Gymnastics, Leipzig, 1977
In this finale by the conclusion, all the athletes are on the field. Every move is correographed, including many of those 12,500 spectators who worked for their admission, and who were sitting in the East Stage. Each of these spectators had instructions as to exactly when to hold up which of their variously colored tag-boards, in support of a programmed socialist message.
There's no doubt that all gymnasts were fit. Also, the men may have done the heavy lifting, but the USA in the 70's were going through the early stages of Title 9.
Message: 0:30-0:50: die Demut = humility; die Mut = courage; die Kraft = power
Show : 1:30-2:00: pairs tumble flat to ground with women standing on men's shoulders
Message: Sozialismus = Socialism; Frieden = Peace
Show : 4:40 : battle scene
: 6:00 : reveal shields between 2 men (just 1 in support)
Message: 7:50 : carefully photographed field action beneath the hammer and sickle from the hand-held tag-boards.
HIER: The DDR's national anthem. Text is a great lesson!
Auferstanden aus Ruinen (Risen from Ruins) Text by Johannes R. Becher (who was to become Minister of Culture); Music by Hanns Eisler
1. Auferstanden aus Ruinen
Und der Zukunft zugewandt,
Lass uns dir zum Guten dienen,
Deutschland, einig Vaterland.
Alte Not gilt es zu zwingen,
Und wir zwingen sie vereint,
Denn es muss uns doch gelingen,
Dass die Sonne schön wie nie
Über Deutschland scheint,
Über Deutschland scheint.
2. Glück und Friede sei beschieden
Deutschland, unserm Vaterland.
Alle Welt sehnt sich nach Frieden,
Reicht den Völkern eure Hand.
Wenn wir brüderlich uns einen,
Schlagen wir des Volkes Feind.
Lasst das Licht des Friedens scheinen,
Dass nie eine Mutter mehr
Ihren Sohn beweint,
Ihren Sohn beweint.
3. Lasst uns pflügen, lasst uns bauen,
Lernt und schafft wie nie zuvor,
Und der eignen Kraft vertrauend,
Steigt ein frei Geschlecht empor.
Deutsche Jugend, bestes Streben
Unsres Volks in dir vereint,
Wirst du Deutschlands neues Leben,
Und die Sonne schön wie nie
Über Deutschland scheint,
Über Deutschland scheint.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Udo Lindenberg is 66
HÖR ZU, ALS DU HIER DIESEN TEXT DABEI LIEST!
Wer von der deutschen Musikszene spricht, ganz besonders von der deutschsprachigen, denkt automatisch an Udo Lindenberg. Lindenberg hat Generationen von deutschen Musikern und Musikfans begeistert und fasziniert.
Als fast alle Bands in Deutschland auf Englisch sangen, war Udo da und sang auf Deutsch, von Vampiren, Bodo Ballermann und den wilden Tagen auf Hamburgs Reeperbahn (er war "einer der ersten Beatles fans").
Udo Lindenberg begann 1970 seine Karriere als Schlagzeuger und spielte unter anderem für den Jazzsaxofonisten Klaus Doldinger. Seine größten Erfolge aber hatte er mit dem Panikorchester — hier konnte er cool und locker sein, wie Johnny Controletti. Mit seiner nuscheligen (slurry) Stimme, seinem großen Hut und seinem schwingenden Gang (gait..step) wurde Lindenberg zu einem der populärsten deutschen Rockstars.
Lindenberg realisierte immer wieder neue musikalische Ideen. Auf seinen Tourneen mit dem Panikorchester hatte er oft Gastmusiker dabei. (He frequently invited guest musicians to join him on tour.) Vielen von ihnen verhalf Lindenberg zum internationalen Durchbruch (breakthrough) , wie der Italienerin Gianna Nanini oder der Amerikanerin Helen Schneider.
Udo Lindenberg war immer politisch. Eins seiner bedeutendsten Alben war „Udopia”, das zur Hochzeit des Kalten Krieges herauskam. Für viele Deutschrockfans ist diese Platte ein Meilenstein der deutschen Musikgeschichte. Hier singt Udo gegen die Stationierung von NATO Raketen in Deutschland und gegen die Umweltzerstörung (destruction / devastation of the environment).
Udo Lindenberg engagierte sich zu dieser Zeit besonders für die friedliche Koexistenz (peaceful coexistence) mit dem kommunistischen Ostteil Deutschlands, der DDR. „Mädchen aus Ostberlin” war eine Ballade über die Berliner Mauer hinweg.
Und dann kam der „Sonderzug nach Pankow”. Mit diesem fetzigen (hip...groovy) Hit wollte Lindenberg den DDR Staatsratschef Erich Honecker davon überzeugen (to convince), ihn in die DDR zu einem Konzert einzuladen. Leider ohne Erfolg (unfortunately without success). Bei Honeckers Besuch 1987 in der Bundesrepublik schenkte Lindenberg ihm eine Lederjacke und eine Gitarre mit der Aufschrift: Gitarren statt Knarren ("Guitars instead of Creaks").
Der heute 66jährige wohnt schon seit Jahren im eleganten „Hotel Atlantic” in Hamburg. Er macht weiter Musik, hat aber auch andere Interessen. So ist er Schriftsteller (author) und Maler und hat unter anderem Briefmarken für die deutsche Post designed.
Lindenberg ist immer noch politisch und sozial aktiv. Für viele in der deutschen Musikszene ist er der „Vater des Deutschrock”. Für sein Lebenswerk wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet (frequently commemorated / given awards), z.B. mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz und dem deutschen Radiopreis.
Was wäre Deutschland ohne Udo Lindenberg, was wäre die deutsche Musik ohne Rudi Ratlos und Elli Pyrelli?
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Monday, October 8, 2012
Erwin Jöres wird 100 Jahr alt
Was all of this really that long ago? Here's a man who has seen plenty, and certainly has a story to tell.
IM ORIGINAL
http://www.welt.de/kultur/
Translated by Military Fotos. net
Cured - or so you could call the state of mind of Erwin Jöris.
Cured of any totalitarian idea, every temptation of the extremes.
The resident of Cologne, who has lived in the same apartment for 57 years, has survived everything you could survive in the 20th century. Jöris fought in the political riots of the crumbling Weimar Republic, he was sent to a Gestapo jail, deported to a concentration camp and made it through the infamous Moscow "Hotel Lux" and NKVD imprisonment.
Having been deported to Germany, he was again imprisoned by the Gestapo, released on "probation" to endure five years of war including four years on the Eastern Front. During the "Battle of Berlin" he was captured and released into the Soviet occupation zone in 1946, only to catch the eye of the new rulers, being arrested again and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in Siberia. In 1956 he could finally return home along with the last German prisoners of war.
There are few stories like that of Erwin Jöris - people who would have fought the two worst tyrannies to ever gain hold in Europe, and lived to tell the tale. Margarete Buber was one of them, who was also a prisoner of both Stalin and Hitler, though she died in 1989 at the age of 88. Another one is that of Jöris, who celebrates his 100th birthday today.
Both hung in their youth-time communist ideals, and both realized too late that behind the promises of a better world in the sense of Marx, Engels and Lenin there only hid a power-hungry self-proclaimed avant garde. Both were declared enemies of the inhumane Nazi regime and paid for their views with time in concentration camps, the very symbol of the Hitler regime. Both found home in a certainly imperfect Federal Republic of Germany after the war.
The life of Erwin Jöris seemed mapped out early. Born into a working class family, he grew up in a leftist family similar to Erich Honecker (who was a bit older; and ultimately served East Germany as its last significant president)- in Berlin-Lichtenberg though (not in the Saarland). At the age of 16 he joined the Young Communists League and made a name for himself. But in 1931 he already refused to follow the party's every change of course when the Communists supported a Nazi attempt to oust the democratic government of the state of Prussia. Being a young KPD member, he caught the Gestapo's attention soon after the takeover in 1933. He was arrested and imprisoned in the early Sonnenburg concentration camp. Here he experienced the "particularly painful" lack of solidarity of former "comrades" who had joined with the Nazis.
For his pledge to refrain from any political activity, Jöris was set free in March 1934.
The now illegal Communist Party sent him to Moscow to undergo ideological training there. Upon arrival Jöris already got to know the darker side of the purported "workers' paradise." He was harassed by a control commission, saw the misery on the streets and the megalomaniac projects that were hardly different from the Third Reich, as was the personality cult surrounding Stalin. Jöris voiced protest and as a consequence was forced to work in a heavy machinery factory in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). With the beginning of the "Great Terror" - the series of show trials and mass executions in Stalin's empire - Jöris finally began to lose his faith in Communism. His change of mind did not escape the eyes of his Soviet hosts: the unruly 25-year-old was labelled a "Trotskyist", arrested and taken to the Lubljanka, the headquarters of the NKVD.
From here the Soviets eventually deported him back to his native Germany. Jöris, now back in the clutches of the Gestapo as an alleged "traitor", survived the torture. But his former comrades, who had formed a resistance movement against Hitler, also saw him as a traitor. It was getting lonely for him. Then came the year 1940's general mobilization and Jöris, who was not considered "unworthy to serve", was drafted into the military on probation. He fought during the entire campaign in the East and to the very bitter end in Berlin in April 1945. There he had some luck after all: he was quickly released from Soviet captivity, perhaps because he had kept silence about his former life.
Hoping he could build on the ideals of his youth, he joined the newly formed SED which had arisen from a forced merger of the SPD and KPD in 1946. But soon after Jöris would become a pain in the back of the powerful once more. Instead of submitting to the instructions of the Stalinist returnees among Walter Ulbricht, he would praise the pre-war Communists of Germany for spite.
As the inevitable consequence he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in the gulag.
During the trial the judge hurled at him: "Your damn yap will freeze up in Siberia!" Not intimated at all, Erwin Jöris replied: "And so will yours!"
In 1956, he was able to return to East Germany after many years of mining in Vorkuta, from where he left to West Germany as quickly as possible.
Since then he has lived in Cologne.
In recent years he often made appearances to tell of the events he witnessed at public events and in schools. He has become unable to do that now.
All things considered he is still quite fit, though. He has described his experiences in several documentaries and his memoirs called "A life as a prisoner of Hitler and Stalin". Akin to Margarete Buber-Neumann's much better-known "The prisoner of Stalin and Hitler," the out-of-print book is very disturbing.
IM ORIGINAL
http://www.welt.de/kultur/
Translated by Military Fotos. net
Cured - or so you could call the state of mind of Erwin Jöris.
Cured of any totalitarian idea, every temptation of the extremes.
The resident of Cologne, who has lived in the same apartment for 57 years, has survived everything you could survive in the 20th century. Jöris fought in the political riots of the crumbling Weimar Republic, he was sent to a Gestapo jail, deported to a concentration camp and made it through the infamous Moscow "Hotel Lux" and NKVD imprisonment.
Having been deported to Germany, he was again imprisoned by the Gestapo, released on "probation" to endure five years of war including four years on the Eastern Front. During the "Battle of Berlin" he was captured and released into the Soviet occupation zone in 1946, only to catch the eye of the new rulers, being arrested again and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in Siberia. In 1956 he could finally return home along with the last German prisoners of war.
There are few stories like that of Erwin Jöris - people who would have fought the two worst tyrannies to ever gain hold in Europe, and lived to tell the tale. Margarete Buber was one of them, who was also a prisoner of both Stalin and Hitler, though she died in 1989 at the age of 88. Another one is that of Jöris, who celebrates his 100th birthday today.
Both hung in their youth-time communist ideals, and both realized too late that behind the promises of a better world in the sense of Marx, Engels and Lenin there only hid a power-hungry self-proclaimed avant garde. Both were declared enemies of the inhumane Nazi regime and paid for their views with time in concentration camps, the very symbol of the Hitler regime. Both found home in a certainly imperfect Federal Republic of Germany after the war.
The life of Erwin Jöris seemed mapped out early. Born into a working class family, he grew up in a leftist family similar to Erich Honecker (who was a bit older; and ultimately served East Germany as its last significant president)- in Berlin-Lichtenberg though (not in the Saarland). At the age of 16 he joined the Young Communists League and made a name for himself. But in 1931 he already refused to follow the party's every change of course when the Communists supported a Nazi attempt to oust the democratic government of the state of Prussia. Being a young KPD member, he caught the Gestapo's attention soon after the takeover in 1933. He was arrested and imprisoned in the early Sonnenburg concentration camp. Here he experienced the "particularly painful" lack of solidarity of former "comrades" who had joined with the Nazis.
For his pledge to refrain from any political activity, Jöris was set free in March 1934.
The now illegal Communist Party sent him to Moscow to undergo ideological training there. Upon arrival Jöris already got to know the darker side of the purported "workers' paradise." He was harassed by a control commission, saw the misery on the streets and the megalomaniac projects that were hardly different from the Third Reich, as was the personality cult surrounding Stalin. Jöris voiced protest and as a consequence was forced to work in a heavy machinery factory in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). With the beginning of the "Great Terror" - the series of show trials and mass executions in Stalin's empire - Jöris finally began to lose his faith in Communism. His change of mind did not escape the eyes of his Soviet hosts: the unruly 25-year-old was labelled a "Trotskyist", arrested and taken to the Lubljanka, the headquarters of the NKVD.
From here the Soviets eventually deported him back to his native Germany. Jöris, now back in the clutches of the Gestapo as an alleged "traitor", survived the torture. But his former comrades, who had formed a resistance movement against Hitler, also saw him as a traitor. It was getting lonely for him. Then came the year 1940's general mobilization and Jöris, who was not considered "unworthy to serve", was drafted into the military on probation. He fought during the entire campaign in the East and to the very bitter end in Berlin in April 1945. There he had some luck after all: he was quickly released from Soviet captivity, perhaps because he had kept silence about his former life.
Hoping he could build on the ideals of his youth, he joined the newly formed SED which had arisen from a forced merger of the SPD and KPD in 1946. But soon after Jöris would become a pain in the back of the powerful once more. Instead of submitting to the instructions of the Stalinist returnees among Walter Ulbricht, he would praise the pre-war Communists of Germany for spite.
As the inevitable consequence he was arrested by the NKVD and sentenced to 25 years of forced labor in the gulag.
During the trial the judge hurled at him: "Your damn yap will freeze up in Siberia!" Not intimated at all, Erwin Jöris replied: "And so will yours!"
In 1956, he was able to return to East Germany after many years of mining in Vorkuta, from where he left to West Germany as quickly as possible.
Since then he has lived in Cologne.
In recent years he often made appearances to tell of the events he witnessed at public events and in schools. He has become unable to do that now.
All things considered he is still quite fit, though. He has described his experiences in several documentaries and his memoirs called "A life as a prisoner of Hitler and Stalin". Akin to Margarete Buber-Neumann's much better-known "The prisoner of Stalin and Hitler," the out-of-print book is very disturbing.
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