Boyd Bachmann

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Boyd Bachmann , born as Børge Gustav Bachmann (born October 18, 1908 in Copenhagen ; † December 1, 1981 in Leiden , Netherlands ), was a Danish-Dutch entertainer , singer , actor , musician and comedian on stage, film and television.

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The son of the singer Carla Bachmann began his artistic career at the end of the 1920s in his native Denmark in the entertainment sector as a show artist and in the music sector as a drummer. There he belonged to several orchestras such as Bruno Henriksen's combo "Arena Orchestra". In 1927/28 Bachmann worked in Valdemar Eiberg's orchestra, which recorded one of the first Danish jazz records with I've Got a Cross-Eyed Papa . In 1928 the Copenhagen found employment with Vilfred Kjaer's orchestra and in 1928/29 with the Otto Lington orchestra. In 1930 Bachmann traveled to Italy with the band from Anchor Skjoldborg. It was here that he made contacts for the first time with some of the popular halls of German provenance.

In 1931, Bachmann played a swing version of the popular hit song If Elisabeth didn't have such beautiful legs in Italy . While Skjoldborg returned to Denmark after a year, Bachmann traveled on to the USA, where he continued to work as a musician. From 1931 to 1933 Boyd Bachmann was a member of the Kaj Julians orchestra. He then returned to Italy and then went to Switzerland. Together with the German Paul Godwin , the Dane then began a tour through several European countries in 1935 before settling in the Netherlands in 1939, just before the outbreak of war.

Boyd Bachmann married a Dutch woman and founded his own orchestra for the first time. While his Jewish bandmates had to go into hiding, Bachmann was initially able to continue playing under German occupation from 1940 onwards. When he and his musicians performed in the Metropolitan Palace of The Hague shortly after the fall of Stalingrad, he and the entire orchestra are said to have been arrested because a Dutch informant had told German authorities that Bachmann had defeated Germany at a party celebrated on the Eastern Front.

It was not until 1950, after more than two decades, that Bachmann returned to his native Denmark. In the meantime a small, local jazz music scene had formed here. Bachmann continued his work as a musician as well as an entertainer and now and then also stepped in front of the camera. In 1960 its popularity reached a brief but intense peak in Germany as well. He took part in international television productions (shows and films) and was given the sole leading role in the German comedy sometimes under - sometimes over . In 1961, after three decades, he returned to the German hit world of yore and took new versions of the former Charleston-time hits from 1925, I saw Miss Helen bathe and What are you doing with your knee, dear Hans ? , the latter title once a recording by Paul Godwin and his artist ensemble at the Nelson Theater in Berlin.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Bachmann experienced a brief revival in the Federal Republic. He entered the ZDF hub to received at the side of (among other things in women's clothes and a brown wig occurring) young actor Marius Müller-Westernhagen a major role in the largely-forgotten cinema dud Hurray, here you go around and was a guest on a Personality show with Gitte Hænning , meeting with Gitte . Bachmann then retired to the Netherlands, where he had previously appeared on the Helemaal alleen show on Katholieke Radio Omroep , largely back into private life.

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SURNAME Bachmann, Boyd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachmann, Børge Gustav (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish-Dutch entertainer and comedian
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1981
Place of death Leiden , Netherlands