Ernst Fern

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Former Fern dance school in Düsseldorf

Ernst Fern (born June 8, 1934 ; † November 14, 2019 ) was a German dance teacher .

Life

Ernst Fern worked as a dance teacher from 1959. Together with his wife Helga (* 1935), he brought the dance school into German living rooms in the 1960s . As of January 18, 1964, 25 episodes of the television series Do you permit? in the ARD broadcast. After the success of this television series, another 19 episodes were shown from 1966 to 1968 under the title Dance Party with the Ferns . Both television series were produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR). The dance couples danced to live music by the media band of the West German Radio Orchestra under the direction of Harald Banter . The black and white programs are occasionally broadcast on the TV channels One and ARD-alpha .

Ernst and Helga Fern married in 1956. In 1960 their first daughter Sonja was born. The Ferns took over the Kayser dance school in Düsseldorf in 1966 . In 1967 the second daughter Jessica was born.

They opened a second dance school in 1968 on Döppersberg in Wuppertal . Helga Fern died in 1995 at the age of 59. Daughter Sonja Fern-Gaßmann took over the management of the Wuppertal dance school in 1995.

In 1985 Fern married Annemarie Rauser, who worked for many years as a dance teacher in the Düsseldorf “House of Dance” on Jacobistraße. In 2009 Ernst Fern sold his Düsseldorf dance school to Claudia and Torsten Thiele and withdrew from the dance business. He has spent most of his time in Corsica since then .

The book We Learn to Dance with the Ferns , published in 1969, was published until 1995.

TV series (episode guide)

season 1

Excuse me? - Dance lessons with the Fern couple
episode Dances First broadcast
01 Cha-Cha-Cha January 18, 1964
02 Twist, Rep. Cha-Cha-Cha 02/22/1964
03 Foxtrot, Rep. Twist 07.03.1964
04 Rep. Cha-Cha-Cha, Twist and Foxtrot 03/28/1964
05 Boogie, re Foxtrot 04/11/1964
06 Slow Waltz, Rep. Boogie 04/15/1964
07 Rumba, Rep. Slow Waltz 05/09/1964
08 Repeated boogie, slow waltz and rumba   05/30/1964
09 Hully-Gully, Rep. Rumba 06/20/1964
10 Slop, Wdh. Hully-Gully 07/18/1964
11 samba 09/19/1964
12 Rep. Hully-Gully, Slop, Samba 10/03/1964
13 Tango, Rep. Samba October 24, 1964
14th Charleston 11/21/1964
15th Blues, rep. Charleston December 05, 1964
16 Rep. Tango, Charleston and Blues December 19, 1964
17th Madison, Rep. Samba 01/09/1965
18th Bossa Nova 01/23/1965
19th Viennese waltz 02/13/1965
20th Rep. Madison, Bossa Nova, Viennese Waltz 02/27/1965
21? ??? Letkiss (from dance party 02 Rumba and Letkiss see below) March 13, 1965
22nd La Bamba 03/27/1965
23 Rhinelander 04/10/1965
24 Wiggle twist 04/27/1965
25th Rep. La Bamba, Rhinelander, Wiggle Twist 05/15/1965

season 2

episode Dances
01 Cha-Cha-Cha and Foxtrot
02 Rumba and Letkiss
03 Boogie-Woogie and Slow Waltz
04 Charleston and Blues
05 Sirtaki and slop
06 Memphis and Tango
07 Blues boogie and Paso Doble
08 Polka and beat
09 Samba and puppets
10 The Kick and Rhinelander
11 Jerk and Monkiss
12 Jump beat and soft beat
13 Marsch, La Bostella and Polkiss
14th Quickstep and Hoppel-Poppel
15th Chapolka and Pony Jerk
16 Pop Art and Bro Bro
17th Tango and Skate
18th Slow waltz and kasachok
19th Cha-Cha-Cha and Boogaloo

Fonts

Fern, Ernst: We are learning to dance with the Fern couple . Wiesbaden: Falken-Verlag Sicker, 1969, 167 pp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Fern's obituary notice. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tanzschule Fern turns 50 (with videos) , wz.de, March 13, 2018
  3. ↑ absolutely danceable
personal data
SURNAME Fern, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dance teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1934
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2019