Gerhard Jussenhoven

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Gerhard Jussenhoven (born January 30, 1911 in Cologne ; † July 13, 2006 there ) was a German composer and music publisher .

Life

Beginnings

Jussenhoven was born in 1911 as the son of a confectionery manufacturer in Cologne's Severinsviertel . At the age of 14 he accompanied the Cologne music legend Willi Ostermann on the piano . At the request of his parents he began after the High School with the law school and was in 1937 as a jurist doctorate (title of his work: "The limits of advertising in economic competition"). He began his legal career in 1937 as an employee of the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and Industry . Here he worked as an attorney for competition law, but at the same time he also studied musicology , harmony and composition at the Cologne University of Music . Jussenhoven worked as a lawyer for about ten years and during this time composed one of his most successful songs, the Schunkelwalzer Kornblumenblau .

Career

Immediately after the Second World War , Jussenhoven became a freelance composer. He initially wrote music for the first carnival revues of the post-war period in the Cologne variety theater " Tazzelwurm " with Grete Fluss . In the following six decades he wrote more than 1,000 music tracks. He was particularly successful in the 1950s and 1960s. His melodies, sung by Ilse Werner , Willy Millowitsch , Peter Alexander , Johannes Heesters or the Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein , became known to millions of people. The collaboration with the Cologne native Willy Schneider , who interpreted Jussenhovens Man would have to be another twenty and interpreted another 70 compositions by him, was particularly successful .

Numerous texts of his folk songs in Cologne were written by Jupp Schlösser from Cologne ; Many of these songs enrich Cologne's song treasure to this day, for example Die Hüsjer bunt om Aldermaat . The High German texts of his hit compositions often came from the pen of Hans Bradtke , Charly Niessen or Kurt Feltz .

In addition to hits, Jussenhoven composed operettas and musicals , such as the 1963 revue “Eau de Cologne”, the 1979 Kotzebue adaptation “Die deutscher Kleinstädter”, 1989 “Good luck, Bill”, 1992 the Christmas fairy tale “Befana” and shortly before his death that Dramolet »Venus on Wheels«.

Gerhard Jussenhoven founded his own music publishing house with Hans Gerig, the "Edition Capella", which he continued to run on his own after the death of his partner. Today the music publisher Edition Capella belongs to his daughter.

Honors and end of life

Grave site in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne (hall 12 in G) .

In 1978 he was awarded the golden Willi Ostermann Medal for his services to the Kölsche Lied . In 1981 he was awarded the Golden Needle of the Dramatists Union . In November 2002, Jussenhoven received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his life's work .

On his 95th birthday on January 29, 2006, the Westdeutsche Rundfunk honored him with a carnival matinee in the Cologne Philharmonic , where guests such as Lotti Krekel , Ernst H. Hilbich , the Bläck Fööss and the Kölner Männer-Gesang-Verein congratulated him. The concert was accompanied by the WDR Radio Orchestra Cologne under the direction of Helmuth Froschauer .

Gerhard Jussenhoven died on July 13, 2006 in his hometown of Cologne. On 22 July 2006, took Pontifical - Requiem in Cologne Cathedral instead. Jussenhoven was buried in the Melaten cemetery .

Works

  • Cornflower Blue (July 1937)
  • Pay attention to the vintage (1938)
  • Die Hüsjer bunt om Aldermaat (1938)
  • Cornflower Blue (1939)
  • The hinger de Gerdinge ston un spingkse (1939)
  • I should greet you, my young gunner (1940)
  • Me and My Comrade (1942)
  • Say ens Blotwoosch (1948)
  • Pardon, I didn't want to fall in love (December 1950)
  • When you think, when you think, that it will be different (October 1951)
  • You'd have to be 20 again ( Willy Schneider , 1953)
  • Dat Glockespill vum Roothuusturm (1954)
  • A greeting, a kiss, a bouquet of flowers ( Renate Holm , 1955)
  • A toast to cosiness (trad., Comp. Together with Kurt Elliot, 1957)
  • Life Begins at 50 (1958)
  • Bathtub tango ( Peter Alexander , 1961)
  • There is still love at first sight
  • Beer from Bavaria ( Billy Mo )
  • Fortunately, everyone needs someone else ( Ilse Werner )
  • Cyprienne (musical 1967)
  • I want to be 100 years
  • People always sing new songs here on the Rhine
  • What did the sailors in Singapore do (The singing starfish)
  • Don't look at the clock

Quotes

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ TMK Medien Köln: Gerhard Jussenhoven , accessed on February 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Koelsche Fastelovend.de: July 15: Dr. Gerhard Jussenhoven passed away , accessed on February 24, 2019

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personal data
SURNAME Jussenhoven, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and music publisher
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2006
Place of death Cologne