Heinrich Riethmüller

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Heinrich Riethmüller (born December 23, 1921 in Berlin ; † December 8, 2006 in Baiersbronn ) was a German musician , composer and dubbing director . He is known to an audience of millions as the former musical director of the television show Dalli Dalli by and with Hans Rosenthal . Earwigs also numerous by him in the 1960s to the 1980s translated into German lyrics were Walt Disney - animated films .

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After attending the Canisius College (Jesuit School) in Berlin, Heinrich Riethmüller studied church music in his hometown from 1940 at the Academy for Church and School Music. He was a member of the Bund New Germany . From 1942 Riethmüller worked as an organist and choirmaster . After 1945 he played with the Radio Berlin Dance Orchestra and in 1947 became musical director of the Berlin cabaret "Ulenspiegel".

Riethmüller was very active musically. Although he also composed serious works such as the Tempelhofer Messe (1974), popular music was his real profession. From 1951 on he wrote a series of film scores for comedies or homeland films like a Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten (1954). In addition, Riethmüller was part of the team for the radio show Die Rückblende , a satirical radio broadcast by the RIAS . He mostly contributed the music to the literary chansons . Because of its great success, the series also briefly made it to television in 1961 when it was produced by NDR .

The meeting with Hans Rosenthal was decisive for Riethmüller's further career. For the show master, he wrote almost all of the title tracks on his radio shows such as Whoever Asks, Wins , Alone Against All and Fun Must Be, and for the television quiz series Well asked is half won , which ran from 1964 to 1970. He became known to a large audience from 1971 through Rosenthal's follow-up show Dalli Dalli . He composed the theme song for the show and accompanied the singers on the piano or with Götz Wendlandt's combo as musical director . Riethmüller also appeared again and again as a musician at concerts on the piano or on the Wurlitzer organ . He also had his own orchestra for a time and directed the RIAS orchestra; At Hans Rosenthal's events in Berlin, he was also often director of the RIAS dance orchestra.

Since 1950, Riethmüller has also worked as musical director for music dubbing for foreign language feature films. His best-known work in this function is Mary Poppins (1964), whose German dialogues and music texts were written by Eberhard Cronshagen . The Cronshagen-Riethmüller team worked together on other dubbed versions of Walt Disney films in the years that followed . With the German version of The Jungle Book (1967) proved Riethmueller then but that he also single-handedly synchronous book and -regie could handle and musical director. From then on he developed into a specialist in the development of German versions of Disney cartoons, the synchronization of which he supervised up to and including Cap and Capper - Zwei Freunde auf Acht Pfoten (1981). In addition, the Disney studios commissioned him in the 1970s to create new German dubbed versions for the older cartoons Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), Lady and the Tramp (1955) and 101 Dalmatians (1961) .

At the beginning of the 1980s Riethmüller withdrew from the dubbing business and moved to Baiersbronn, his adopted home, where he lived until the end, and devoted himself to other musical projects. He was also actively involved in community life. He also continued to write plays . On January 8, 1988, the premiere of his Singspiel Mutter Gräbert macht Theater , for which Curth Flatow had written the book, was in the stands in Berlin . The more time passed, however, the more he devoted himself to his Baiersbronn, in particular to the Baiersbronn Singers' Association. He directed it for many years, and until early autumn 2006 he accompanied the singers on the piano. Riethmüller wrote songs especially for the choir.

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Heinrich Riethmüller was also strongly connected to the musical promotion of children and young people. In the 80s and 90s, the professional musician often gave concerts with the Bad Oeynhausen eV children's choir, directed by the soprano Brunhilde Mühlmeier, in East Westphalia-Lippe, in Berlin and in the Black Forest. In these joint performances at the Tempelhofer Messe , he always took on the organ part. He also dedicated his own compositions to the children's choir and the Badestadt.

Heinrich Riethmüller died in December 2006, two weeks before his 85th birthday, after a serious illness. He left his wife Gertrud Riethmüller and two children. On Friday, December 15th, he was buried in the Baiersbronn cemetery. The Singers' Association under the direction of its former conductor Karl-Adolf Hornung also took part.

Works (selection)

Classical compositions

  • 1947 - In the Kinderland. Four new children's songs - words by Kurt Gohlsch
  • 1949 - Chants of Li Tai Pe for baritone and piano - based on the adaptation of Klabund
  • 1974 - Tempelhof trade fair
  • 1988 - Mother Gräbert does theater - Singspiel, book by Curth Flatow

Film music

Heinrich Riethmüller also appeared in the comedy film Alles für dich, mein Schatz (1954).

Synchronized work

Riethmüller created a new German dubbed version for the following Disney films:

literature

  • Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz, Frank Oehme, Joachim Schütte: The "Eternal Friend" - Eterna and Amiga; The discography of the shellac records (1947 - 1961) , Albis International Bibliophilen-Verlag, Dresden-Ústí 2006, ISBN 80-86971-10-4

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Riethmüller  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ spiegel.de December 13, 2006: “Dalli Dalli” composer Riethmüller died
personal data
SURNAME Riethmüller, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and dubbing director
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2006
Place of death Baiersbronn