The white and blue barrel organ (vocal group)

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The white and blue barrel organ was a singing group in Bavarian dialect from 1933 to 1938 .

Career

Three Munich students, Hugo Rauschnabel (tenor), Adolf Sotier (baritone) and Rupert Weber (bass), as well as Otto Kuen (born May 20, 1910 in Munich, † 1994 in Iffeldorf), then still students of modern languages, at the piano, had the idea of ​​founding a “Studentenbrettl” in the early 1930s. They wanted to present themselves in Bavarian dialect, but in the style of the then modern dance and pop music. Otto Kuen was the founder of the "White Blue Barrel Organ" and the musical head of the troupe; he accompanied and devised the melodies and wrote the lyrics for them. These dealt - sometimes cheerfully, sometimes melancholy - with everyday sensitivities and thematically ranged from the incidents on the tram ride to the excess of feeling in the suburb of Giesing by moonlight, to general Weltschmerz, where everything just "stinks".

Initially only intended as a short-lived student idiot, the fun of the board continued to develop and the group with its presentation skills and repertoire was ready for the stage. "The white-blue barrel organ", as they were called, had their first public appearance in the Cafe-Cabaret Bonbonnière in Munich's old town not far from the Hofbräuhaus, which was then under the direction of Adolf Gondrell . After another year of systematic rehearsals, they had a weekly broadcast from November 30, 1933 on Bayerische Rundfunk GmbH .

This was followed by a tour through almost all of Germany's major cities. The four of them stepped onto the stage in blue quilted jackets and black tuxedo trousers and thus had a characteristic appearance. In the mid-1930s they got a record deal with Grammophon GmbH, where they recorded seven tracks. Over the years her repertoire had grown to over 100 titles.

Bavarian cultural care met with growing displeasure with "unheroic" texts and "weird music" under National Socialism . According to Kuens own admission, the quartet was "soon the only white and blue in Bavaria, which was now officially tolerated". When the war began in 1939, Otto Kuen dissolved his ensemble. He was drafted into the Wehrmacht and sent to the northern Norwegian tundra as a German occupier .

After the war Otto Kuen worked again as a high school professor and lived on Bergmannstrasse in Munich, for a time in Edling , and later in Iffeldorf . In the 1980s he translated Homer (based on the original Greek version) into Old Bavarian (cf. Odyssey ).

Aftermath

The title of the series Die Weißblaue Drehorgel , which Olf Fischer launched at Bayerischer Rundfunk after the war, probably referred to the model of the four Bavarian cabaret artists. The title song of the show, the barrel organ song Auf der weiß-blau Drehorgl do wann ma spuit, was written by Dr. Otto Kuen. Emil Vierlinger was the author and lecturer in one person . For the design of this type of entertainment program, in which in addition to game scenes and vocal performances (the Isarspatzen around Erika Blumberger) also the humorous poetry in Bavarian dialect had its place, "The white and blue barrel organ " has become trend-setting.

A small selection of texts and sheet music from the repertoire of the White-Blue Barrel Organ was published by Komet in Munich in 1957.

In the 1980s, songs on the white and blue barrel organ were interpreted by the singers .

In April 2010, the Munich group Zwirbeldirn took up the Giesing moon serenade of the white and blue barrel organ again and interpreted it with two chants, three violins and a double bass.

Works

Sound carriers (see also web links); Record gramophone around 1935

  • Gr 10 356 (mx. 2621 ½ GN) The cyclist song I fahr durch d'Nacht (text and music: O. Kuen) and (mx. 2622 ½ GN) Munich Tram Tango (text and music: O. Kuen) Mechan. Copt. 1935
  • Gr 10 357 (mx. 2623 ½ GN) Vui z'vui G'fui (text and music: O. Kuen) and (mx. 2624 GN) Das Pflasterlied (text and music: O. Kuen) Mechan.Copt.1935
  • Gr 10 358 (mx. 2625 GN) The rumor (text and music: O. Kuen) and (mx. 2626 ½ GN) Giesinger Mond-Serenade (TuM O. Kuen) Mechan. Cop. 1935
  • Gr 10 359 (mx. 2627 and 2628 ½ GN) Weltschmerz-Ballad Do dad er mir aa stinka I and II (text and music: O. Kuen) 1935/36?

literature

  • Heike Frey and Linda Fujie: Traditional Urban Entertainment in Bavaria: The Volkssänger as Exemplified by Bally Prell (The World of Music, Vol. 41, No. 2, Traditional Music in Bavaria: Regional Identity, History, and Culture (1999), pp . 99–122) Published by: VWB - Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung.
  • Otto Kuen: Goblin songs. Illustrated by Dieter O. Klama based on a demonic clef. Ehrenwirth-Verlag, Munich 1979.
  • Otto Kuen: Da taat a dar aa stinka. Bavarian for advanced learners. Ehrenwirth-Verlag, Munich 1987 (1st edition 1977). ISBN 978-3-431-01895-0
  • Homerus, Johann Heinrich Voss (text), Otto Kuen, Thassilo von Scheffer, Jakob Engel: Die Odysseusgschicht'n by Homer: [Greek, German, Bavarian] from Greek, üwasetzt by Otto Kuen. 4th edition 1987. Verlag Kuckuck & Straps (by the publisher and painter Fritz Gebhardt alias Eugen Oker ), Munich 1987.
  • Andreas Johannes Kuen (ed.), Werner Wolfsfellner (ed.): Between the lines of time. Understanding what happened and what existed - memoirs 1910–1974. From the white and blue barrel organ to the swastika path and ... With attachments of pictures, documents. From the estate of Otto Kuen, first edition: May 20, 2011. Verlag W. Wolfsfellner. ISBN 978-3-933266-61-3
  • Berthold Leimbach: Audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters (1898–1945). Göttingen (self-published) 1991.
  • Klaus Netzle: The white-blue barrel organ. (With texts by and about Ludwig Thoma, as well as about Bavarian folk singers and folk actors from yesterday and today.) Komet-Verlag, Munich 1957
  • Alfons Schweiggert, Hannes Schweiggert-Macher (Hrsg.): Authors in Bavaria: 20th century. Verlag-Anstalt Bayerland 2004. ISBN 3-89251-340-6 (pp. 209, 412).
  • Andreas Koll, Münchner Stadtbibliothek Literature archive : People's artists: Liesl Karlstadt, Erni Singerl, Bally Prell - the history of the folk in entertainment. Accompanying volume to the exhibition of the same name from November 26th to May 15th, 2009 in the Monacensia, the literary archive of the city of Munich, Edition Monacensia. Verlag BUCH & media, 2008. ISBN 3-86520-325-6 (pp. 79, 178).
  • Manfred Weihermüller, Rainer E. Lotz (Hrsg.): German National Discography. Discographie der deutschen Kleinkunst Volume 3. Verlag B. Lotz, 1992. ISBN 3-9802656-6-8 , (page 839).
  • Josef Westner: Article "The white-blue barrel organ " in: Fox on 78, No. 26, 2011, Ed. Klaus Krüger, Dietramszell

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Kuen: Homer & Voss & Kuen. Odyssey. Greek - German - Bavarian. The Odysseusgschichtn by Homer, Bavarian Hexameta from Greek translated by Otto Kuen. Ed .: Fritz Gebhardt, Ps. Eugen Oker. 1st edition. Kuckuck & Straps, Munich 1987, ISBN 978-3-935276-06-1 , p. 11 (CV of Dr. Otto Kuen) .
  2. ↑ See reference B. Leimbach
  3. ↑ See H. Schweiggert-Macher, pp. 209 f.
  4. ^ Odyssey Bavarian: Neunzehnta Gsang: The Gschicht midn Fuaßbad. Christian Wirth's private website (365sterne.de)
  5. ↑ Munich City Address Book 1961 . Address book publishing company Ruf, Munich 1961, p. 1521 ( genealogy.net ).
  6. ↑ Agnes Ständer: Odyssey in Bavarian - The myths live! Oberbayerisches Volksblatt, June 7, 2005
  7. ^ Karl Ude: Otto Kuen. The inventor of the "white and blue barrel organ" died. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich July 20, 1994.
  8. ↑ See Andreas Koll, p. 79
  9. ↑ So Leimbach
  10. ^ Tram tango , excerpt from a broadcast by Bayerischer Fernseth in 1985 on youtube.com, accessed on July 1, 2014
  11. ↑ Video Giesinger Mondserenade ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at zwirbeldirn.de, accessed on September 6, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zwirbeldirn.de