Baltic Quintett

Baltics (originally Baltic Quintet) was a German beat band from Rostock, who were especially well known in the north of the GDR. The band was formed in 1964 by members of the already well-known group Trio 63 in Rostock. The original Beat Quartett members were Wolfgang Ziegler (bandleader, guitar, vocals and piano), Wolfgang Fennel (guitar), Eckhardt Woytowicz (tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute, guitar) and Hans-Joachim Seering (drums); the group made their first television appearances with this line-up, including "Herzklopfen kostenlos" moderated by Heinz Quermann. The band made a brief performance in the children's film "Reise nach Sundevit" in 1965 and at the request of director Heiner Carow recorded the entire soundtrack in Babelsberg. The film score was composed by Wolfgang Ziegler in collaboration with Wolfgang Fennel. For cultural reasons the band had to change their name to Baltic Quartet in 1966. After that the group made only one more film appearance, in the little-known film "Trick 17b". Peter Zimmermann (bass) joined the band and Knud Benedict (guitar) replaced Wolfgang Flennel in 1967, so they renamed themselves the Baltic Quintet. In 1969 Benedict and...

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