Word: niebisch
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Stooges. When Communist pressure le up a little in 1947, the three men in charge of the choir-Werner Schueck, its founder and leader, Werner Niebisch, publicity director, and Business Manager Ludwig Pulst-managed to get interzonal passes for a West German tour. But there was a condition: Niebisch had to agree to work as a spy for the Russians. Niebisch's work on the Western tour apparently did not satisfy the MVD. Once back in Dresden, the singers were accused by Communist papers of being Western spies; they found their food rations reduced, their wage taxes raised...
...afterwards. The East zone police, obviously well informed about the choir's plans, struck a few days after the choir left for Berlin. Schueck's wife was arrested when she went to the Dresden railway station to send some scores to her husband. The same day Frau Niebisch and her eight-year-old daughter disappeared...
...gave police protection to the terrified group, moved them to a youth home in Wannsee until after their concert. At week's end, three more choir members, all minors, had gone back to Dresden. Also back in Dresden was Business Manager Pulst, about whom Choir-Leaders Schueck and Niebisch had a sharp suspicion: he was a Soviet agent, they thought, had deliberately failed to get West German bookings for the choir, had engineered the arrest of the two wives. The rest of the choir was flown to Frankfurt, where they will give a thanksgiving concert, train for a foreign...
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