Fritz Widmer

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Fritz Widmer (born February 5, 1938 in Kirchberg ; † April 28, 2010 in Bern ) was a Swiss songwriter and writer . His main job was as a teacher .

Life

Growing up on a farm, Fritz Widmer attended schools in Kirchberg and Burgdorf , then studied English and German . From 1965 on he worked as a secondary teacher in Fraubrunnen , from 1970 as an English and German teacher at the Marzili Higher Middle School in Bern .

As a part-time job, Widmer had been a song translator, songwriter and writer since 1965. He initially made his songs under the influence of (and sometimes together with) Mani Matter . Then many of his own, partly reproductions and translations of Swedish songs were created, for example by Carl Michael Bellman . From 1965 a member of the Bern Troubadours , after 1970 he designed mostly solo programs, since 1982 increasingly combined with readings from his novels, columns and poems. Together with Jacob Stickelberger he made a recording of the last (as yet unpublished) chansons Mani Matters and the jointly written Kriminalgschicht , a kind of crime opera that they performed over a hundred times between 1973 and 1975.

On his later records Widmer did not play solo, but mostly accompanied by his daughters Anna (cello, mandolin) and Karin (violin, guitar, bouzouki) as well as his longtime accompanist Michael Sam Graf , the accordion player Otto Spirig and the double bass player Bänz Hadorn .

Since 1982 Widmer has written columns and articles for various newspapers. In addition to four novels, he also wrote radio reports, from about 1994 to 2000 the word for the new day for Radio DRS . With his wife Christina , a granddaughter of Hermann Hesse , he occasionally gave lectures about her famous grandfather, and in 2006 he published a book with memoirs of Hesse's Baltic grandfather Carl Hermann Hesse .

Works

bibliography

  • D's pious horse. Bern-German ballads and chansons . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1974
  • The wüeschte u di beautiful Tröim. Bärndütschi songs and poems . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1980, ISBN 3-7296-0113-X
  • Gluscht u Gnusch u Gwunger . Dialect novel. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1982, ISBN 3-7296-0145-8
  • Ryter and Ys . Dialect novel. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1988, ISBN 3-7296-0301-9
  • Ages em Zuun. Word to the nöie day and poem . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1997, ISBN 3-7296-0555-0
  • No aafa. Word to the nöie day . Zytglogge, Gümligen 2000, ISBN 3-7296-0606-9
  • The ornamental hermit . Novel. Author's publishing house, Bern 2001, ISBN 3-905110-19-9
  • Not crazy. Reports of songs, people and dreams . Simowa (self-published), Bern 2002, ISBN 3-908152-14-3
  • Hermann Hesse's grandfather . The memoirs of Hermann Hesse's Baltic grandfather Dr. Carl Hermann Hesse. (As editor) Insel (it 3216), Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-458-34916-2
  • Luck is free . Novel. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2007, ISBN 978-3-8334-6769-1
  • Where's the hi, where do I forget? Dialect texts. Cosmos, Muri bei Bern 2009, ISBN 978-3-305-00435-5

Discography

Standalone publications

  • Hüt het mi es Güegi gstoche (together with Ruedi Krebs), EP, Zytglogge (zyt 3), Gümligen 1966
  • Chlyn mues men afa , EP, Zytglogge (zyt 5), Gümligen 1967
  • Abraham & Co. , LP, Zytglogge (zyt 23), Gümligen 1973
  • S geit niene so beautiful u luschtig , LP, Zytglogge (zyt 29), Gümligen 1976
  • I'm yawning at my arms . Live recording from 4./5. January 1980 at the Zähringer Theater in Bern. LP. Zytglogge (zyt 43), Gümligen 1980
  • Gloubsch against a betteri Zyte . LP. Zytglogge (zyt 49), Gümligen 1985
  • It doesn't work out well . Ballad, Lumpeliedli and Chinderlieder. LP. Zytglogge (zyt 50), Gümligen 1985 (CD: zyt 4050)
  • 24 songs us 25 years . CD. Zytglogge (zyt 4065), Gümligen 1991
  • Where the Himu no gnue has its place . Grandfather songs, translated from Swedish and historical recordings. CD. Zytglogge (zyt 4871), Gümligen 2000
  • Wohär u Wohi? . Songs from 800 to 2009. CD. Zytglogge (zyt 4315), Gümligen 2009

With Jacob Stickelberger

  • Detective shift . Recording from October 26th 1973. LP. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1973 (CD: zyt 4057)
  • Dr Columbus . Mani Matter sung by Jacob Stickelberger and Fritz Widmer. LP. Zytglogge (zyt 35), Gümligen 1977 (CD: zyt 4035)

With the Bern troubadours

  • Bernese Troubadours - Live . LP with chansons from all six troubadours. Zytglogge, Gümligen 1971 (CD: zyt 4016)
  • The concert . 2 LPs (or CDs) with live recording of their anniversary program on November 27, 1985 in the Stadttheater Bern . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1986 (CD: zyt 4052)
  • 30 years - old, older, newer and new . 2 CDs with live recording from November 19, 1995 from the Stadttheater Bern . Zytglogge (zyt 4076), Gümligen 1996
  • Gang as usual - Program 2000 . 2 CDs, live from the Capella in Bern. La Cappella LIVE DCD, Bern 2000
  • 40 years of Bern troubadours . CD with live recordings from the Stadttheater Bern on February 13 and March 20, 2005. Zytglogge (zyt 4095), Gümligen 2005

Arranged by colleagues

  • Door slats - dedicated to Fritz Widmer . CD with Widmer's songs, played by Swiss songwriters. Zytglogge (zyt 4311), Gümligen 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fritz Widmer died at 72 , Berner Zeitung , April 28, 2010.
  2. ↑ Widmer, Fritz , website of the Cosmos publishing house.
personal data
SURNAME Widmer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss songwriter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Kirchberg , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2010
Place of death Bern