** condition: M/NM ** "The band was founded on January 20, 1966 by Cologne students initially as a political baret. The band came from the Cologne APO around the SDS, their political orientation changed over the years to a clearly dialectical-Marxist position. Independently of each other, the members of the band entered the DKP between 1970 and 1973. On September 6, 1970, the group performed at the Fehmarn Festival after Jimi Hendrix; this was his last appearance. In 1973, Floh de Cologne performed as a musical part of a West German division at the X World Festival of Youth in East Berlin. From 1980, parts of the band (Vridolin Enxing as chairman) were active at rock against right; in the same year, the group received the German Kleinkunstpreis together with Gerhard Polt. After over 3000 concerts in Germany and Europe, Floh de Cologne dissolved in May 1983 after a farewell tour. The farewell concert in the Cologne sports hall had 6000 spectators and lasted 14 hours with the participation of numerous musicians such as Hannes Wader, Dieter Süverkrüp, Franz-Josef Degenhardt, Hanns-Dieter Hüsch, Die 3 Tornados, BAP und Ina Deter. In 2023, the band received the Holger Czukay honor prize from the city of Cologne for their lifelong artistic work. With the cantata for rock band "Mummies", the band responded to the 1974 coup in Chile in 1973, including a setting of the last speech of the overthrown President Salvador Allende. In the same year, the group worked together with Hans Werner Henze alternative settings of the chile song (This Chilean summer was sweet; 1974), text: Rudi Bergmann (* 1950), premiere was on 31 May 1974 in Essen (Grugahalle: memorial concert for Víctor Jara, at the same time solidarity event. for the resistance in Chile)."