Hoelderlin

German Krautrock band from Wuppertal in Germany founded in 1968.
Hölderlin evolved out of a 1960's folk group playing Fairport Convention and Pentangle songs. They took their name from the 19th Century writer Friedrich Hölderlin. Originally, they were a family band, the core was the brothers Christian (opens in a new tab) and Joachim von Grumbkow and with Nanny de Ruig as lead singer and dancer, who became later Christian's wife for 15 years.
With a trippy cosmic styled progressive Folk, full of rich textures, psychedelic, medieval and classical touches, they started in 1970 to form an own repertoire. This led to the recording of their first album Hölderlin's Traum (opens in a new tab), which became very popular in Germany. The follow-up album was produced by Conny Plank and was more Rock oriented then its predecessor. In the following years, they recorded 4 more albums and one live-album in 1978, called Traumstadt (opens in a new tab), one of the best recepted live-albums of the Krautrock era. In the transition from 1976 to 1977, they also record the first solo album of Ina Deter together with her.
In 1981, the band split, but was reactivated by some of the old musicians (e.g. Michael Bruchmann) in 2005.