Ernst Bader

This article covers the actor and songwriter. For the painter of the same name see Ernst Bader (painter) .

Ernst Bader's grave in Garstedt, Norderstedt

Ernst Bader (born June 7, 1914 in Stettin ; †  August 10, 1999 in Norderstedt ) was a German actor , songwriter and composer .

Life

Bader grew up in Stettin , where he attended the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium from 1920. In 1923 the family moved to Kolberg , where he attended the Domgymnasium , but in 1933 switched to the Berlin drama school without graduating . In addition to his studies, he worked as a pianist , played theater and appeared as a cabaret artist in variety shows . It was during this time that his first song lyrics were written. In 1936 he passed his acting examination and then became a regular soldier in the Wehrmacht . After being wounded in World War II , he was hired as an actor after his recovery and took part in several films that served Nazi propaganda and from which he later distanced himself.

In Hamburg, after the end of the Second World War, Ernst Bader worked as a lecturer for the international music publishers Hans Sikorski , and in the 1950s and early 1960s it was mainly nocturnal. The main source of income for light music at that time were the countless dance bands, to which the lecturers recommended new sheet music after the evening performances. This was the only way to ensure that the audience demanded new titles for the popular jukebox . Many of the editors at the time therefore came up with the obvious idea of ​​writing the texts and / or compositions for the distributed sheet music themselves. And so Ernst Bader devoted himself increasingly to writing and composing. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s these were mainly hits . He wrote one of his first texts in 1951 for Friedel Hensch und die Cyprys ( About the year when the cornflowers are in bloom ). With Freddy Quinn's debut title Heimweh Bader came up with his first number one text in 1956. In 1966 he wrote another number one for Freddy Quinn with Hundred Men and One Order . His third text, which reached the top of the charts, was Dalidas on the day when the rain came in 1959. He wrote around 900 hits and chanson texts, ten of which reached the top 10 of the music magazine Musikmarkt . Bader wrote several texts for some interpreters, such as B. for Alexandra (10), Charles Aznavour (7, including his greatest success in Germany, Du dass dich geht'n ), Gus Backus (7), Freddy Quinn (7), Nana Mouskouri (5) and Caterina Valente (5 ).

He spent the last years of his life in a nursing home in Norderstedt near Hamburg , where he invited well-known singers, for example Su Kramer , to concerts. Ernst Bader wrote several books, including short stories Seniors write not only for seniors .

Top 10 texts

title	Performers	year	space
Homesickness	Freddy Quinn	1956	1.
The day the rain came	Dalida	1959	1.
My lord	Dalida	1960	1.
Once the south wind blows again	Nana Mouskouri	1962	2.
The peppermint twist	Caterina Valente / Silvio Francesco	1962	8th.
Quando, Quando, Quando	Caterina Valente / Silvio Francesco	1962	9.
Alone like you	Freddy Quinn	1963	9.
Rag Doll	The five tops	1964	4th
A hundred men and an order	Freddy Quinn	1966	1.
The world begins tomorrow	Freddy Quinn	1967	7th

Trivia

• In 1994, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, Ernst Bader was honored with the Biermann-Ratjen Medal from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg .
• He joined the SPD three times and left it just as many times. In the 1990s he supported the PDS . On his letterhead was the line: "Property is theft if you don't share" (said photographer Günter Zint, who was a friend of Bader, in an interview with the Hamburg local TV station "TIDE" on Jan. 11, 2016).
• Bader's grave is on the Ev. Garstedt cemetery of the Emmaus parish in Norderstedt .

Publications

• Nobody lives by himself. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1998, ISBN 3-881-32058-X .
• The world is beautiful, my lord. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1984, ISBN 3-881-32056-3 .
• My 13 children. Verlag Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1986, ISBN 3-88132-062-8 .
• The inn in Nordenbroda. Publishing house Atelier im Bauernhaus, Fischerhude 1988.

literature

• Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , pp. 43–45.
• SANKT PAULI MUSEUM 2014 - Documentation: 100 Years of Ernst Bader - A Life for Music. New edition added in 2018.

Web links

• Ernst Bader in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• List of songs by Ernst Bader
• The tulips from Amsterdam are red! Interview with Ernst Bader on political and religious questions (1997)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.focus.de/kultur/musik/musik-tulpen-im-altenheim_aid_151552.html