Helmut Tamm

Helmut Tamm (born May 6, 1931 in Groß Vorwerk , Glogau district , Lower Silesia ) is a German deacon and church musician.

Life

After school and a pre-deacon year, Tamm began training as a deacon in April 1947 at the Protestant Foundation in Neinstedt . After graduating in 1951, he devoted himself to music. Before joining the Evangelical Consistory of the Church Province of Saxony , he passed the church music examination in September 1952 . In 1953 - at the age of 22 - he was able to take over the office of the managing trombonist of the ecclesiastical province. On July 1, 1956, he was appointed as Mecklenburg's trombone attendant. Initially he had to do the job from Magdeburg because no suitable apartment could be found in Mecklenburg. As the father of two children, he was only given an apartment in Malchow (Mecklenburg) in 1957 . He first had to work in the living room and later in the self-made garden shed. An Erika (typewriter) and a (state-approved) matrix printer were available . After many urgency requests, a telephone was approved in 1963. The difficult administrative tasks included arranging sheet music and instruments, shipping and a lot of correspondence. Brass season was all year round. Tamm drove around 200 days a year - from 1959 with a Wartburg  - to practice lessons, trombone festivals, wind instrument meetings, church services and celebrations. The permanent tasks included wind tours (also outside Mecklenburg) and choir conducting courses in Berlin-Weißensee . The best winds formed selected choirs, for example in Pritzier . Well-attended beginners' arming took place in the Mirow rectory and in Prillwitz (Hohenzieritz) . Tamms employment ended after 24 years on May 31, 1980. He went as a teacher at a music school .

literature

• Holger Gehrke, Martin Huss : God for praise, people for joy. Mecklenburg trombone choirs in the past and present. An illustrated book. On behalf of the trumpet work of Ev.-Luth. Regional Church of Mecklenburg. Barkow 2003, pp. 269f.