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Jim Rakete
Günther "Jim" Rakete (German: Help:IPA for German, [dʒɪm ʁakeːtə]; born 1 January 1951) is a German photographer, Photojournalism, photojournalist, filmmaker, writer and producer based in Berlin. Rakete shot numerous personalities from the German and international music and film scene and politics. His managerial work behind the award-winning musical acts Nina Hagen Band, Interzone (band), Interzone, Nena and Die Ärzte made Rakete a decisive figure in the burgeoning Neue Deutsche Welle, German New Wave. Rakete has had extended living and production periods in Los Angeles, California, and Hamburg, Germany. In 2001, he returned to Berlin, Germany, where he remains engaged in various fields including film, photography, writing, theater, music, and production. Early life Rakete spent his childhood in West Berlin. At four years old, he was given his first camera, an Agfa box camera, similar to a Brownie (camera), Brownie, which accompanied him for years. Rakete continued p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Berlin
West Berlin ( or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin from 1948 until 1990, during the Cold War. Although West Berlin lacked any sovereignty and was under military occupation until German reunification in 1990, the territory was claimed by the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (FRG or West Germany), despite being entirely surrounded by the East Germany, German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany). The legality of this claim was contested by the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries. However, West Berlin de facto aligned itself politically with the FRG from May 1949 and was thereafter treated as a ''de facto'' city-state of that country. After 1949, it was directly or indirectly represented in the institutions of the FRG, and most of its residents were citizens of the FRG. West Berlin was formally controlled by the Western Allies and entirely surrounded by East Berlin and East Germany. West Berlin had great symbolic signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unbehagen
''Unbehagen'' is the second studio album by Nina Hagen Band, released on February 25, 1980 by CBS Records. It is the last album released by the band, before Nina Hagen decided to pursue a solo career. The band kept on performing under the name Spliff. The album produced three singles, "African Reggae", "Herrmann hiess er" and "Auf'm Rummel". "Herrmann hiess er" deals with drug addiction and is believed to be about Hagen's ex-boyfriend Herman Brood. An accompanying music video was also released. The album also contains a German cover version, "Wir leben immer... noch", of Lene Lovich's hit single "Lucky Number". The song "Wenn ich ein Junge wär" was recorded live in April 1979 at the Saarbrücken Congress Hall. The album was a chart success and was certified Gold in Germany in 1981, selling over 250,000 copies. Track listing Personnel ;Nina Hagen Band *Nina Hagen – vocals *Bernhard Potschka – guitar *Reinhold Heil – keyboards; bass synthesiser on "No Way" *Manfred Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo
''Christiane F.'' (, ) is a 1981 West German biographical drama film directed by Uli Edel. It depicts the descent of Christiane Felscherinow, a bored and depressed 13-year-old coming of age in 1970s West Berlin, to a 14-year-old heroin addict. Based on the 1978 non-fiction book ''Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo'' (''We Children from Zoo Station''), transcribed and edited from tape recordings by Kai Hermann and Horst Rieck, the film immediately acquired cult status and features David Bowie as both composer and as himself. In 2013, Felscherinow published her autobiography ''Christiane F. – My Second Life''. Plot In 1976, thirteen-year-old Christiane Felscherinow lives with her mother, younger sister, and her pet cat in their small apartment in an unkempt multi-story, concrete social-housing building in a dull neighborhood on the outskirts of West Berlin. She is tired of living there and is a huge fan of David Bowie. She hears of Sound, a new trending nightclub in the city's center. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane F
Vera Christiane Felscherinow (born 20 May 1962) is a German actress and musician who is best known for her contribution to the 1978 autobiographical book ''Christiane F.'' (original title: ), and the film and television miniseries based on the book, in which her teenage drug use is documented. Early life Felscherinow was born in Hamburg, but her family moved to West Berlin when she was a child. They settled in Gropiusstadt, a neighbourhood in Neukölln that consisted mainly of high-rise apartment blocks where social problems were prevalent. Felscherinow's father frequently drank large volumes of alcohol and was abusive towards his two daughters while her mother was absorbed by an extra-marital relationship. When she was 12 years old, she began smoking hashish with a group of friends who were slightly older at a local youth club. They gradually began using stronger drugs such as LSD and various forms of pills and she ended up using heroin. By the time she was 14, she was hero ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
99 Luftballons
"99 Luftballons" (, "99 balloons") is a song by the West German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album. An English-language version titled "99 Red Balloons" (), with lyrics by Kevin McAlea, was also released by Nena on the album '' 99 Luftballons'' in 1984 after widespread success of the original in Europe and Japan. The English version is not a direct translation of the German original and contains lyrics with a somewhat different meaning. In the US, the English-language version did not chart, while the German-language recording became Nena's only US hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Lyrics While at a June 1982 concert by the Rolling Stones in West Berlin, Nena's guitarist Carlo Karges noticed that balloons were being released. He watched them move toward the horizon, shifting and changing shapes like strange spacecraft (referred to in the German lyrics as a " UFO"). He thought about what might happen if they floated over the Berlin Wall to East Berlin. Also cited b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nena (album)
''Nena'' is the first album by German pop rock band Nena (band), Nena and the second studio album of its singer, Nena, Gabriele "Nena" Kerner. Released on 14 January 1983, it is part of the music genre called Neue Deutsche Welle (meaning "New German Wave") in German music. The album was a great success in West Germany and the second single "99 Luftballons" reached in the music charts worldwide including Australia, Austria, Canada, the Irish Singles Chart, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK singles chart, United Kingdom Singles Chart. The single is considered a "one-hit wonder" by many in the US, despite the fact that the band's other singles repeatedly topped European charts. It was produced by :de:Manfred Praeker, Manfred Praeker and Reinhold Heil of the German band Spliff (band), Spliff. The album has been initially released as a vinyl LP, Compact Cassette, cassette and compact disc, CD. The first single from the album, "Nur geträumt", was release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oranienplatz
Oranienplatz is a square in Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Berlin-Mitte, Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in ..., Berlin, Germany. From 2012 until 2014 it was the site of the OPlatz (Oranienplatz) Movement pro-immigration protest encampment. In 2025, another protest was held there in reference to the previous one. Other protests also regularly occur in the area. The websitoplatz.net has over 1,500 for protests (some being duplicates, in English, German and Turkish of one another) dating back to 2012. References External links * Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Squares in Berlin {{berlin-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Spliff was a German band that existed from 1980 to 1985. Their musical repertoire combined rock, funk, and electronic music. The keyboard sounds of Reinhold Heil, and later the electronic drums of the Simmons SDS-V brand, especially defined the sound of their music. The Band Herwig Mitteregger, Bernhard Potschka and Manfred Praeker met in the political rock band Lokomotive Kreuzberg. Together with Reinhold Heil, who was then active in the jazz group ''Bakmak,'' and Nina Hagen, they became known as the ''Nina Hagen Band'' and released two albums. After the separation from Nina Hagen, the four musicians, at the suggestion of manager Jim Rakete, along with singer Alf Klimek (“Klimax”), German-American DJ Rik De Lisle, and singers Lisa Bialac and Lyma Russel, created the rock opera ''Spliff Radio Show.'' It premiered live on May 24, 1980, at the Berliner Kant-Kino; it is described as “a bitter satire on the music business centered on the fictional rock star Rocko J. Fonzo,� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf Klimek
Alfons Joseph "Alf" Klimek (born 3 February 1956) is an Australian musician. During the 1980s he was based in Berlin as a singer-songwriter for Spliff (as Alf Klimax, 1980–83) and The Other Ones (1984–90). That group included his younger twin siblings, Johnny and Jayney. In 1987, they had two hit singles, "Holiday" and "We Are What We Are", which charted in both Germany and the United States. Biography Alfons Joseph Klimek was born on 3 February 1956 and grew up in Melbourne. His father, Alfons Klimek snr (died 1998), and mother, Luisa née Cester (born January 1916) had eight children: Eugenia, Lydia, Naomi (born 1953), Greta, Alfons jnr, Robert, and the twins Johnny and Jayney (born August 1962). The Klimek family had lived in various Melbourne suburbs including Kew, Oakleigh and, from 1969, Clayton. Klimek's younger cousins, Nic and Chris Cester, were founding mainstays of Australian hard rockers, Jet (2001–12). In June 1977, Klimek joined the Stuffed Puppets u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australians
Australians, colloquially known as Aussies, are the citizenship, citizens, nationality, nationals and individuals associated with the country of Australia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or ethno-cultural. For most Australians, these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Australian. Australian law does not provide for any racial or ethnic component of nationality, instead relying on Australian nationality law, citizenship as a legal status, though the Constitutional framers considered the Commonwealth to be "a home for Australians and the British race alone", as well as a "Christian Commonwealth". Since the postwar period, Australia has pursued an official policy of multiculturalism and has the List of sovereign states and dependent territories by immigrant population, world's eighth-largest immigrant population, Immigration to Australia, with immigrants accounting for 30 percent of the population in 2019. Between European colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
