That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night

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That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night was both the title of a song hit that was published by Drei Masken-Verlag Berlin in 1925 and that of a cheerful silent film that Emmerich Hanus directed in 1926 for the production company Althoff & Co. (Berlin).

background

The premiere of the film took place on February 8, 1927 in the Ufa Theater on Berlin's Weinbergsweg. The hit, a marching song, was composed by Hermann Krome , the words were written by the German singer and songwriter Willy Weiss .

The hit quickly enjoyed great popularity outside of the cinema and was recorded on gramophone records by the first artists of the time such as Gustav Jacoby, Harry Steier and the popular tenor Max Kuttner under his stage name "Carlos Cantieni".

It stands in a tradition that began with Fred Raymond's Heidelberg hit, " I lost my heart in Heidelberg " , which has meanwhile almost become a folk song , and which has resulted in many similarly tuned songs. He rode a wave of national enthusiasm, which had begun with the romanticization of the place and which, when the Rhineland was evacuated by the Allied occupation in January 1926, was only really spurred on in countless popular rhine, wine and Heidelberg hit songs and entertainment films precipitated.

Audio documents

  • That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night (Herm. Krome - Willy Weiss) “Homocord” orchestra with singing. Homocord Electro 4-2340 (Matr. M 19 190), apply. 1926
  • That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night (text: W. Weiß, music: Hermann Krome) Harry Steier , with quartet and orchestra. Beka B. 6209 (Matr. 34 206-2). 1.09.27
  • That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night: March song (music: Krome - text: Weiß) played by the jazz orchestra "Wenskat mit seine Prominenten", sung by the chamber singer Carlos Cantieni, tenor. Isiphon-Electrocord 20 (Matr. 7711) [15 107 B]
  • That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night (music: Hermann Krome - text: Willi Weiß) Gustav Jacoby, lecturer. Accompaniment: instrumental trio. Odeon O-2167 (Be 5686), open. 04.27

Illustrations

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970, DNB 456121080 .
  • Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder (eds.): The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema (= Film Europa. Volume 1). Berghahn Books, 2009, ISBN 978-0-85745-565-9 , p. 536.
  • Paolo Caneppele, Filmarchiv Austria: Materials on Austrian film history. Volume 9: Decisions of the Viennese film censorship 1926–1928. Verlag Filmarchiv Austria, 2002, ISBN 3-901932-20-8 , p. 411.
  • Reinhold Happel, Margot Michaelis: Film and Reality in the Weimar Republic (= Fischer Cinema ; Fischer pocket books. Volume 3661). Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1980, ISBN 3-596-23661-4 .
  • F [riedrich] Hofmeister (ed.): Handbook of musical literature. Volume 17, Part 1, 1926, pp. 368, 442.
  • Helmut Korte: The feature film and the end of the Weimar Republic: an attempt at the history of reception . Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1998, ISBN 3-525-20714-X , pp. 493-494.
  • Gerhard Lamprecht: German silent films. Volume 8: German silent films from the years 1923 to 1926. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970, DNB 457340436 , p. 896.
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters, 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, DNB 911350551 .
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Saal: Chronicle of contemporary German history: politics, economy, culture. Volume 1: The Weimar Republic. (= Droste history calendar ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0571-6 , p. 317.
  • Magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk" (Ed.): "Künstler am Rundfunk" - A pocket album of the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk". Dedicated to our readers . Verlag Rothgießer & Diesing AG, Berlin 1932, DNB 574815759 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Drei Masken-Verlag AG Berlin, DMV 3562, today UFA-Musikverlage, order no .: UFA17185
  2. ↑ cf. IMDb and filmportal.de
  3. ↑ also: Volkslichtbildhaus on Weinbergsweg, whose hall held 1700 people, making it the largest cinema auditorium in Greater Berlin; Closed in 1948, cf. Ufa Palace of the North
  4. ↑ The refrain reads “That was in Heidelberg on a blue summer night / That was in Heidelberg, the moon laughed there / I didn't say much, just laughed to myself / And another glass, another glass, another glass killed. "
  5. ↑ "Gustav Jacoby, one of the German master humorists, takes over the conference in the" Lustige Evenings "of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk", cf. Pocket album “Artists on the radio” p. 247, there also picture
  6. ↑ cf. the biography of the artist von Humoresk at grammophon-platten.de
  7. ↑ cf. Raymond, Fred [d. i. Vesely, Friedrich]; Löhner-Beda, Fritz; Neubach, Ernst: I lost my heart in Heidelberg !: Lied; [op. 130], Wiener Boheme-Verlag, 1925.
  8. ↑ The popular play “Alt-Heidelberg” by Wilhelm Meyer-Förster, which was part of the Corps student milieu, was first filmed in Germany in 1922/1923; most of the following “Heidelberg” films also take place among striking and color-bearing students. B. Friedrich Ebert (1871–1925), first Reich President of the Weimar Republic, from Heidelberg.
  9. ↑ Kurt Tucholsky ironized this triad of German places of longing in a verse of his song "When the hedgehogs in the evening hour", which says: "Because the most beautiful place here on earth is mine / this is my Heidelberg in Vienna on the Rhine" ( see Wilhelm Neef: Das Chanson: a monograph. Verlag Koehler and Amelang, 1972, p. 208); the " Vier Nachrichtener " cited the passage in the recording of their chanson "From Schlagermacher's Workshop" [Telefunken A 1151 (Matr. 18 382 and 18 383) From Schlagermacher's Workshop - The Breakfast (1) and (2), Aufgen. Berlin, May 11, 1932]
  10. ↑ because they were filmed on the basis of songs, only: “I lost my heart in Heidelberg” (subtitle: A German film of youth and love and German poetry), Germany 1926, remake 1952. “ I was a student in Heidelberg ”, Germany 1927. My“ Heidelberg, I can never forget you ”, Germany 1927.“ A boys song from Heidelberg ”, Germany 1930 (sound film)
  11. ↑ cf. Happel-Michaelis p. 74: "... box office films from the Rhine, the beautiful blue Danube, from the heart that was lost in Heidelberg ..."; also an article in volume 20 of the publication "Der Zwiebelfisch: a small magazine about books and other things" published by Franz Blei and Hans von Weber (Verlag H. von Weber, 1927) makes fun of it using quotes from the film title: " It is also not true that he was 'a student in Heidelberg'. Because he did not become a lawyer, on the contrary, he became a professional patriot. That it was 'in Heidelberg on a blue summer night' is also a lie. Rather, it was in Bad Reichenhall ... "
  12. ↑ label shown. at ytimg.com ( memento from October 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), to be heard on youtube