Ostrock: Popular music from East Germany
By the early 1970s, experimental West German rock patterns had crossed the border into East Germany and influenced the foundation of an Ea...
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the early 1970s, experimental West German rock patterns had crossed the border
into East Germany and influenced the foundation of an East German rock movement
referred to as Ostrock. On the other side of the Wall, these bands tended to be
stylistically more conservative than in the West, to have more reserved
engineering, and often to include more classical and folk structures (such as
those established by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in their 1920s Berlin
theatre songs). These orchestras often featured poetic lyrics loaded with
indirect double-meanings and deeply philosophical challenges to the status quo.
As such, they were a pattern of Krautropck. The best-known of these bands were
Silly, City Keimzeit, The Puhdys and Karat.
Only
a few individual songs, such as Am fester by city and Uber sieben Bruken muBt
geh’n by Karat, found wide fame outside the GDR.