German master regimental march
The Deutschmeister-Regimentsmarsch (sometimes referred to as the Deutschmeistermarsch ) is a military march composed in 1893 and the most famous composition by the Austrian Wilhelm August Jurek . His name has the march from the high and German master called Kuk Infantry Regiment high and German masters no. 4 , belonged to the Jurek to the creation time of the march. To this day, the Deutschmeister regimental march is one of the most popular military marches and is part of the standard repertoire of many military and civil bands. It is not to be confused with Dominik Ertl's high and German champions march .
premiere
The Deutschmeister regimental march had its first performance on March 19, 1893. The circumstances of this premiere were rather unusual: The march was not played by a military band, but performed by the then 23-year-old composer on the piano and presented by a comrade named Auerböck. Jurek had immediately written a text for the march that predestined him to the regimental march of the Hoch- and Deutschmeister: In the refrain the line Mir san is sung repeatedly by the ka and ka infantry regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister number four . The catchy melody and the easy-to-remember text ensured that the march quickly became a hit and spread quickly. So it finally found its way into the repertoire of the band of the Deutschmeister regiment.
The world premiere did not take place as part of an official concert evening, but at a celebration by members of the regiment in the casino in Ober Sankt Veit . At the location of the long-demolished casino, a plaque with the wording “Im Ober-St. Veiter Casino rang out Wilhelm Jurek's German Masters March for the first time on March 19, 1893 ”.
Creation legend
By no means certain, but stubbornly spread is the legend that Jurek is said to have had the idea of the Deutschmeister regimental march while stamping. Corporal Jurek stamped the vacation tickets for the soldiers of his regiment according to a report by a captain Wunsch from the Hoch- und Deutschmeister-Regiment and, in synch with the boom-boom of the stamping process, he always brought the line “Mir san vom k. and k. Infantry Regiment Hoch- und Deutschmeister Number Four ”until the melody for the trio of the march was finally created.
Movie
The genesis of the Deutschmeister regimental march is the focus of the film Die Deutschmeister mit Romy Schneider , with the historically unsecured legend of the stamping Jurek being processed here. The text sung in the film is not Jurek's original text, but changed in some places.
text
I was from the fourth regiment, I was born in Wean!
We like our homeland and our emperor!
And start where with Austria to wage war
, so each of us throws in as much as we can.
The battle, for example at Kolin, as everyone knows,
Prove right away what is in the state of Weanabluat.
And just as they did before us, so we fight today
too and give a last drop of blue for the fatherland full of joy!
Refrain
|: Me from the k and k Infantry Regiment
Hoch and Deutschmeister Numm'ro four! : |
2. In peace now we are fine, always full of Hamur
And in summer I often have to get down
from our straw sack very early in the morning, we can't be embarrassed about that,
because hardly me pretty lively, already our "black" get'n.
If the practice march is very long, I don't feel tired,
because with our regiment there is always a
man in every train to pass the time, the one in the "lower" lad
To laugh and cry often a lot of G'spass d'rinn has.
Refrain
3. And on Sunday afternoon in the extra
outfit , In the sack our permit until sieve in the morning,
In the arm a Maderl, like a fairy, so dear and beautiful,
So we can from Numm ' see ro four at the Heurig'n outside!
But when we are older and have said goodbye,
we proudly tell everyone that we were at d 'noble boys,
we served faithfully and well in the emperor's skirt for the fatherland
and have In the fourth regiment, there is never a shame!
refrain
swell
- "I am from the k. und k ....... “: 110 years of German master regimental march. A tribute to Felix Steinwandtner, District Museum Hietzing. Here online.