The VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was the monopolistic music publisher in the

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(GDR) from the 1950s until the 1980s. The VEB Deutsche Schallplatten owned

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from 1954 to 1990.

History

On August 12, 1946, the German singer and actor Ernst Busch got permission by Soviet military administration to institute a publishing house for music. Originally called "Lieder der Zeit Musikverlag", VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was founded in 1947 by Ernst Busch, a socialist singer and actor. On April 1, 1953, the private

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-company had to change to a state-controlled VEB (

Volkseigener Betrieb The Publicly Owned Enterprise (; abbreviated VEB) was the main legal form of industrial enterprise in East Germany. These state-owned enterprise were all publicly owned and were formed after mass nationalisation between 1945 and the early 1960s, ...

, "People-owned enterprise"). On March 18, 1955, the ''VEB Lied Der Zeit'' was renamed to ''VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin''. In 1990, it became Deutsche Schallplatten GmbH Berlin (DSB).

Labels

Labels of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten included: *

for contemporary pop, rock music and jazz * Eterna for classical music, operas,

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

s * Litera for

radio play Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine ...

poetry reading A poetry reading is a public oral recitation or performance of poetry. Reading poetry aloud allows the reader to express their own experience through poetry, changing the poem according to their sensibilities. The reader uses pitch and stress, a ...

s *

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for contemporary

art music Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music) is music considered to be of high culture, high phonoaesthetic value. It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerationsJa ...

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for workers' songs and productions by Ernst Busch *

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for educational material After 1990, some of these labels were sold to other music companies.

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* Volkseigene Betriebe Record labels established in 1946 German record labels 1946 establishments in Germany State-owned record labels East German music Companies of East Germany {{Germany-record-label-stub

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