<p><strong><strong>The concert is postponed.to 22.04.2023. Tickets retain their validity. <br /></strong></strong></p>
Anniversary concert with guests
Engerling plus: Steffie Breiting (voc), Uschi Brüning (voc), Haymo Doerk (git), Tobi Hillig (git), Bernd "Kuhle" Kühnert (git), Gisbert "Pitti" Piatkowski (git) Waldi Weiz (git), Gunther Krex (bg), Christian Liebig (bg), Lello Lojewski (dr), brass section: Stephan Bohm (tb), Ferry Grott (tp) & Andy Wieczorek (sax)
<p>It was then, in January 1975, five young gentlemen mounted the stage of an inn in Mahlow near Berlin. "Engerling" was their name, the pub owner said, adding, "Well, they won't get far with that name." He was about 50; I wonder if he lived to be 95 Engerling is 48 and is fortunately still not a cockchafer, because as we all know, they don't live very long.<br /> Somehow, in all these years, they didn't really fit anywhere into the concept and yet managed to remain true to themselves and their audience. The GDR cultural officials seemed to the band around pianist and songwriter Wolfram Bodag as a blues band too far away from the ideal image of songful rock „as an independent GDR contribution to international music culture", as that one would have really let them come out big. Blues purists, on the other hand, criticized the lack of authenticity of a blues band that cared little about adhering to the original twelve-bar scheme and instead mixed blues elements with rock and soul elements at will, or even stooped to long improvisations that would have fit much more into the psychedelic flower power camp.</p>
<p><br /> For 48 years, the East formation is persistently honing their own style with intelligent lyrics in the border area between German rock and yet blues and has thus created a loyal, but not at all "ostalgic" audience. Rock'n'Blues with history and a look ahead. Photo: Victoria Tomaschko</p>
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