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Fotos aus Istvan's Thälmann-Club in Karlsruhe:

17.12.98 - Volkfest in Halle. IFA-consert at the MDR-show "Akte Rock". The most important thing during an IFA-concert is to have the right equipment for the show. IFA Wartburg is always very well prepared before each performance. These are our most important things:
Slipovers of Heinz Klinger and Rolf Kempinski. Der Zeigestock. Destilliertes Wasser. Dreimal Weisskohl. Ein Riesenbockwurst. Die Sonnenbrillen. Maraccas. Overhead bildern.
During the song "Es ist nicht so Schlimm auf der Insel Krim", I had to put use my Sonnenbrillen. With them on, I really immeadeately got in the mood of sonnen und baden mit meine Parteikameraden.	Volkfest in Ukraina. "Ohne bedenken kann mann sehen, dass mann ein Fest hier haben will. Speise und trank auf Tischen stehen, bald wird es noch nicht mehr so still!" Everybody loved this song. Even the sound engineer laughed and looked at us with very happy eyes!
Herzlische weihnachtsgrüßen! Heinz Klinger

A nice present Something really nice happened this weekend. I got a nice present from Kulturzentrum Magdeburg am "Tag des nationelles Volksarmee" They knew about our coming tour and understood that we had to practise a lot to get really good as performing artists. Therefore, they send me this great gift! A brand new voicestudio made in Hungary! With this new voicestudio my vocal performances will get better. I can control the frequency spectrum and the echo on the song. I donīt have to sing everything twice or more to get an echo effect. I just press the echo button or turn the reverb knob. But the best part in this new voicestudio is the clockwork that you can see on the picture. This newly installed clockwork gives me the possibility to control the length of my singing. Earlier, I didnīt know if I had been singing for just some seconds or several minutes. Now, I have perfect control over that timing. Many Thanks to Kulturzentrum Magdeburg! IFA Wartburg

Hello all nice socialists of the world! Christmas is coming and so is IFA Wartburg. Coming to Germany! We are just about to plan our west-tour. The past IFA year has been a good one. Great things are happening all the time. First, we finished our recording sessions in Gorbyland studios for the project called "Im dienste des Socialismus". And after that "Der Verlag/Plattenmeister" made a CD of all those Gorbyland tapes. And now they are selling that record. That is the best part. In Gorbyland studios we have got some new equipment during the year. An equalizer from Albania and a brand new adapter unit to our compressor/limiter. Now, we can compress and equalize at the same time! The old adapter was a little bit old-fashioned (you can see it on the session pages), so this investment was a well-needed one. Our synthesizer is still working fine, even if it only generates monophonic sounds. We want it polyphonic, and that rebuilding work is someting for the next five-year plan to finance. We have had some wonderful jamming sessions with our musicians during the past year. Poot Zimmermann (playing saxophone), for example. His solos on the song "Nightclub in Berlin" really turned the song into a fantastic journey through a socialistic landscape. And the guitar player Dschango Reinhardt developed his technique in playing with great presence on "Spassjazz", this wonderful little song that everybody loves. Our friend Günther Raubschaentze also helped us a lot during the year. For instance, he drove the tractor on "Agrarwissenschaft im dienste des Socialismus" very tasteful. We did not know he was that keen in her way handeling tractors! Günther is a very handy man. And the exotic meeting with Babli Balula during his visit in Gorbyland turned out to an improvised song named "Hallo guter Kommunist!" which is a great one. The Sessel aus Kassel But my life has not always been this happy glow of eternal sunshine. The 19 of April at 22:37, my beloved Sessel aus Kassel got killed in a furniture accident. I was moving the Sessel from one corner in my living room to the other corner. Suddenly, I lost control, stumbled a bit and dropped the Sessel. At a first glance, the damages did not look very severe but when I examined them closer I found so many errors on the Sessel that I had to call a friend (his name is Ove) working as a furniture repairman. Despite the late evening, Ove promissed to come immediately and do some first aid on the Sessel. But he never showed up! I had to call a furniture rescue team and when they came, it was to late. They only loooked at me without saying anything and pulled a black blanket over the Sessel. I understood what that meant. It was very traumatic for me and I had to write a song about the whole thing to get rid of my sad feelings. And the next day I went to IKEA and bought a new Sessel. Der Sessel-Song in RealAudio5 format. Then the summer came by. A boring time of the year with a lot of sunshine, naked woman and Speise-eis that you have to eat everywhere you go. Now it is winter again and I have to drink tea to keep warm. That is the worse part of living in Sweden. Even if you have a nice slipover, you must drink tea all the time to stand the cold, that comes from all the snow. The cold from the snow makes it cold outside, you know. The best thing you can do with the snow is to get rid of it as soon as possible. Or as we say in Sweden: "Räven raskar över isen!" which means: The fox is running very fast over the frozen lake. And that is very true. Herzlische grüßen von Stockholm and Heinz Klinger mitglieder des IFA Wartburg.

Hier bei EIN KESSEL BUNTES wird in Zukunft die Bandbreite sozialistisch-künstlerischen Wirkens IFA Wartburgs in seinem vollen Spektrum zu bewundern sein. Als kleinen Vorgeschmack bieten wir Live-Fotografien von den in Deutschland bisher noch nicht zu bewundernden Auftritten dieser einmaligen Musikgruppe. Aber schon bald können wir dieses einmalige Spektakel genießen, mehr hierzu unter der Rubrik GASTSPIELE. Die Bläser-Sektion

Rolf Kempinski

Heinz Klinger

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