Hannes Flesner

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Hans "Hannes" Flesner (born December 8, 1928 in Rahester Moor near Aurich ; † July 12, 1984 in Leezdorf ) was a German music journalist , songwriter and East Frisian songwriter .

Life

Memorial stone for Hannes Flesner at the Kukelorum lock in his birthplace Aurich-Rahester Moor

Born in East Frisia, Hannes Flesner spent the first years of his life in Bremen , Karlsbad and Łódź . He completed his school education at the Ulrichsgymnasium in Norden . At the age of 16, he was drafted as an Air Force helper in the last year of World War II . After graduating , he worked briefly as a miner in North Rhine-Westphalia and in several other professions. In 1949 he began training as a journalist at the Ostfriesischer Kurier .

In 1955 he moved to the Oldenburger Nordwest-Zeitung and from 1956 worked for the Bild-Zeitung in Hamburg, where he built up the Light Muse department and was responsible for the regular jazz column for everyone who loves jazz and the Schlager magazine . As the only jazz column in a German daily newspaper, it contributed to the popularization of the music genre.From 1959 he wrote lyrics that were usually published under pseudonyms such as "Peter Buchenkamp" or "Frank Dogger". Texts by Flesner were used by Willy Millowitsch , Trude Herr , Walter Scherau and the medium Terzett . He worked u. a. with the composer Werner Twardy , with whom he wrote the Spiegel-Twist for Trude Herr , and Karl Golgowsky . At that time Flesner and Golgowsky lived about five minutes' walk apart, so that lively contact was maintained. Flesner also specialized in writing German cover versions for American hits. At the "Hamburg Schlager Competition 1964", Flesner received the certificate for the second prize on November 4, 1964 from the then Interior Senator Helmut Schmidt for the title Die Kleine Bank im Alsterpark , written together with Wolfgang Kretschmar and sung by Lale Andersen .

In 1964, Flesner took the position of PR manager at the record producer Philips / Phonogram . He continued to write lyrics, but only for artists on his own label. Four years later he went into business for himself and began producing recordings with artists such as Conny Plank , James Last and Lisa Fitz .

In the 1970s, Flesner used the wave of East Frisian jokes to popularize the Low German language and the culture of East Frisia. He brought out the first record with East Frisian jokes and in 1972 he mixed the record East Frisia laughing and singing jokes with self-written songs. In the following years he was invited to television and radio appearances as an East Frisian songwriter. The bottermelk tango (buttermilk tango) is one of his most famous hits . Flesner's former schoolmate Gerd Pundt , the then island bailiff of Memmert and educator, provided the melodies for various Flesner texts. In 1975/76 Flesner had his own broadcast on Radio Bremen , the Low German footnotes . Flesner used the cliché of the "naive, backward and hard-drinking East Frisians" in his self-staging, but saw himself more as a bard and chansonnier for the people from the region and wanted to contribute to an "affirmative self-image of the East Frisians" through his poetry.

From 1980 Flesner devoted himself more to journalism. He wrote and produced a television film for NDR and regularly wrote texts with stories from East Frisia for Die Welt .

As a district writer for Hamburg's Walddörfer (1980) he wrote a book about life on the upper Alster : Give a pour, make lines . An unpublished play entitled Opa lätt de Puppen danzen was found in his estate, which was premiered a year after his death in his last place of residence, Leezdorf.

In 1996 Hannes Flesner's Low German songs were re-released on a double CD. Another CD followed a year later with previously unpublished Low German material, which mainly consists of spoken texts. In addition to the full LP Wenn dat so is, this sound carrier also contains the title In Ostfreesland is't best, originally published on the LP Johann Iken muss äben kieken .

In 2003 the Flesner biography Gröön-Bohnen-Rock'n'Roll came out. Its author Werner Jürgens has been performing regularly with Gerd Brandt, Albertus Akkermann and other musicians since 2012 to give insights into the life and work of Hannes Flesner in a mixture of songs and talk sessions.

Hannes Flesner is buried in the Osteel cemetery.

Appreciations

  • In 1974 Hannes Flesner received the Golden Lantern award .
  • Since 1991 a memorial stone at the Kukelorum lock in Aurich has been a reminder of the life and work of Hannes Flesner.

literature

  • Werner Jürgens: Gröön-Bhnen Rock'n'Roll - life and work of Hannes Flesner (East Frisian) . JeJo Musikverlag, Leer 2003, ISBN 3-9809104-1-5 .
  • Hannes Flesner: My home, my songs . Rautenberg, Leer 1982, ISBN 3-7921-0195-5 .
  • Hannes Flesner: Pour, make lines. About life on the upper Alster . M + K Hansa-Verlag, Hamburg 1981.

Discography

  • 1969 - landlady (fontana, LP)
  • 1971 - The great joke spiral (FASS, LP)
  • 1971 - The Sunday Joke (metronome)
  • 1971 - East Frisian jokes (Fontana Special, LP)
  • 1972 - East Frisia as it sings and laughs (Fontana Special, LP)
  • 1973 - Bottermelk-Tango (Lanteern, LP)
  • 1974 - Nei humm, Rieka, it's ladies choice! (Lanteern, LP)
  • 1976 - Johann Iken, have to kieken! (Lanteern, LP)
  • 1977 - If that's the case, cheers! (Lanteern, LP)
  • 1979 - Tea Waltz (Lanteern, LP)
  • 1996 - That was Hannes Flesner (Fehn, Best-of-CD)
  • 1997 - If that's the case, cheers! (Fehn, Best-of-CD)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c East Frisian Landscape: Hannes Flesner (PDF, p. 2) , 2001, accessed on January 9, 2014
  2. ↑ Quickborn - Journal for Low German Language and Poetry , Volume 70 (1980), Page 345
  3. ↑ Gröön-Bohnen-Rock'n'Roll on the website www.wernerjuergens.com; accessed on September 3, 2019
  4. ^ The grave of Hannes Flesner on the website www.grabsteine-ostfriesland.de; accessed on January 11, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Flesner, Hannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flesner, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist, songwriter and East Frisian songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Rahester Moor near Aurich
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1984
Place of death Leezdorf