The Zupfgeigenhansl

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The Zupfgeigenhansl (or in short: The Zupf ) is the name of a songbook by the wandering bird and the youth movement . The songs there shaped the song repertoire of the youth movement more than any other book, but also had a significant influence on the youth music movement .

The name of the song collection refers to the "Zupfgeige," a jocular or vernacular term for the guitar and the popular among migratory birds lute guitar .

history

The song book was published by the medical student and later doctor Hans Breuer , who had collected folk songs on trips since 1904. The first edition appeared in 1909 (with a foreword from Christmas 1908) in a print run of 500 in the Heinrich Hohmann printing house in Darmstadt .

From the fourth edition onwards, the book was published by Verlag Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig. With the 10th edition of 1913 it received its final form, in which it still appears today. In addition, editions with guitar (1914) and piano accompaniment (1916) were published in the following years. Today the book is published by Schott-Verlag , to which the West German publishing rights had been transferred. The licensed edition published by Schott after the Second World War was, however, shortened by the chapter “Soldiers' Songs” and thus had 43 pages less than the original edition. It was not until 1983 that the melody edition appeared again as an unabridged reprint . At the same time, from 1982 reprints in the GDR were published by VEB Friedrich Hofmeister, supplemented by an afterword by Eva-Maria Hillmann. A continuation volume called Der neue Zupfgeigenhansl published by Schott offers a cross-section of the folk scene of the 1970s and 1980s.

The total print run of the Zupfgeigenhansl is unknown, but is estimated to be over a million copies. In 1920 it was 500,000 copies, with the 150th edition in 1927, 826,000 copies had been printed.

The Zupfgeigenhansl was also the model for the name of the folk duo Zupfgeigenhansel, founded in 1974 .

content

The collection contains about 260 songs in the later editions and is divided into sixteen thematic areas: Farewell - Minnedienst - Love Lament - Ballads - Spiritual songs - In the evening - Joy - Summer joy - On the country road - On ships and trolleys - Spinning room - Soldier songs - Feasting songs - At the farmer - dance - purr .

Only some of the songs were collected directly on the Wandervogelfahrten, numerous songs were taken from folk song collections that were published earlier. The main source was the old German song book by Böhme , in addition Herder's voices of the peoples in songs , Zuccalmaglio's German folk songs with their original tunes , Des Knaben Wunderhorn by Brentano and von Arnim and the German song library by Erk and Böhme were used. Individual songs from older song manuscripts such as the Carmina Burana or the Lochamer songbook also flowed into the collection.

The silhouette-like illustrations by the painter Hermann Pfeiffer (1883–1964) shaped the style of the migrant bird publications of the 1910s.

Memorials

A plaque attached to the house reminds of the origins of the Zupfgeigenhansl in the house at Klingenteich 27 (then 17) in Heidelberg, where numerous migrant birds lived to sublet and the affectionately "old Pachantey" was called.

literature

expenditure

  • Hans Breuer (Ed.): The Zupfgeigenhansl. Heinrich Hohmann, Darmstadt 1909.
  • Hans Breuer (Ed.): The Zupfgeigenhansl. Friedrich Hofmeister, 10th edition Leipzig 1913 (final edition on which most of the later editions are based).
    Digitized version of the 1920 edition; Copy from Düsseldorf University Library
  • Hans Breuer (Ed.): The Zupfgeigenhansl. Melody output with guitar chord numbering and fingering chart. Reprint of the 10th edition, Leipzig 1913 (ED 3586). Schott, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-7957-4002-9 .
  • Heinrich Scherrer : (Ed.): Der Zupfgeigenhansl. For a singing voice with guitar accompaniment. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1914. Reprint: (ED 4055). Schott, Mainz 1953.
  • Theodor Salzmann (Ed.): The songs of the Zupfgeigenhansl: German folk tunes. For a voice with piano accompaniment. Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig 1913 (ED 4650). Reprint: (ED 4650) Schott, Mainz 1974.
  • Bertold Marohl (Ed.): The new Zupfgeigenhansl. Schott, Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-7957-2062-1 .

Secondary literature

  • Albert Gutfleisch: Folk song in the youth movement, viewed at the Zupfgeigenhansl. Gelnhausen 1934.
  • Wolfgang Kaschuba: Folk song and folk myth. The "Zupfgeigenhansl" as a song and guide book for the German youth movement . In: Jahrbuch für Volksliedforschung , 34th year, 1989, ISSN  0075-2789 , pp. 41-55. JSTOR 849188 at jstor.org (subscription access).
  • Hans Lißner: How the Zupfgeigenhansl came about. In: Memory and Legacy: a memorial book about Hans Breuer . Publishing house Erich Matthes , Hartenstein 1932.
  • Maike Mumm: The Wandering Bird in Heidelberg. Hans Breuer and the origin of the Zupfgeigenhansl 1908. In: Heidelberg. Yearbook on the history of the city, 2009 , 13th year, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-924566-36-4 .
  • Charlotte Ziegler: The literary sources of the Zupfgeigenhansl: A folkloric investigation. (Diss.) Göttingen 1950.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Lutz G. Wenzel: "The simple, beautiful way of the people". In: The world . March 24, 2009, accessed August 17, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Alexander Glück: A frost fell in the spring night. The "Zupfgeigenhansl", the song book of the youth movement. In: Wiener Zeitung. April 2, 1999, accessed June 20, 2008 .
  3. ↑ In the foreword of the edition Ed. Schott 3586 [approx. 1950], DNB 576978426 it says: "For time-related reasons, only the soldiers' songs are missing, which, with the exception of the old Landsknechtsongs, did not necessarily belong to the most valuable part of the booklet."
  4. ^ Gisela Probst-Effah: Musical youth cultures in the 20th century. Retrieved June 23, 2008 .
  5. ↑ Horst Traut: We are all building a tower. Folk songs from yesterday and today . Bund-Verlag, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-7663-1112-3 , p. 20 .