Helmuth Stapff

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Helmuth Stapff (born December 16, 1901 in Annaberg ; † August 9, 1978 ) was a native singer and dialect collector of the western Ore Mountains , who published several song collections and anthologies on this topic.

life and work

Helmuth Stapff received his early musical training at the age of 10 to 14 as a carol singer at St. Anne's Church in his hometown. After attending the teachers' seminar in Annaberg, he took up his first job in Neudorf . Encounters with the native singer Anton Günther inspired Stapff to cultivate the Ore Mountain dialect song. From 1928 Stapff appeared at home evenings of the Erzgebirgsverein, initially alone as a singer and reciter. In 1936 he met the sisters Martha "Marthel" and Emmy Pimpl, who were successful singers as Grünhainer Pimpl-Maad . The joint performances soon led to the fact that the three as a mixed Dreigesang ( soprano , alto and baritone joined forces) and the fixed name Helmuth-Stapff group accepted. Together with the Caldarelli siblings and the Zschorlau nightingales , the group was at the forefront of the Ore Mountains singing movement. Her core repertoire included a. the songs ' s Raachermannel , De Peremett and Der Bargma by Erich Lang . Emmy left after their wedding in 1948 and was initially replaced by her sister-in-law Magda Reinwarth, who in turn was replaced a few years later by Else Seidel. Stapff and Marthel Pimpl married 1954. 1955 moved to West Germany Stapff and lived ten years Gräfenberg , then in Buckenhofen (now Forchheim ). In the west, too, the Helmuth Stapff group continued its vocal activity until the spring of 1978.

Works (selection)

editor

  • Foreword in Mei Arzgebirg, how are you shooting! Leipzig 1937
  • Unner Haamit. Songs from the Silver Ore Mountains. Friedrich Hofmeister publishing house , Leipzig 1938.
  • Ore Mountains - our homeland. Praise of the mind and heart. Friedrich Hofmeister publishing house, Leipzig 1953.
  • Christmas in the Ore Mountains. Poems and stories, songs and instrumental sets for the Christmas season. With illustrations by Arno Drescher . Friedrich Hofmeister publishing house, Leipzig 1955.
  • Arzgebirg, mei Arzgebirg. A selection of songs, poems and pictures. Hofmeister, Leipzig undated [1955].
  • Vogtland, nice's Eckel. A selection of poems, songs and pictures - Das Klingende Heimatbüchlein. Verlag Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig undated [1955].
  • Lausitz, our Heemte. Songs, poems, stories and pictures from Upper Lusatia. Hofmeister, Leipzig 1957.

Sound carrier

  • Wu de forests rustling (Anton-Günther-Lieder)
  • Erzgebirge, mei Erzgebirge
  • Christmas in the Ore Mountains
  • Christmas music from the Ore Mountains

literature

  • Möma: Folk musicians of the Ore Mountains: Helmuth Stapff. In: Glückauf. Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein. 89 (26) 1978, issue 7/8, ISSN  0342-5150 , p. 89.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wmd: Erzgebirgsverein mourns loyal members. In: Glückauf. Journal of the Erzgebirgsverein. 89 (26) 1978, No. 9, ISSN  0342-5150 , p. 108.
  2. ↑ a b c gw: A life for singing. Martha Stapff celebrates her 90th birthday. In: Fränkischer Tag Forchheim from September 7, 2005, p. 11
  3. ↑ Elvira Werner : The Erzgebirge dialect song between tradition and modernity. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 62 (2016), Issue 1, ISSN  0486-8234 , pp. 48–59.
personal data
SURNAME Stapff, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German native singer and editor
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Annaberg
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1978
Place of death uncertain: Forchheim