Hans Georg Schütz

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Hans Georg Schütz (born March 2, 1912 in Stettin , † June 5, 1976 in Hemmoor ) was a German band leader , dance and jazz musician and composer . Until his death he was married to Liselotte Schütz who also supported as a copywriter. He had a son Hans-Peter and a granddaughter

Live and act

The pianist and accordionist became a member of the Gotia Greifswald singing association in the SV while studying mathematics in Greifswald and Rostock . To finance his studies, he and other students founded an orchestra in which he played the piano, saxophone and accordion. In 1936 he composed the song “Belief in Hitler should be victorious in us”, which Kurt Burgemeister wrote. He practiced his profession as a math teacher until 1938, when he pursued his passion as a musician. He went to Berlin and founded “Die Lustigen Dorfmusikanten” there. With this band, which specializes in folk music, he appeared on radio broadcasts and played records. He established himself as a song composer and founded his own big band as a career changer in the swing scene . This type of formation and the music now presented enabled him to win over younger and younger audiences as well.

From 1938 to 1944 the "Hans Georg Schütz Dance Orchestra" worked for Deutsche Grammophon . He now composed many swinging dance music. Especially after 1940 Schütz rose to the leading league of German dance and swing orchestras. In addition to interpretations of international swing standards, he also played hot pieces by his band members, such as those by jazz pianist Franz Mück (May 1941) or tenor saxophonist Karl-Maria Keller (January 1943), and interpreted pieces by other composers active in Germany, such as guitarist Meg Tevelian . His interpretations of German and international hits, which were particularly swinging after the outbreak of war, were known, in which Rudi Schuricke, among others, took over the vocal part. The popular recordings of various tango and rumba arrangements were also part of the general repertoire of a dance orchestra at that time . With his music, which was released on record, he often tried to walk the steep line between "allowed" dance music adapted in the Third Reich and modern American style dance music. Schütz was drafted into the Wehrmacht in 1943 and assigned to the troop support . In this role he directed the orchestra of the Belgrade soldiers' broadcaster . The best-known “hot” recording with the Hans Georg Schütz Dance Orchestra was made in July 1944 and was released under the name “The Black Tank” and inspired by Tiger Rag . On the A-side of this record there is another hot piece, “Heße Tage” by Kurt Dörflinger . The recordings appeared as a war press in the same year on Polydor and were reprinted several times after the war.

After 1945 the musician returned to his original profession, the popular hit song, and led his orchestra until the 1960s. Schütz had a good feel for the current musical fashions and the German audience of the post-war period was enthusiastic about the popular hit. Schütz also wrote the music for Greetje Kauffeld's Schlager Every Day, so I love you a little more . He also composed and arranged some film scores.

Compositions (selection)

1951

  • Don't be angry all the time

1952

  • Die Affenschande , Foxtrot, Text: Peters-Arnolds (pseudonym, actually Henry Peters)
  • Shield bourgeois pranks , polka (music and arrangement)
  • Seven little hits , Foxtrot (music and arrangement)
  • Das Storchennest , Foxtrot, (music and arrangement)
  • Chocolate soldier , Foxtrot, text: Teddy Baer (pseudonym)

Filmography

  • 1936: Servants ask (actor, music performance)
  • 1939: Tea for two (music, musical direction)
  • 1941: Men's economy (music, musical direction, singing)
  • 1942: The heiress from the Rosenhof (music)
  • 1946: Allez Hopp (music)
  • 1949: Noise in the Secret Annex (music)

literature

  • Soldiers sing to the harmonica. Soldier folk songs and marches with instructions for playing piano accordion . Hans Sikorski Musikverlag, Leipzig 1940.

Documents

  • Autographs by Hans Georg Schütz are in the holdings of the Sikorski music publisher in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book and Vademecum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein 1959, p. 113.
  2. ↑ Knut Wolffram: dance floors and pleasure palaces. Berlin nightlife in the thirties and forties. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3894680474 ; P. 232.
  3. ↑ Franz Mück: Hello Benny! , Gramophone, die Gr11603-B
  4. ^ Karl-Maria Keller: Ilonka , Polydor, 11932-B, Matrize 9832 1/2 GD9
  5. ↑ Meg Tevelian: Adorable woman , gramophone, matrix Gr11603-A
  6. ^ Rainer Lotz : Discography of German Dance Music. Volume 6. German National Discography , Birgit-Lotz-Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-9803461-7-X
  7. ↑ Mario Consiglio: The black tank , Polydor, Matrize 12025-B
  8. ↑ Kurt Dörflinger: Heisse Tage , Polydor, Matrize 12025-A
  9. ↑ a b c d e Published Music. January – June 1952. Catalog of Copyright Entries, Third Series. Vol. 6, Part 5A, No. 1. The Library of Congress, Washington 1952, p. 625.
  10. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 3. New Series, Vol. 6, Part 2. The Library of Congress, Washington 1941, p. 1592.

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personal data
SURNAME Schütz, Hans Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German band leader and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH 5th June 1976
Place of death Hemmoor