Birger Heymann

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Birger-Bruno Heymann (born May 7, 1943 in Berlin ; † July 18, 2012 there ) was a German musician and composer of theater and film music .

Life

Birger-Bruno Heymann was born in Berlin-Kreuzberg in 1943. After finishing school, he traveled to France for further musical education and studied classical guitar and piano . He composed for Die Wühlmäuse , for the student cabaret ironing board and for the Reich cabaret (1969), from which the GRIPS theater later developed. For Heymann, a performance with the musical MUGNOG-Kinder became an inspiring "key experience " on this career path ! (1970) in Munich, where he watched the young audience singing the hymn Wir sind wir during the break . For the GRIPS Theater he wrote, often together with the author Volker Ludwig , countless children's songs, some of which can be found in school books and song books. As an interpreter, he sang some of them in the series Sesamstraße , Das feuerrote Spielmobil and Rappelkiste . Several works for the GRIPS theater were "classics" of the genre such as Max and Milli , Going for a bath , Heile heile Segen , Melody's Ring , Doof stays stupid and above all the international success Line 1 (also together with Ludwig).

This was followed by a commission from the Theater des Westens in Berlin for one, two, three , an adaptation of the play by Ferenc Molnár and Billy Wilder 's film grotesque of the same name . He also worked as a composer for television series. He wrote music for Die Männer vom K3 , Polizeiruf 110 , Ein Fall für Zwei (45 episodes), Um Himmels Willen und Heimatgeschichten , the theme songs for Adelheid and her murderers and ravioli , as well as music for radio plays (including for George Taboris Weismann and Rotgesicht ). In 2010 Heymann revised the song Guten Tag, Herr President for the actor and singer Axel Prahl for an anti-war music video of the same name. In it a veteran writes a letter in which he denounces the horrors of war.

According to his friend Volker Ludwig, Heymann “had fun giving the children courage.” The conductor and jazz musician Rolf Kühn , with whom Heymann worked on one, two, three , praised him as the first composer to “sound of the new Berlin "heard:" That was his art: almost folk compositions, to reach the depths in the seemingly easy. He himself fetched music from the creaking subway, which as a child in Kreuzberg he so often squeaked on the tracks through the city saw driving. "

Nowadays, many of his songs can be found in school books, such as We're getting bigger and bigger or Stupid is none . Heymann wrote on his website: "I only ever made music so as not to grow up." Heymann did not have children of his own and commented: "But as a musician, as an artist, you are always a little child, you are curious and ask questions. That connects children and artists."

Heymann died on July 18, 2012 in a hospital in Berlin after a four-week coma.

In 2013, his heiress handed over his musical estate to the German Composers' Archive.

Filmography (selection)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: Songs with brains in: Claudia Bullerjahn, Hans Joachim Erwe, Rudolf Weber (Hrsg.): Children - Culture: Aesthetic experiences. Aesthetic needs p. 204
  2. ↑ Christiane Peitz: Hymns for punks, philistines and kids , Tagesspiegel from July 19, 2012 [1] , accessed on July 16, 2019
  3. ↑ Rolf Kühn on Birger Heymann , BZ from July 18, 2012 [2] , accessed on July 16, 2019
  4. ↑ Volker Ludwig in Birger Heymann was a melody inventor like no other. In: Deutschlandradio , July 18, 2012
  5. ↑ Christiane Peitz: Hymns for punks, philistines and kids , Tagesspiegel from July 19, 2012 [3] , accessed on July 16, 2019
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Schneider: Songs with brains in: Claudia Bullerjahn, Hans Joachim Erwe, Rudolf Weber (Hrsg.): Children - Culture: Aesthetic experiences. Aesthetic needs p. 204
  7. ^ Rolf Kühn : About Birger Heymann. In: BZ , July 18, 2012, accessed June 1, 2015.
  8. ^ Birger Heymann's estate in the German Composers' Archive. German Music Information Center , November 18, 2013, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  9. ^ GRIPS song book ( Memento from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Alexander Verlag .
personal data
SURNAME Heymann, Birger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heymann, Birger-Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 2012
Place of death Berlin