Jeanette Chéro

Jeanette Chéro , born Christiane Roscher , (born April 4, 1927 in Dresden ) is a German artist and representative of literary chanson in Germany.

Life

Chéro grew up listening to classical music and was already composing at the age of nine. Her song cycles were sung by famous interpreters under her maiden name (including Kammersänger Kurt Böhme , Kammersänger Gottlob Frick , Professor Walter Hauck , Theo Adam , Werner Faulhaber). In her hometown of Dresden she played in numerous concerts and live broadcasts on the radio together with the outstanding violinist Anneliese Möhner. Chéro studied piano, composition and singing in Dresden and later took acting and ballet lessons in Berlin . In 1957 she married the general music director Walter Schartner .

In Berlin she worked for a few years at the Berliner Rundfunk , for which she wrote many choral arrangements. She performed on various radio stations as a pianist and accompanist of her own song cycles until she discovered her love for the song and later for the literary chanson. Since then she has been composing and writing her own numbers in both categories under her stage name. She performs her literary chansons in evening concerts herself on the piano. She wrote numerous commissioned compositions for WDR and German adaptations of English, French and Italian titles for Edition Akkord. Her classical song cycles were performed several times in an orchestral version in Kemerovo (Russia).

Evening concerts with exclusively their own works a. instead of during the festival weeks in Bad Kreuznach, in the Cologne Senftöpfchen (1980, en suite), in the community center "Bergischer Löwe" in Bergisch Gladbach (1981, 1988, 2000 with Jakob Poiesz), in the Brühler Galerie am Schloß (1982), in Hamburg Podium (1982, en suite), at Eulenbroich Castle in Rösrath (1984, 1995), at the Oberstdorfer Kulturtage (1989, 1990), at the international Weilburg Castle Concerts (1994), in Koblenz and in St. Wendel (Saarland), as well Solo appearances with own chansons a. a. in Berlin, Stuttgart, Hamburg, Hilden and Bad Kreuznach. In addition, there were television appearances with his own works, for example at Peter Horton's Café in Takt and in the program On the War Path - Sense and Nonsense of Nuclear Armor , a productions of the WDR . In several episodes of the historical cabaret series 1919-1945 (also a WDR production) she was a. a. seen and heard with interpretations of chansons by Walter Mehring .

At the Rheinische Musikschule (Conservatory of the City of Cologne ) she worked as a piano teacher and for many years director of a chanson class. Her students included u. a. the conductor and composer Johannes Kalitzke and the pianists of the Bläck Fööss Rolf Lammers (later LSE ) and Dieter “Joko” Jaenisch.

Chéro is a leading representative of the literary chanson, which is rare in Germany. She lives in Cologne .

Discography

• Jeanette Chéro: German Chansons , Ekke Music, 1981
• Music Is All For Me - Béla Mavrák sings songs by Jeanette Chéro , Termidor music publisher, 2015

bibliography

• Jeanette Chéro: Bitters in candy wrappers. Literary chansons . Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-89228-970-0
• Christiane Roscher-Schartner: Not just declarations of love. Lyric mosaic . Haag + Herchen, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-89228-969-7
• Christiane Roscher-Schartner: Colorful children's world. 12 small pieces for piano . Edition Peters (No. 8763), Frankfurt am Main 1993

Web links

• Jeanette Chéro - The Artist Portrait (Part 1)
• Jeanette Chéro - The Artist Portrait (Part 2)
• Jeanette Chéro - The artist portrait (part 3) with her chanson Super

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbro Schuchardt: A vein for popular music . In: Kölnische Rundschau . May 23, 2015 ( archived at genios.de [accessed December 23, 2018]).