Lassie Singers

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Lassie Singers
Origin Berlin, Germany
Genres Indiepop, Hamburger Schule, Neue Deutsche Welle
Years active1988–1998
Labels Columbia Records, Dragnet Records, Flittchen Records
Members Christiane Rösinger (vocals, guitar), [1]
Almut Klotz (vocals), [2]
Funny van Dannen (guitar),
Kathrin von Witzleben (vocals),
Heiner Weiß
Past membersBritta Neander (drums)
Herman Herrmann (guitar)

The Lassie Singers are an indie-pop band from Berlin-Kreuzberg that was active from 1988 to 1998. Their musical style was in between the Hamburger Schule and Neue Deutsche Welle. [3] The Lassie Singers have been called the first German girl-band. [4] The band's lyrics often use bitter humor to describe clichéd romantic relationships from a feminist perspective. For example, popular songs of written by the Lassie singers include: Die Pärchenlüge (English translation: the couple-lie), Mein zukünftiger Exfreund (English translation: My future ex-boyfriend), and Liebe wird oft überbewertet (English translation: Love is over valued).

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The Lassie Singers’ largest commercial success came with the 1994 single Es ist so schade (English translation: It is too bad), peaking at number 24 in the Austrian Charts. [5] They released four studio albums, the first of which was released on Columbia Records; their final three studio albums were released on Dragnet Records, a sub-label of Sony Music Germany.[ citation needed ]

History

The founding members of the Lassie Singers were Christiane Rösinger, Almut Klotz, Heiner Weiß, Kathrin Fitzner (aka Kathrin Witzleben), and Funny van Dannen. The band had three front-women, and Rösinger wrote the band's song lyrics. van Dannen was only a member of the Lassie Singers for a short time; Herman Herrmann later joined the band as a guitarist. The band name refers to the American TV series Lassie . Over a period of years the Lassie Singers worked with many different well-known German pop-artists, including Bernd Begemann, King Rocko Schamoni, Die Regierung, Eff Jott Krüger (Ideal), and Jochen Distelmeyer (of Blumfeld). [4]

Their first album Die Lassie Singers helfen Dir (English translation: "The Lassie Singers help you") was released in 1991. [6] This was quickly followed by Sei À Gogo in 1992, [7] and then Stadt, Land, Verbrechen in 1994. In 1996, the Lassie singers released the album Hotel Hotel, which was produced by Thomas Meinecke and recorded by Chris von Rautenkranz. [8]

In 1998 the Lassie Singers broke up. [9] Almut Klotz and Christiane Rösinger opened the record label Flittchen Records . Rösinger founded the band Britta and since 2010 has released two solo albums under her own name. [10] [11] Klotz and Sandra Grether founded the riot-grrl band Parole Trixi. Klotz also founded the band Maxi unter Menschen with Maximilian Hecker, and played as a duo with Christian Dabeler called Klotz+Dabeler. In 2013 Klotz died of breast cancer. [2] [12] In 2020 Christiane Rösinger won the Rio Reiser Sonderstipendium from the Musicboard Berlin. [13]

Discography

Studio albums

  1. 1991: Die Lassie Singers helfen Dir (Columbia Records (Sony Music Entertainment))
  2. 1992: Sei À Gogo (Dragnet Records (Sony Music Entertainment)) [14]
  3. 1994: Stadt, Land, Verbrechen (Dragnet Records)
  4. 1996: Hotel Hotel (Dragnet Records) [15]

Compilation albums

Singles

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