Anderl Welsch

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Andreas "Anderl" Welsch (born November 28, 1842 in Unterbiberg , † August 24, 1906 in Munich ) was a Bavarian folk singer and entertainer in Munich.

Life

Welsch was a trained " Rouleaux painter ". From 1862 he appeared as a couplet singer in various Munich bars. As a soldier he took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 .

After the war, in 1871, he founded his own "Comedian and Singing Society Welsch". His ensemble had a permanent stage in the Bamberger Hof restaurant for several years and then, after occupancy problems, from 1890 in the Kollergarten restaurant hall . As Singspiel director, he and his company also appeared in the then Singspielhallen Elysium in Sophienstraße at the Old Botanical Garden , in the Singspielhalle Monachia , in the Kleiner Rosengarten-Saal at Munich Central Station and in the Orpheum on Sonnenstraße , before becoming director of the Apollo- Headed the theater at Dachauer Straße 19/21 and performed there himself until 1905. He was also the landlord of the Johannis Brewery in Haidhausen and the Schwabing artist restaurant Malkasten in Augustenstraße 78 next to the Lustspielhaus, which was then home to the Münchner Kammerspiele .

At that time, several hundred folk singers were registered as such in Munich full-time - at the turn of the century there were around 400, a year before his death there were 800. Alongside Papa Geis , Alois Hönle and August Junker, Welsch was one of the best-known representatives at the time. Karl Valentin and the Weiß Ferdl follow later. His collection of texts and couplets comprised around a thousand pages, which he published in 27 volumes under the title Münchner Volksleben in Lied und Wort . Some of the texts he wrote and printed himself were stamped with the usage notice “Only private individuals permitted to perform in Munich”. He also took foreign texts and couplets into his repertoire, which he adapted to Munich's needs. His most famous piece, Aba net, that d'Leut say, z'weng da Not is da Schimmel tod, is based on the Holledauer Schimmellied from around 1750. Original pieces by him were also performed by associations abroad.

He described the job of the folk singer in a rhyme:

“The folk singer is:
A podium jumping -
always trying for applause , studying at home,
having a lot of fun - laughing
when things go well, crying when things go bad -
cutting a buffoon, cutting stupid faces - avoiding boring,
with aesthetics trading, artistic craftsperson wandering on thistles. "

Anderl Welsch's grave is in the old north cemetery .

Publications

  • as publisher: Münchner Volksleben in song and word. Collection of comic ensembles, solo scenes and couplets. 27 ribbons. Munich, from 1886.
  • Munich folk singer. Its origin and development up to 1902. Handwritten record, Munich 1902.

literature

  • Welsch, Anderl. In: Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Welsch, Anderl (Andreas). In: German Theater Lexicon . Volume 6: Weisbrid-Wolansky. KG Saur Verlag, Zurich / Munich, 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-093611-7 , p. 3202.
  • Werner Ebnet: You lived in Munich: biographies from eight centuries . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-86906-744-5 , p. 637.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anderl Welsch. In: Karl Valentin . All works in eight volumes. Supplementary volume. Piper Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-492-03977-4 , p. 183, footnote 110.
  2. ↑ The three-quarter opera. In: Wolfgang Görl : The Prince Regent , Beauty and Beer. Munich activities. (= Picus reading trips). Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7117-5125-3 .
  3. ^ Couplet & folk singer. ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.couplet-ag.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Couplet-AG ; accessed on December 12, 2016.
  4. ^ Claudia Preis: Volkssängerei in Munich 1870–1930. For the production of entertainment culture in the city. Dissertation . Faculty of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Holzen 2010.
  5. ↑ Johannes Moser, Eva Becher: Munich Sound. Urban folk culture and popular music. Herbert Utz Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8316-4035-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Welsch, Anderl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Welsch, Andreas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Munich folk singer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1842
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterbiberg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1906
Place of death Munich