Jessica - Rockmusik in der DDR 1983 - 1986
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- Опубліковано 13 жов 2024
- Jessica - Rockmusik in der DDR 1983 - 1986
Kommentare von Tino Eisbrenner
Jessica war eine Musikgruppe in der DDR, die sich an New-Wave-Musik und der Neuen Deutschen Welle orientierte
1. Ich suche einen Traum (1983)
2. Ich beobachte dich (1984)
3. Bring mir die Sonne (1984)
4. Der Spieler (1986)
Sympathischer Mensch, dieser Tino Eisbrenner. Musik mit tiefengründigen Texten. Kein Wunder, dass Mitglieder seiner Band 1986 plötzlich zum Wehrdienst mussten. Musik von Jessica und Tino Eisbrenner begleiten mich seit 1984.
Tino Eisbrenner 🙏🏻🤩echt guter Typ. Hab mir das Jessica-Album auf CD gekauft 💃🍻
tino tells the story so simply, but getting a totally unknown amature GDR band on british tv was not half as easy as you may think. I was asked by ITV in the UK, to put a programme together for a show called ‘The Tube’. This was a hugely popular TV show which was hosted by Muriel Grey, Paula Yates and Jules Holland.
Upon this visual platform, many famous bands had made their debut appearances, such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Bananarama and the likes. I was asked by ITV in the UK, to put a programme together for a show called ‘The Tube’. This was a hugely popular TV show which was hosted by Muriel Grey, Paula Yates and Jules Holland. Upon this visual platform, many famous bands had made their debut appearances, such as Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Bananarama and the likes. As this was a "Berlin Special", I also wanted to feature both sides of the city. I managed to convince The Tube to let me have a try at organising something with the Easties, so a meeting was set up with the GDR authorities.
There was no way the East Germans were going to allow us to film any radical "punks"! (especially as I knew some kids who had already been slapped an "Alexanderplatz verbot" for just wearing punky studded arm bands.
To the East Germans, Punk officially didn’t exist. They feared it. It was uncontrollable and officially it represented the failings of the capitalist society..
I had many meetings with the authorities in East Berlin to get permission for this show. The Tube really wanted to show an East German punk band, but I had to explain to them that in the Worker and Farmers State, there were no punks and therefore, they certainly wouldn’t allow us to film a band like Planlos.
I really didn’t want to show aging East German prog rock bands. It had to be a young band that the youth of the UK could identify with. after a few weeks I still had found nothing. It was rapidly becoming an impossible task and at one point I was almost resolved to having to show party-line rubbish like Silly, Muck, Karat, City or Phudys. The Tube's main researcher came over to Berlin to see the places I had already chosen and he was thankfully very impressed, but he was very frustrated at the lack of progress in my searching for an appropriate band for the East part of the programme. He just didn’t get it.
One afternoon, after a frustrating, fruitless location meeting with a brown suited and bespectacled, 50+ something, called Herr Kuhl (of the East German TV & Press authority responsible for granting The Tube permission to make the programme) I was sitting depressed on the tram, when I saw a young lad with bright red trousers, spiky hair and a guitar case walking down the street with his mate. The were clean-cut new wavers. Something struck me - THEM!
I just jumped off the tram and ran after them. I caught up with them, and they looked quite perplexed when I stopped and asked them if they were in a band, and even more so when I asked them if they thought they were good enough to be on British television. By the look on their faces they obviously thought I was a lunatic. After all, I looked like the mafia, dressed in a black undertakers coat with a trilby hat, white shirt black tie and black gloves.
Their band… on Britishes TV?
The incredulous look on their faces was priceless. "That's impossible!” they laughed. They told me they didn't even have a permit to play in front of a real audience, let alone play on the telly and certainly not on British TV! I was obviously a complete nutter.
I wasn’t going to take that for an answer. I asked what kind of music did they play? What was their sound like? They proudly told me their favourite band was The Police and they sounded a bit like them. I thought to myself, hmmm Police? bland. that’s probably perfect. This might just work. Their image certainly would be approved. They were young, fashionably good looking, clean-cut new wavers.
Bemused by my insistence, they told me they were on their way to practice right at that moment and so I asked if I could go with them. NO! you can’t it’s verboten! As it was illegal for a westerner to enter in any kind of official building like a school or factory. I asked them to just play a few songs and I would leave. The guitarist showed me his beautifully hand-crafted guitar that he had made himself (typical East German, if you can’t buy one, make one!). Their drummer sat on a bile-green, shabby old armchair and they went through a couple of Police-sounding self-penned songs in German.
Yeah, they were actually quite good. Infact, I was really impressed. Ok, it wasn't Neubauten, but it was the nearest damn thing I was ever going to get to TV-compatible-punk in East Germany.
But how was I supposed to ask the GDR authorities for this band, one that didn't officially exist? I came up with a cunning plan. I told the band to go to the FDJ (Free German Youth Organisation) and tell them that they had heard that someone from British TV was looking for them with a view to putting a new, undiscovered young GDR band on British telly. I then went to the East German authorities and brazenly lied to the frosty, Herr Kuhl (who was very cool indeed) about this new band I’d heard about called "Jessica". I told him that I had heard about them via the FDJ after a visit to the "Haus der Junge Talente" youth club the previous week. As he always did when I asked him a difficult question, Herr Kuhl got up, left the room and returned a few minutes later. Of course, he said they would have to enquire about this band first and they would let me know… next week.
Brilliant! It was times like this when you just loved the workings of East German bureaucracy. I was quite amused that Herr Kuhl constantly had to keep going "upstairs" to get verification or approval with every new question I had, and it became a bit of a game for me to ask him impossible questions.
The following week, Herr Kuhl told me that they had made full enquiries about this group and with a blank expresionless face he told me that this band Jessica unfortunately didn't exist! But I could consider some of the other well-known East German bands like the geriatric Phudys or DDRs deep purple wannabes, Karat.
Frustrating as it was, I was very patient with him, as I was determined to succeed and knowing that the band had already been in touch with the FDJ, I suggested to him he should perhaps check directly with the FDJ at the HdJT (The House of Young Talent) themselves. Meanwhile, as the band had successfully infiltrated the HdJT and the FDJ representative there, and armed with their side of the story, my plan eventually all started to come together. To accomplish my goal, the whole process took around two months of tediously long-winded meetings and endless cups of disgustingly unpalatable ersatz coffee, but my many trips over to the East to visit Herr Kuhl were none the less quite entertaining, as after seeing him, I would secretly meet up with the band in one of their flats, to discuss our next moves. I imagine, if I had been in any other situation I would have been going crazy to find out what zero-progress they were making.
At one meeting, Herr Kuhl told me that he had spoken with the FDJ and surprisingly the band did indeed, exist. He said it might just be possible to maybe have Jessica perform. Every time I visited Herr Kuhl, his frigid responses left me cold, I always got the impression I had come back with no real information at all, as no one would commit to admitting we could actually have the band appear on the show 100%, for sure, and I thought I was so lucky to have a relationship with the band themselves.
Of course, as I had been tipped off by the band, we all secretly knew that the band had been told it was definitely going to happen, because they had been put into the recording studio only the night before, to record their first ever playback track for what would be the following afternoons performance. We were eventually told the shoot was going to be held in the Sport und Erholungs Zentrum (SEZ) - sports center - in Prenzlauerberg.
Naturally, we all acted out our pretence of not knowing, until the big day and had to express our gratitude and feign surprize, delight, and excitement at the good news.
Although we had a STASI minder who constantly hovered over us, in the shape of an attractive female guide, the East German Volkspolizei also came to the SEZ and drew a nice white chalk line on the ground all around the band - I thought this magic ‘do NOT cross this fucking barrier’ was quite symbolic of the situation the entire nation was in. The band, Jessica had been contaminated by these Wessies, so it was essential to keep the general public away from them at arms length.
I couldn't think straight and my mind was racing as Muriel asked me to do a live, on-camera translation (which I couldn't do) and I just babbled some utter rubbish.
It was a truly unbelievable moment for them and us, and one I will cherish forever.
I was so proud of these lads!
you, should you be who you say you are, are a legend, sir!
Thanks for your services!
@Maxismaximal You cannot believe how profound I found this programme. I was only 21.
Der absolute Anfang für "Jessica" und Sänger Tino Eisbrenner
Jessica war meine Lieblingsband ich war zwar erst 10 aber die Musik fasziniert mich bis heute! Schade das es nur das eine Vinyl Album und die 7" Maxis gab.... Aber Tinos Musik ist ja weiterhin schön und lebendig!!!!
I have the video of the 'Berlin Special' by the Tube and I also used to have a 7" single by Jessica.
is that the single from the Tube Programme?
Bemerkt? Zu Beginn der Doku, als Teil des britischen Fernsehteams, der junge Mark Reeder am Anfang seiner bis heute dauernden musikalischen Mission. .
Jessica ist das beste Beispiel, wie man aus Blödheit in der Band einen Auftstieg verhinderte.
Wo kann man den Beitrag vollständig sehn ? Gibts das irgendwo noch ?
Wie heisst Das Lied bei 01:41 min? Gibt es das bei UA-cam?
Тоже ищу эту песню, пожалуйста напишите если нашли её!!!
What was this single called and was it released anywhere.Please Help!!
Wie konnte der Moderator von RUND so braun werden ?
Lehre in Bitterfeld? Bagger jefahr'n in Jänschwalde? Wehrdienst in Peenemünde? Papi aus Kuba? Kleingärtner und FKK-begeistert? - Suchen Sie sich was aus...
Ich kann mich gut erinnern, dass auch bei uns die Sonne schien und wir uns bräunen konnten... ;-) Selten so ne dämlich Frage gelesen.
@Henry Miller Na du musst es ja wissen..... ;-)
Ja, wo doch in der DDR bekanntlich niemals die Sonne geschienen hat. Nur auf dem FDJ-Emblem. 🤔
Es gab ja nüscht!
@@DasVolksbad9popö.
"Ich beobachte dich." von Jessica wurde der Stasi-Song.
so ein blödsinn.
habe ich auch nie so wahrgenommen, eher echt Liebe, meinetwegen noch Stalker😅
Das deutsche “Every breath you take“ 😉
Blödsinn , der Song hat absolut nichts mit der Staatssicherheit der DDR zu tun !
@@vongent2067 ich weiß das aber besser! So! Auch der Schöbel-Frank hat so ein Lied : Wir brauchen keine Lügen mehr und auch Silly Aufruhr in den Augen war sowas von stasimäßig! Ehrlich!
bin ich mal so down? aha alternativer text...
Wo kann man den Beitrag vollständig sehn ? Gibts das irgendwo noch ?