Horst Muys

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Horst Alfred Muys (born July 13, 1925 in Mülheim an der Ruhr , † July 20, 1970 in Cologne ) was a German carnivalist , singer of Cologne carnival hits, hand-made speaker and scabber singer .

Grave plaque

Life

Grave in the Melaten cemetery (October 2018)

Horst Muys grew up in Duisburg and trained as an actor in Berlin . In the 1950s and 1960s he became known through songs and speeches at the Cologne Carnival . From 1953 he played in the Eilemann Trio , where he was successful as a "comedian on bass ". From 1961 Muys appeared as a solo speaker and singer. His frivolous jokes occasionally strained the morals of his time. In 1968 the Lord Mayor of Cologne Theo Burauen left the meeting room indignantly, whereupon Muys was punished a little later by the festival committee with a ban on performing. But in 1969 he was allowed to perform again.

Muys sang popular evergreens like Heidewitzka, Herr Kapitän , Heimweh nach Köln or Ich bin ne kölsche Jung . He made it into the hit parades in 1969 with the song Ne Visit em Zoo , composed by the Cologne songwriter Hans Knipp , which he sang in a duet with Lotti Krekel . Muys' short, turbulent life was marked by strokes of fate, the most serious of which was the accidental death of his ten-year-old son. His marriage, entered into in 1959, later divorced. Gambling debts, fights and alcohol abuse followed .

Muys died in 1970 a week after his 45th birthday in a Cologne hospital from a gastric rupture . At his burial in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (Lit. L No. 154–5), 7000 mourners paid him their last respects. His companion Knipp wrote the song D'r leeve Jung for the Cologne music group Bläck Fööss in 1989 , which was a memorial to the carnival original.

In December 2015 it became known that the city of Cologne wanted to have Horst Muys' grave removed after 45 years, as the period of use had expired and it had not become an honorary grave during this period. This was prevented by a fundraising campaign. The restored tomb was presented to the public in February 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death certificate no. 1361 from July 23, 1970, registry office Cologne old town. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved March 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Björn Thomann: Horst Muys (1925-1970), humorist . “Portal Rhenish History” of the LVR Institute for Cultural Studies and Regional History, as of February 11, 2014, accessed on December 29, 2015.
  3. ^ "Kölsche Jung": The grave of carnival singer Horst Muys has been redesigned . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on February 8, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Muys, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Muys, Horst Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer and Cologne carnivalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH 20th July 1970
Place of death Cologne