Jürgen Hermann

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Jürgen Hermann (born July 16, 1927 in Prenzlau ; † April 9, 2018 in Lehnitz ) was a German conductor , musician and arranger .

Life

Jürgen Hermann, born on July 16, 1927 in Prenzlau, learned to play the piano at the age of nine . He later learned the clarinet and saxophone. In his youth he was interested in horses and music. This resulted in his career aspirations as a jockey and musician.

During the Second World War , Hermann was taken prisoner by the Americans . After the end of the war, he worked for the US Army in Bad Wildungen , Munich and Augsburg a . a. as a musician and interpreter . It was there that he heard swing music for the first time . After Hermann returned to his homeland in 1947, he graduated from high school in 1948 .

Hermann gained his first experience as an arranger in the orchestra of the Free German Trade Union Federation in Prenzlau. With his own band "Goldenen Sieben" played in the communities around Prenzlau. From 1949 to 1954 Hermann studied composition with a focus on film and popular music at the Berlin Stern Conservatory . Günther Klein signed Hermann in 1953 as arranger for the publishing house “ Lied der Zeit ”. Hermann worked in Berlin as a lecturer for arrangement technology at the German University of Music . He led a choir and then became an orchestral pianist.

First Hermann composed chamber music and from 1956 dance music melodies. In the same year he became a dance music editor for Germany's broadcaster . In 1957 he also took on the role of arranger and composer. He also performed this activity for the orchestras of Gerhard Honig , Kurt Henkels , Günter Gollasch and Adalbert Lutter . At the same time, he made arrangements for the NVA wind orchestra and other small orchestras.

From 1958 Hermann was second conductor under Adalbert Lutter of the Great Dance String Orchestra, which he took over on October 1, 1961. At times more than 50 musicians were active in the orchestra. The "swinging violins" and developing new strengths were particularly important to him. With the orchestra, which has since been renamed the “Rundfunk-Tanzstreichorchester Berlin”, he performed a. a. at the Berlin series of events "In the Prater the violins sound again" as well as in Rostock at "Menschen und Meer" and Dresden as a festival orchestra. The orchestra was used for national radio and television events such as B. the conclusion of the " holiday wave ", "With Berlin on you and you" and the "International TV dance tournament" of the Halle studio as well as the series such as " Die Goldene Note " ( GDR television ), "Alle Neune" ( voice of DDR ), “It should be possible to do that” ( Radio DDR ), “Hour of Melody” (broadcaster ALEX). The orchestra was also responsible for the musical design of the festive balls in the Palace of the Republic . International appearances followed. In 1968 the entire orchestra was guest in the Soviet Union . In 1969 arrangements were made in Vienna and later in Lisbon .

More than 5000 titles were produced under the direction of Jürgen Hermann. This also includes the “Chant sans paroles” from 1960, which is now considered an evergreen . Hermann also wrote ballet music for television. Many of his records were released by Amiga . In 1978 Hermann traveled to Vietnam for three weeks . In order to pass on his experiences and gather impressions, he worked with the local radio orchestra.

Hermann directed the Rundfunk-Tanzstreichorchester Berlin until it was dissolved in 1991. He died on April 9, 2018 and was buried on May 7, 2018 in the cemetery in Lehnitz.

Awards

On January 12, 1963, Jürgen Hermann received the GDR Art Prize .

Compositions (selection)

title	Interpreter	year
100,000 flowers bloom in May	Columbia Quartet	1964
All the treasures of this earth	Klaus Sommer	1967
Everything speaks of Casanova	Steffen Reuter	1961
On the wide road	Ina Martell	1967
Flower girl	Paul Schröder	1959
burlesque	RTO Berlin	1960
Caballeros	Pericles Fotopoulos	1964
Chant sans paroles	Large dance string orchestra of the German broadcaster	1960
Chant sans paroles	Klaus Wunderlich ( Hammond organ )	1966
Chant sans paroles	Peter Wieland	1962
Chant sans Paroles	Orchestra Joachim Kurzweg	1974
Chant sans paroles (French)	Nicole Felix
The orchestrion from grandfather's time	Robert Steffan	1960
That was the first day with you	Peter Wieland	1966
That was nice	Ray Adams ( Norway )	1969
remember	Bärbel Wachholz	1965
remember	Fanny Daal	1961
The fault was mine	Bärbel Wachholz	1967
The blacksmith from Oberammergau	Sonja Siewert & Ralf Paulsen	1956
The old love	Rose-Marie Heimerdinger	1965
The blonde with the red car	Günter Geissler	1964
The Budapest girls	Lutz Jahoda	1958
The whole city is beautiful	Monika Hauff	1968
The whole street can't sleep	Mary Halfkath	1962
The young girls of today	Monika Grimm	1960
Love is not a carousel	Nicole Felix	1962
The prima ballerina of my dreams	Günter Geissler	1963
The sun brings it out	Regina Thoss	1966
The world won't be any younger tomorrow	Rica Déus	1972
The time with you	Ellen Tiedtke	1963
This night won't come again	Günter Hapke	1963
Down there in the deep valley	Julia Axen & Heinz Schultze	1959
Thirteen brown girls	Günter Geissler	1964
You are from paris	Nicole Felix & Peter Wieland	1962
You are the sunshine	Paul Schröder	1955
You mustn't cry	Paul Schröder	1965
You do not believe me	Monika Hauff	1967
A beautiful day	Regina Thoss	1965
A gondolier in love	Günter Geissler	1963
A serenade for two hearts	Julia Axen	1961
One day the man comes	Rec dismantling	1968
El Paso	Orchestra Adalbert Lutter	1956
Elisabeth	Hauff & Henkler	1975
He wasn't a handsome man	Ellen Tiedtke	1963
Catch my dreams	Ina Martell	1969
Fortuna only kisses in Italian	Rica Déus
Strange girl, beautiful girl	Ingo Graf	1967
Spring Festival in Cuba,	Rica Déus	1962
For our big dreams	Günter Geissler	1964
Believe in our love	Bärbel Wachholz	1962
I think I'll never forget this night	Gabriele Kluge	1969
I hear the song of the sailors in the harbor	Rose-Marie Heimerdinger	1965
I can love whoever I want	Mary Halfkath	1962
I love this country	Klaus Sommer	1967
I'm in a mousetrap	Günter Geissler	1964
I'm standing by the sea in Warnemünde again	Vera Schneidbach	1970
I dance	Gisela May, Chris Doerk, Frank Schöbel, Thomas Lück	1972
Again and again the ships go on the journey	Nina Urbano ( Poland )	1969
The ships go on the journey again and again	Nadá Urbankova ( CSSR )	1987
There is no guarantee in love	Rolf Hurdelhey	1962
There is no guarantee in love	Günter Hapke	1963
In fairy tales from ancient times	Peter Wieland	1962
Lots of beautiful words	Günter Geissler	1962
Let me love you	Peter Wieland & Aubry Kirby	1962
Mademoiselle	Günter Geissler	1963
Melanie	RTO Berlin
I could be happy with you	Peter Wieland	1963
At night everything looks very different	Günter Hapke	1963
Take your flowers and go	Bärbel Wachholz	1957
Just about Amore let's sing today	Günter Geissler	1962
Oh, Lake Maggiore	Rica Déus	1962
Oh, Mademoiselle Ninon	Peter Wieland	1959
Red is the poppy	Hemmann Quintet & Columbia Quartet	1963
Say …	Gerti Möller	1967
It will always be like that	Rose-Marie Heimerdinger	1962
Solveig	RTO Berlin
day after day	Lilian Askeland	1969
You have to have talent	Ping-Pongs & Hemmann-Quintet (Amigos)	1960
A thousand dreams come true	Günter Geissler	1962
Sweet Dreams	Rec dismantling	1969
Our best time	Günter Oppenheimer Orchestra	1963
Our great love	Erhard Juza	1961
Valse Isabelle	Monika heart	1979
Valse Isabelle	Large dance string orchestra of the German broadcaster	1959
What do you want in Rio	Orchestra Gerd Natschinski	1971
What do you want in Rio	Günter Geissler	1962
Do you know what love is	Bärbel Wachholz	1962
When love speaks	Judita Cerovska	1965
When wild swans move in autumn	Sonja Siewert	1971
When wild swans move in autumn	Fred Frohberg	1963
When wild swans move in autumn	Gerti Möller
When wild swans move in autumn	Studio orchestra & Günter Gollasch	1969
When the summer wind plays in the fjords	Rica Déus	1972
Where I go and stand	Günter Hapke	1963
Two eyes	Kirsti Sparboe	1968

Trivia

• In the USA, Hermann's music is used as a sound carpet for supermarkets.

Web links

• Jürgen Hermann at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Norbert Koch-Klaucke: Orchestra chief Jürgen Hermann: The man who taught the east rhythm. In: Berliner-Kurier.de. April 24, 2018, accessed April 30, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Josefin Roggenbuck: Head of the GDR dance string orchestra celebrates 90th birthday. In: MOZ.de. July 16, 2017, accessed April 30, 2018 .