Gottfried Boettger

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Gottfried Böttger in Hamburg, 2016
Gottfried Böttger and Udo Lindenberg in the Hamburg Music Hall, 1974

Gottfried Böttger (born December 21, 1949 in Hamburg ; † October 16, 2017 there ) was a German boogie-woogie and ragtime pianist.

life and career

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
The highlight
  DE 37 09/09/1974 (5 weeks)
  AT 13 11/15/1974 (4 weeks)
Hamburg '75 (as Gottfried & Lonzo)
  DE 50 03/10/1975 (1 week)

Böttger received classical piano training from 1955, and in 1957 he had his first public concert. In 1969, after graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg , he founded the jazz-pop group Leinemann with Uli Salm and Ulf Krüger , in 1971 he released the solo record Gottfried goes happy , in 1973 the pensioners band and the panic orchestra were founded with Udo Lindenberg . Böttger was immortalized in 1973 by Udo Lindenberg in his hit Alles Klar auf der Andrea Doria with the song line “Gottfried is the name of the boy, over there at the piano, and for every number of ragtime he gets' n corn and beer”. In 1974 he recorded a German version of the ragtime hit The Entertainer from the film Der Clou under the pseudonym “Raggi Ragtime” . Also in 1974 he recorded the single Hamburg '75 with his long-time companion Lonzo Westphal . In this well-known piece, which Hans Scheibner wrote for her, the two of them look back wistfully as old men on their heyday in the Hamburg scene around Uncle Pö , to which they belonged at the time.

He also released numerous recordings, including with the American blues pianist Memphis Slim , and wrote music for television series such as Tatort and Großstadtrevier . In 1997 he also made a recording with South African spiritual artist Joe Curtis .

Since 1997 he has been a lecturer in media didactics in the field of media informatics in the computer science department at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences and was later appointed honorary professor for digital audio technology.

In the TV talk show III nach 9 on Radio Bremen , Böttger has been a permanent pianist since the first broadcast on November 19, 1974 , sometimes in a duo with Joe Pentzlin . For the 40th anniversary of the talk show with the edition on November 14, 2014, the musician said goodbye to the show.

He died in October 2017 at the age of 67 years to cancer .

Awards

  • NORD AWARD 2007

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Böttger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pianist Gottfried Böttger loses battle against cancer. In: welt.de. 17th October 2017.
  2. ↑ Chart sources: Charts DE
  3. ↑ Songbook: All right on the Andrea Doria. In: udo-lindenberg.de. Retrieved October 28, 2017.
  4. ^ Website of the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences: Directory of lecturers; accessed on September 8, 2011 ( memento of March 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Gottfried Böttger's farewell to "3 to 9". In: shz.de. November 13, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Böttger, Gottfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Raggi Ragtime (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH 16th October 2017
Place of death Hamburg