Inka Bause: Career start with overalls made of diaper fabric

Inka Bause, who is currently celebrating her 40th stage anniversary as a musician, once wore a jumpsuit made of diaper fabric for her first appearance on GDR television. The GDR's economy of scarcity was to blame. "I really wanted to wear a one-piece suit," the 56-year-old told the German Press Agency. But you couldn't buy one in the GDR. So she went to the tailor. "The only thing he had was yards of white cotton diaper wool."

So the then 16-year-old daughter of successful GDR pop composer Arndt Bause launched her career in the unusual garment on the 1984 New Year's Eve TV show - and with the song "Spielverderber" (spoilsport).

In the GDR, she liked to "hang anything colorful around her arms and neck or put it in her hair," the entertainer said about her style at the time. Colorful shoelaces were just as much a part of it as a ribbon in her hair. "There weren't that many colorful things - you had to get creative."