeder in Alice Schwarzers 'Emma', "because the oppression of women cannot be smashed with 'hammers of wood'; it is too subtle and too complex for that. The 'Snow White' are for the small steps, not for the seven-league boots that race into space. [...] Instead of the pedagogical index finger, a baton. "Glass coffins can also be shattered with it."

www.angi-domdey.net

 

Extract from
Various - songwriter in Germany
Vol.2, For whom we sing (3-CD)
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