Today the Uridil is playing

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Today the Uridil plays is the refrain of a foxtrot hit , which Oskar Virag and Oskar Steiner wrote in 1922 on a text by Robert Katscher and Hermann Leopoldi . They gave it the topic-related subtitle Foot-Ball-Walk , based on the fashion dance names customary at the time such as “Camel Walk”, “Fish Walk”, “Ostrich Walk” etc. It was published in the same year by the Viennese Bohème-Verlag Berlin-Leipzig- Vienna. It was also distributed on gramophone records and song leaflets.

history

The song honored the then immensely popular Austrian soccer player Josef “Pepi” Uridil , a striker who was nicknamed “The Tank” because of his aggressiveness. Uridil played for the Rapid Wien sports club in Hütteldorf and was the first superstar of Viennese football.

Due to its popularity, Uridil became not only an advertising medium for spirits, but also for soaps, linen, sportswear and a number of other everyday items (its name was featured on candy boxes and lemonade bottles, for example). In addition to Gisela Wer District and Otto Tressler, he also took part in the feature film “Duty and Honor”, ​​which was shown on February 1, 1924 in the city's two largest cinemas, the Gartenbau-Kino and the Burg-Kino. In the film, Uridil played himself as a man of the people, a footballer who helps an impoverished but upright nobleman to get his lost livelihood back through honest work.

He was also to be seen alongside Hans Moser in the revue "Seid umschlungen, Billionen", which was given from February 17, 1924 at the Rolandsbühne in Leopoldstadt. Here he performed a couplet every evening in a green and white soccer dress.

As instrumental recordings show, the hit song was also a success as a dance piece. It proves the popularization of football in Austria during the First Republic after the lost World War. Football, as it explains in its text, rejects all other entertainment options, even a visit to the opera with its masterpieces (e.g. Richard Wagner's “Parzival”) and its singing stars (such as the soprano Selma Kurz ) the field. In their place are the new heroes of sport. The tabloids, e.g. B. the Kronenzeitung , which still exists today , contributes its part by reporting.

song lyrics

  • Ronald Leopoldi (Ed.): Leopoldiana. Collected works by Hermann Leopoldi and 11 songs by Ferdinand Leopoldi in two volumes. (= Contributions to Viennese music. Volume 2). Doblinger, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-902667-23-6 .

grades

  • Today the Uridil is playing: foot-ball-walk. Text by Robert Katscher & Hermann Leopoldi; Music by Oskar Steiner & Oskar Virag. Vienna: Wiener Bohème Verlag, © 1922. 5 ll. 33 cm
  • Oskar Steiner, Oskar Virag: Uridil plays today, f. Singing and piano. Publisher: BMG UFA Musikverlage. EAN: 9990091605967

Audio documents

  • Today the Uridil is playing. Football-Walk (Oscar Steiner, Oscar Virag) bohemian orchestra. Beka No. 32 047, recorded March 15, 1923 - republished as Beka B.3264
  • Today the Uridil is playing. Foot-ball-walk. Music Oskar Virag, Oskar Steiner; Text by Robert Katscher, Hermann Leopoldi. Walter Herrling (tenor) with ABC orchestra. ABC Grand Record (= Beka ). No. 32 051, recorded April 15, 1923
  • The Football Walk (Today the Uridil plays) (Oscar Steiner, Oscar Virag) Marek Weber and his Famous Orchestra. Parlophone P.1545 (Matr. 2-6388), rec. Berlin, 6/15/1923
  • Today the Uridil is playing! Shimmy (Oscar Steiner, Oscar Virag) Chapel Sándor Józsi . Odeon A 44 162 (Matr. XBe 3509), recorded in Berlin, December 23, 1922 dismarc.org

literature

  • Brigitte Dalinger (Ed.): Source edition on the history of the Jewish theater in Vienna. (= Conditio Judaica. Volume 42). New edition. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2003, ISBN 3-11-093958-4 , p. 27.
  • Angela Eder: “I would rather be among the four in Hollywood than among the forty thousand at the cemetery” - Paul Abrahám's soccer opera “Roxy and her wonder team”. In: Kakanien revisited. Pp. 1-3. (online; PDF)
  • Franziska Ernst: Hermann Leopoldi: Biography of a Jewish-Austrian entertainer and composer . Thesis. Univ. Vienna, 2010, pp. 68, 84–86. (online PDF)
  • Roman Horak: The Lost Film: Vienna 1924, the footballer as movie star. In: Soccer & Society. Volume 12, Issue 1, 2011, Special Issue: Football. Sounds and Things, pp. 118-119, doi: 10.1080 / 14660970.2011.530480 .
  • Roman Horak, Wolfgang Maderthaler: A Culture of Urban Cosmopolitanism - Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese Coffee-House Heroes. In: Pierre Lanfranchi, Richard Holt, JA Mangan (Ed.): European Heroes: Myth, Identity, Sport . Routledge Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-1-135-23898-8 , pp. 139-155.
  • Hubert: Football in Austria: Uridil is playing today. May 16, 2013. (Austrian Football)
  • Ronald Leopoldi, Hans Weiss: “In a small café in Hernals” - Hermann Leopoldi and Helly Möslein. A picture biography. Edition trend S, Vienna 1992, pp. 26-29.
  • Rudolf Lorenzen: Do you have notes? In: Berliner Morgenpost. November 21, 2004. (morgenpost.de)
  • Iris Mochar-Kircher: "A Fetz'n Ball'n was the greatest luck for me" - The Wienerlied world of football. In: Wiener Volksliedwerk. 14. Vol. 3, May 2008, pp. 8-9. (online; PDF)
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ...: History and stories of popular music up to 1945. First part, Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, pp. 516, 569.
  • Rapid hammer. Westham United and Football Blog: The Green Quarter Hour. From 1: 5 to 5: 7 - the Uridil makes it possible. (golbox.com)
  • Thomas Winkler: Calcio e musica - almost a love marriage. Hymns to the footballers. (Goethe-Institut e.V., Internet editorial office)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Austrian Dance Server: animal dances ; Lorenzen, Haste Töne (2004)
  2. ↑ Note title , graphic: Joly, and sheet music ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 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. from Wiener Bohème-Verlag, copyright 1922. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  3. ↑ cf. Song leaflet from the music printing company "Nora" Vienna nr. 2717
  4. ↑ a photo by Josef Uridil.
  5. ↑ cf. Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Josef Uridil, called "The Tank" @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  6. ↑ filmed based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Deutsch-German , distribution title for Germany: “Das Herz der Madeleine Antonitsch”, cf. filmportal.de , IMDb , and the announcement in "Rapid-Blatt" of October 28, 1923.
  7. ↑ cf. Horak The Lost Film p. 118.
  8. ↑ cf. Horak, The Lost Film p. 118, Horak-Maderthaler p. 144: “… he played himself as a footballer of the people who helps an impoverished but upright aristocrat to retrieve his lost livelyhood through gainful employment” . The film, in which the Rapid Wien team appeared, also showed an excursion by boat on the Danube and a performance of “Salome” with Uridil in the box; the “Rapid Blatt” described it in its announcement as a promotional film that was calculated to have a beneficial effect abroad. According to Horak, 'certainly not a cinematographic masterpiece', it is now considered lost.
  9. ↑ with the subtitle “A cheerful piece from the most recent times in five pictures”, cf. Theater poster for the revue "Be embraced Billions!" In the Rolandbühne, Praterstrasse 25, on February 17, 1924. With a note: "For the first time on the stage Josef Uridil." Vienna, print: Elbemühl, 1924. approx. 25 × 20 cm (accessed November 7, 2015)
  10. ↑ This stage, founded in Vienna-Leopoldstadt in 1913, was related to the Budapest Orpheum Society , whose most outstanding feature was the performance of Jewish jargon comics. In addition to Heinrich Eisenbach and Armin Berg u. a. also Hans Moser.
  11. ↑ cf. Photo ; The author of the review was also Alfred Deutsch-German.
  12. ↑ cf. Horak-Maderthaler S. 144: "in which the football star in his green-and-white colors presented a music hall song every evening"
  13. ↑ label shown. at fc45.de , to be heard at Österreichische Mediathek