Ewald Schäfer

Ewald Schäfer (born March 30, 1905 in Freienhagen , North Hesse ; † January 4, 2001 in Kiel ) was a German music teacher and song composer .

life and work

Ewald Schäfer moved with his parents to Danzig in 1915 , where he developed his love for music at an early age. In Leipzig he studied pedagogy with a focus on music. This was followed by the activity as a lecturer at the Gdansk University for Teacher Training.

After serving in the war and being a prisoner of war, he found his wife and three children in Schleswig-Holstein in 1947 . He secured the family's livelihood first as a dance musician, then as a music teacher at a high school in Eutin. From 1949 he was director of the East German Choir Eutin for decades until it was dissolved in 1994. Above all, however, he performed as a composer of many folk-song-like songs (e.g. the Unitarian song "Every morning there is a new act for you" or "Am Waldesrand die Birch stood out ": from d. Kassubei), canons, choral movements, piano and orchestral accompaniments for choral songs. He has also made a name for himself as an editor of song books.

literature

Otto Rönnpag: In the service of music: Ewald Schäfer - 90 years. In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde Eutin 1995, 29th year, ISSN 1866-2730 , pp. 118–119.
Antje Thietz-Bartram: Remembering Ewald Schäfer. In: Annual booklet of the Association of Alumni of the Carl-Maria-von-Weber-School Eutin. No. 15: 2001/2002.

Web links

Literature by and about Ewald Schäfer in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Ewald Schäfer in the song database DeutschesLied.com

Individual evidence

↑ Sauerland Mountain Association (ed.): Our songs. Sauerland-Verlag, Iserlohn 1951 ( SWB entry ; index ; PDF; 8.8 MB).
^ Ewald Schäfer: East German Choir Eutin [Festschrift for the 40th anniversary]. 1989, DNB 900355638 .
↑ Sarah Brasack: Resonances and Representations of the Old Home. Music and musical culture of the expellees in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dissertation, University of Bonn, 2015, p. 172 ( online ; PDF; 2.8 MB).
↑ See Fritz Hermann, Richard Eichenauer, Ewald Schäfer (Ed.): Heiliges Leben . Voggenreiter Verlag , Bad Godesberg 1956 ( SWB 060736143 ; DNB 451970535 ).

personal data
SURNAME	Shepherd, Ewald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German music teacher and song composer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Freienhagen , North Hesse
DATE OF DEATH	January 4, 2001
Place of death	Kiel

[1] Sauerland Mountain Association (ed.): Our songs. Sauerland-Verlag, Iserlohn 1951 ( SWB entry ; index ; PDF; 8.8 MB).

[2] Ewald Schäfer: East German Choir Eutin [Festschrift for the 40th anniversary]. 1989, DNB 900355638 .

[3] Sarah Brasack: Resonances and Representations of the Old Home. Music and musical culture of the expellees in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dissertation, University of Bonn, 2015, p. 172 ( online ; PDF; 2.8 MB).

[4] See Fritz Hermann, Richard Eichenauer, Ewald Schäfer (Ed.): Heiliges Leben . Voggenreiter Verlag , Bad Godesberg 1956 ( SWB 060736143 ; DNB 451970535 ).