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Fredy Sieg in Carow's Lachbühne , 1936

Fredy Sieg , actually Alfred Gyss , (born September 28 or September 29, 1878 in Berlin , † February 25 or 26, 1962 in East Berlin ) was a German actor , cabaret artist , comedian and popular performer.

Life

Fredy Sieg was born as Alfred Gyss. Although he always wanted to be a comedian, he first had to submit to his parents' wishes and learn a decent profession. He finished an apprenticeship at AEG as a technical draftsman for lighting fixtures, but then gave in to his passion and joined small singing societies with whom he moved through the entire Mark Brandenburg and further up to Pomerania and east to Silesia . In the smallest of towns, often in inns or rifle houses, the singers brought funny entertainment for little people. Cinema and radio as competition for the folk singers were still a long way off.

“I came, sang and won,” he once confessed, and that's why he called himself Fredy Sieg. It is more likely, however, that his stage name came about by reversing the letters in his real name: Gyss became Syg or, because it sounded better: Sieg.

Known from Carow's Lachbühne and the Berliner Kammerbrettl , Sieg lived in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin until his death . He found his final resting place in the Evangelical Georgen-Parochial-Friedhof II in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district . The grave site is in field 6 (grid) -18-25.

repertoire

As was the tradition with folk singers, he wrote his lectures mostly himself. He wrote more than a hundred songs and mostly performed them himself. From 1924 he was the in-house comedian in Erich Carow's "Lachbühne", to which he remained loyal until it was destroyed in the 1943 bombing war. He always came on stage in his street suit, as a fine gentleman with white gaiters and sticks. His subject was the life of the little people in the suburbs, which he knew from personal experience. Sieg drew comic genre and type pictures such as the 'Doofen', the 'Angler' or the 'Porter'. His most famous lectures include Das Lied von der Krummen Lanke and Hochzeit bei Zickenschulze from Bernau . The latter is one of the most turbulent Vortragsstücke solid cold comedy, verbal slapstick - almost as famous as the overcoat of Otto Reutter or Hermann heesta of Claire Waldoff .

After the Second World War , Sieg continued to appear with Erich Carow in his new domicile in Berlin-Gatow , as well as in Hans Joachim Heinrichs ' Kammerbrettl (1945–1949), where the young Eberhard Cohrs also began as a comedian. And you saw him in large variety shows like the Berlin Friedrichstadt-Palast or the Steintor in Halle / Saale. He was also heard on the Berlin radio .

Works

  • Oh, the nice fishing
  • The Song of the Crooked Lanke (1923)
  • That's because - she wears the pants
  • The barge
  • Right out on the Panke
  • Wedding at Zickenschulze
  • I'm stupid for a bite
  • I'm stupid
  • I'm a minded person
  • I'm a porter
  • Pure laundry

Sound documents (selection)

Sieg recorded several records: first for the inexpensive Braun label of the Grammophon , then after 1935 for Carl Lindström's Odeon and Gloria label.

  • Oh the beautiful fishing (Sieg) Gr brown 22 13 (mx. 2837 ½ GN)
  • Wedding at Zickenschulze (Sieg) Odeon O-28 483 (Be 14 886)
  • Right out at de Panke (black; victory) Odeon O-28 483 (Be 14 887)
  • Song of the Krummen Lanke I and II (TuM .: F.Sieg) Gloria GO27 054 (Bi 2230/2231); also published on Odeon O-26 676.
  • I'm stupid (Max Schroeder; Fredy Sieg) Gloria GO27 167 (Bi 2429)
  • Ick am Portier (Zehr; Oppermann) Gloria GO 27 392 (Bi 2762)

Filmography

literature

  • Helga Bemmann: Berlin Musenkinder Memoirs. VEB Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1981, pp. 109–118.
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Self-published, Göttingen 1991, unpaginated.
  • Rainer Otto, Walter Rösler: cabaret history - demolition of the German-language cabaret. Henschel, Berlin 1977.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Victory, Fredy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyss, Alfred (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, cabaret artist, comedian and popular performer
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1878 or September 29, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1962 or February 26, 1962
Place of death East Berlin