The four Brummers

The four Brummers
	; The four Brummers in Leipzig in 1954
	General information
Genre (s)	Schlager , jazz
founding	1951
resolution	1977
Founding members
singing	Wolfgang Roeder
Vocals, accordion	Eberhard Keyn
Vocals, double bass	Erich Weber
Vocals, guitar	Johannes Frenzel

The four Brummers was a vocal quartet from Dresden that existed from 1951 to 1977. They made humorous light music in the genres of jazz and hit music, and they particularly stood out as entertainers in live performances .

Band history

The members of the vocal quartet, the later four Brummers, met at what was then the State Operetta Theater in Dresden. Its director Otto Bochmann had suggested the formation of such a quartet: Wolfgang Roeder (at the house since 1949, first stage technician, then character comedian), Erich Weber (since 1945 chorister and soloist), Eberhard started with the poison syringe , a cabaret-style final season event Keyn (solo dancer and accordion player ) and Johannes Frenzel (also chorus singer) this career. The name and official founding took place at a private event at the turn of the year 1950/51. The band name comes from a remark by Roeder's wife who mistakenly called the men "Brummer" - what they meant was "Brummoxsen". From 1952 they were regularly independent on the radio, from May 1953 on television. In 1955 the four men finally left the ensemble of the State Operetta Theater. Until the quartet was dissolved in 1977, they appeared in 6673 events. Her motto was: "Say it with a smile, but say it exactly".

Wolfgang Roeder wrote the lyrics from 1950 until the dissolution in 1977. All four sang, Frenzel played guitar , Keyn accordion and Weber double bass . Together with the yodelling singer Susi Schuster , they sang titles like In the Mood and Siebentausend Rinder , the cover version of a song by the Swiss singer Peter Hinnen . Also became known Song of the real axes. From 1960 they went on tour with the comedian Leni Statz . The four Brummers always appeared in four identical suits. You have appeared in a few movies, such as New Year's Eve punch and cloves in aspic . In 1967 the biography was hummed 4 times 15 years, on the cover of which the heads of the musicians are depicted with drawn insect bodies.

In 1977 Roeder wrote the anthem of the SG Dynamo Dresden , which was used until the 1980s , Dynamo, Dynamo will never go under. In the same year Eberhard Keyn died of cancer, so that the four Brummers broke up - as they had promised when they founded the company. Two other members died in 1992 and 1993, so that Erich Weber was the only survivor of this quartet for a long time. He also died on October 3, 2016.

In 1989 Amiga released an album under the heading "The Early Years", the A-side of which contains pieces by the four Brummers from 1959 to 1976. These include long potpourris that were recorded live, something like colleague is about to come.

reception

The four Brummers were voted into the list of the “100 Dresdeners of the 20th Century” in 2000 in the daily newspaper “ Dresdner Latest News ”.

Discography

Albums

1989: The four Brummers / Hemmann-Quintet ( Amiga )

Singles

1959 or 1960: The Song of the Craftsmen / The Song of the Vacation Ship (Amiga)
1965: Sound foil together with Susi Schuster

Sampler

1967: Seven thousand cattle on Amiga-Express 1964 (Amiga)
1978: Quodlibet from the weather to bright and so on (Litera)

literature

Ernst H. Guse: Traveling Singers. In: Special edition of the Urania universe, Volume VIII (gift ribbon for the “Small House Library”), Urania-Verlag , Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1964.
Günter Wieland, Rolf Freudenberg: 4 times 15 years hummed. Song of Time , Berlin 1967.
Rudolf Hösch: Cabaret from yesterday and today. Volume 2 1933-1970. Berlin 1972, p. 236 ff.

Web links

Report from 2007 about Erich Weber, the last survivor of the quartet at the time
Report on the broadcast of MDR television on January 16, 2014 ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)

Individual evidence

↑ Report on Erich Weber, the last survivor of the quartet , accessed on March 28, 2011
↑ Peter Gunold (Ed.): 50 years of the Dresden State Operetta - 225 years of the musical folk theater in Dresden. Verlag und Galerie Buchkunst Läzer, Weimar 1997, pp. 105, 106. Without ISBN.
^ Article about the broadcast of MDR-Fernsehen on January 16, 2014 ( memento of February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014.
↑ The last Brummer is dead: Erich Weber died at the age of 89. Dresdner Latest News from October 7, 2016, accessed on October 7, 2016
↑ 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .

[weber-1] Report on Erich Weber, the last survivor of the quartet , accessed on March 28, 2011

[2] Peter Gunold (Ed.): 50 years of the Dresden State Operetta - 225 years of the musical folk theater in Dresden. Verlag und Galerie Buchkunst Läzer, Weimar 1997, pp. 105, 106. Without ISBN.

[3] Article about the broadcast of MDR-Fernsehen on January 16, 2014 ( memento of February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2014.

[4] The last Brummer is dead: Erich Weber died at the age of 89. Dresdner Latest News from October 7, 2016, accessed on October 7, 2016

[5] 100 Dresden residents of the 20th century . In: Dresdner Latest News . Dresdner Nachrichten GmbH & Co. KG, Dresden December 31, 1999, p. 22 .