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Volkmar Andrä Papers
Volkmar Andrä (b. 1944) worked in music production for VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, the East German state-controlled record company, beginning in 1972 and continuing through the dissolution of East Germany. He worked primarily with the company’s popular music sublabel, AMIGA Records.
The collection includes business and personal documents from Andrä’s tenure at VEB Deutsche Schallplatten and AMIGA, among them licensing and legal agreements, promotional materials for East German artists, festival planning documents, album release materials, meeting minutes, budgeting documents, and internal labor organization records. Some personal materials are also included, such as correspondence and vacation planning documents.
Before joining VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, Andrä studied musicology, cultural studies, and German literature. In 1966 he founded the Hootenanny-Klub (renamed the Oktoberklub in 1967), of which he was a member until 1968. From 1968 to 1972 he worked as an editor in the entertainment division of DDR Fernsehen (East German television), overseeing the programs “Schlagerstudio” and “Notenbank.” At AMIGA from 1972 to 1996, he produced a number of pop and rock sampler LPs including “Kleeblatt,” “Hallo,” “Rhythmus,” and “Die großen Erfolge.” Before leaving VEB Deutsche Schallplatten, he founded Firma BTM, a label dedicated to light rock and folk music from the newly reunited German states, releasing work by artists such as Herbert Roth and De Plattfööt.
The cataloging and digitization of this collection was made possible by the support of Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.
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