The mountains are my home

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The mountains, they are my home is the reverse of a sound film hit that Rolf Marbot wrote under the southern German-Alpine sounding artist name Toni Birkhofer for the ski sport film The White Rush . Bert Reisfeld composed the text for this under the pseudonym Hanns Reimar. The film by Arnold Fanck , in which Leni Riefenstahl played as "Ski-baby", premiered in December 1931 and was released in German cinemas in 1932.

  • Refrain:

The mountains that are my home
I feel as happy as at home, so
I go out
into the mountains happily in summer and winter .
Life seems much nicer
up there in a sunny heights:
We sing a happy song, juchhe The
echo echoes back.
Yes, if you just move to the mountains, yeah You
don't need anything else to be happy.

The melody echoes the popular song "Der Winter, der is ma ned z'wider", written by the ski and mountaineering pioneer Otto Sirl in 1906 based on a Pfrontner folk song, with the refrain "Zwoa Brettl'n, a g'führiger Schnee", which was also spread on song postcards.

The Tyrolean singing duo Toni Meindl and Hans Lessmann, of whom other “southern German recordings” have become known, sang the waltz song, accompanied by a wind orchestra under the direction of Carl Woitschach , on the gramophone record in October 1932.

Audio documents

  • The mountains are my home. Waltz song from the Aafa sound film of the Henry R. Sokal production "The white rush. New wonders of the snowshoe" (music by Toni Birkhofer, text by Hannes Reimar): Toni Meindl & Hans Lessmann with wind orchestra. Gloria GO 10 427 b (Matr. Bi 949). Berlin, October 28, 1932

The song was also covered by other artists:

  • The mountains are my home. Waltz song ad sound film “The White Rush” (Birkhofer / Reimar) Dance Orchestra Fredy Pitt. Refrain: Heinz Günther. Triumph 21 705 (mx. 10 108), up. Berlin 1932
  • The mountains are my home. Waltz song ad sound film “The White Rush”. Music by Toni Birkhofer, text by Hannes Reimar. Jack Presburg Jazz Orchestra. Refraing vocals: Eric Satory. Orchestrola No. 3435 (mx. C.807)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “Toni Birkhofer” was a pseudonym for the pop composer Rolf Marbot (1906–1974), who was born in Breslau and whose real name was Friedel Albrecht Marcuse; see. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. US Government Printing Office, 1980, p. 63, and Sophie Fetthauer at LexM Uni Hamburg (2007, updated on March 29, 2017)
  2. ↑ “Hannes Reimar” was a pseudonym for the Vienna-born pop poet Bert Reisfeld (1906–1991), cf. Sophie Fetthauer at LexM Uni Hamburg (2006, updated on Sept. 8, 2014)
  3. ↑ cf. Photo postcard at virtual-history.com
  4. ↑ cf. on this Dr. Christian Riml: “1931: THE WHITE RAUSCH ... and the two Hamburg carpenters”, at walter-riml.at (texts © Helma Türk - photos Walter Riml © Dr.Christian Riml)
  5. ↑ cf. volksliederarchiv.de . Toni Meindl & Hans Lessmann sing this “skier song” with accordion accompaniment on the A-side by Gloria GO 10 427 (Matr. Bi 948); on the label , fig. on ebay.at (retrieved 04/14/17), it is attributed to the Fanck film “ Stürme über dem Mont Blanc ” from 1930, where Paul Dessau used it as a leitmotif in his illustration music.
  6. ↑ Read the text at ingeb.org , on Sirl cf. Ingo Buchelt at all-in.de , Füssen, January 22, 2011
  7. ↑ Song postcard "The finest sport" atansichtskarten-center.de (retrieved 04/14/17)
  8. ↑ cf. Sheet from the “Gloria Record Supplement No. 3” from December 1932 at grammophon-platten.de (contribution by user 'SchellackFreak' Sa Mar 28 2015, 21:26)
  9. ↑ cf. Movie poster  ; the film also had the alternative titles "The White Devils" and "Sun over the Arlberg", cf. Fig. At walter-riml.at
  10. ↑ listen on youtube
  11. ↑ label shown. at discogs.com
  12. ↑ label shown. at discogs.com