German Schlager Festival
The German Schlager Festival was a music competition organized by Südwestfunk for Schlager , which was held in Baden-Baden from 1961 to 1966 .
history
A similar event called the German Schlager Festival was held in Wiesbaden in 1959 , 1960 and 1961 under the direction of Radio Luxemburg , today's RTL . The model for the event was the Festival di Sanremo , which has been taking place in Italy since 1950 .
The Schlager Festival was replaced in 1961 by the Schlager Festival organized by the SWF. The German Schlager Festival Baden-Baden was held annually in the Kurhaus Baden-Baden until 1966 , whereby the German Schlager Festival in 1962 was identical to the preliminary decision for the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson Européenne in 1962 . Over 700 titles were submitted for the competition in 1961. In 1962 there were over 200 and in 1966 over 400 titles. A jury selected the appropriate titles, from which the winner was chosen with preliminary rounds and a final. All eliminations were broadcast on German television.
From 1968 to 1970 and 1973 there were other events called the German Schlager Competition . After that, no further hit competitions were held.
In 1994 an attempt was made to revive the German Schlager Festival. However, the response after the first event was subdued, so that there was another event of this kind only in 1997 , which was then continued in 1998 and 1999 . This competition was then discontinued. The winner's trophy at the last events was the “Golden Muse”.
There was also a heyday of the Schlager competition in the GDR , for example at the German TV Broadcasting Corporation (DFF) in East Berlin. In 1966, exactly ten days before the sixth and last Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden, the DFF broadcast the first edition of the GDR Schlager competition , and the last time it was broadcast in 1971, there were exactly six competitions of this kind of the GDR the international hit festival of the Baltic Sea countries in Rostock and the international hit festival Dresden . After 1973 there were no longer any major hit competitions in the Federal Republic of Germany and after 1988 in the GDR.
Winning title
The year numbers link to the articles of the individual events.
| year | Artist | nationality | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | Orchestra Alfred home |
 Germany
|
Bailando a dos (instr.) |
| 1962 | Cornelia Froboess |
Germany
|
Two little Italians |
| 1963 | Gitte Hænning |
 Denmark
|
I want a cowboy for a man |
| 1964 | Siw Malmkvist |
 Sweden
|
Lovesickness is not worth it |
| 1965 | Peggy March |
 United States
|
At 17 you still have dreams |
| 1966 | Wencke Myhre |
 Norway
|
Don't bite into every apple right away |
See also
- German Schlager Competition 1968
- German Schlager Competition 1969
- German Schlager Competition 1970
- German Schlager Competition 1973
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Daniela Schulz: When the music is playing ...: The German hit film from the 1950s to 1970s . transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-1882-6 ( google.com [accessed August 20, 2016]).