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Grave of Ernst Neger in the main cemetery in Mainz

Ernst Hugo Neger (born January 14, 1909 in Mainz ; † January 15, 1989 there ) was a German master roofer and singer .

Life

Ernst Neger grew up in a middle-class family and initially learned the profession of roofer; In addition, he appeared as a singer and interpreter of sociable songs in Mainz pubs as early as the 1930s. There he made a name for himself and was finally discovered by Shrovetide. In 1952 he interpreted the " Heile, heile Gänsje " by Martin Mundo and became the star of the Mainz Carnival . For these performances in the post-war period , two stanzas were added:

If I were the Lord God one day, then I would only know one thing:
I would take my arm 'smashed' Meenz into my arms.
And caress it very gently and gently and say '"Just be patient!
I build you aries quickly! Yes, it wasn't your fault.
I'll make you arid wunnerschee,
you can , you can't go wrong ... Heile, Heile, Gänsje ... “

When I look at my Meenz, then I think in my mind:
Mer did it with Meenz exactly as with the city of Berlin.
It was destroyed, it was divided in two. And yet I have the courage
to believe that it heals everything. After all, aries will be good.
Meenz and Berlin, you are so beautiful.
You can, you can't go wrong ... Heal, heal, goose ...

With the television carnival that began in 1955, Neger also made it into the new medium. Together with his counterpart, the blind composer Toni Hämmerle , he was the “train number” of the TV Carnival for years. The first performance of “ Humba Täterä ” in 1964 alone led to the broadcast being overdrawn for an hour because the audience could not calm down.

In memory of Toni Hämmerle, Neger founded a pony farm with riding hall in Ahlen in Westphalia in 1970 , the Toni Hämmerle pony station, a place to promote the health of physically handicapped children , which he also supported financially with his fees. Ernst Neger died one day after his 80th birthday after a long illness in a Mainz hospital. Even after his death, Neger enjoys a legendary reputation in the Mainz Carnival. The songs he interpreted became known nationwide and are still played today on TV Carnival.

Neger was involved in the Mainz Prinzengarde as Colonel General and Vice President as well as at the meetings of the Mainz Carneval Association .

In 2006, a CD compiled by Hans Schaffner was released under the title "Ernst Neger: His great successes", on which all the great hits and many well-known titles are included.

Ernst Neger's grandson Thomas Neger continues the family's roofing and carnival tradition. He was best known in 2010 with the carnival song Im Schatten des Doms , which was voted first among the Mainz fast-night hits in an Internet voting by SWR in 2012. Thomas Neger has been a member of the Mainz city council for the CDU since 2009.

The logo , which was introduced in the 1950s by Neger's company, Ernst Neger GmbH, and then also used by his grandson's company, Thomas Neger Metallsysteme und -bedachungen GmbH, has been controversial since the end of 2013. Based on her last name, it shows a stylized craftsman with plump lips and large earrings above a triangle that could represent a roof, but also a skirt. Critics consider it racist, while Thomas Neger describes the accusation as "total nonsense".

Known songs

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
The Humbta-tärä
  DE 15th 03/01/1964 (18 weeks)
  • 1952: Heal, heal Gänsje
  • I pry the meat sausage with one hand
  • The sun doesn't set here on the Rhine
  • We are still thirsty
  • Still want 'emol?
  • The Humba perpetrator
  • We don't have that, it doesn't exist anymore
  • Jean, keep doing it
  • Look emol, how he looks ...
  • It was always like that
  • 1973: Rucki Zucki (melody from "Good Night Ladies" and composed by Sepp Gußmann )
  • There is no beer on Hawaii
  • I am a green widower
  • Yes, mer san mi'm Radl do
  • Suddenly you're fifty
  • The ballad of the sausages in love ("Once upon a time there was a wonderful Blunze")
  • Wini Wini Wana Wana
  • When an old barn burns
  • Give the child its nuddle

Honors

literature

  • Ernst Neger died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1989, pp. 212 ( online ).
  • Between Gänsje and Rucki-Zucki - The singing master roofer Ernst Neger would have turned 100 on January 14th Article in the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz from January 13th, 2009 (no longer available online).
  • Inherited from his father - at the age of 24, he took over the roofing company Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz on January 13, 2009 (no longer available online).
  • For three bottles of wine - Carnival experienced in Wirtschaften / Brought "Helau" from Düsseldorf Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz of January 13, 2009 (no longer available online).
  • Life pictures of a carnival icon - exhibition for the 100th birthday of Ernst Negers Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz on December 31, 2008 (no longer available online).
  • 100th birthday of Ernst Negers Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz on December 31, 2008 (no longer available online).
  • Newspaper article from the Allgemeine Zeitung of January 13, 2009 as PDF file, 351 kB

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ The text "[...] divided it in two." Refers to the separation of the Mainz districts of Amöneburg, Kastel and Kostheim on the right bank of the Rhine from the Mainz urban area through the division of Germany into zones of occupation. Mainz was added to the French zone of occupation, the aforementioned districts to the American zone of occupation and thus administratively to the city of Wiesbaden.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Neger and Thomas Neger Bedachungen ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Company website. Retrieved January 14, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / neger.de
  2. ↑ SWR couch talk with Thomas Neger Website of the Südwestrundfunk. Retrieved January 14, 2013.
  3. ↑ Thomas Neger - Life between metal roofs and microphones . ( Memento from February 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz.
  4. ↑ Controversy over the old logo: Ernst Negers negro upset people. Excitement - The carnival singer is supposed to change the 70-year-old company logo created by his grandfather Ernst ( memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Hans Dieter Erlenbach on February 18, 2014 on echo-online.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.echo-online.de
  5. ↑ Full lips, big earrings - businessman and CDU city council member Thomas Neger sees no reason to change the company logo / Every now and then, complaint e-mails from Jens Grützner on December 30, 2013 on Allgemeine-zeitung.de
  6. ↑ Professor of Ethnology: "It is not Mr. Neger who is racist, the logo is". Retrieved April 6, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE
  8. ^ Sepp Gußmann "Rucki Zucki" composer dead fr-online.de from March 12, 2015
  9. ^ "Rucki Zucki" composer Sepp Gußmann has died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 12, 2015, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
  10. ^ Rucki Zucki in the hitparade.ch database
  11. ↑ 100 years ago: Ernst Neger is born on www1.wdr.de
  12. ↑ 100 years of Ernst Neger , accessed on January 14, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Negro, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Negro, Ernst Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German roofer and carnival singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 1989
Place of death Mainz