Effective period / Period of releases: 1972 - 1981

Members: Markus Wienstroer, Christoph Noppeney, Joachim von Grumbkow, Michael Bruchmann, Joachim Käseberg, Christian von Grumbkow, Peter Käseberg, Hans Maahn, Thomas Lohr, Bernd König, Eduard Schicke, Pablo Weeber, Nanny de Ruig, Ann-Yi Eötvös, Andreas Hirschmann

From Wuppertal (circa 20 miles east of Düsseldorf) in Germany, 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 and Jochen von Grumbkow, with Christian's wife Nanny as lead singer, with a trippy cosmic styled progressive folk, full of rich textures, psychedelic, medieval and classical touches.