I tear an eyelash out

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I tear an eyelash from the refrain of a foxtrot hit by Fred Raymond , for which Charles Amberg wrote the text. It was published in 1928 by the Viennese Bohême-Verlag, Berlin-Vienna. It was also included in volume 11 of the series “For 5 o'clock tea. A collection of 19 selected dance and song hits ”, organized by AJBenjamin's publishing house in Leipzig together with Bohême-Verlag in Vienna.

background

The song was part of the revue Gruss an Alle , which the entertainment entrepreneur Hans Gruß performed in 1928 in the Deutsches Theater in Munich.

In three stanzas, the text tells of the fate of a professor Nicodemus, who falls under the power of ogre-eaters in Africa, whose chief Zizi Bambula wants to force his grandmother on him as his wife, while a Fraulein Meyerbeer waits impatiently for him at home. When the cannibals threaten him with “spear and spear”, he cries “Huch huch you bad enemy!” And counters with the refrain line “I'll tear an eyelash out and stab you dead with it”.

In general, hits like this are now quickly booked under the heading of nonsense hits; however, there are more and more references to previously neglected subtext content, e.g. For example, the fact that homosexual images - two jealous " queens " attacking each other - are evoked, and that the text is even based on an actual incident that happened among gays in Hamburg. The choice of the line for the title of a volume of short stories by the writer Josef Winkler published in 2008 can also be understood in this context.

The hit text has had a stimulating effect on artists from other disciplines until recently.

Refrain

I'll tear an eyelash out and stab you dead with it.
Then I'll take a lipstick and paint you red with it.
And if you're still angry, I only have one advice:
I'll order a fried egg and sprinkle you with spinach.

Performers

The hit sang in 1928 cabaret and operetta tenor Max Hansen and the soubrette Trude Lieske , tenors like Max Kuttner and Harry Steier and pop singers like Luigi Bernauer to the accompaniment of well-known bands like Fred Bird (Homocord Dance Orchestra), Otto Dobrindt (Odeon dance orchestra), Paul Godwin and Marek Weber on the gramophone record. The title was also available as a piano roll for mechanical musical instruments.

aftermath

The Silesian writer Hans Christoph Kaergel , who saw himself as a “bloody and soil poet”, put the line of text in his 1936 novel “One among millions” in the mouth of a 'jester'.

The Austrian writer and Büchner Prize winner Josef Winkler , in whose work death and homosexuality play an important role, was the headline of his book of stories, published by Suhrkamp in May 2008 , “I tear out an eyelash and stab yourself with it”.

Dennis Bartz quotes the line of text in his novel “Flankengott”, published in 2011, from the understanding of the later born: “The song“ I tear my eyelashes out ”by Max Kuttner, a gay chanson singer who was a star during the Weimar Republic, booms out of the boxes ”.

Martin Genahl quotes the line of text in his 2014 history crime thriller “The day on which it rained capitalists”, which he had played during the fall of the Weimar Republic.

The Altöttingen opera tenor Anton Leiss-Huber and the Upper Palatinate cabaret artist Jürgen Kirner sang "I'm pulling an eyelash out!" at the folk singer revue "Brettl-Spitzen IV" in Munich's Hofbräuhaus , which Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcast on March 6, 2016 in its television program.

The graphic artist Franziska Michaelis designed four illustrations for the song by Raymond and Amberg under the title Trash .

Sheet music editions

  • I'll tear an eyelash out! Song and Slow Fox by Fredy Raymond. Text by Charlie Amberg. Vienna-Berlin: Wiener Bohême-Verlag, cop. 1928.
  • For 5 o'clock tea, volume 11, a collection of 19 selected dance and song hits by Fred Raymond; Walter Kollo; Hermann Krome . 43 pages, Leipzig among others: Benjamin, 1928.
  • I'll tear an eyelash out! Artist: Hansen, M., composer: Raymond / Amberg, language: German, notes Roehr: Archive of the individual editions, archive no .: 2662

Audio documents

  • I tear an eyelash out. Lied und Foxtrot (Fredy Raymond - Chas. Amberg) Max Hansen , cabaret artist, with Godwin Ensemble. Grammophon 21 348 / B 42 655 (Matr. 130 br), attach. 1928
  • I tear an eyelash out. Lied and Foxtrot (Fredy Raymond - Chas. Amberg) Max Kuttner with orchestra. Gramophone? (without discographic information)
  • I tear an eyelash out. Song and Foxtrot from the "Gruss-Revue" (Fredy Raymond - Chas. Amberg) Harry Steier with Otto Dobrindt Orchestra . Beka B. 6351 (Matr. 34 640). February 21, 1928
  • I tear an eyelash out. Lied and Foxtrot (Fredy Raymond - Chas. Amberg) Charlotte an der Heiden, mezzo-soprano, m. Odeon Dance Orch. Odeon O-2386 a (Matr. Be 6722). March 29, 1928
  • I tear an eyelash out. Song and Foxtrot from the "Gruss-Revue" (F.Raymond - Ch.Amberg, arr. W. Borchert) Luigi Bernauer with Homocord Dance Orchestra. Homocord 4-2608 (Matr. TM 20 106-1), apply. April 21, 1928
  • I tear an eyelash out. Lied and Foxtrot (Fredy Raymond - Chas. Amberg) Marek Weber and his orchestra. With singing [= uncredited Trude Lieske ] Electrola EG 827 (Matr. CLR 3971)

Piano rolls

  • I'll tear an eyelash out! (F. Raymond) Ludwig Hupfeld AG Leipzig: Hupfeld Triphonola piano roll T 59957 Animatic, Scale: 88n.
  • I'll tear an eyelash out! (F. Raymond) Hugo Popper , Leipzig: Popper piano roll No. 3400 (together with "You were bathed too hot as a child")

literature

  • Matthias Gerschwitz: BULLRICH-SALZ: Brand - Myth - Stomach Acid. On the trail of one of the oldest German branded articles. BoD, Norderstedt, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7504-0336-9 .
  • Kevin Clarke: “I'll pull an eyelash out and stab you dead with it!” The denazification of the Nazi operetta between 1945 and 2015. In: Operetta Research Center, June 21, 2016.
  • Katrin Hillgruber: Time of the gladiolus. Darmstädter Allerheiligen: The Georg Büchner Prize was awarded to Josef Winkler. In: Tagesspiegel. Potsdam latest news. November 3, 2008, p. 27.
  • Katrin Hillgruber: Death while traveling. I'll tear out an eyelash and stab you dead with it. Story by Josef Winkler (2008, Suhrkamp). Discussion in: Frankfurter Rundschau. December 30, 2008
  • Jean H. Leventhal: Echoes in the Text: Musical Citation in German Narratives from Theodor Fontane to Martin Walser. (= Studies in Modern German Literature. Volume 64). Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 0-8204-2372-6 , p. 125.
  • Kaspar Maase: What makes popular culture political? (= Otto von Freising lectures at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt ). Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-531-92600-1 , pp. 38-39.
  • Josef Niesen : Give me the last kiss goodbye. The life story of the hit writer Charles Amberg (1894–1946) between ascent and imprisonment in a concentration camp. Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056023-1 , p. 15 ff.
  • Ralf Jörg Raber: We are what we are. A century of homosexual love on record and CD. Männerschwarm Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-939542-91-9 , p. 48ff.
  • Bernhard Rosenkranz, Gottfried Lorenz: Hamburg in other ways: The history of gay life in the Hanseatic city. Himmelstürmer Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86361-261-0 .
  • Monika Sperr: The big hit book: German hits 1800-today. Rogner & Bernhard Verlag, Munich 1978, ISBN 3-8077-0066-8 , pp. 134, 350.
  • Josef Winkler: I'll pull an eyelash out and stab you dead with it. (= Edition suhrkamp. 2556). Novel. Suhrkamp publishing house, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-12556-4 .
  • Christian Zwarg: PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German. PDF at phonomuseum.at
  • Christian Zwarg: ODEON Matrix Numbers - Bo / xxBo 6130 - 9999 (Berlin). PDF at phonomuseum.at

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ without Str. 1 reproduced from Clarke, Operetta Research Center v. June 21, 2016 according to Raber p. 49, completely at Le Berlin du début XXème , No. 6
  2. ↑ Volume title illustrated by Willy Herzig . at aller-leih.com (updated 1.08.16)
  3. ↑ a photo from it (Ullsteinbild, Atelier Manasse, Jan. 1, 28) with a dancer in costume, designed by L. Zettl, ill. at asset-cache.net ( Memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cache4.asset-cache.net
  4. ↑ cf. Nina Ruzicka, Cartoon Tomb ( Memento from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Music: “A so-called 'Kokolores-Schlager', as the YT poster thankfully reminds me. Absolutely meaningless and wonderful ”; also: M. Gerschwitz, Bullrichsalz p. 107. Other frequently cited examples are “My parrot doesn't eat hard eggs” (text by Hermann Frey) and “Who rolled the cheese to the train station” (text by MC Krüger). Maase pp. 39–40 lists ingredients in the texts of nonsense blasts: “Weird jokes and cheeky frivolity, denial of meaning and ridicule of everyday norms, excessive fun and celebration of spontaneous enjoyment, provocation of common maxims and demonstrative turning away from the pressing worries of the time, parodistic exaggeration current trivialities and fashion phenomena - these were ambivalent aesthetic strategies. "
  5. ↑ cf. Clarke: "Raymonds' I'll tear an eyelash out and stab you dead with it!" ... is a hit from 1928 [...] with a text by Charles Amberg, which became a kind of homosexual anthem ... "and Hillgruber November 3, 2008:" The title quotes a gay song from the 1920s. "
  6. ↑ Clarke: "This text about the torn eyelash goes back to a story that happened in the early 1920s in a gay bar called Tusculum in Hamburg, where two jealous men insulted each other with the words: 'I pluck an eyelash' and stab yourself to death, you loser. ' The Hamburg press protested against this story in the “Friendship” [Berliner Schwulenzeitschrift, editor's note] and spoke out against the “tuna-like behavior” of these “sexual clowns”. ”See also Rosenkranz-Lorenz p. 24.
  7. ↑ The author Josef Winkler explains the context: "The title quotes a song from the twenties, I found it on a cassette with gay and lesbian songs." (Katrin Hillgruber in the Frankfurter Rundschau , December 30, 2008, cf. lyrikwelt .de ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )). The line appears in the first narration of the book. It is a child's response to a mother's command to cut bread in a certain way. Cf. Walter Fanta on May 6, 2009 at literaturhaus.at : "... the mother of the 'I' teaches the child:" Whoever cuts bread among themselves, cuts the heels of God. " The Winkler child replies with the sentence that gives the book the title: "I'll pull an eyelash out and stab you dead with it." The text says: "Every day my mother said that I shouldn't pull the Lord down by the feet or cut off his heels. And every day I said to mother that I should pull an eyelash and her my eyelash will prick the heart. "
  8. ↑ cf. Martina Bickenbach: Hans Christoph Kaergel. In: Wulf Segebrecht (Ed.): The Bamberg Poet Circle 1936–1943. Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1987, ISBN 3-8204-0104-0 , pp. 179-185, here p. 179.
  9. ↑ Hans Christoph Kaergel: One in millions. Novel. Zeitgeschichte-Verlag W. Andermann, Berlin 1936, p. 90.
  10. ↑ edition suhrkamp 2556, cf. suhrkamp.de - Reviews at buecher.de
  11. ↑ cf. Dennis Bartz: Flankengott: Not a football novel. Blanvalet Taschenbuch Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7645-0406-9 .
  12. ↑ Martin Genahl: The day on which it rained capitalists. Emons Verlag, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86358-390-3 .
  13. ↑ founded the modern folk singer troupe with the composer Bernhard Gruber (“Folk singer is a proud title again today”) “Couplet AG” and is himself an 'avowed homosexual', cf. Adrian Prechtl in abendzeitung-muenchen.de , January 31, 2014 3:26 pm
  14. ↑ view at ardmediathek
  15. ↑ cf. "L'art de Franziska Michaelis: Trash - Allegory of the so-called trash poem from Charles Amberg in the year 1928: I tear an eyelash out. It's a complete song composed by Fred Raymond ” . To seeing in franziskamichaelis.com ( Memento of 5 August 2016 Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ listen on youtube
  17. ↑ cf. Zwarg, PARLOPHON Matrix Numbers - 30173 to 34999: German, p. 573; Label shown. at shellac station , listen to it on youtube
  18. ↑ cf. Zwarg, ODEON Matrix Numbers - xBe 250 - 9999 (Berlin), p. 614, to be heard on youtube
  19. ↑ listen on youtube
  20. ↑ listen on youtube
  21. ↑ cf. worldcat.org , stanford.edu
  22. ↑ cf. Musikwerkstatt Monschau Popper Piano Roll Set No. 5
  23. ↑ at operetta-research-center.org
  24. ↑ pnn.de
  25. ↑ at lyrikwelt.de ( Memento from November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )