Gotthilf Fischer

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Gerhard Albert Gotthilf Fischer (born February 11, 1928 in Plochingen ; † December 11, 2020 in Weinstadt ) was a German choir director who became known through the Fischer choirs he founded.

Life

Fischer was the son of a master carpenter who played a lot of music in his spare time. This is how he came into contact with music at an early age. After attending primary school in his home town of Deizisau , Fischer attended the teacher training institute in Esslingen from 1942 to 1945 .

After the end of the Second World War , Fischer became director of the Concordia choral society in Deizisau.

In 1949, under his leadership, his choir won the popular and artistic singing competitions at the great Swabian Singing Festival in Göppingen . It was through this success that he first became known locally. As a result, other choral societies gathered under his leadership. These partial choirs form the so-called Fischer choirs .

In addition to his musical successes, the autodidact Fischer, who had never received formal musical training, also enjoyed steady economic success. Fischer knew how to put himself in the limelight; One of the highlights of his career was the performance of the Fischer Choirs with well over 1000 singers at the end of the 1974 World Cup . World tours took him to Rome and the USA to see President Carter .

His Swabian compatriot Wolle Kriwanek caricatured Fischer's business acumen in the song We sing for millions . In 1983, Fischer was featured in the show Do you understand fun? tricked by a queen doppelganger. In 1996 he was in the WDR TV show Zimmer frei! to guest.

Although he was more likely to be assigned to the popular hit , Fischer appeared as a 72-year-old in 2000 at the Berlin Love Parade . In the spring of 2001 he made a guest appearance on the third season of the reality show Big Brother .

Gotthilf Fischer was the initiator and presenter of the ARD television series Straße der Lieder , which was discontinued on February 16, 2008 after a 12-year period.

On May 6, 2008, Fischer was in the show Bully sucht die stark Männer to see, the casting show for the remake of the children's series Wickie and die stark Männer . There he trained the four applicants who were candidates for the role of "Elme" in singing.

Fischer lived in Weinstadt near Stuttgart. On December 26, 2008, his wife Hildegard died at the age of 89 after a long illness of complications from a stroke . The couple had been married since 1949 and had two children together.

Gotthilf Fischer died on December 11, 2020 at the age of 92 in Weinstadt.

Appreciations

Many of his recordings have been awarded gold records over the years . The choirmaster also received the Hermann Löns Medal and the Golden Globe in 1974, an honorary lion from Radio Luxemburg in 1975 , the golden microphone and the first gold record. In 1977 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and in 1982 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class for special services to the German folk song. In 1993 Gotthilf Fischer also received the Baden-Württemberg State Medal of Merit . In 1998 the German piano industry named him Piano Player of the Year, although Fischer never had a long or competent piano training or appeared as a pianist through recordings or performances. A critical documentary film portrait was dedicated to him in 1993 by Rudolf Werner with Friede, Freude, Fischer (first broadcast February 11, 1993, SWR , 60 minutes).

Gotthilf Fischer received the 1st World Peace Prize 2006 of the International Choir Olympiad for his commitment to maintaining peace in the world . The award was presented to him on December 28, 2006 in Stuttgart by former Federal President Walter Scheel , Honorary President of the Forum of the Choir Olympiad. On June 23, 2007, in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, he conducted what was then the largest guitar ensemble in the world with 1802 guitarists, which earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. On January 12th, 2008 he was awarded the Crown of Folk Music 2008 for his life's work in Chemnitz on the occasion of the MDR TV gala . For his missions after the rampage in Winnenden , where he was in favor of theFoundation against Violence in Schools , he was made an honorary member by its association in 2010. In 2011, Parragon Verlag Köln published a biography entitled "My Life - My Songs". On October 24, 2017 Gotthilf Fischer was honored for 70 years of sound recording by his record company 7us media group in Stuttgart, where he has been publishing his songs since 2007. Gotthilf Fischer received an Impala Award in gold for over 15 million streams and downloads of his recording joy beautiful Götterfunken , also published as a European hymn for the 2019 European elections , from EU Commissioner Günther H. Oettinger on July 24, 2019 in Ludwigsburg .

Ritterhaus Wilhermsdorf (2014)

In the Franconian town of Wilhermsdorf , where he founded the Association for the Preservation of German Songs in 2014, a Gotthilf Fischer Café was opened in October 2010 at the instigation of the entrepreneur Franz Stegner (Stechert Group). A museum was to be dedicated to him in the same building.

Web links

Commons : Gotthilf Fischer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Gotthilf Fischer  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weinstadt: The Lord of the Choirs celebrates , Stuttgarter Zeitung , February 10, 2013
  2. ↑ rooms available! Episode 17 Gotthilf Fischer, August 15, 1996 , fernsehserien.de
  3. ↑ Love Parade: Presumably pills in beer: Ecstasy attack on Gotthilf Fischer? , rp-online.de , July 21, 2000
  4. ^ "Big Brother": Weird tones in the "Ballermann" flat , spiegel.de , April 29, 2001
  5. ↑ http://www.swr.de/presseservice/archiv/2008/-/id=3212422/nid=3212422/did=3084808/1nwy6k2/Template: dead link /! ... nourl  ( page no longer available )
  6. ↑ Listed in the order in which they were broadcast. Source: SWR Media Services ( Memento from October 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Together until the end: Gotthilf Fischer mourns his wife , augsburger-allgemeine.de , December 30, 2008
  8. ↑ Gotthilf Fischer: The King of Choirs is Dead , DW.com, December 16, 2020
  9. ↑ Choir director Gotthilf Fischer died at the age of 92 SWR Aktuell Baden-Württemberg from December 16, 2020
  10. ↑ Still image: Kehl-Kopf: "Friede, Freude, Fischer" , taz.de , February 13, 1993
  11. ↑ 7us presents the Impala Gold Award to Gotthilf Fischer at MusikWoche on July 26, 2019
  12. ↑ a b “I get the greatest applause with old songs” , welt.de , March 30, 2014
  13. ↑ Gotthilf Fischer founds an association for the preservation of German songs , nmz.de, February 3, 2014
  14. ↑ Gotthilf Fischer gets its own museum in Franconia , Abendzeitung-muenchen.de , October 11, 2010
  15. ↑ Gotthilf Fischer as godfather for café: Choir director opened the restaurant named after him in Wilhermsdorf , nordbayern.de, October 11, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Gotthilf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Gerhard Albert Gotthilf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choirmaster
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Plochingen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2020
Place of death Wine town