Günter Kolodziej

This article deals with the musician. For the editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Junge Welt (1994) see Günter Kolodziej (editor) .

Günter Kolodziej (* 1924 in Hindenburg OS , Upper Silesia ; † 1996 ) was a German band leader , choir director , conductor and composer .

Life

Kolodziej received violin lessons at the age of twelve and graduated from an orchestra school in Hindenburg at the age of 14. He then attended the music academy and at the age of 18 he was the first French horn player in the Gau-Orchester Schlesien. As a soldier he came to the aviation technology school in 1942 and immediately took over the leadership of the band, which he brought to a legendary reputation as " The Golden 13 ". After this school was closed, Kolodziej came to Uetersen and was seriously wounded on the Western Front in 1944 and ended up in Texas / USA during the American invasion . After a six-month stay in hospital, he took over a large orchestra in the largest camp in the country. In 1946 he returned to Germany physically weakened and began to build a new dance band in Appen , which was considered to be the number 1 mood guarantor at countless riflemen and boatmen's balls in the vicinity. In 1947 he started with eight musicians (among them Helmut Zacharias ) in the Uetersen "Tivoli" and performed at three dance events a week for 20 years. In addition to violin and french horn , Günter Kolodziej also mastered the saxophone and clarinet . He played in almost all the major houses in Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg. The band was in great demand, especially at large dance tournaments such as the Travemünder Kurhaus.

The legendary Tivoli in Uetersen around 1904, broken up in 1994

In 1954 he started his choir director activity. He headed the men's choir "Concordia" Hohenhorst for more than 40 years and the "Spitzendorf-Schulau men's choir" for 28 years. Furthermore, he was musically responsible for the song board “Eintracht” Moorrege , the “Men's Choir Uetersen von 1888” (1960 to 1980) and for a short time also the Appener Choir. For a while Günter Kolodziej was also the conductor of five choirs, as well as the conductor , singer and soloist .

In Uetersen, where he lived for a long time, he and his wife ran the city's only specialist music store from 1964 to 1988 and trained many of his students who, according to his own statements, became “very good musicians”. On the side, Kolodziej composed songs and texts for his choirs and was a GEMA member from 1947 .

He celebrated great success with his choirs. This was followed by live appearances at the Hamburg Harbor Concert and in the television programs Hamburg Ahoi, Current Schaubude and ZDF Sunday Concert , as well as in other radio and television broadcasts. Another great success was the 1974 American trip to the German-American Steuben Parade , which would have to be canceled due to the oil crisis . During this time there were recordings at record label Philips which were recorded in Studio Hamburg. His greatest successes were: "Mein Schleswig-Holstein" (1961), "Waidmannslust", "Mein Holstein" and the well-known shanty "Rolling home (Dor fohr vun Hamborg mol so'n olen Kassen)" (1964),

literature

• Ilse Rudat: A musician's life around the “Tivoli” in Uetersen , yearbook for the Pinneberg district (Beig Verlag Pinneberg 1995)
• Festschrift: 125 years of the Spitzerdorf-Schulau men's choir , pages 14–18 (2011)
• Festschrift: 120 years of the Uetersen men's choir from 1888 e. V. , pages 22–27 (2008)