Klaus Renft Combo
The Klaus Renft Combo, meanwhile also Renft, founded in 1958, is a German rock band, one of the most famous of the GDR. Through system-critical texts, artistic activity was always accompanied by the temporary appearance prohibitions. Finally, in 1975, the East German authorities decreed the dissolution of the band. Former members found in 1990 to a reunion together and have since been active in changing cast.
History
The Klaus Renft Combo was founded in 1958 by Klaus Jentzsch in Leipzig. Renft was the birth name of Jentzsch 's mother. He used him henceforth as a stage name. When the group was given a performance ban, Klaus Renft founded the Beat group The Butlers. However, this band was not allowed to occur. In 1967 the stage ban for Klaus Renft combo was lifted. Thomas Burkholz came as the new drummer in the band. From 1969 the dissident songwriter Gerulf Pannach was increasingly responsible for the lyrics of the band, where he was assisted by Kurt Demmler. Around the same time, Peter Pyotr Kschentz (* 1941 in Nischwitz ) was, who had previously worked as a truck driver for the band to the fixed member of the band. He played saxophone, flute, violin, accordion, guitar and other instruments, and composed some songs of Klaus Renft combo like love song, The Old Mill and the smoking blues.
In the following years the band was due to the temporary liberalization of cultural policy (see also Music of the GDR ) several singles - including the title between love and anger - and release their single for a long time the two studio albums. With the included on titles such as He who honors the rose, encouragement, after the battle, and when I was a bird as the band became one of the most popular rock groups of the GDR. Before the release of their second album, the band's name shortened to Renft; as was also the second album.
The problem is decorated relations with the state authorities, as many lyrics between the lines contained criticism of the "actually existing socialism ". The texted Pannach of songs for a third album met with the authorities to rejection. The song questions of faith, for example, addressed the largely hushed up by the state construction soldiers of the NVA. In the rock ballad from the small gasoline even the unsuccessful flight from the republic has just addressed that Otto's so Renft was banned in the summer of 1975. In the following years some band members voluntarily left the GDR. Pannach and Christian Kunert were expatriated in the prison of the Stasi in Berlin- Hohenschonhausen and a penalty of up to ten years in prison after nine months in prison.
Thereafter, the group was disbanded in fact. As a follow - band, however, the group carousel is seen, the 1977, with the former Renft members Peter glasses and Jochen hollow, and also had some songs from Renft - time in the program.
In 1990, the band took to a reunion tour in the GDR together again. 1996 had to band founder Jentzsch, the band temporarily left. 1997-1998 was renamed the band temporarily as Monsters Renft because Jentzsch claimed the naming rights for themselves. Published in 1999 Renft after nearly 25 - year break, her third studio album, As if nothing had happened. 2003 celebrated the band with a concert on Rügen its 45th anniversary.
On 18 September 2005, died a multi-instrumentalist Peter Kschentz Poel from lung cancer.
Christian Kunert devoted himself to his own projects, and Thomas Schoppe took over the position of the front man. After a sudden loss of hearing of Kunert and the death of band founder Renft in the fall of 2006, the band was formed to fourth for the " Gang of Four 2007". It started back performances with " Caesar and the players ."
March 18, 2007 accident guitarist Heinz auditors on the way back from a gig in Altdöbern fatal. In his musical bearing capacity, he seemed hardly replaceable. With Gisbert Piatkowski Renft, however, has now found a successor.
On 23 October 2008, died the former guitarist of the band, Peter " Caesar " glasses, of complications from cancer.
Honor
On 9 October 2007 a short street was renamed in front of the clubhouse and venue "anchor" in the district of Leipzig Möckern in Renftstraße to mark the first anniversary of the death of the band 's founder Klaus Renft.