The white and blue barrel organ (radio broadcast)

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The white and blue barrel organ was a popular radio broadcast of the Bavarian Radio broadcast weekly on Saturday evenings from the 1950s.

In the radio show , as it would be called today, folk actors such as Beppo Brem , Gustl Bayrhammer , Elfie Pertramer , Kathi Prechtl , Bally Prell and Erni Singerl performed live in various cities and theaters and played a program similar to that of the later, in public legal television showed major Saturday night entertainment programs.

Responsible for the program, which involved the audience in games, was the cabaret artist and head of the entertainment department at Bayerischer Rundfunk Olf Fischer (1917–1998). Author and emcee was the popular beyond the Bavarian borders Dr. Emil Vierlinger (1909–1984). The quartet "Erika Blumberger und die Isarspatzen" sang as a "choir" with partly commenting function.

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  1. ↑ cf. volkssaengerei.de Colorful evenings: The white and blue barrel organ (beginning 1952)
  2. ↑ The "Isarspatzen" were Klaus Netzle , Franz Messner and Fritz Westermeyer. Franz Messner and Fritz Westermeyer also appeared under the name "Messner-Duo" as accompanist for other performers on the "Starlet" label, including Tim Olaf and Heinz Sagner . Some of these starlet recordings were also released on the "Hello" label. Erika Blumberger also made solo recordings on the "Tempo" label.

Other meanings

  • The white and blue barrel organ is the name of a book by Klaus Netzle with texts by and about Ludwig Thoma , as well as about Bavarian folk singers and actors from yesterday and today. It was published by Komet-Verlag in 1957.
  • A cabaret group called Die Weißblaue Drehorgel was founded in Munich in the early 1930s and existed until the beginning of the Second World War. In all likelihood, the title of the radio show referred to this group. A prominent member was Susi Nicoletti .
  • The white-blue barrel organ. Boarian Hexamta from Greek, translated by Otto Kuen is the book by the classical philologist Otto Kuen, published in 1987; 80997 Munich-Hartmannshofen: Verlag Kuckuck & Straps (of the publisher and painter Fritz Gebhardt alias Eugen Oker , 1919-2006). Thanks to the broadcast of the same name by Bayerischer Rundfunk (radio), a print run of 1000 copies was quickly sold (telephone conversation between the publisher's widow Maria Gebhardt and Dr. Nora Wiedenmann on July 8, 2014).