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Humba Täterä (also called "Das Humbta Täterä" , sometimes also written Tatärä ) is a carnival song that the Mainz composer Toni Hämmerle wrote in 1963/64 for the "singing master roofer" Ernst Neger . The melody of the chorus bears strong resemblance to the melody of the chorus of Anatoly Grigoryevich Novikov's 1947 World Youth Song .

The first performance of the song on February 5, 1964 led to a one-hour overdraft of the broadcast of the ARD television program Mainz as it sings and laughs because the audience in the hall could not calm down.

successes

It was the biggest national hit that Ernst Neger was able to record. In March 1964 he reached the best list and was placed in the top 20. For the composer Toni Hämmerle, the song brought in around 60,000 marks in royalties until his death in 1968 .

As Der Spiegel reported in its obituaries for Toni Hämmerle and Ernst Neger, German development workers in Africa supposedly had to inform locals that the title was not the German national anthem .

The title landed in third place among the 111 biggest carnival hits that SWR television and SWR4 put together for selection in the 2009 carnival season.

Adaptations

Billy Mo

Billy Mo recorded the title together with Ernst Neger in 1964, and this version was also successful.

Humba Täterä as fan chant in football stadiums

The Humba was first celebrated by the fans of 1. FSV Mainz 05 after a victory from the beginning of the 1990s , later the singing was also adopted by some other football fans, sometimes the word Humba is also replaced by Uffta . This form of Mainz Humbas was at the 2008 European Football Championship by Lukas Podolski known beyond the borders of Germany.

Before the performance of the song, the standing fans usually sit down together and chant the letters HUMBA with inserted slogans for their own club and abuse of rivalries in interaction with an auditor and the responding crowd. This is finally followed by the singing of Humba Täterä, accompanied by ecstatic hopping . This ritual is often celebrated together with the team even after victories.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Humba Täterä becomes 50 SWR state show on February 5, 2014
  2. ↑ Toni Hämmerle died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1968, p. 176 ( online ).
  3. ^ Died Ernst Neger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1989, pp. 212 ( online ).
  4. ↑ "Heile, heile Gänsje" leaves everyone behind on swr.de, accessed February 20, 2009
  5. ↑ Place 1 of 111: Heile, Heile Gänsje on swr.de, accessed February 20, 2009
  6. ↑ Where does the "Humba" come from? In: 11 Freunde , 10/2009
  7. ↑ Poldi dances Humba-Tatärä on stern.de from June 20, 2008