The group met when Balanskat was searching for a band; a colleague at the publishing house where he worked provided a contact.

[5] One of the original motivations for forming the band was to expand the limitations of what was artistically possible in East Germany at the time.

)[1] Appearing already on O.T., as well as their second and third albums, is the pro-gay song "Alright my Boys", which the band continues to play live today.

[11] The album Harte Zeiten also included the song Strahlende Zukunft (English translation: Radiating/Radioactive Future) that comment on the dangers of nuclear power from a point of view of environmental activism.

The line-up for this album was Balanskat, Mathias Kahle, Lars Rudel (of Cultus Ferox, Blind Passengers), Jan Fretwurst, and Günther Spalda (of Rosa Extra, Hard Pop, B.R.O.N.X.).

In 1993 they released the album Schwarze Boten; on this release Uli Kusch (known from bands like Ride the Sky, Shockmachine, Axe la Chapelle, Holy Moses, Roland Grapow, Gamma Ray, Beautiful Sin, Mekong Delta, Sinner, Masterplan, and Helloween) replaced Spalda on drums.

On this album the long-time band members Balanskat and Rudel were joined by Tom Schwoll (of Kumpelbasis, Sin City Circus Ladies, Jingo de Lunch, Extrabreit), Henning Menke (of Skew Siskin, Jingo de Lunch) and Nicki Gogow (of Knorkator, Deadly Toys, Aschenbach, BOON, Schwarz).

In 2006 the band celebrated its 20-year anniversary with a reunion tour that played, among other places, in Dresden, Cottbus, and Rostock.

[6] Because of this, they re-recorded older songs and assembled them in a "Best-of" album named Dada in Berlin, released in November 2007.

At the end of 2012, Die Skeptiker gave two exclusive concerts in Berlin and Dresden; the line-up for these concerts was Balanskat, Rudel, Schwoll, Kiki Kabel (in reality Christopher Zabel, previously with Strom) and Wieland Wehr (previously with Skinny and Rockass).

At the end of 2019 several additional live shows took place as the 60th birthday celebration of Balanskat, who was born on February 15, 1959.

[14] In the same year, Balanskat self-released the song Hinter den Mauern der Stadt with the band Rome as a vinyl 7".