On 25 October 1983, Lindenberg gave his first and only performance in the GDR until the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Free German Youth (FDJ) leader Egon Krenz then invited Lindenberg to play four of his songs at an FDJ peace concert with artists from all over the world at the Palace of the Republic in East Berlin. In August 1983, Lindenberg's advisor Michael Gaißmayer wrote a letter in an attempt to clear the air. The disrespectful song lyrics upset Honecker. Don't look at it so narrowly and pinchedly, comrade Honey, and give your okay for my GDR tour."
Show yourself from your easy-going and flexible side, show us your humour and your sovereignty and let the nightingale of Billerbeck raise her magic voice. The letter read: "Let a real German plain-language rocker rock the GDR. Lindenberg wrote a letter to Honecker on 16 February 1983, enclosing the song in the envelope. "Sonderzug nach Pankow" became a cult song in East Germany and is one of Lindenberg's most famous songs. A planned tour through East Germany in the following year was cancelled. The concert took place during the Rock für den Frieden ("Rock for Peace") festival in Berlin's Palast der Republik, but Lindenberg was not allowed to sing this song then. The reaction to the song led to the first and only concert by Lindenberg in East Germany, on 25 October 1983. This song remained in the West German music charts from 19 March 1983 to for seven weeks, spending four weeks at number five. At the end of the song, a station announcement can be heard, spoken in Russian. The adjacent Majakowskiring seated the representatives of the East German Government until their move to Wandlitz. The Schönhausen Palace in Pankow was the location of the seat of President from 1949 to 1960, followed by the State Council of East Germany until 1964. The title's reference to the District of Pankow, Berlin, is based on the fact that during the Cold War, "Pankow" was synonymous with the seat of government of the Soviet-occupied zone. Honecker is portrayed as an ossified and hypocritical man who officially endorses the ideology of the Soviet government, but is inside a rocker and secretly listens to western radio. įour years later, in response to this rejection, Lindenberg wrote a German lyric insulting the leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, and set it to the 1941 Glenn Miller song " Chattanooga Choo Choo". On 9 March 1979, Hager handwrote on the release: "An appearance in the GDR is out of the question". The interview was recorded in East Germany and presented one day later as information from the State Committee for Broadcasting, Monitor Department, to the SED's chief ideologist and cultural officer, Kurt Hager. In a radio interview with Sender Freies Berlin on 5 March 1979, Lindenberg expressed a wish to give a concert in East Berlin, the Soviet sector of Berlin.
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