Georg Neumüller

Georg Neumüller (born March 24, 1885 in Vienna as Georg Lindmüller; † June 24, 1953 in Murnau am Staffelsee ) was an Austrian lecturer, comedian and folk singer.

life and work

Georg Neumüller came to Munich at a young age . He was a lithographer by profession. In 1903 he made his debut as a folk singer. He did not appear under his real name, but as "Bauernsepp" in front of his audience. The venues were folk singers' stages in Munich taverns and musical halls.

According to the old folk singer tradition, Neumüller wrote most of the texts himself. The ways for some of his lectures came from Hans Blädel and the Munich bandmaster Toni Thoms ; Siegwart Ehrlich wrote the music for a couplet . So-called peasant bands such as "D'Original-Dachauer" Sedelmayer-Schmidt often accompanied his lectures. Occasionally, just a guitar or piano would do it.

His laugh couplets were a particular specialty; a genre popular with small artists at the time, which he mastered to the highest degree due to a certain breathing technique.

Neumüller was friends with Karl Valentin , who generously granted him performance rights for several of his performance pieces. An exchange of letters between the two artists has survived from the years between 1912 and 1915; Both knew each other from joint engagements at the “Vienna-Munich” variety theater in the Hotel Wagner on Sonnenstrasse and from the Deutsches Theater .

Like Valentin, Neumüller also discussed several records for the Electrola, Artiphon and Isiphon brands with his own texts during the 1920s. But already in the early days around 1903 he had made some recordings for “Grammophon”.

Georg Neumüller died on June 24, 1953 in Murnau / Upper Bavaria.

Sound documents (selection)

• Early days: G&T

7 "black label:

Everything is the same to me (?) G&T 2-42 362 (mx. 4289 g) cat. P. 51

Lach-Couplet (?) G&T 2-42 365 (mx. 4288½ g) cat. P. 51

10 "black label:

Lach-Couplet (?) G&T 3-42 588 (mx. 4562½ L) cat. P. 76

Small jokes (?) G&T 3-42 635 (mx. 4563 L) cat. P. 77

The catalog of the DNB, Musikarchiv, names 17 titles:

• Electrola:

Drunt 'in the green meadow (music: Hans Blädel, text: G. Neumüller) Electrola EG1241 (die number BLR 5091)

My belly does me wee with laughter (music: Hans Blädel, text: G. Neumüller) Electrola EG1241 (matrix number BLR 5092)

When I was still single (text and music by Georg Neumüller) lecture in Bavaria. Dialect with Orch.Electrola EG1238 (matrix number BLR 5093)

If you look at the world today (music: S. Ehrlich, text by Georg Neumüller) Lachcouplet in Bavarian. Dialect. Georg Neumüller with Orch.Electrola EG1239 (die number BLR 5094-I)

Because I'm a cow (music: Toni Thoms, text: G. Neumüller) Lecture in Bavarian. Dialect with piano. Electrola EG1238 (die number BLR 5098)

Das goldene Lachen (music: S. Ehrlich, text by Georg Neumüller) Lachcouplet in German. Georg Neumüller with Orch.Electrola EG1239 (die number BLR 5096-I)

Lohengrin Parody I and II (text and music by Georg Neumüller) Georg Neumüller, lecture in Bavarian. Dialect with guitar. Electrola EG1243 (die numbers BLR 5099 and 5100)

• Artiphon (Hermann Eisner):

My belly does me wee with laughter (music: Hans Blädel, text: G. Neumüller) Artiphon D 3101 [A-side]

The Miesbacher Zenz '. Humorous lecture (Georg Neumüller) Artiphon D 3101 [B-side]

• Isiphon / Electrocord / Cordy:

Laughing Couplet (= the belly throws me wee before laughing (music: Hans Blädel, text: G. Neumüller)) Humorous lecture by Georg Neumüller as "Bauernsepp": Isiphon No. 262 (mx. 6383)

The funny farmer (Neumüller), humorous lecture by Georg Neumüller as "Bauernsepp": Cordy 3323 (mx. 6385)

The pear tree (= Drunt 'in the green meadow), couplet (music: Hans Blädel, text: G. Neumüller) Isiphon No. 504 (mx. 6388) / Die Miesbacher Zenz' (?) (Mx. 6384)

The farmer in the city. Humorous lecture by Georg Neumüller as "Bauernsepp": Isiphon Concert Record No. 506 Matrizennummer 6386.

The golden laugh. Humorous lecture by Georg Neumüller as "Bauernsepp": Isiphon Concert Record No. 506 Matrizennummer 6387.

The Bauernsepp in the opera “Lohengrin” I u. II [= Lohengrin parody (Neumüller)] Electrocord No. 1083 (mx. 7933 and 7934)

Lachcouplet (= the belly throws me wee before laughing (music: Hans Blädel, text: G. Neumüller)) Humorous lecture by the "Bauernsepp": Electrocord No. 1084 a (mx. 7935)

Re-releases

Rare shellacs: Munich - Bavaria. Songs & Couplets. CD with a detailed booklet. TRIKONT US-0262, editors: Andreas Koll & Achim Bergmann. Contains as track 23 NEUMÜLLER, GEORG (BAUERNSEPP): Lachcouplet [02:46]

literature

• Cat. = Catalog of the vocal recordings of the “Deutsche Grammophon Berlin - Hanover” (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) from 1898 to 1925. Photomechan. Reprint Düsseldorf, Hansfried Sieben, undated [1972].
• Berthold Leimbach: Audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1895-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated.
• Georg Neumüller: The smart farmer. Solo scene with singing. Leipzig, Gustav Richter (VN G. 1079 R.) [= Richter's peasant types no. 9] [around 1900]. 3, (2) p., Fol., Color ill. Title. With text supplement.
• Claudia Preis, folk singing in Munich 1870–1930. On the production of entertainment culture in the city - Diss. Munich 2010, online (PDF file; 869 kB)
• Till, Wolfgang (Ed.): Karl Valentin - Volkssänger? Dadaist? [Catalog for the] exhibition for Karl Valentin's 100th birthday. Munich, Schirmer / Mosel 1982.

Web links

• Georg Neumüller in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Neumüller at mehrwissen-murnau.de
• muenchen-online.de Valentin Museum
• Title page to Neumüller's solo scene “Der pfiffige Bauer” (JPG file)

• If you look at the world today. Laughing Couplet (S. Ehrlich, Text G. Neumüller) Georg Neumüller with orchestral accompaniment. Electrola EG 1239 (BLR 5094-I), apply. 1929, online at youtube [3]

• The golden laugh. Laughing Couplet (S. Ehrlich, Text G. Neumüller) Georg Neumüller with orchestral accompaniment. Electrola EG 1239 (BLR 5096-I), apply. 1929, online at youtube [4]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See price p. 56 and Note 196
2. ↑ The Hans-Blädel Couplet "I am the Seppl from the country / run in the city around one another" may have been the inspiration for the name , which the latter often sang - also on records. In it, the 'foolish' customs of the big city dwellers from the point of view of the simple farmer are targeted.
3. ↑ Cf. muenchen-online.de: Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt initially had their big appearances on the folk singer stages in the well-known taverns and musical halls. There they might also meet famous contemporary folk singers like Karl Maxstadt, Hans Blädel and Georg Neumüller ...
4. ↑ See label at Georg Neumüller - Das Lachcouplet . One of the most famous was the “1. original Dachauer “Bauernkapelle” by Hans Straßmaier , who was engaged in the Munich entertainment venue “Platzl”; a photo under [1] , cf. Advertising brochure [2]
5. ↑ Cf. his song “Because I am a cow” or his Lohengrin parody.
6. ↑ Folk singers like Hans Blädel, Seppl Dammhofer, August Junker and Richard Waldemar had laugh couplets in their repertoire. Soubrettes like Margarete Wiedeke and Lucie Bernardo specialized in laughter artists. The Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH., An early film company in Berlin, even produced a sound image in 1908 that preserved a laugh couplet: the image on a movie, the sound on e. Gramophone record, cf. Laughter Couplet - filmportal.de
7. ↑ See price p. 110: ... Laughter couplets in which the speaker was apparently shaken by fits of laughter instead of a refrain between the stanzas, but in reality, however, evoked and completely controlled this laughter with the help of the singer's "breathing aid". Georg Neumüller, for example, was a master of this technique and recorded numerous shellac records with laugh couplets. and note 418, cf. z. B. Neumüller, Georg: The golden laugh. Couplet. Electrocord 3326.1929; Neumüller, Georg: My stomach hurts with laughter. Couplet. Cordy 3325 [1927], this is an interpretation of a couplet by Hans Blädel (Blädel, Hans: Couplet: My stomach hurts with laughter. Laughter couplet. M 1, Westermair Munich JB 292 WM)
8. ↑ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1895-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated
9. ↑ A photo of the restaurant from a postcard from Till, Karl Valentin - Volkssänger? Dadaist? P. 29
10. ↑ See page "The German Theater in Munich": Stars like Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt became known to a wider audience here. Deutsches Theater: Image, Profile and History ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ See catalog of vocal recordings p. 265
12. ↑ See wienerzeitung.at, October 20, 2012 1953: Georg Neumüller, Austrian comedian
13. ^ Catalog of the DNB, music archive
14. ↑ The booklet accompanying the Trikont CD dates the recording to 1921. Further publications are available on Isi labels (Daheim Record etc.) .
15. ↑ See Dismarc.org ; Cordy was a late "Isi" label around the turn of the decade 1929/30, on which older matrices were nevertheless used.
16. ↑ Fig. Of the label at musik-sammler.de . According to the label, the “Bauernsepp” on this record from 1928 was accompanied by “D'Original-Dachauer” Sedelmayer-Schmidt.