One of the segments of my current Queer Music Heritage
show is “German GLBT Music,” and it’s a quick history, with all the songs but
one sung in German. It was a fun show to prepare (and a lot of work) and one
section I found especially interesting was on three German lesbian bands, and
one solo artist:
The Flying Lesbians
Lysistrara
Witch Is Witch
Carolina Brauckmann
The Flying Lesbians were (no surprise) the most out of
these and the earliest, in 1975, and their album is the only one reissued on
CD. It even contained a track sung in English.
The second band I list called themselves and their 1979 album
Lysistrara, named after the Greek play by Aristophanes, Lysistrata, in which
the women had the power. Monika Jaeckel, from The Flying Lesbians, and Barbara
Bauermeister, from Lysistrara, got together in 1979 to form the duo Witch Is
Witch, releasing their album by the same name. And Carolina Brauckmann was also
direct in her 1982 LP, “Satirische Lesbengesänge,” or “Satirical Lesbian Songs.”
A gallery of complete liner notes, some with translated lyrics, for these four albums is found on the
following link.
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