Hemshof-Friedel

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Hemshof-Friedel at the fountain "Palatine joie de vivre" on Ludwigsplatz in Ludwigshafen
Hemshof-Friedel am Brunnen "Palatine joie de vivre"

The Hemshof-Friedel , actually: Elfriede Kafschinsky (* 1914 (probably on December 29 ) in Braunschweig ; † October 17, 1979 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a Ludwigshafen original .

biography

The estimated birthday of Elfriede Kafschinsky is December 29, 1914. She was abandoned as a newborn in the Braunschweiger Park in Magdeburg and was brought to the Magdeburg orphanage by nuns. It was later discovered that she had a twin brother who was abandoned elsewhere. This happened to be in the same orphanage.

After the First World War, a man named Kafschinsky asked about the children and named a certain Wilhelmine Kills as the mother of the twins. Elfriede Kafschinsky later has no contact with her relatives.

When her brother was moved to another home at the age of twelve, the nuns gave her a guitar. Elfriede learned to play the guitar and performed her self-composed hiking songs.

At the age of 15 Elfriede came to a “house for fallen girls ” near Paderborn . From then on she called herself Friedel Kafschinski (with the Polish i at the end). At the age of 18 she left the Salzkortener domestic game and earned her living as a conductor for the German Reichsbahn. When she became pregnant, she lost her job and was accepted into St. Anna-Stift in Ludwigshafen- Mundenheim . After the end of the Second World War , in which she was buried for two days after an air raid with her daughter, she moved to Halle an der Saale and worked there as an electrical welder, but returned regularly to Ludwigshafen to do black market business there.

In 1950 Elfriede Kafschinsky finally moved to the Hemshof district of Ludwigshafen , where she quickly became the original. After a short job as a welder, she made music as a street musician and created the so-called Hemshof boogie, but also worked as a prostitute for a short time . She had appearances at the Bad Dürkheimer Wurstmarkt , at the Schifferstadt radish festival and at the Speyer pretzel festival. Recordings and radio appearances soon followed. Her rant was notorious, and the Bild newspaper called her the craziest singer in Germany .

In 1979, after two days of continuous drinking and singing, she was taken to the hospital, where she died of cirrhosis of the liver .

Dispute with the social welfare office

Kafschinsky lived on collected money. Since she didn't have enough money, she turned to the social welfare office, but was turned away. Thereupon she stood across from the social welfare office and sang a disgraceful song about the welfare office:

De Maier is an old Schwoi,
He always provides social assistance,
De Müller from the second floor,
Oh, the lousy old buck
Hot kee heart - the hot be Freed,
On de not vun d 'poor Leed ...

The social welfare office gave in and promoted Friedel as an original, whose tradition was to be upheld.

Radio and television appearances

In February 1975 Kafschinsky sang in the regional program of Südwestfunk . In May she was heard on the Saarland radio.

This was followed by an invitation to broadcast on television in Berlin's RIAS . The Bild newspaper wrote:

“ The craziest singer there is in Germany! Her name is Hemshof-Friedel, she comes from Ludwigshafen and introduced herself in Berlin. And she really does present something: namely 145 pounds, a chest circumference of 145 cm. To stick with the numbers: It is only 145 cm small. "

Texts

Money, money, money

I dream of love - I dream of happiness.
But sometimes I also dream of money
Because money rules the world!
Money, money, money,
Money again and again
Money, money, money,
Money makes the world go round!
...

Hemshof boogie

Everyone wants to be a big star one day
Stand on the big stage like me
Everyone wants to have the applause
Like me, like me
Ladies, gentlemen,
Please take a look at me
In front of him is the Hemshof boogie,
Who can sing anything:
...

Records

  • Hemshof-Boogie / The laughing sack
  • Tschinderassa Hoppsassa / Heinrich
  • Money, money, money / The laughing sack
  • You can forget a girl / my home

Trivia

In 2012 she gained a certain degree of notoriety throughout Germany as an unknown advertising figure for the "EinsLive O-Ton Charts" of the public radio station EinsLive from Cologne.

literature

  • Martin Huber: Hemshof-Friedel. The length doesn't matter ... Verlag für Pfälzer Literatur, Neustadt / Weinstrasse 1986, ISBN 3-924547-03-3 .
  • Nicole Hess: A bit “babbish”, but with a lot of heart. In: Die Rheinpfalz, born 2011, No. 90 v. April 16 ("your weekend"), ZDB -ID 209783-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hemshof-Friedel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kafschinsky, Elfriede
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German street musician, Ludwigshafen original
DATE OF BIRTH on December 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1979
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein