A part of the GDR's musical heritage has found a new home in Eisenach. The music company Sony has donated a large collection of production documents and sound carriers from the Amiga record label to the Lippmann+Rau music archive, the archive announced. The approximately 25,000 index cards list all the music productions of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten that were produced under the Amiga label from 1954 to 1991.
The documents are now to be digitized and made available to interested parties in cooperation with the Thuringian University and State Library, it said. According to the archive, there is currently no publicly accessible discography of the GDR record label. "We are very pleased to be able to preserve another important witness to GDR music history for future generations alongside the sheet music archive of the GDR radio station," explained Daniel Eckenfelder, Chairman of the Foundation.
Amiga stood for popular music in the GDR
The Eisenach archive was founded in 1999, according to the foundation. It houses recordings, books, magazines, photographs, program booklets and concert posters. The Amiga record label stood for popular music in the GDR. It also released records by Western artists such as the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
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