Bruno Forster

Bruno Förster (born June 22, 1907 in Ratibor , Upper Silesia , † October 25, 1997 ) was a German organist and state trombonist in Mecklenburg.

Life

Förster attended a business school in Ratibor and worked for a number of years in the administration of a wagon and shipbuilding company. In Leipzig he began studying music, which he had to break off after two semesters for financial reasons. He went to the Reich Labor Service and was given the task of building a music train in Hirschberg . The abilities he demonstrated were probably the reason why he was able to continue his studies at the Weimar University of Music . After graduating, the Reich Labor Service sent him to Königsberg (Prussia) . At the end of the war he became an American prisoner of war , from which he was released in September 1945. He went to Lübenheen , where his wife and three children had fled. Here he took over the reconstruction of the church choir, the trombone choir and the youth choir. After passing the C-exam in 1947 , he also worked as an organist in the nearby Pritzier . Perceived as humorous and talented, he was hired on March 15, 1949 as a provisional trombone attendant. It was finally taken over on March 1, 1950, and had to contend with the difficult procurement and financing of wind instruments and music . The founding and revival of choirs depended on them. Borrowing was only possible sometimes, there were hardly any new instruments, used instruments were rare and expensive. Difficulties also caused unresolved property rights to instruments that had arisen through lending, moving in and passing on to other communities before 1945. Nevertheless, things were looking up. Förster organized trumpet festivals and set-up times and devoted himself to visiting the choirs, for which he later received a motorcycle. The care work of the choirs increased so much that Herbert Krügel, an auxiliary trombonist, had to be hired. At the end of July 1952, Förster left the German Democratic Republic . He went to West Berlin , where his two oldest children were studying. His employment contract officially ended on August 31, 1952. Later, Förster worked as a cantor-catechist in Zwiesel in Lower Bavaria .

literature

• Holger Gehrke, Martin Huss : God for praise, people for joy. Mecklenburg trombone choirs in the past and present. An illustrated book. On behalf of the trumpet work of Ev.-Luth. Regional Church of Mecklenburg. Barkow 2003, p. 268.

Web links

• Literature about Bruno Förster in the state bibliography MV