VEB Deutsche Schallplatten

The VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was the monopolistic music publisher in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from the 1950s until the 1980s.^{[citation needed]}

The VEB Deutsche Schallplatten owned Amiga from 1954 to 1990.^[1]

History

On August 12, 1946, the German singer and actor Ernst Busch got permission by Soviet military administration to institute a publishing house for music.^{[citation needed]}

Originally called "Lieder der Zeit Musikverlag", VEB Deutsche Schallplatten was founded in 1947 by Ernst Busch, a socialist singer and actor.^[2]

On April 1, 1953, the private GmbH-company had to change to a state-controlled VEB (Volkseigener Betrieb, "People-owned enterprise").^{[citation needed]}

On March 18, 1955, the VEB Lied Der Zeit was renamed to VEB Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin.^{[citation needed]}

In 1990, it became Deutsche Schallplatten GmbH Berlin (DSB).^{[citation needed]}

Labels

Labels of VEB Deutsche Schallplatten included:

• Amiga for contemporary pop, rock music and jazz
• Eterna for classical music, operas, operettas
• Litera for radio plays, poetry readings
• Nova for contemporary art music
• Aurora for workers' songs and productions by Ernst Busch
• Schola for educational material

After 1990, some of these labels were sold to other music companies.

See also

• List of record labels
• UC compander, a noise reduction system undocumentedly used on many DMM vinyl records by Eterna, Amiga and Nova in the 1980s.