»DAS BISSCHEN HAUSHALT, SAGT MEIN MANN...« DIE FRAU IM DEUTSCHEN SCHLAGER EINE MUSIKALISCHE REISE MIT RAINER MORITZ

The woman in the hit song: she waited patiently and dutifully on the quayside for her lover to return (Margot Eskens: "Cindy oh Cindy"). Or, as a mother, she worried about the well-being of her son who had left for faraway places (Freddy Quinn: "Junge, komm bald wieder"). But when the winds of 1968 began to blow, women were no longer satisfied with their place at the kitchen stove. Gitte vehemently demanded a "cowboy as a man", Juliane Werding pulled the wool over the men's eyes in a card game ("If you think you think then you only think you think") and Ina Deter demanded unequivocally: "The country needs new men". Rainer Moritz - author, literary scholar and pop musicologist - tells an amusing and instructive story about the changing image of women in pop music and in society. His musical-intellectual foray begins with Gerhard Wendland's "Das machen nur die Beine von Dolores" and doesn't end with Andrea Berg's "Du hast mich tausendmal belogen" - that's a promise.