Helmuth Wernicke

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Helmuth Wernicke (born March 21, 1909 in Berlin ; † November 14, 1994 there ) was a German pianist , singer , composer , arranger and bandleader who was active in jazz as well as in Schlager and easy listening .

Live and act

Wernicke worked as a pianist in Berlin a. a. with John Abriani / Al Bowlly (" My Blue Heaven " and "My Regular Gal", recordings for Homocord ), 1930 as "Refrainsinger" with Efim Schachmeister , with whom he recorded the humorous number Stutterer Fox . Accompanied by Schachmeister's orchestra, he also covered the popular hit song “ On Sunday, my sweetie wants to go sailing with me ” (aka Karkoff Orchestra ; Derby # 5651).

In the 1930s, Wernicke u. a. with Billy Bartholomew (recordings for Tri-Ergon ), from 1935 in Heinz Wehner's Telefunken Swing Orchestra . Under his own name he played a potpourri ("hit melodies") for Imperial in 1939 ; In 1939 he worked with Franz Thon with his dance rhythmist, Willy Berking, and from November 1939 to 1943 in Michael Jary's dance orchestra , in 1941 he appeared in Bucharest as the accompanist of Trude Hesterberg . Around 1940 he accompanied Horst Winter (“Yes, that's my melody”, Tempo # 5102).

In the post-war years , Wernicke appeared in Berlin night clubs ; he played with Eddie Unger and his soloists ("Harmonica-Eddie", Odeon); he also recorded for Amiga ("Melancholie"). From 1947 he worked as a pianist and arranger for Kurt Hohenberger . In 1948 he took part in Rex Stewart's Hot Club Berlin Session ("Linden Blues"). In 1950 he was co-founder of the Vereinigung Deutscher Musik-Arrer eV , an association of arrangers (with Kurt Drabek , Horst Kudritzki and Erwin Lehn ) . In the early 1950s he recorded again under his own name for Polydor ("September in the Rain", duo with Ladi Geisler ), Philips and Electrola ("Swing Parade" and "I like to listen to music") and headed the RIAS - House chapel. He also played with Frank "Big Boy" Goudie and 1951–54 with Walter Dobschinski . In the field of jazz he was involved in 84 recording sessions between 1928 and 1954.

Wernicke's most famous song was “Das Fräulein Gerda”, for which Eric Plessow (alias Ewald Walter ) wrote the lyrics; the hit was u. a. Covered by Peter Igelhoff , Rudi Schuricke , Will Glahé , and in later years by artists like Billy Mo , the City Singers (with the Ballhaus Orchestra Kurt Beyer , Amiga) and Max Raabe . He also composed the tracks “Gulf Stream”, “A Small Clock in My Heart” (with Hans Fritz Beckmann ), “Once so, once so” (with Carl Ulrich Blecher ), “Calypso Cubana” (with Harry Frank and Ferry Wiedner) , "I want to always, always love you", "Tonight I'll ride to Rosmarie", "Should it go on like this?" And "Wolgawellen" (with Gerhard Winkler and Michael Jary), z. T. humorous numbers and parodies ; Wernicke presented his version of the waltz " Wiener Bluts " by Johann Strauss (son) in the Theater des Westens . He also wrote a number of arrangements, such as "in the album of life".

Discographic notes

Recordings of his compositions

  • Egon Kaiser dance orchestra with refraing singing: Kurt Mühlhardt: Das Fräulein Gerda (gramophone 1938, # 2799 B)
  • Peter Igelhoff: Das Fräulein Gerda (Electrola 1938, EG 6432)
  • Orchestra Corny Ostermann (vocals: Rudi Schuricke): Das Fräulein Gerda (Kristall 3735)
  • Orchestra Will Glahé: Das Fräulein Gerda (Electrola 1938, # 6453)
  • Emanuel Rambour with Ludwig Bernauer : Das Fräulein Gerda ( Tempo 1938, # 1334)
  • Orchestra Joe Bund , vocals: Wilfried Sommer : A small clock in my heart (Gloria 1939, #GO 41284)
  • Fud Candrix , Tony Jongenelen: A Little Clock in My Heart (Telefunken 1939, # A2885)
  • Theo Reuter : Wolgawellen (records Volksverband 1940, # M1840)
  • Michael Jary with his Chamber Dance Orchestra: Gulf Stream (Odeon, ca.1939, # 12538) Singing: Die Metropol-Vokalisten
  • Michael Jary: Volga waves (Odeon 1940, # 31642)
  • Heinz Becker with his soloists: once so, once so (Amiga, A1344) vocals: Werner Schöne

Recordings under your own name

  • Helmut Wernicke with his orchestra, vocals Ruth Zillger : I love listening to music (Electrola 1949, # 0RA 6335-2-1)
  • Helmuth Wernicke & Jose Gea: Berlin: Hilton Hotel (Philips) (LP, around 1965)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Broadcasting Archive (pdf) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dra.de
  2. ^ Brian Rust , Malcolm Shaw: Jazz and Ragtime Records (1897-1942): AK , 2002, p. 3
  3. ↑ Note on 20s jazz
  4. ↑ Title: Efim Schachmeister Helmuth Wernicke Stotterer Fox 1930 at Audiomp3 ( Memento of the original from September 1st, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / audiomp3.xyz
  5. ↑ a b c Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2016)
  6. ↑ Note on gramophone records
  7. ↑ Bucharest: UfA troupe, song table, Trude Hesterberg-Helmut Wernicke
  8. ^ Information from the University of Oldenburg / Shellac record collection
  9. ↑ Knud Wolffram Ed. Hentrich: dance floors and pleasure palaces: Berlin nightlife in the thirties and forties. From Friedrichstrasse to Berlin W., from Moka Efti to Delphi , 1992
  10. ↑ Jazz on Amiga 1947-1962 on MusicBrainz
  11. ^ Horst Heinz Lange, G. Olms: Jazz in Germany: the German jazz chronicle until 1960 . 1996, p. 151
  12. ↑ Other musicians at Rex Stewart's "Hot Club Berlin" session were Rex Stewart (cornet), Carlton Riley (tb), Joe Appleton (cl, ts), Louis Stephenson (as), "Teddy" Lenz (kb), Clinton Maxwell ( dr). July 15, 1948 Information from Rex Stewart in Berlin
  13. ↑ Photo from December 1950; Macky Kasper (tp), Herbert Müller (cl), Gunter Grunwaldt (ts), Heinz Cramer (git), Teddy Lenz (kb) and Gunther Becker (dr) played in his instrumental septet . According to Tom Lord: Jazz Discography (online)
  14. ^ Public of modernity, modernity in public: the Rhineland 1945-1955; Lectures of the interdisciplinary working group for research into modernism in the Rhineland ., Ed. by Dieter Breuer, Gertrude Cepl-Kaufmann. Klartext, 2000
  15. ↑ In a contemporary review, “ Die Welt ” spoke of “Viennese blood poisoning”. Quoted from Berlin's cultural life 1986: critical retrospectives . Edited by Rainer Höynck and Götz von Coburg. Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin. 1987, p. 40.
  16. ↑ Edmund Kötscher: In the album of my life . Foxtrot. Here: edition for salon orchestra. Some voice books with well thought-out text. Words: MC Krüger. Arr .: Helmuth Wernicke. Seitz., Berlin, 1940
  17. ↑ Information from the shellac station
personal data
SURNAME Wernicke, Helmuth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1994
Place of death Berlin