Gerhard Honey

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Gerhard Honig (born May 3, 1928 in Berlin ) is a German music editor, composer, arranger and orchestra conductor.

Gerhard Honig completed the courses in music and later education. As early as 1951, a song texted by his wife Ursula Upmeier was published. In Leipzig he was in charge of the Schlagerrevue program for a while . In Berlin he worked from 1955 to 1959 as music editor for the German broadcaster . In 1958 the Gerhard Honig orchestra was founded . Numerous recordings of works by young GDR composers have been made for Funk and Amiga.

He wrote many of his songs with Ursula Upmeier. He also worked very closely with Helmut Kießling . On television, he was responsible for the broadcast Oberhofer Bauernmarkt musically and also wrote many songs for this broadcast. Numerous titles by Gerhard Honig have been published by Amiga and have been printed by Harth Musik Verlag Leipzig-Berlin and Lied der Zeit Musikverlag Berlin. He also composed under the pseudonym Toni Eschweiler.

Gerhard Honig wrote the musicals For Five Groschen Urlaub (text by Ursula Damm-Wendler and Horst Ulrich Wendler) and Heinrich der Sexte (text by Chris Hornbogen).

Works

  • Bee dixie
  • You dear little seagull (Helmut Kießling)
  • When the wind blows ( Johannes Kretzschmar )
  • Wishes that live in the heart (Helmut Kießling)
  • Pink Almond Blossoms (Ursula Upmeier)
  • To be in love and to be loved (Helmut Kießling)
  • It doesn't always have to be red roses (Ursula Upmeier)
  • O Michael (Ursula Upmeier)
  • But a heart ( Fred Gertz )
  • Why wander far away (Helmut Kießling)
  • Love me (Ursula Upmeier)
  • Rain doesn't bother us (Ursula Upmeier) and a.
  • We laugh with the sun (Ursula Upmeier)

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contemporary witnesses: Text of March 8, 2007 by Günter Gollasch about Bärbel Wachholz
personal data
SURNAME Honey, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eschweiler, Toni (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music editor, composer, arranger and orchestra leader
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin