Bedrich Nikodem
Bedřich Nikodem , also Friedrich Nikodem or Fritz Nikodem (born August 12, 1909 in Vienna , † July 19, 1970 in Prague ) was a Czech composer, lyricist, musician and table tennis player . He also appeared under the pseudonym Niki Němec in the 1930s .
Life
Nikodém was born in Vienna as the son of an engineer. In 1921 the family moved to Brno in Czechoslovakia . In accordance with his father's wishes, Friedrich Nikodem continued the family tradition and completed an engineering degree in Prague . However, his main interests were sports and music.
At the end of the 1920s, Fritz Nikodem was one of the best table tennis players in the country and from 1929 to 1933 belonged to the men's team of the ČSR.
Nikodém then devoted himself entirely to music. During the Great Depression, he made his living as a bar pianist. Under the pseudonym Niki Němec he was involved in recordings with various Dixielandt dance orchestras. During this time he wrote his first own songs, which gained popularity in the tramp scene. In 1935 he started working with the music publisher Mojmír Urbánek, which also continued for life with the successor companies Orbis, Státní hudební vydavatelství and Supraphon.
Since the 1940s Nikodém has mainly devoted himself to swing, some of the songs he wrote in the 1950s have become evergreens. In the 1960s, Nikodém's compositional work shifted towards rock 'n' roll. In addition, he worked as a copywriter and editor during this time and promoted Karel Svoboda and the brothers Jiří and Ladislav Štaidl. Nikodém died of a heart attack in 1970.
The city of Ostrava honored Bedřich Nikodém in 1983 with the naming of a 2.3 kilometer long street in the Poruba district.
Compositions and texts (selection)
- as Niki Němec: Music for the film Sňatková kancelář , 1932
- Mám malý stan
- Jen kytara a yes
- Náš táborák
- Houpy, hou
- Dva modré balónky
- Je po dešti
- Nedělní vláček
- Flašinetář
- Znamínko na ramínku
- Barborka
- Start gemini
- Sedmikráska
- Poustevník
Table tennis
Bedřich Nikodém took part in all five world championships from 1928 to 1932 . In the team competition he won bronze in 1930 , silver in 1931 and gold in 1932 . He also reached the quarter-finals in 1930, where he was eliminated against the Hungarian Lajos Dávid . In the following year he came in a mixed with Marie Šmídová again in the quarter-finals, in which the match against the Hungarian couple Sándor Glancz / Magda Gál was lost.
Web links
- Literature and other media by and about Bedřich Nikodém in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
- Works by and about Bedřich Nikodém in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography on fdb.cz
Individual evidence
- ^ Project Lindström
- ↑ http://www.moporuba.cz/cs/o-porube/media-a-zpravodajstvi/prio-radnicni-zpravodaj/archiv/archiv-casopisu-prio/prio_0804.pdf
- ↑ http://www.supraphonline.cz/album/5102-historie-psana-selakem-pisne-z-ceskych-zvukovych-filmu-ii-19?annotation=1&artistId=11281#annotation
- ↑ Bedřich Nikodém results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on November 14, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nikodém, Bedřich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nikodem, Friedrich; Nikodem, Fritz; Němec, Niki (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech composer, lyricist, musician and table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 19, 1970 |
| Place of death | Prague |