Harry Kosczol

Harry Kosczol (born March 16, 1921 in Berlin ) is a former German musician, composer, music educator and leader of the accordion ensemble of the German People's Police .

Harry Kosczol learned to play the piano at an early age. In the 1930s he devoted himself to the accordion , the fashion instrument of the time. Released from a two-month British captivity after the Second World War, he lived briefly near Bremerhaven and moved to Borkwalde in November 1946 , where his family had owned a summer arbor since 1927. Here he founded his first music ensemble, a folk dance and instrumental group, as part of the youth work of the FDJ .

When cultural work was concentrated in company groups at the end of the 1940s, he founded a folk art ensemble at the Ernst-Thälmann-Werft in Brandenburg , after which he became ensemble manager at the Hennigsdorf steelworks . The ensemble asserted itself among the top groups in district and GDR-wide competitions.

After three years Harry Kosczol moved to the central ensemble of the German People's Police, whose accordion orchestra he led for over thirty years. He also worked as a teacher at the Potsdam Music School and completed a distance learning course to become a certified teacher for music.

He wrote nine arrangements and compositions that were published by music publishers. His best known composition is the Lauschaer Galopp (Ed .: Erich-Carl Frohloff). In 1954 Harry Kosczol was named the best accordion soloist in the GDR.

In 1997 Harry Kosczol appeared once again as one of the initiators of the Brandenburg State Youth Accordion Orchestra.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Securing evidence (private): From unskilled worker to diploma. Retrieved February 24, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Regine Bestle and Volker Gerlich: 10 years State Youth Accordion Orchestra Brandenburg, Festschrift . (PDF; 14.1 MB) (No longer available online.) October 13, 2007, formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 24, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    

literature

• Harry Kosczol: Hotel Kaiserhof Berlin. Memories of a page , Verlag Fischer und Fischer Medien AG, Frankfurt am Main 2003