Albert Brosch

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Albert Brosch (born January 23, 1886 in Oberplan / Böhmerwald ; † May 22, 1970 in Bad Windsheim / Middle Franconia ) was a watchmaker and collector of folk songs .

Life

Albert Brosch was born on January 23, 1886 in Oberplan in the Bohemian Forest (today Horni Planá) as the fourth of eight children and learned the watchmaking trade in his father's company from 1900 to 1904. From 1904 to 1907, Brosch was a watchmaker's assistant in his father's watchmaker's business. From 1907 to 1914 he went on a journey as a journeyman and worked for various masters. From 1909 to 1915 he was managing director in his father's company. After serving in the war with the kuk telegraph regiment from 1915 to 1918, he opened his own shop for watches, gold and silver goods in Eger (now Cheb, in today's Czech Republic) and married Maria Magdalena Klier, who enjoyed singing from Cheb in 1919, with whom he has four children . Brosch owes his mother-in-law Margarete Klier, who enjoyed singing, many unknown folk songs that he was able to write down. After the Germans were expelled from Bohemia (in today's Czech Republic), Brosch found a new home in Bad Windsheim (Middle Franconia, Bavaria) at the end of 1945, where he worked as a watchmaker until 1948.

collection

Around 1900 Albert Brosch read an article by the folk song researcher Josef Pommer in a Viennese newspaper , in which he called for a collection of folk songs. Brosch learned the necessary musical knowledge in self-study, including playing the zither, and made his first folk song recordings. He wrote down the songs with the help of his zither, on which he played the melody several times. Brosch collected from 1902 to 1919 in the Bohemian Forest (with interruptions), from 1930 to 1945 in the Egerland (in today's Czech Republic), from 1940 to 1945 in ethnic German camps in the Egerland (in today's Czech Republic) and from 1945 until his death in 1970 mostly in Central Franconia (Bavaria) and Baden-Württemberg. Both German Bohemia and Middle Franconia, as well as resettlers from Galicia , Buchenland , Bessarabia , Dobrudscha , Spiš and other linguistic islands were his sources. After fleeing to Bad Windsheim, he also resumed collecting there.

According to research by the musicologist Claudia Behn, Brosch's collection of songs has a total of 18,951 records (including many copies from other collections and transcripts from other collectors), while Brosch's collection of songs, which he made himself, amounts to 6,878 items.

Honors

Brosch received the honorary membership of the Eghalanda Gmoin z`München as well as the federal honorary membership of the Eghalanda Gmoin in 1953, he became an honorary member of the Bad Windsheimer choir in 1953, received the Max Reger Medal of the city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate in the same year 1956 the Nordgau plaque of honor as well as the badge of honor of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft and the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1961 the Egerland Prize and the certificate of honor of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft as well as the Balthasar Neumann plaque , 1963 the citizen's medal in silver of the city of Bad Windsheim, 1966 he became Honorary member of the Sudeten German local group Bad Windsheim, in 1967 Brosch received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and in 1969 the Sudeten German People's Prize .

literature

  • Egerland cultural workers working group (ed.): Albert Brosch. The treasure trove of songs in the Egerland. 4 volumes, Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1986, ISBN 3-925362-42-8 .
  • Horst Steinmetz, Franz Richl (ed.): The Franconian songs from the collection of Albert Brosch (= publication series of the research center for Franconian folk music of the districts of Central, Upper and Lower Franconia 30, ZDB ID 2289612-0 ). Research center for Franconian folk music in the districts of Middle, Upper and Lower Franconia, Walkershofen 1984.
  • Claudia Behn: Albert Brosch's "Liederschatz des Egerlandes" - function as well as musical and textual form of the folk songs. Halle (Saale) 2015.
  • Claudia Behn: The song collector Albert Brosch - life and work ( dissertation ), Halle (Saale) 2018.
  • District of Upper Bavaria: In the footsteps of the folk song collector Albert Brosch (1886–1970). Materials and instructions for understanding an extraordinary life's work. Munich 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Broch, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk song collector
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Top plan
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 1970
Place of death Bad Windsheim