Erhard Bauschke

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Erhard Bauschke (born September 27, 1912 in Breslau ; † October 7, 1945 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German musician ( clarinet , alto saxophone ) and director of a dance orchestra.

Life

Bauschke financed his music studies ( violin and piano ), which he began in Breslau in 1927, by working in entertainment bands, while also taking saxophone lessons. Since 1930 he was a member of the Hans Kasper band in Breslau, shortly afterwards he joined the orchestra of Josef “José” Wolff in Berlin . With this he toured Germany and Switzerland. From there he moved to the James Kok Orchestra in the summer of 1934 . Bauschke was already a virtuoso with James Kok on his instruments clarinet and alto saxophone, but he also caused a stir as a stage showman, scat singer and snakehip dancer, which earned him the nickname "Funny".

On May 1, 1935, the Reich Chamber of Music revoked Kok's work permit, as Kok had repeatedly been noticed by comments critical of the regime, inappropriate hot play and ambiguities in his “ Aryan proof ”. The main orchestra, now without Kok, initially played in a Berlin suburb; the musicians chose Bauschke as the new orchestra leader. In the summer of 1935 the orchestra appeared on Rügen - now with a "purely Aryan line-up". Between May 1936 and November 1941 the orchestra recorded many titles for Deutsche Grammophon .

Immediately after the outbreak of war, the Reich Ministry of Propaganda needed background music for anti-British vocal records. At least one track, the British Soldier's Song, is accompanied (anonymously) by the Bauschke Orchestra; for the later titles, the Lutz Templin Orchestra was signed under the name Charlie and his Orchestra . From January 1936 on the orchestra played in the Berlin dance palace Moka Efti .

In 1940 the orchestra was dissolved due to the war; But before he was drafted, Bauschke still recorded records with studio bands. He experienced the end of the war as an American prisoner of war. After his release he played in clubs of the American army in the Frankfurt am Main area. After one such appearance, he stood behind a truck loaded with instruments and was fatally struck by a jeep.

Discography

  • Horst H. Lange : The German "78er" discography of hot dance and jazz music 1903-1958 - Berlin: Panther 1992, 3rd edition (1061 pages). - ISBN 3-929357-00-3 . - (contains a list of swing titles with cast details, pp. 115–117)
  • Rainer E. Lotz : Discography of German Dance Music, Volume 1. - Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 1993 (vii, pp. 1–278). - ISBN 3-9802656-4-1 / ISBN 978-3-9802656-4-5 (contains a list of all Erhard Bauschke's records, pp. 1-40)
  • Rainer E. Lotz: German hot discography. Cake Walk, Ragtime, Hot Dance & Jazz - a manual. - Bonn: Birgit Lotz Verlag, 2006 (vii, pp. 1–468) - with CD-ROM - ISBN 3-9810248-1-8 - (contains a list of all swing titles with details of the solo sequence, pp. 16–18)

Selected records

  • Blind man's cow -F- GR 2339 - Berlin May 15, 1936
  • Seefischball [At the Codfish Ball] -F - Grammophon 2492 - Berlin January 11, 1937
  • Night express to Warsaw -F - Grammophon 10704 - Berlin December 8, 1937
  • Caravan -F - GR 10334 - Berlin June 1938
  • British Soldier's Song - Lyra I - Berlin October 11, 1939
  • Summer, Sea and Sunshine - Gramophone 1937
  • Amazonas -F - Grammophon 11942 - Berlin November 21, 1941

literature

  • Jochen Jungk: Funny's apprenticeship years. Erhard Bauschke and the Jatz in Breslau In: Fox auf 78, No. 7, Munich, summer 1989, pp. 36–37, ill.
  • Horst HJP Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz: Hitler's Airwaves. The Inside Story of Nazi Radio Broadcasting and Propaganda Swing , New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 1997 (xvi, pp. 1-468) - with accompanying CD - ISBN 0-300-06709-7
  • Horst HJ Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: Jazz in Germany. The swing years. - Book accompanying the CD box Bear Family Records BCD 16910 CP, 2007, 26262-B)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Place of death after Michael H. Kater Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, p. 132 and Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 , p. 27; Wölfer's death date is October 7th
  2. ↑ Michael H. Kater Daring Game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, p. 132.
  3. ↑ Michael H. Kater Daring Game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, p. 369
personal data
SURNAME Bauschke, Erhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bauschke, Funny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician (clarinet, alto saxophone) and director of a dance orchestra
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1945
Place of death Frankfurt am Main