Overview

• Pankow delivered its definitive finale on July 13 at Dresden’s open-air Club Tante Ju before about 2,000 fans.
• The two-hour best-of set opened and closed with the tour’s title track “Bis zuletzt,” ending under fireworks followed by a release of 100 balloons.
• The farewell tour launched in January in Cottbus and traversed all five former East German states over six months of performances.
• Formed in East Berlin in 1981, Pankow became a leading voice of youth dissent in the GDR with politically charged songs such as 1989’s “Langeweile.”
• After a post-reunification hiatus and a 2004 reunion, frontman André Herzberg and his bandmates have confirmed this retirement is final with no future reunions planned.