The timber auction

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The wood auction (Im Grunewald , im Grunewald is wood auction) is a Berlin hit song that was composed by Franz Meißner as a Rhinelander .

According to press releases, the piece of music from the Berlin Adolf Ernst Theater experienced a wide response and rapid dissemination from 1892 onwards . Within a very short time, three publishers launched sheet music editions of the piece on the market. The originally non-texted piece of music was soon underlaid with various couplet-like text versions. The text version, which is known to this day and which was supported by the music publisher Otto Teich , was particularly successful . According to some information, this text version is said to have been written as early as 1890.

The third part of the four-part original composition is provided with a melody that is still known today: the humorist Robert Steidl (1865–1927) used this part of the melody for the refrain of his mood song We drowned our grandma's little house , composed in 1922, and on the same melody The text My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop is sung.

Historical background

The wood auction that gives the title is based on a real historical model in the wood sales that took place at the end of the 19th century after clearing campaigns in the Grunewald , which were used to create the villa district of Grunewald .

After Chancellor Otto von Bismarck returned to Berlin from Paris in 1871 on the occasion of the establishment of the German Empire , he demanded a generous amount in a letter dated February 5, 1873 to the secret cabinet councilor Gustav von Wilmowski, under the impression of the cityscape of Paris shaped by Georges-Eugène Haussmann Expansion of the Kurfürstendamm , until then a simple bridle path to the Grunewald hunting lodge , modeled on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées . On June 2, 1875, the street width for the Kurfürstendamm to be expanded was set at 53 meters by cabinet order. That was also the starting signal for the construction of the villa colony Grunewald, for which Bismarck also campaigned. In the 1880s, after Bismarck's personal intervention , the Prussian state sold 234  hectares of the Grunewald forest to the Kurfürstendamm-Gesellschaft , a banking consortium that was founded on December 22, 1882 and had set itself the goal of following the model of the extremely successful villa colonies Als and Lichterfelde to build an even more complex residential area.

One of the first residents of the villa colony was the opera singer Lilli Lehmann , who reports in her memoir that on her first visit to the Grunewald since the redesign began, she saw a wood auction and thus got to know the background of the song.

text

In the Grunewald, in the Grunewald, there is a timber auction,
is a timber auction, is a timber auction.
In the Grunewald, in the Grunewald there is a timber auction,
is a timber auction.

|: Around the corner to the left, around the corner to the
right,
there is a large timber auction everywhere: |

The whole fathom of licorice costs a thaler, a
thaler, a thaler.
The whole fathom of licorice costs a thaler,
it only costs a thaler .

The forester shoots two big bucks for
a taler, for a taler.
And looks at it in the left right corner for
a thaler, only thaler.

The forest assistant kisses the forester's daughter for
a taler, for a taler.
The forester insists on the forest assistant for
a thaler, only thaler.

By the moonlight, old women came for
a taler, for a taler.
They mauled wood like real robbers for
a thaler, only thaler.

The police came as quietly as in stockings for
a thaler, for a thaler.
And arrested, oh, the old nymphs for
a thaler, only thaler.

reception

On the occasion of the 70th birthday of the piano manufacturer Carl Bechstein , the writer Alexander Moszkowski wrote the parodistic joke Anton Notenquetscher at the piano in 1896 , to which his brother Moritz Moszkowski parodistic piano variations on the wood auction in the style of Carl Czerny , Muzio Clementi , Johann Sebastian Bach , Johannes Brahms , Carl Maria von Weber , Frédéric Chopin , Anton Rubinstein and Franz Liszt contributed ( variations in the style of modern composers from Czerny to Liszt MoszWV 205).

The melody of the song was also very popular in Norway Christmas song På låven sitter nissen (In the barn sitting Nisse ) taken.

literature

  • Niels Frédéric Hoffmann: Berlin song book. Songs and stories from 200 years. Elsengold, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-944594-12-5 , pp. 36-39.
  • Lukas Richter : The Berlin hit song. Presentation, documents, collection. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1969 (plus habilitation thesis). New edition: Waxmann, Münster / New York / Munich / Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1350-8 , p. 445 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Meinel: From wooden auctions, goblins and modern grandmas. Research Center for Franconian Folk Music, March 17, 2014, accessed on January 29, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Monthly for the German Spiritual Life [supplement to the stage and world ], Volume 6 (1904) Part 2, p. 810 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ a b c Lukas Richter: The Berlin hit song. Presentation, documents, collection. Waxmann, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8309-1350-8 , p. 445 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Reinhard Wittmann: The assortment book trade in the empire. In: Monika Estermann (Hrsg.): Archive for the history of the book industry. Volume 31: 1988. de Gruyter, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7657-1494-1 , pp. 231-246, here pp. 233 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  5. ↑ Eckhard John, Renate Sarr: My grandma drives a motorcycle in the chicken coop (2008). In: Popular and Traditional Songs. Historical-critical song lexicon of the German Folk Song Archive
  6. ^ Karl-Heinz Metzger: The villa colony Grunewald . District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin, berlin.de, accessed on August 1, 2015
  7. ↑ Jörg Parsiegla: The Grunewald is forest area of ​​the year 2015. Green League Landesverband Berlin e. V., accessed April 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Grunewald Colony (overview map) . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1892, after Part 1, p. VI.
  9. ↑ Heinz Ohff, Rainer Höyinck (ed.): Das BerlinBuch . Stapp Verlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-87776-231-X , p. 112 and p. 146
  10. ↑ Lilli Lehmann: My way . Autobiography. Part II. Hirzel, Leipzig 1913. Reprint: Europäische Literaturverlag, Bremen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86267-442-8 , p. 153 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  11. ↑ Lukas Richter (ed.): Mother, the man with the coke is here. Berlin hit songs - with notes. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1977, pp. 106-108.
  12. ↑ Alexander and Moritz Moszkowski: Anton Notenquetscher at the piano . pian-e-forte.de, accessed on August 1, 2015
  13. ^ Moritz Moszkowski: "Anton Notenquetscher am Klavier", played by Alexei Kornarow on YouTube