Stern Meissen

DDR (GDR) rock band from Meißen (Meissen, Saxony, Germany). They started as beat band in the mid 1960s, absorbing western influences alongside developing their own style. As Stern Combo Meissen they reinvented themselves as the foremost progressive rock outfit from the German Democtratic Republic in the mid 1970s onto the early 1980s. Throughout their career the "Stars of Meissen" have been constantly changing, and almost changed completely in between recording some albums. Yet they returned (almost) to their best-known line-up when reforming much later. See also the split-off band: Stern Akustisch A previous contributor listed the following run-down of band musicians... Martin Schreier (voc, dr, ld) 1964... Norbert Jäger (keyb, voc, perc) 1964 - 1969, 1971 - 1980, 1996... Bernd Fiedler (b, voc) 1964 - 1979 Werner Bertram (sax) 1964 - 1969 Günter Manicke (g) 1964 Gottfried Sieber (g) 1964 - 1967 Dieter Schreiber (g) 1964 - 1965 Reiner Päsch (g, voc) 1967 Joachim (Jokkel) Förster (g, voc) 1967 Werner Kunze (g, tp) 1966 - 1969, 1971 - 1975 Detlev Hesse (g, voc) 1966 - 1969 Michael Zimmer (g) 1969 - 1970 Hartmut Kabelitz (keyb) 1969 - 1970 Veronika Fischer (voc) 1970 - 1971 Mico Nagel (fl, sax, viol) 1970 - 1973 Matthias Pflugbeil (tp) 1970 - 1972 Manfred Nytsch (tb) 1970 - 1971 Thomas Kurzhals (keyb) 1972 - 1983, 1996 - 2002 Axel Gothe (sax, fl) 1971 - 1972 Gerhard Lau (tb) 1972 - 1973 Christian Höhle (tp) 1972 - 1973 Reinhard Fißler (voc, g) 1972 - 1982, 1996... Hans-Jürgen Gerber (fl, tp, voc) 1973 - 1975 Peter Werneburg (keyb) 1975, 1977 Lothar Kramer (keyb) 1975, 1979 - 1980 Werther Lohse (dr, voc) 1978 - 1979 Michael Behm (dr, voc) 1979 - 1982, 1996... Peter Rasym (b) 1979 - 1984 Uwe Haßbecker (g, viol) 1980 - 1985 Peter Förster (dr) 1982 Ralf Schmidt (voc) 1982 - 1989, 2004 Andreas Bicking (keyb) 1983 - 1989 Matthias Phillip (dr) 1984 - 1986 Frank Schirmer (dr) 1986 - 1989 Axel Schäfer (b) 1984 - 1989 Michael Lehrmann (g) 1985 - 1989 Klaus Scharfschwert (dr) 1989 Alexander Procop (b) 1996... Eghard Schumann (keyb) 1996... Frank Nicolovius (keyb) 2003...