Fred Rauch

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Fred Rauch (born September 28, 1909 in Vienna , † June 1, 1997 in Gmund am Tegernsee ) was an Austrian songwriter, cabaret artist and singer.

He was best known as the radio presenter of the Bavarian Radio , where he hosted the popular concert you wish, we play on Wednesday evenings between 1947 and 1978 . He also moderated for other broadcasters such as ORF or RAI Bozen .

As a folk singer, he was mainly active in the 1950s. Well known here is the song Schützenliesel , composed and written by Gerhard Winkler - with whom he often worked - which became the first post-war Oktoberfest hit in 1952 and is still performed regularly today. Also popular were his song Oh, Mr Swoboda and his German version of Battle of New Orleans , a hit by Johnny Horton , which he published as The Great Brawl in 1902 .

He achieved cultural and historical importance in 1955 when he discovered Slavko Avsenik and the Original Oberkrainern , who revolutionized popular music in the German-speaking world.

In addition, he wrote texts for the Munich cabaret scene , including for Werner Finck's Mausefalle and the Zehnerl cabaret. Fred Rauch also published some books.

His grave is in the Gmund mountain cemetery.

Request concert

Rauch was the moderator for the weekly request concert ( you wish? We'll play your favorite tunes ) for the first time on December 11, 1947. By 1978, around 1,500 programs followed under different titles. Soon, however, the name of the program was adopted. You wish, we will play your favorite melodies . Rauch spoke self-written interim texts and conveyed the greetings of the sender. The program also built bridges to the Germans in the former Soviet zone and in Southeastern Europe. Rauch was only represented on vacation or sick leave. With his sympathetic voice he conveyed the feeling of security in the difficult times of the post-war years and let the worries and hardships of everyday life fade away for hours. This gave him enormous popularity with listeners far beyond Bavaria. In many families the children were allowed to stay awake longer to listen to this program with their parents. Listener mail for him sometimes reached the Bayerischer Rundfunk in the form of a basket.

The show offered a broad stage for the many music requests. After an opening block with folk music and one or two marches, a humorous short scene, for example with Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt or, in the 1970s, with Emil Steinberger, led to the hit part. Here the listeners could be sure to get the current or very promising titles from the charts. Every several weeks, a request concert was inserted for the opera fans.

Further radio activity

In addition to the request concert, Rauch also oversaw other programs on BR such as A warmer Ofen, a Schalerl Kaffee , Gute Noten for good grades or grades and anecdotes . His Christmas show Christmas carols from all over the world was also popular . Rauch rarely appeared on television. From 1956 to 1958 he moderated contributions to the Bavarian advertising television, later the Oberkrainer show With waltzes and polkas around the world and the 25th anniversary "You wish" on January 17, 1974 from the Munich Olympic Hall .

Musical work

Rauch is considered to be the discoverer and supporter of numerous musicians and musical groups. The three funny Moosachers and the hot dogs became regional stars thanks to Fred Rauch. His radio message - there were wash baskets from hospitals for listener requests for the title You are not alone - brought about the breakthrough for the Augsburg singer Roy Black .

Fred Rauch also made a name for himself as a songwriter. It is known that he used the pseudonyms Theo Rauthenberg and Sepp Haselbach. In 1951 Rauch met the composer Gerhard Winkler , with whom he later worked. For example, the text of the 1860 song , the club anthem of TSV 1860 Munich, comes from his pen .

Rauch's hit Oh, Mister Swoboda (1955), accompanied by the Bohemian Town Musicians

Fred Rauch was sometimes active as a singer and was also popular with his own songs. Well-known interpretations of him are Mei Schihaserl hat a Kalt's Naserl , Der Herr Ski Instructor and Oh, Mister Swoboda . With regards to Franzi from Tyrol , he appeared in the homeland film Powder Snow Overseas in 1956 . His greatest success was the beer tent hit Schützenliesel from 1953, written by Fini Busch .

In his later years, Rauch also published several books with collected cheerful incidents, slip of the tongue, curiosities and blooms of style.

Discovery of Slavko Avsenik and the Oberkrainern

In 1955, Fred Rauch traveled to Wörthersee in Carinthia on vacation , where one morning at eleven o'clock he heard a catchy music number on the radio in a program called "Slovenian Hour" (Po željah) . The quality impressed him; he said that there were not only musicians at work, but real musicians. The melody - performed in a form unusual for folk music of the time with accordion, trumpet, clarinet and baritone; the guitar was yet to come - reminded him of an echo of trumpets. He wanted to find out more about it and went to the radio station, where he received recordings from the editor Helmut Hartman. The performing group was the Gorenjski kvartet , which Hartmann translated as "Oberkrainer Quartet".

In Munich he played this to his listeners, who liked it very much. Slavko Avsenik traveled to Munich, where he re-recorded the piece - previously called Na Golici , which roughly means "Beim Kahlkogel" after a 1836 meter high Slovenian mountain near Jesenice , which Slavko Avsenik had never seen in his life. The new recording didn't happen before Fred Rauch wrote a short text for the song, which - although it was hardly ever used - earned him regular royalties from then on . According to GEMA, the piece should have been performed live more than 30 million times and was also covered more than 600 times.

The Slavko Avseniks Oberkrainer became very successful, many imitators soon found themselves called the Original Oberkrainer, who then soon found themselves in competition with formations such as Ernst Mosch's Original Egerländer Musikanten and the like in the emerging folk music boom . Avseniks Oberkrainer, who revolutionized folk music with their new style, remained the most successful and sold well over thirty million records in the following decades. For three decades, they performed 200 days a year, often at two events in one day.

In the 1970s, the trumpet echo was the signature tune of the ZDF show Funny Musicians and the monthly radio program Wettstreit nach Noten der Deutschlandfunk . It was also the theme music of the ORF - Musikantenstadel for 20 years . Fred Rauch created 160 or more lyrics for songs by the Original Oberkrainern.

Fred Rauch's grave in the Gmund mountain cemetery

Works as a songwriter (selection)

Honors

Fonts

  • With the strike of the gong it is 6 Mark 30 - slip of the tongue, listener requests, blooms of style . Rowohlt 1982, ISBN 3-499-14972-9 .
  • Gong strike No. 2 . Rosenheim 1981, ISBN 3-475-52323-X .
  • Lohnhaus und Tannengrün - slip of the tongue, blooming style, official white man , together with Dieter O. Klama . Rosenheim 1983, ISBN 3-475-52411-2 .
  • A thousand things to smile and laugh about ; Munich 1984; ISBN 3-431-01351-1 .
  • Laughing through the year - cheerful things for every day , together with Emil Vierlinger. Rosenheim 1985, ISBN 3-475-52200-4 .
  • Talking is silence and silver is gold . Augsburg 1985.
  • Joke questions from my request concert . Rosenheim 1985, ISBN 3-475-52294-2 .
  • Pastor Sebastian Kampfl - The Lion of Waakirchen - A Bavarian Abraham a Sancta Clara . Rosenheim 1986, ISBN 3-475-52347-7 .
  • Poetry according to notes - various verses about music . Munich 1986, ISBN 3-485-00519-3 .
  • What do I write in the guest book . ISBN 3-7943-0704-6 .
  • Don't put the sand in your head - slip of the tongue and bloom of style , along with Gerald Drews. Munich 1994, ISBN 3-89350-757-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerd Otto-Rieke: Graves in Bavaria . Munich 2000. p. 92.
  2. ↑ Compare the evidence in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ On the whole: Sebastian Lindmeyr, Fred Rauch estate, online publication of the BR  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de  
personal data
SURNAME Smoke, fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German author and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1997
Place of death Gmund am Tegernsee