Bernard Etté
Bernard Etté (born September 13, 1898 in Kassel , † September 26, 1973 in Mühldorf am Inn ; civil: Bernhard Ette ) was a German conductor and violinist .
Life
Etté, son of a hairdresser, received his musical training at the Louis Spohr Conservatory in Kassel. He earned the money by playing with two other musicians in Kassel wine taverns. After 1919 he performed with his “Salon Trio Etté” in the Garmisch Hotel “Alpenhof”, from where he was hired to Berlin in 1923 at the renowned “Old Boston Club”. With the expanded line-up there as a “jazz band orchestra”, he made his first recordings in early 1923 for Ernst Hesse's “Stern-Platte” (also Star Record ) company. Etté then took on a job at Albert Hauser's hotel "Reichsadler" in Munich. From there, the still young radio broadcast its music for the first time. This was followed by an engagement in the Berlin dance palace "Pavillon Mascotte". With a seven-man cast, Etté made the first recordings with the Berlin Vox-Schallplatten- und sprachmaschinen-AG , whose house band he remained until the company collapsed at the end of 1928. As a "radio jazz band" he was often heard on the radio from the Vox house . In addition, he made frequent guest appearances in the first houses in Berlin such as the Ballhaus "Femina" or the hotels "Excelsior", "Adlon" and "Bristol". In addition to extensive tours in Germany, Etté also traveled to America several times, from where he repeatedly brought top musicians with him.
In 1927 Etté and his orchestra could be seen in a few short scenes of the silent documentary " Berlin - The Symphony of the Big City " by Walther Ruttmann . At the beginning of the sound film era, he also played with his orchestra for several short sound films. In one of them he interpreted the Boston hit " Ramona ", in another the popular conférencier of the "Bonbonniere" at Münchner Platzl, Adolf Gondrell , participated.
After 1928 he recorded for the "Kristall" label of the Deutsche Crystalate Gesellschaft mbH, Berlin-Reinickendorf. Artists like Willy Beyler, Oskar Karlweis and Kurt Mühlhardt (as "Kurt Hardt") sang the refrains.
During the time of National Socialism , Bernard Etté directed a large show orchestra. He continued to employ the banjo player Rudi Annex even after he was banned from the profession by the Reich Chamber of Music . In August 1940, Etté performed in front of soldiers and wounded at a concert of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV), where pieces such as Bella Napoli and Bombs on Engeland were performed. According to an order received from Rudolf Höß , Etté's orchestra played on July 27, 1944 at a "troop support event" for the staff in the Auschwitz concentration camp .
After 1945, Etté tried a fresh start in the United States of America, but it was unsuccessful. He lost fortune through the war and the Soviet occupation policy. Like other German dance orchestra directors, Etté, who came from a "different generation", initially had a hard time with the American-influenced musical orientation of the clubs that are important for the awarding of engagements (popularly: "American clubs").
In 1947 Ette had to answer for membership in the NSDAP before the Berlin denazification chamber for cultural workers. Etté was also a hunting friend of Hermann Göring .
At the end of the 1940s, Etté devoted himself to entertaining spa guests on so-called "bath tours", for example on the East Frisian island of Norderney . At the beginning of the 1950s, after several personnel changes, there was again a band formation for a short time with modern-oriented swing stylists, with the later southern radio orchestra tenorist and flutist Manfred Hoffbauer, the alto saxophone and clarinet leader Herbert Wellsandt and the US Club experienced pianist / accordionist Rolf Vögel (Völge). The band performed in the Rhine and Moselle area, among others.
In houses like the Stuttgart Opera, the Baden-Badener Kurhaus or the Blatzheim-Betriebe in Cologne , the orchestra accompanied debuting and established vocalists in the hit or operetta area such as Lonny Kellner (-Frankenfeld), Magda Schneider and the chansonette Gabriele Leval, Etté's fifth wife. In addition, the audience experienced performances of big band classics, such as Harry James' Trumpet Blues , Dobs (Chinski's) Boogie , but also orchestral arrangements of German evergreens that were adapted to contemporary tastes such as Rose vom Wörthersee , What a woman dreams of in spring , When the white lilac blooms again ... by Walter Kollo or Franz Doelle . Even before and during the Second World War, the interpretation of film and entertainment hits had been a domain of his orchestra. The new repertoire also included tangos such as Olé Guapa etc.
The ensemble, which was gradually reduced in personnel in the course of the 1950s, also performed in Leipzig in the GDR in spring 1957 . Etté's appearances ended in the late 1950s. He spent his old age in a retirement home in southern Germany.
In the 1980s, recordings by German dance orchestras were reissued in the form of double LPs. Later, other recordings were collected by collectors and put out on CD, such as a compilation with representative Etté recordings from the years 1931 to 1942. There is also an Etté Bio Discography by Rainer E. Lotz and HJP Bergmeier (1995).
Filmography
- 1927: Berlin. The symphony of the big city
- 1928: The Etté band plays the Ramona [short sound film]
- 1929: Bernard Etté plays to a tea dance scene [short sound film]
- 1932: Kitty stumbles into happiness
- 1933: Bernard Etté plays for five o'clock tea with Adolf Gondrell [short sound film]
- 1933: Aafa soap bubbles I [short sound film]
- 1936: roses and love
- 1936: You are so beautiful, Berliner
literature
- Artist on the radio. A pocket album of the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk", dedicated to our readers. Rothgiesser & Diesing publishing house, Berlin 1932.
- Horst Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: Bernard Etté: a bio-discography. Fox on 78, Dietramszell, n.d. [1995].
- Bernhard Etté, Max Ruschel: Best school f. Jazz drums with Berücks. all other percussion instruments; Bes. suitable for self-teaching. M. Biering, Leipzig undated [1927].
- Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 .
- Horst H. Lange : Jazz in Germany - The German Jazz Chronicle 1900-1960. Colloquium-Verlag, Berlin 1966, OCLC 869550 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bernhard Etté and his orchestra in the catalog of the German National Library
- Bernard Etté at filmportal.de
- Biography, pictures and records by user 'formiggini'
- Bernhard Ette with his show dance orchestra. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 7, 2008 ; accessed on April 6, 2011 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Star Record label # 5860, available on youtube.com
- ↑ cf. Biography at user 'formiggini'
- ↑ cf. Album “Künstler am Rundfunk” 1932, p. 235, there also a photo from “FunkStunde” No. 23, June 1926.
- ↑ z. B. The Italian-American banjo and guitar player Tony Morello, who recorded a few pages of hot dance music for Tri-Ergon with a group of Etté musicians as The Jazz Kings in the summer of 1927 . See Tri-Ergon Photo-Electro-Records and Horst H. Lange p. 26 f. and 41.
- ↑ cf. Willy Beyler: I think, Madam, you have a whip, Foxtrot (Meisel & Bennefeld), Kristall 3169; Matr. C 426, to be heard on youtube.com , Oskar Karlweis: If you give away your heart once, song u. Tango (Willy Rosen - Kurt Schwabach), Kristall 3002 A; Matr. C 97 a, apply. Summer 1929, to be heard on youtube.com , or Kurt Hardt: You have fire in your blood, song, etc. Paso doble (Léon Dazar, Benoit & Harrison), crystal 3219; Matr. C 1563. 1932, to be heard on youtube.com
- ^ Ernst Klee: The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 142.
- ↑ Personal details : Bernhard Ette . In: Der Spiegel . No. 38 , 1947, pp. 13 ( online ).
- ↑ title page illustrated. at radiomusaeum.org
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Etté, Bernard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ette, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and violinist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | kassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 26, 1973 |
| Place of death | Mühldorf am Inn |