Gerd Natschinski

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Gerd Joachim Natschinski (born August 23, 1928 in Chemnitz ; † August 4, 2015 in Berlin ) was a German composer and conductor. He created 13 pieces for music theater as well as orchestral works and music for around 70 films, 400 songs, hits and chansons. Natschinski is one of the most famous composers in the GDR .

Life

Natschinski's father had studied music in his youth, among other things as a pupil of the French violinist and music teacher Henri Marteau , but then had to take up the profession of a commercial clerk. Two years after the birth of the son, the parents moved to Dresden , where Gerd Natschinski attended elementary school and the municipal high school in Dresden-Neustadt . Due to the side effects of the Second World War - his music teachers were drafted, Natschinski fell seriously ill for a long time - his training was often interrupted, and finally the 16-year-old was drafted into the flak , although he was released because of illness before the end of the war.

In 1945 Natschinski began studying conducting at the Dresden University of Music with Paul Kurzbach , Werner Hübschmann and Fritz Just, which he broke off after his father's wishes. He moved to his mother in Claussnitz , north of Chemnitz . After taking an exam in Chemnitz, he became a music teacher at the Claussnitzer Volkshochschule in 1946 and took private lessons in theory, composition and piano in Chemnitz until 1948.

From the end of 1948 he directed the great entertainment orchestra of the Leipziger Rundfunk . He gave concerts and regularly conducted his own arrangements and compositions on the radio. From 1951 to 1953 he was a master student with Hanns Eisler in Berlin and from 1952 chief conductor of the entertainment orchestra of the Berliner Rundfunk .

Many of his Schlager compositions - especially Zwei gute Freunde (with Fred Frohberg , 1957), Damals (with Bärbel Wachholz , 1959) or Rom-ta-rom (with Regina Thoss , 1971) achieved great popularity and were outstanding radio and record successes . The operetta Messeschlager Gisela was created in 1960, followed in 1964 by the GDR's first musical, My Friend Bunbury, as well as other joint works with the librettists Jürgen Degenhardt and Helmut Bez . In addition, Natschinski also composed children's and youth songs that have become popular. From 1978 to 1981 he was the artistic director of the Berlin Metropol Theater .

In 1969 he announced his entry into the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany (LDPD). From 1971 to 1981 he was a member of the People's Chamber for the LDPD.

He is the father of the musician and composer Thomas Natschinski (* 1947).

Prizes, awards, offices (selection)

Natschinski has received numerous international awards and the National Prize for Art and Literature (3rd class: 1961), (2nd class: 1974) and (1st class: 1989). Furthermore he was

Works (selection)

Film music

Scores for the cheerful music theater of the GDR (operetta, musical, musical comedy, etc.)

  • The Soldier of the Queen of Madagascar by Julian Tuwim (1959)
  • Messeschlager Gisela , operetta in a prelude and three acts (four pictures) by Johannes Schulz , world premiere: October 16, 1960, East Berlin, Metropol-Theater
  • Servus Peter , musical comedy in three acts (1961)
  • My friend Bunbury , musical in seven pictures (based on Oscar Wilde's Bunbury ) by Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt, world premiere: October 2, 1964, East Berlin, Metropol-Theater
  • Terzett , musical by Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt (1974)
  • Casanova , musical in two parts (thirty-one pictures) by Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt, world premiere: September 10, 1976, East Berlin, Metropol-Theater
  • The Decameronical - Five delightful stories based on the " Decameron " of Mr. Giovanni Boccaccio (1979–82)
  • A Case for Sherlock Holmes , Crimical in Two Acts with Prelude and a surefire finale (1982)
  • Planet of Lovers , based on motifs from the story "Sterelmesek bolygója" by Fekete Gyula (1984)
  • Caballero , Musical (1988)

ballet

Other stage works

  • The magic ring , fairy tale game, world premiere: December 20, 1946, inn "Weißes Roß"
  • The Totokönig , operetta (fragment)
  • Palastical No. 1 - arranged by Gerhard Kneifel

Songs

literature

  • Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz, Frank Oehme, Joachim Schütte: The "Eternal Friend" - Eterna and Amiga; The discography of the shellac records (1947–1961). Albis International Bibliophilen-Verlag, Dresden-Ústí 2006, ISBN 80-86971-10-4 .
  • Bernhard Hönig:  Gerd Natschinski . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
  • Otto Schneidereit : Operettas A - Z. A journey through the world of operettas and musicals. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1986.
  • Roland H. Dippel: Musical without dictation of the present: Gerd Natschinski, the identification magnet (series “Operetta and Musical of the GDR”, episode 6) in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , July 29, 2016, No. 176, p. 10.
  • Michael Stolle: The composer Gerd Natschinski. Musical, film music and hits in the GDR . Tredition, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7469-7453-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography in the DEFA Foundation database, accessed on September 14, 2011
  2. ↑ Otto Schneidereit: Operetta AZ - A foray through the world of operettas and musicals. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1978, pp. 222-235.
personal data
SURNAME Natschinski, Gerd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Erdmann, Ernst Erich (pseudonym); Romanus, Robert (pseudonym); Natschinski, Gerd Joachim (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH 4th August 2015
Place of death Berlin