I lost my heart in Heidelberg (song)

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Memorial plaque on the old bridge

I lost my heart in Heidelberg is the title of a three-stanza marching song that Friedrich Raimund Vesely composed in 1925 under his stage name Fred Raymond as op. 130. The words for it were composed for him by the librettists Fritz Löhner (under his stage name Beda) and Ernst Neubach . The sound piece was published by Bohème-Verlag in Vienna, to which Raymond transferred the rights to it for a total of 300 marks.

background

The song quickly became popular, not least because of the use of the modern media of the gramophone record and radio, which was possible at the time of its creation. In the meantime, although it was created purely commercially, it has almost risen to the rank of a folk song in the general understanding .

Prominent artists of the Weimar Republic such as the tenors Max Kuttner and Harry Steier or the band leaders Fred Bird , Paul Godwin and Reinhard Wenskat (as “Giusto Jazz Symphoniker”) sang and played the song on gramophone records and on the still young entertainment radio from 1925. It was also available as an electric piano piano roll and was also distributed on song postcards.

In the same year, a film with the same title was made around the song . Two years later the authors Raymond, Löhner and Neubach wrote a three-act Singspiel with this title. It was premiered at the Volksoper Vienna .

Parodies

The catchiness of the chorus line soon challenged parody and travesty; so received z. B. 1927 a silent film “ Weekend Magic ” with the sub-title “I lost my heart in Kritzendorf”; two years later another was entitled "I lost my heart on the bus". In the Beef & Steak episode “We hold fast and faithful together”, also shot in 1929 , Kurt Gerron takes a gramophone record with this title from the machine and eats it; when he gets sick and disappears into the toilet, you can hear the song from there ...

Even after the Second World War, the line still had an effect. In 1962 an LP with the American pop singer Gus Backus got the title "I lost my heart in Germany"; In 1983 “the most famous housewife in the world” Erma Bombeck published a book with the title “I lost my heart in the laundry basket”. The Austrian pop duo "Die Ausreißer" called their CD, released in 2014, "I lost my heart in the carousel". In 2015, guest of honor Joseph Daues from St. Charles also resorted to the Schlagerzeile when he was awarded the citizen medal of his German twin town Ludwigsburg, when he admitted "I lost my heart in Ludwigsburg". And in the same year the author Anna Martach headlined the 14th volume of her mountain novels about the 'Alpine doctor Daniel Ingold' "I lost my heart in Hindelfingen".

Survival

Recently, performers as diverse as Gus Backus, Billy Mo , Heinz Maria Lins and Heino have been trying to add the song to their repertoire. The orchestras of Will Glahé (with the Golgowsky Choir in the album “Alles singt mit”, 1965) and Ray Conniff (in the album “Musik für Millions”, 1982) recorded it with choral singing on LPs. The Dutch violinist André Rieu played it with his orchestra September 19, 2009 live at the Heidelberg grain market.

In 1996, the city of Heidelberg installed a memorial plaque for the song and its creator at the Badischer Hof in Hauptstrasse , donated by the city's choirs. The board was renewed in 2014, moved to the Neuenheimer Ufer of the Alte Brücke and the names of the two lyricists were added.

Sound documents (selection)

  • Derby O-581 (Matr. 581 B) I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Lied (Raymond) 'Singing with Orchestra'
  • Odeon O-1487 / A 41 374 (Matr. Be 4929) I lost my heart in Heidelberg! Lied (Fredy Raymond) Harry Steier with orchestral accompaniment. Up. August 27, 1925
  • Vox 3558 (Matr. 3065-B) I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Lied (F. Raymond) Max Kuttner , tenor, with orchestral accompaniment
  • Isiphon Concert Record 378 a (Matr. 7396 *) I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Foxtrot (Raymond-Beda) Giusto Jazz Symphoniker with refraing singing.
  • Grammophon 20 292 / B 42 262 (Matr. 3681 ar) I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Song (Fred Raymond) Max Kuttner
  • Grammophon 19 419 (Matr. 76 bg) I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Marschlied (Fred Raymond) Paul Godwin with his artist ensemble from the Nelson Theater Berlin
  • Homocord 4-1964 (Matr. 18 774-1) I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Song (F. Raymond) Fred Bird The Salon Symphony Jazz Band

literature

  • Jutta Assel, Georg Jäger: I lost my heart in Heidelberg. A hit on picture postcards. Posted in April 2016 at goethezeitportal.de
  • Christoph Bühler (Ed.): Country Studies online. The platform for cultural heritage in the state  : songs on Heidelberg
  • Alina Eisenhardt: "I lost my heart in Heidelberg" - Renewed plaque for the Heidelberg song inaugurated. In: Rhein-Neckar-blog of July 30, 2014
  • Oliver Fink: "Memories of happiness". How the memory of Alt-Heidelberg was invented, maintained and fought. Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-89735-209-5 .
  • Gero Gandert: 1929 - The film of the Weimar Republic. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1993, ISBN 3-11-085261-6 .
  • Joachim-Felix Leonhard: Media Studies. A manual for the development of media and forms of communication. Part 2, Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-11-016326-8 .
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Part 2: History and stories of popular music up to 1945 - composers - librettists - lyricists. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-4718-2 .
  • Dieter Schnabel: Sometimes someone has to be there to remember: sheets of memory about composers, writers and theater people. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0015-5 , pp. 58-60.
  • Monika Sperr: The big hit book: German hits from 1800 to today. Verlag Rogner & Bernhard, 1978, ISBN 3-8077-0066-8 , p. 124.
  • Bruno Warden, Beda (Fritz Loehner), Ernst Neubach: I lost my heart in Heidelberg . Singspiel in 3 acts. Verlag Fritz Hirsch Operette, 1930 (length 32 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ publisher no. WBV 654 , title sheet illustrated. at buchfreund.de and musiklexikon.at (accessed August 30, 2015), notes published. at designer.com
  2. ↑ cf. Schnabel p. 58.
  3. ↑ cf. Leonhard, Medienwissenschaft: “Other films in the second half of the twenties took their content from popular hit titles, such as the student, Rhine and wine films“ I lost my heart in Heidelberg ”or“ Die Lindenwirtin am Rhein ”[...], which already in the title illustrate the connection between popular music and film content and refer to records and radio in an international context. " (P. 1113)
  4. ↑ cf. Lyrics by Neubach and Löhner-Beda
  5. ↑ z. B. at Hupfeld as Animatic S roll no. 59 660 I lost my heart in Heidelberg. Marching song. Fredy Raymond. See Notenrolle.de
  6. ↑ cf. Postcard "I lost my heart in Heidelberg!" With the first verse of the song, signet PH in a triangle. 5710/2. Verso: dated 1929; or postcard ( memento of the original from October 20, 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. with a view of the castle and the old bridge with lyrics. Further examples from Assel-Jäger (2016) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ansichtskarten-kiste.de
  7. ↑ cf. filmportal.de , remake as a sound film 1952, cf. filmportal.de
  8. ↑ cf. Ploog p. 489 "... this work was based on the hit text from 1925 and had its premiere on April 29, 27 in the Vienna Volksoper, which was followed by a good 700 performances".
  9. ↑ “Weekend magic - I've lost my heart in Kritzendorf ”, director: Rudolf Walther-Fein , Aafa-Film 1927, cf. filmportal.de , plus Lisa Fischer: The Riviera on the Danube. 100 years of Strombad Kritzendorf. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2003, p. 9.
  10. ↑ Director: Carlo Campogalliani, Boston-Film 1929, cf. IMDb , filmportal.de and Gandert 1929, p. 304.
  11. ↑ cf. Gandert 1929, p. 721, criticism by Lucy von Jacobi in “Tempo” No. 223 from 09/24/29, 3rd edition
  12. ↑ Polydor 46 759 "I lost my heart in Germany" (FRG 1962)
  13. ↑ Paperback, 16th edition. Lübbe-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-404-10232-0 . At the. Original title 1973: I lost everything in the post-natal depression.
  14. ↑ cf. 'Andrea Pspmaus' at paperblog.com
  15. ↑ "I lost my heart in Ludwigsburg", confessed the honored, who was stationed in Heidelberg as a young soldier. "Cf. Angelika Baumeister in: Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) of May 9, 2015 .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.lkz.de
  16. ^ Verlag BookRix, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7396-1586-8 .
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  19. ↑ cf. hitparade.ch
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  21. ↑ cf. YouTube
  22. ↑ cf. A. Eisenhardt at rheinneckarblog.de : “Heidelberg / Rhein-Neckar, July 30, 2014. (red / pm) On the Neuenheimer Ufer of the Alte Brücke, residents and guests are now reminded of the world-famous Heidelberg song. The composer Friedrich Raimund Vesely (1900–1954), alias Fred Raymond, published a Singspiel in 1927 with the name “I lost my heart in Heidelberg”. The main song became a hit back in 1925. "
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