Richard Germer

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Richard Germer (born November 4, 1900 in Hamburg ; † September 12, 1993 ibid) was a German folk singer and composer . For decades he was one of the most popular Hamburg musicians and known for his native North German lyrics and his appearances with other Hamburg originals such as Heidi Kabel . Germer was also known as The Man with the Lute .

Life

Germer was born in 1900 in the Hamburg district of Barmbek and was an Evangelical Lutheran denomination. In his youth he was a member of the Wandervogel movement and trained as a merchant after school . At the age of twenty, he received first prize in a singing competition and then decided to study music with Carl Waschmann and Luigi Gareno . He appeared increasingly in Hamburg and the surrounding area and made his radio debut in 1927. A year later he made his first record . Benno Strandt composed texts for him. More texts by u. a. Wilhelm Busch , Fred Endrikat , Fritz Graßhoff , Erich Kästner , Hans Leip and Dirks Paulun flowed into his repertoire. In the Federal Republic of Germany he became one of the most famous artists of the Northwest German Radio , who impressed with his shanties and folk songs . He performed all over Hamburg a. a. several times in the music hall and in the operetta house . In 1960 he suffered a serious car accident , which did not stop him from playing music. He was the stepfather of Hans-Olaf Henkel .

Quote

Richard Germer 1950:

" Actually, I'm a trained businessman. I started with sugar. But by the way I was an enthusiastic hiker . When I was twenty, I won first prize at the first youth conference in Heidelberg, and from then on the store ran all by itself. Everywhere where in Hamburg was going on, at club parties, company parties, company outings, people wanted me. I came to the radio station in 1925. It was love at first sight, and we stayed true to each other, the radio and I. I always have my greatest successes with my Hamburg songs . They are Low German and High German songs that I have made known throughout Germany over the years. Many of them I set to music based on the poems of our home authors such as Gorch Fock , Rudolf Kinau , Heinrich Deiters , Otto Franz Grund , Hermann Löns and Hans Leip . Lately I've also been doing cabaret, but my real love is folksong . It's my great grief that the folk song, which used to be received with enthusiasm on every festive occasion, is now treated so much as a stepchild. And so I hope that with my work I can help my beloved stepchild to regain its proper place. "

Awards

Radio plays

  • 1950: Gorch Fock - Söbentig Joahr (lute, vocals) - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1952: Vadder hats necks ok mol in the air! (Speaker) - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1954: Wi Junge Lüüd (Funkspiel from the series: Uns Moderspraak by Walter Gättke with and about R. Germer) - Director: Not known

Discography

  • 1963: An de Alster, an de Elbe, an de Bill ( Polydor )
  • 1974: Seemannsgarn - Vinyl DLP ( Telefunken )
  • 1998: Let's go to Hagenbeck ( Bear Family Records )
  • 2008: Richard Germer sings Hans Leip (Bear Family Records)
  • 2008: Richard Germer Where the North Sea Waves… 1929–1953 (Bear Family Records)

bibliography

  • Richard Germer edited by Erwin Schwarz-Reiflingen - Successes on Guitar Issue 1 / Musikverlag Hans Sikorski. Hamburg / Ed. No. 211 a
  • Richard Germer with texts by Benno Strandt, edited by Friedrich Stoppa - Successes for Guitar Issue 2 / Music Publishing House Hans Sikorski. Hamburg / Ed. No. 211 b
  • Richard Germer with texts by Benno Strandt, edited by Friedrich Stoppa - Successes for Guitar Issue 3 / Musikverlag Hans Sikorski. Hamburg / Ed. No. 211 c

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Wake up!" In: welt.de . September 22, 2003, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ 1998 - Let's go to Hagenbeck (Bear Family Records)
personal data
SURNAME Germer, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The man with the lute
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer and composer, Hamburg folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th November 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1993
Place of death Hamburg