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Page 01 Nov 06.Indd THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2014 • [email protected] • www.thepeninsulaqatar.com • 4455 7741 inside Redmayne grabs ‘glint’ CAMPUS of Stephen Hawking in • Vigilance awareness week Theory of Everything observed at SIS P | 4 P | 8-9 LAW • To second an employee and repercussions They have been rocking P | 6 arenas nearly as long as the Rolling Stones TRAVEL but unlike Mick and • Trip Tips: Keith, they’re from a Galway, Ireland’s country that no longer most Irish city exists. Meet the Puhdys, East Germany’s most P | 7 successful band. HEALTH • Elliptigo propels injured runners through fresh-air workouts P | 11 TECHNOLOGY • Up3 fitness device monitors heart rate to track sleep cycles P | 12 LEARN ARABIC PUHDYS: 70+ • Learn commonly used Arabic words AND ROCKING and their meanings P | 13 2 PLUS | THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2014 COVER STORY whom have hardly any memory of the Wall. “They’re icons,” said Christian Conrad, a 34-year-old ambulance driver from the town of 25 years after Berlin Neubrandenburg. “What Route 66 is to America, that’s what the Puhdys are to us east Germans.” In an interview ahead of a sold-out show at Berlin’s O2 arena, a 17,000-capacity venue big Wall tumbled, enough to host superstars like Beyonce and Lady Gaga, the band said this was their last hurrah before retirement next year. They are going out with a bang, touring East bands rock on throughout the former East Germany in a show complete with fog machines, fireworks and flame-throwers, and linking up with two other huge acts under communism, City and Karat. Meet the Puhdys, East hey have been rocking arenas nearly as long as the “We Ossis never really learned competition Rolling Stones but unlike Mick and Keith, they’re — that’s why we get along so well,” Puhdys Germany’s most successful from a country that no longer exists. keyboardist Peter Meyer said, using slang for band, who are still performing T Meet the Puhdys, East Germany’s most suc- easterners. cessful band, who are still performing to capacity crowds ‘Scissors in our heads’ to capacity crowds 25 years 25 years after the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The Puhdys got their start in 1969 in the With their headbanger hair, black leather jackets and Saxon town of Freiberg, with their name derived after the Berlin Wall came motorcycle boots, the look of the kings of “Ostrock” hasn’t from their first names’ initials. changed much although the core members are 70 and Demand for rock music had mounted to such tumbling down. With their over. an extent among East Germany’s disaffected headbanger hair, black leather And with more than 20 million records sold over their youth by the late 1960s that the authorities 45-year-long career, neither has their sound, which taps could no longer just ban it — they needed to jackets and motorcycle a rich vein of “Ostalgie”, nostalgia for East Germany, a co-opt it. boots, the look of the kings country which only managed to see its 41st birthday. So the Puhdys and other stars of the so- “We were constantly on tour and on television and so called German Democratic Republic (GDR) had of “Ostrock” hasn’t changed we were always in people’s sitting rooms — we probably to perform a high-wire act — making music that seem like family,” lead guitarist Dieter Hertrampf said. would get past the all-seeing, all-hearing Stasi much although the core But their act is now drawing younger fans, many of secret police and the official censors while still members are 70 and over. ringing true to the country’s citizens. “We had scissors in our own heads so we knew what we needed to cut out,” said lead singer Dieter Birr, who goes by the nickname “Machine” and whose scratchy bass vocals are the band’s trademark. Dieter ‘Maschine’ Birr of the band ‘The Puhdys’ performs on stage at the O2 Arena in Berlin. PLUS | THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2014 3 “There were subjects that were taboo like environmentalism or the Wall. But all the Ostrock bands found ways of singing between the lines. “The word ‘flying’, for example, was a synonym for freedom.” Simply a mention of “Deutschland” (Germany) raised red flags due to the country’s division, keeping one Puhdys song off GDR television and the radio. With hits like “Ikarus”, “Alt wie ein Baum” (Old as a Tree) and “Geh zu ihr” (Go to Her) from the cult 1973 movie The Legend of Paul and Paula — which Chancellor Angela Merkel has called her favourite film, the Puhdys in their heyday captured the zeitgeist. Their mix of guitar-hero rock and sing-along pop also translated across borders and the group won permis- sion to perform in West Germany and even the United States, making them one of East Germany’s few successful exports. Juergen Juergens, a radio disc jockey in West Berlin who promoted Ostrock, said the Puhdys were one of the first bands to write rock songs in German. He said the bonds among musicians and with their fans were so strong because they were forged in hardship. Members of band ‘The Puhdys’ (from “They all had to help each other left) Klaus Scharfschwerdt, Peter because the equipment was so bad — Rasym, Dieter Hertrampf, Dieter they borrowed amps from each other “Maschine” Birr and Peter Meyer. when theirs were broken,” he said. ‘Didn’t toe the line’ Loyal listeners say that after so much in the east was simply sub- sumed by the west with unifica- Their mix of guitar-hero tion, the Puhdys’ concerts feel like a homecoming. rock and sing-along pop “We didn’t have a lot of rock groups in the east so it was exciting for us also translated across young people when they came on the borders and the group scene,” said Edeltraud Arndt, 56, at the Berlin concert. won permission to “After reunification, it wasn’t easy for them so we stuck with them and perform in West Germany now people my age still love them.” and even the United The fall of the Berlin Wall was dis- astrous for many eastern bands, with States, making them one fans, finally given a choice, running out of East Germany’s few to buy albums from acts like Genesis, Tina Turner, and the Stones. successful exports. “After the Wall fell, I played in small clubs to just a few people. But then after a few years, people remembered us and thought ‘yeah, they were pretty good’,” Birr said. Later the Puhdys managed to put out relevant songs in the post-Wall years too, such as the anthem “Was bleibt” (What’s Left) and “Frei wie die Geier” (As Free as the Vultures), which critiqued greed in capitalist society. Birr said the band is still beloved — it even has a stone monument in its honour in Freiberg — because it trod a path familiar to so many east Germans. “We were never revolutionaries in the GDR, but we didn’t toe the line either,” Birr said. “We’re just normal musicians who’ve had a lot of fun.” AFP 4 PLUS | THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2014 CAMPUS / MARKETPLACE Vigilance awareness week observed at SIS he Social Science Department of SIS organised various activities in the Indian Tcontext during the Vigilance Awareness Week reflecting the theme “Combating Corruption – Technology as an enabler”. Rayees Kochery and Dr Nizar Kochery of Kocheries Legal Consultants, enriched the knowledge of the students of Grade IX and X students with their lecture on ‘How e-judiciary helped in making court proceedings more trans- parent’. It was an interactive session where the students raised their concern about the judicial system of India, the efficacy of the e-judiciary in the removal of corruption in the judicial system and the ways in which it can bring transparency. To help students fight against corruption and with young debaters putting forth their argu- ideate ways through which it can be eradicated, ments for and against the topic. The rebuttal the students from classes VI to X competed session during the debate turned out to be very in slogan writing contest and debate and also exciting and Rasha Sidhik of VII E emerged as attended a seminar conducted by an eminent the best speaker. Sharlet Feba Thomas (VIII F) speaker. The students of class VI came up with and Sahal Muneer (VII C) were in the second some catchy slogans based on the topic ‘Root position and Tamim Muhammed (VII D) took The Head of the Department, Social Science, out Corruption before it roots in you’ and filled the third position. Shakir Hussain, expressed his thanks to the their class bulletin boards evoking a strong sense Principal, Dr Subhash B. Nair congratu- school Management, teachers and the students against corruption in India. lated the winners and gave them valuable tips for their participation in the weeklong event Students of Classes VII and VIII debated on to enhance their debating skills that could help that created awareness to combat corruption the topic “e-ticketing has been effective in reduc- every student to express their thoughts in a clear and technology as an enabler. ing corruption in India”. It was a close contest and confident manner. 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