Fritz Graßhoff

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Fritz Graßhoff (after his emigration also: Fritz Grasshoff, born December 9, 1913 in Quedlinburg , † February 9, 1997 in Hudson , Canada ) was a German draftsman , painter , writer and writer .

Life

Fritz Graßhoff spent his youth in Quedlinburg, where his father (formerly a seaman) lived as a coal merchant. The rough milieu later left many traces in his ballads and songs. In 1933 he graduated from high school and began an apprenticeship as a church painter; later he worked as a journalist. In 1938 he joined the military and ended up in the Soviet Union during the war, and finally in British captivity. As a prisoner of war he came to Heiligenhafen and lived in the barracks camp. From 1946 to 1967 he lived in Celle . During this time he traveled a lot to Greece and lived temporarily in Sweden. At his first exhibition (1954 in Hanover), the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg were bought. His writing activity ran parallel to this. He earned his living mainly with hit lyrics (e.g. he wrote various hits for Lale Andersen and Freddy Quinn , but also the evergreen Take me with captain, on a journey for Hans Albers ), while in addition to his often rough songs and ballads ( set to music by musicians such as Heinz Gietz , Lotar Olias , Siegfried Strohbach , Bert Grund , Wolfgang “Schobert” Schulz von Schobert and Black or James Last , at that time still Hans Last) also wrote serious poetry as well as texts by the Swedish national poet Carl Michael Bellman and from the Roman and translated to Greek antiquity. At times Graßhoff was one of the most recited German writers - well-known interpreters such as René Deltgen , Gustav Knuth , Inge Meysel and Heinz Reincke made his works popular through several record productions. Graßhoff's own readings, e.g. Sometimes spoken as jazz and lyric events with drum accompaniment from a truck, they were quite popular.

Graßhoff stayed away from the literature business; He suffered from the fact that he was mainly rated according to his hit texts, and when his biographical novel Der Blaue Heinrich received little attention in 1980, he emigrated, disappointed by the German situation, from Zwingenberg an der Bergstrasse to Canada, where he spent the last 14 years of his Lived in his home on the Ottawa River. In the meantime, Graßhoff has found a recognized place in literature , especially through his late poetry ( On the Importance of Things ) and a re-evaluation of his novel The Blue Heinrich , which is reflected in numerous essays in literary magazines.

Works

Literary works

  • Tent songs and barracks verses . JM Klopp, Lütjenburg / Holstein 1945
  • The Heiligenhafen Sternsingerspiel 1945 . JM Klopp, Lütjenburg / Holstein 1945, and JA Keune, Hamburg 1946.
  • Hoorter Breviary . Poems. YES Keune. Hamburg 1947
  • Scoundrel Postille . YES Keune. Hamburg 1947
  • The parish board. Generally invalid annual bill for country people . Long. Duisburg 1954
  • Birds' paths disintegrate in flight . Poems. Lange, Duisburg 1956
  • And off to Tintagel with her . Lange, Duisburg 1958
  • The classic scoundrel postille . Epigrams and satires. Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Cologne / Berlin 1964
  • Graßhoff's blunt book of songs and blasphemies . Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Cologne / Berlin 1965
  • The new Solomon . A kind of sermon on the street corner . (Music: Lotar Olias ). Edition Esplanade. Hamburg 1965
  • Carl Michael Bellman . Through all the heavens, all the gutters. A bundle of Fredman's epistles and songs. Brought singable from Swedish into German . Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Cologne / Berlin 1966
  • Picture-rich main and (G) lieder book . Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Cologne / Berlin 1970. ISBN 3-462-00747-5 .
  • Facts on Music, a sound manach for Moeck, rhymed & illustrated by Fritz Graßhoff . Moeck verlag + musikinstrumentenwerk, Celle 1970
  • The singing bone. Short-punched parahistory for real flute research . Edition Moeck. Celle 1971
  • Pirate Report. Songs, lieder & ballads . Erdmann. Tübingen / Basel 1972. ISBN 3-7711-0142-5 .
  • Philodemus and the ancient back stairs. 20 Greco-Roman authors newly translated and re-hosted with graphics by the author . Hermit Press. Düsseldorf 1975 ISBN 3-87365-079-1
  • Foxy saves America. A musical for children aged 8-80 . Music publisher B. Schott's Sons. Mainz 1976
  • The blue Heinrich . Roman Nymphenburger. Munich 1980. ISBN 3-485-00388-3 .
  • Pirates. Wine, woman and fat booty . Edition Esplanade. Hamburg 1981
  • Graßhoff's new big scoundrel mailbox . Limes. Wiesbaden 1981
  • Cheers for a lifetime. Lust & idleness. Carl Michael Bellman, Epistles & Songs . Fritz Graßhoff, re-seals. Edition hand press Gutsch. Berlin 1985. ISBN 3-924993-09-2 .
  • Les animaux en pantalons. Animals in pants. A selection from human fables . Editions du Silenoe. Montréal 1991
  • Bellman in German. Fredman's epistles. Moved from 18th century Swedish into German . Publishing house for Berlin-Brandenburg. Potsdam 1995. ISBN 3-930850-10-9 .
  • Martial for contemporaries. Epigrams by Marcus Valerius Martialis . Hermits press. Düsseldorf 1998. ISBN 3-87365-315-X .
  • Of the importance of things . Heritage Fritz Graßhoff / Foundation. German cabaret archive. Mainz 2003
  • Satire . With a foreword by Roswitha Grasshoff and an afterword by Pierre Filion. German and French. Editions du Silence. Montreal 2007. ISBN 978-2-920180-71-0 .
  • Message in a bottle with world spirit. Poems in 13 chapters . Arche, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7160-2695-3 .

Photo books, exhibition catalogs

  • Pictures and drawings by Fritz Graßhoff. Municipal Cultural Office. Celle 1947
  • Gerhard dealer: Fritz Grasshoff. City Art Museum Duisburg. Museum Association. Duisburg 1956
  • Paintings, Peintures, paintings 1984–1986. Montreal (Canada)
  • Graphik - Graphic - Graphique. 1943-1993. A cross section. Editions Vaudreuil [Canada] 1993
  • Fritz Grasshoff as a painter. Biography. Mercator Verlag Duisburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-87463-533-2 .

Sound carriers and music books

  • Scoundrel songs For baritone, trumpet, violin, accordion, double bass and drums. Music: Siegfried Strohbach , LP at BASF, sheet music: IMSLP
  • Big calendar . (Based on texts from “Das Gemeindebrett”) For male choir, solo piano and large orchestra. Music: Siegfried Strohbach , sheet music: Breitkopf & Härtel (1961), new version for mixed choir, 2 pianos and percussion (1976), sheet music: IMSLP
  • The great scoundrel mail . LP. EMI-Electrola 1963
  • Songs for adults . Fritz Graßhoff wrote and wrote like Graßhoff, Lotar Olias composed and sang - as best he could, Hans Last (ie James Last ) carried the whole burden of the arrangement. The honor of speaking for the bad and the innocent: Lale Andersen , Edith Hancke , Inge Meysel , Hanne Wieder , Helmut Brasch , Eckart Dux , Gustav Knuth , Mal Sondock , Ernst Stankovski and others, Orchestra Hans Last. LP. Polydor , Cabaret - Literary Cabaret 47 805, Hamburg 1965; Notes: (contains 17 of the 21 tracks on the album): Edition Esplanade GmbH, Hamburg 1965
  • Scoundrel Postille . Weird songs, half-silly songs and wonderful poems. Music by Hans-Martin Majewski and Norbert Schultze . Spoken and sung by Hanne Wieder, Hannelore Schroth , Gustav Knuth, Gisela from Schwabing , Kirsten Heiberg , Ralf Bendix , Jens Brenke , Inge Brandenburg , Werner Schmalenbach and Fritz Graßhoff. LP. EMI-Electrola E 83 35, Cologne 1967
  • Unheard of chansons . Texts by Fritz Graßhoff sung by Illo Schieder , Bert Grund Orchestra . LP. MPS 15108, Villingen 1968
  • Obscene but beautiful . 14 compact numbers, presented by Edith Hancke, Inge Meysel, Hanne Wieder, Helmut Brasch, Eckart Dux, Gustav Knuth, Mal Sondock, Ernst Stankovski and the Mimi-Terzett, music: Lotar Olias. LP. MCA Records MAPS 1746, Quickborn 1968
  • For playboys only . Ballads and party songs from the “Unblumed song and blasphemy book”. Music by Lotar Olias. Presented by Edith Hancke, Beate Hasenau , Kathia, Nana Gualdi , Lotar Olias, Eckart Dux, Kurt Fuß and Die grau Jungs. LP. Popular records - Richter GmbH & Co KG 5002 ST. Duisburg, year?
  • Fritz Grasshoff's Naughty Songs . Songs and lazy ballads + bathtub songs for the mature and thick-skinned to music by Lotar Olias. (LP). Spoken and sung by Helmut Brasch, Inge Meysel , Ernst Stankovski , Gustav Knuth, Lothar Olias, Mal Sondock , Edith Hancke, Eckart Dux, Lale Andersen, Günter Jerschke, Erich Uhland, and Hanne Wieder. Intercord 720-08 U. 1969
  • * '' A bunch of chansons from cheeky to poco dreary. '' (Sheet music). Texts by Fritz Graßhoff, music by Friedrich Zehm. B. Schott's Sons, Mainz 1969
  • Warehouse life . Choir revue. Music by Peter Seeger. Grades. Schott, Mainz 1972
  • Today in Meckelheim . A rock cantata. Music by HG Koch. Grades. WDR 1972
  • Vatter Brüggemanns pigeons . Rudi Horn sings about buddies, coal and shorts. Composer: Heinz Gietz. LP. BASF Cornet 2021724-8, Ludwigshafen 1972
  • Pirate Report . Performers: Heinz Reincke , Ingrid van Bergen , Günter Pfitzmann , Ralf Bendix, Jens Brenke, Hannes Messemer . LP. LISTEN TO - EMI-Electrola SHZE 397, Cologne 1973; CD: Conträr Musik , Schwarzenbek 2004
  • From the Hanoverian beyond . New basement songs, jokes and rhymes with Jens Brenke . LP. L&P tone. Hanover 1974
  • All year round . LP 1: Texts by Fritz Graßhoff: “Generally not valid farmer's calendar”, (LP 2: other). Music: Schobert Schulz , sung by Schobert & Black . 2 LPs. Teldec 6.28342DX, Hamburg 1975
  • Ladies are allowed to blush . Music by Norbert Schultze, Wolfgang Keller and Jens Brenke. Sung and spoken by Gustav Knuth, Ralf Bendix, Hannes Messemer, Jens Brenke, René Deltgen , Wolfgang Neuss , Lale Andersen, Heidi Mahler , Mady Rahl , Helmut Charon and the Botho Lucas Choir . LP. EMI-Electrola SMS 83 949, Cologne 1977
  • Foxy saves America . Musical. Composer: Heinz Geese . LP. EMI-Electrola, Cologne 1977
  • Scoundrel songs . Shower ballades, rat whistles, petty songs, laundry room songs and moritats. Sheet music by Hanns Heeren. Songbook. Südmarkverlag, Witzenhausen 1978
  • Dissolute from the coast . Texts by Fritz Graßhoff sung by Günther Bockelmann . Composer: Heinz Gietz . LP. Publisher: Bremerhaven Advertising Office. Teldec 66.225 222, Hamburg 1982
  • Dash lines . Love, vice, lust and blasphemy songs by Fritz Graßhoff. Music: Christian Weber . LP. Zytglogge-Verlag, Gümlingen 1984
  • From the layout of the rolls . Song cycle based on texts by Fritz Grasshoff for voice, oboe, piano and cello. Ensemble Aequatuor. 1994
  • Münchhausen's wonderful journeys and adventures . A cheerful series for male choir, a narrator, piano (and instruments ad lib.). Texts by Walther Schneider and Fritz Graßhoff. Grades. Tonos-Musikverlag, Darmstadt 2000. ISMN M-2015-6615-3.
  • Süverkrüp sings Graßhoff's Bellman . 13 epistles by Carl Michael Bellman , translated into German by Fritz Graßhoff. CD. Conträr Musik 4405-2, Schwarzenbek 1996
  • Listen up, you contemporaries . Spoken and sung by Der Black , Dieter Süverkrüp, Fritz Graßhoff and Pit Klein. Graßhoff on the 90th CD. Conträr Musik 2912-2, Schwarzenbek 2003
  • Germany or what is biting me? Schobert & Black, the singing beards, with Graßhoff songs. CD based on the LPs "Lästersongs und moralische Lieder" and "Deutschland oder Was ist mich da?" From 1967 and 1968, with illustrated text booklet. ISBN 3-932219-54-6 . Conträr Musik - Indigo 5162-2, Schwarzenbek 2004
  • blasphemous, dissolute & blunt . April 2010 with 12 Grasshoff songs by his former friend, the bailiff Peter Hunziker, Burgdorf / Switzerland

Exhibitions (selection)

literature

  • Oskar Ansull : And fly abroad . In: Of poet princes and other poets. A short history of literature in Lower Saxony. Volume III. Hanover 1996, ISBN 3-927715-30-1 .
  • Ralf Busch : Fritz Graßhoff - painter and poet . Bomann-Museum, Celle 1993, ISBN 3-925902-18-X .
  • Eva Demski : vagabond, bank singer, painter-poet, junkie man . In: FAZ of December 22, 1989.
  • Eva Demski: Fritz Grasshoff - The last Klabautermann . In: Country and People . Schöffling, Frankfurt / M. 1994, ISBN 3-89561-000-3 .
  • Maria Katharina Grote: Fritz Graßhoff - a picture monograph . Diploma thesis, University of Hildesheim 1997.
  • Jacques Outin: Graßhoff, Bellman and Sweden . In: Clams . No. 44. Viersen 2004, ISSN  0085-3593 .
  • Wolfgang Ries: Consumer goods and useless. Some subjective comments on the person and work of Fritz Graßhoff . In: Clams . No. 44. Viersen 2004, ISSN  0085-3593 .
  • Jan Timmer : About scoundrels and back stairs. Fritz Graßhoff and the ancient world. In: Ders./Rüdiger Kinsky (ed.): Happy antiquity. Festival book for Wolfgang Will for his 65th birthday. (=  Antiquitas. Series 1: Treatises on ancient history. Vol. 64), Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7749-3900-4 , pp. 195-214.
  • Friedrich Zehm : A bundle of chansons . In: The Musical Times No. 1519. Berkhamsted 1969, ISSN  0027-4666 .

Web links

See also

  • Gerbert Mutter Grasshoffiana for 4-6 part mixed choir, wood, brass and piano based on texts by Fritz Grasshoff
personal data
SURNAME Graßhoff, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman, writer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Quedlinburg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1997
Place of death Hudson , Canada