Stern Meissen

DDR (GDR) rock band from Meißen (Meissen, Saxony, ).
They started as beat band in the mid 1960s, absorbing western influences alongside developing their own style. As Stern Combo Meissen they reinvented themselves as the foremost progressive rock outfit from the German Democtratic Republic in the mid 1970s onto the early 1980s.
Throughout their career the "Stars of Meissen" have been constantly changing, and almost changed completely in between recording some albums. Yet they returned (almost) to their best-known line-up when reforming much later.

See also the split-off band: Stern Akustisch

A previous contributor listed the following run-down of band musicians...
Martin Schreier (voc, dr, ld) 1964...
Norbert Jäger (keyb, voc, perc) 1964 - 1969, 1971 - 1980, 1996...
Bernd Fiedler (b, voc) 1964 - 1979
Werner Bertram (sax) 1964 - 1969
Günter Manicke (g) 1964
Gottfried Sieber (g) 1964 - 1967
Dieter Schreiber (g) 1964 - 1965
Reiner Päsch (g, voc) 1967
Joachim (Jokkel) Förster (g, voc) 1967
Werner Kunze (g, tp) 1966 - 1969, 1971 - 1975
Detlev Hesse (g, voc) 1966 - 1969
Michael Zimmer (g) 1969 - 1970
Hartmut Kabelitz (keyb) 1969 - 1970
Veronika Fischer (voc) 1970 - 1971
Mico Nagel (fl, sax, viol) 1970 - 1973
Matthias Pflugbeil (tp) 1970 - 1972
Manfred Nytsch (tb) 1970 - 1971
Thomas Kurzhals (keyb) 1972 - 1983, 1996 - 2002
Axel Gothe (sax, fl) 1971 - 1972
Gerhard Lau (tb) 1972 - 1973
Christian Höhle (tp) 1972 - 1973
Reinhard Fißler (voc, g) 1972 - 1982, 1996...
Hans-Jürgen Gerber (fl, tp, voc) 1973 - 1975
Peter Werneburg (keyb) 1975, 1977
Lothar Kramer (keyb) 1975, 1979 - 1980
Werther Lohse (dr, voc) 1978 - 1979
Michael Behm (dr, voc) 1979 - 1982, 1996...
Peter Rasym (b) 1979 - 1984
Uwe Haßbecker (g, viol) 1980 - 1985
Peter Förster (dr) 1982
Ralf Schmidt (voc) 1982 - 1989, 2004
Andreas Bicking (keyb) 1983 - 1989
Matthias Phillip (dr) 1984 - 1986
Frank Schirmer (dr) 1986 - 1989
Axel Schäfer (b) 1984 - 1989
Michael Lehrmann (g) 1985 - 1989
Klaus Scharfschwert (dr) 1989
Alexander Procop (b) 1996...
Eghard Schumann (keyb) 1996...
Frank Nicolovius (keyb) 2003...