Festival of Political Songs
The festival of political song was one of the biggest music events in the GDR. It was established in October Club and took place in February every year as an official event of the FDJ in East Berlin between 1970 and 1990. The main organizer was initially the FDJ district headquarters Berlin, from 1975, the FDJ Central Council. 1980, a compilation of the first 10 years of the festival under the title decathlon was - Festival Of Political song published 1970-1980. In the same year a full-time office was established " festival of political song ." The organization of the festival was largely honorary. Artists from 60 countries ( between 50 and 80 artists, artists and groups from 30 countries ) occurred, including celebrities such as Mikis Theodorakis, Miriam Makeba, Quilapayún, Inti - Illimani, Silvio Rodriguez, Mercedes Sosa, Canzoniere delle Lame and Pete Seeger. The first festival was held until February 21, 1970 by 15.
After the collapse of the GDR, the festival lost its function and the cultural infrastructure on which it was based. To continue the festival, a development association was founded, the intermediate world festival conducted as a "new Festival of Political Song " from 1991 to 1994. The club dissolved in 1995 due to financial problems.
In 2000 a small festival to restart under a different banner. Today's thematic orientation manifests itself since 2001 in the new name of festival music and politics.
Mascot of the festival was a red sparrow called Oki. The name is derived from Oki Oktoberklub.
Performances (selection)
- (7 February -13, 1971. ) 2nd Festival of Political Song: Agit -Prop (Finland), Luís Cilia (Portugal ), Perry Friedman (Canada), Luchina group ( Soviet Union), Panti Laura and Sergio Liberovici (Italy ), Quilapayún (Chile), Maryla Rodowicz with their group (Poland), Francesca Solleville (France), Vietnamese Sing group ( Vietnam), poetry - song - club, singing club Traktorenwerk Beautiful Beck, Renate Richter and Hilmar Thate, Jürgen Walter Günther Fischer group (GDR), Munich song group ( Federal Republic of Germany )
- 3rd Festival of Political Song ( 13 - February 19, 1972 ): Canzoniere delle Lame (Italy ), Barbara Dane ( USA), Fria Proteatern (Sweden), Bhupen Hazarika (India), Kaláka (Hungary ), COM teatteri (Finland ), Aleksander Kulisiewicz (Poland), Sergei Nikitin (Soviet Union), Isabel Parra (Chile), Silvio Rodríguez ( Cuba), Hartmut König, singing club Potemkin, Helga de Wroblewsky and Thomas Natschinski group ( GDR ), Dieter Süverkrüp ( Federal Republic of Germany )
- Political songs of the Tenth World Festival (July 29 - August 5, 1973 ): Agit -Prop (Finland), Klara Amandova (Bulgaria), Canzoniere Internazionale (Italy ), Inti - Illimani (Chile), Lamari (Algeria), Pesnjari ( Soviet Union ), Max Rongier (France), National service Jazz Band (Tanzania ), the singing voices (Japan ), La Columna de Fuego (Colombia ), Cuatro Tiempo (Argentina ), Vízöntő (Hungary ), Reinhold Andert, Klaus Renft Combo, Spartacus (DDR ), Franz Josef Degenhardt, Floh de Cologne ( Germany), Locomotive Kreuzberg ( West Berlin)
- 4th Festival of Political Song ( 10 - February 16, 1974 ): Klara Amandova (Bulgaria ), Guy Carawan (USA), Inti Illimani - (Chile), The Laggan ( UK), Miriam Makeba (South Africa), Muszti & Dobay (Hungary ), Quilapayún (Chile), Claude Reva (France), The Sands Family (Ireland ), Daniel Viglietti (Uruguay ), group song TU Dresden, Volume 49 (DDR ), Floh de Cologne ( Germany)
- 5th Festival of Political Song ( 9 to 15 February 1975): José Afonso (Portugal ), Perth County Conspiracy (Canada), Los Folkloristas (Mexico), Kalambur (Poland), Elvina Makarjan (Soviet Union), Pablo Milanes (Cuba ), Sören Sidevinds Spillemänd (Denmark), Nuevo Tiempo (Chile), Kumiko Yokoi (Japan), Jack & comrades (DDR ), Franz Josef Degenhardt ( Federal Republic of Germany ), Locomotive Kreuzberg ( West Berlin)
- 6th Festival of Political Song ( 7 - February 14, 1976 ): Quinteto Clave (Argentina ), Pia Colombo ( France), Mircea Florian (Romania ), GEM with Krystyna Giżowska (Poland), group from Iraq (Iraq ) Moncada (Cuba), Deepa Mukhopadhyay (India), Isabel Parra Arturo Cipriano (Chile), Santocas (Angola), Marcos Velásquez (Uruguay ), The Whistlebinkies (Great Britain), bots (Netherlands), layer, Helga and Clement de Wroblewsky ( GDR ), Ekkes Frank, Peter, Paul & Barmbek ( Federal Republic of Germany )
- 7th Festival of Political Song ( 12 - February 19, 1977 ): Aliança Operario - Camponesa (Mozambique ), Aparcoa (Chile), bots (Netherlands), 25 Theatre Budapest ( Hungary), Canzoniere del Lazio ( Italy), Pedro Luis Ferrer ( Cuba), Mike Glick & Suni Paz ( USA), Inti Illimani - (Chile), Jatarí ( Ecuador ), Mustafa El -Kurd (Palestine), Víctor Manuel (Spain ), Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy (Nicaragua ), Carlos Paredes (Portugal ), Cuatro Tablas (Peru ), Reinhold Andert, singing club Hoyerswerda, Bernd Rump (DDR ), Floh de Cologne, Fasia Jansen ( Federal Republic of Germany )
- 8th Festival of Political Song ( 13 to 20 February 1978): Tamás Berki (Hungary ), Ernst Born ( Switzerland ), Mari Dimitriadi (Greece ), Grenada (Soviet Union), Yaki Kandru (Colombia ), Rosa León ( Spain), Al Mayadine (Lebanon), Moncada (Cuba), Quilapayún (Chile), Frederic Rzewski (USA), Timur Selçuk ( Turkey), Trovante (Portugal ), singing group of the people's revolutionary youth (Laos ), Mike Westbrook 's Brass Band ( UK) Wilhelm Zobl ( Austria ), layer, Barbara Thalheim (DDR ), Dieter Süverkrüp, Hannes Wader ( Federal Republic of Germany )
- 9th Festival of Political Song ( 10 - February 18, 1979 ): ASHEED (Yemen), group from Ethiopia (Ethiopia ), Maria Farandouri (Greece ), Group Spring (Vietnam), Stormy Six / Macchina Maccheronica (Italy ), Carlos Mejía Godoy (Nicaragua ), singing group of the MVR (Mongolia), Taller Luis Emilio Recabarren (Chile), Claude Reva (France), Brigade Feuerstein, Folk country, Volume 49, Charlemagne 's grandson (DDR ), Uschi Flacke ( Federal Republic of Germany ), Hanns- Eisler Chor ( West Berlin)
- 20th Festival of Political Song ( 11 - February 18, 1990 ): Inti Illimani - (Chile ) The Klezmatics (USA), Mercedes Sosa ( Argentina), Reinhold Andert, Norbert Bischoff & Society, Gerhard ivy, Bolshevik spa orchestra, Oktoberklub (DDR ), Duo parasol (DDR ) & Terem (Soviet Union), Ute Lemper, Konstantin Wecker ( Federal Republic of Germany ), IG sheet (West Berlin ).
Others
The festival of political song in Weissenbach am Attersee ( Austria ), which has been held since 1997, has no relation to the scale in the GDR festival of political song.