Arndt Bause

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Arndt Bause

Arndt Bause (born November 30, 1936 in Leipzig ; † February 11, 2003 in Berlin ) was a German composer . He was the father of Inka Bause .

Life

Arndt Bause was the fourth child of the accountant Werner Bause and his wife Emma. After attending elementary school, he took up an apprenticeship as an apparatus glass blower , which he completed in 1954.

From the age of twelve he had involuntarily received piano lessons for a number of years. He was able to build on this when he later came into contact with boogie-woogie , discovered his love for this type of music and continued his self-taught education.

At the end of his glassblowing apprenticeship, he was so far advanced that he decided to give up this profession and become a musician. He became a member of various groups that were also signed by the concert and guest performance management . When he started a family with his wife Angret, his income as a musician was no longer sufficient. That is why he resumed the job he had learned, in the glass blowing workshop of the scientific institutes of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Leipzig's Permoserstraße.

He only played music occasionally after work and began to compose instead. He also took trombone lessons from 1960 to 1963 . In 1962 an orchestral number was first accepted by him on the radio. The breakthrough came in 1964, when the already established lyricist Dieter Schneider became interested in Bause's music and brought him into the GDR hit business. The two wrote He, Joe for the singer Gipsy , with which she took first place in the Tip Parade of the German TV broadcaster in 1964 . Numerous other successes followed with titles for Chris Doerk , Frank Schöbel , Andreas Holm and others, with lyricists such as Wolfgang Brandenstein and Kurt Demmler also participating.

In 1968 Bause earned enough with his compositions to be able to stop blowing glass. Instead, from 1969 to 1974, he completed an external course in composition and composition at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music in Leipzig .

In 1975 the Bause family moved to Berlin-Biesdorf . Now there was an intensive collaboration with Jürgen Walter , within which three long-playing records with demanding texts by Gisela Steineckert were created. He also composed successful titles for the pioneer choir Omnibus , which was popular in the GDR . In 1979, Bause set Jürgen Harts Sing mei Sachse sing to music , which became his best-selling title and was followed by an LP by the two of them. In the 1980s Helga Hahnemann was the main interpreter of Bausesche compositions, congenially written by Angela Gentzmer. In 1985 Inka , the youngest of his three daughters, started her singing career with her father's titles.

Arndt Bause composed over 1350 dance music titles and has thus decisively shaped the music scene of this genre in eastern Germany. Many of his titles have become evergreens .

But he also wrote film music, for example for two television films made after individual chapters from Maxi Wanders Guten Morgen, du Schöne and 24 animated films by the DEFA studio in Dresden, including The Flying Windmill .

The musical Gesang der Grille was created based on a libretto by Gerda Malig, and he achieved its premiere at the Volkstheater Halberstadt in 1987 with great commitment.

When the East German audience turned to West German pop music after the political change and after the death of Helga Hahnemann, his productivity dried up.

Arndt Bause died on February 11, 2003 at the age of 66 years of complications from a pulmonary embolism . He was buried in the Sophienfriedhof II in Berlin-Mitte .

The grave of Arndt Bause in the Sophien-Friedhof II in Berlin.

Honors

Works (selection)

Hits and performers

The most important interpreters (in alphabetical order) for whom Arndt Bause composed, and their best-known titles from him.

Filmography

musical

  • 1987: Singing the cricket

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arndt Bause. In: GDR dance music. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude & Spener, Berlin 2006. p. 46.
  3. ↑ The Arndt Bause Hall. (No longer available online.) In: Freizetforum Marzahn. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017 ; accessed on March 10, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bause, Arndt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2003
Place of death Berlin