Hans Klagemann

Hans "Katzenpfote" Klagemann (* around 1915) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( drums , percussion ).

Live and act

Klagemann, who had received insufficient musical training, had to undergo several exams by the Reichsmusikkammer in 1936 in order to retain recognition as a professional musician under the Nazi regime. In the late 1930s and early 1940s he played in the orchestras of Peter Kreuder and Kurt Hohenberger , where he formed the rhythm section with Fritz Schulz-Reichel (piano), Hans Korseck (guitar) and Rudi Wegener (double bass) . He also worked on recordings by Teddy Stauffer , Raymond Bird , Albert Vossen , Michael Jary , Adolf Steimel and Kurt Weg . In 1942 he became a member of the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra . In the field of jazz he was involved in 43 recording sessions from 1936 to 1944, most recently shortly before the end of the war in Prague in the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra under the direction of Willi Stech (“Powerhouse”). In 1987 Michael H. Kater interviewed him as part of the research for his article Forbidden Fruit? Jazz in the Third Reich .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael H. Kater : Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02409-4 , p. 75
2. ↑ Discographic information on Klagemann's recordings with Teddy Stauffer. jazzdaten.ch
3. ↑ Michael H. Kater: Daring game. Cologne 1995, p. 242
4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online), accessed September 15, 2016
5. ↑ Forbidden Fruit? Jazz in the Third Reich . In: The American Historical Review , Vol. 94, No. 1, 1989, pp. 11-43, JSTOR 1862076