Ansco Bruinier

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Julius Ansco Bruinier (born November 7, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main ; † February 6, 1972 in Bernried am Starnberger See ) was a musician in the Berlin jazz and dance band Weintraub's Syncopators . He played the trumpet and a number of other instruments there in the 1920s and performed as an artificial piper . His civil profession was an engineer .

Life

Bruinier was the third son of Jan Berend Hendrik Bruinier and Sophie Bruinier, nee Wagner. Like his father, he was a Dutch citizen . Ansco Bruinier first attended in Berlin-Steglitz , the junior high school and worked by the average maturity for a good year 1916 until 1917, when a machine technician in the Dinglerwerken in Two Bridges . He then went on to school and graduated from high school in Steglitz in 1920 . For eight months he worked as a draftsman for a machine factory in Hengelo , followed by military service for the Dutch army until April 1922. In May 1922 he returned to Berlin again and began studying technical chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin .

Bruinier had already received cello lessons as a child . From 1922 he appeared publicly in a trio with his two brothers August ( violin ) and Franz ( piano ). Since August 1, 1926, he has been a member of one of the most famous German jazz bands, the Weintraubs Syncopators under the direction of Stefan Weintraub . There he played trumpet , sousaphone , tuba , cello and double bass and performed as an art piper . The Weintraubs Syncopators with Ansco Bruinier also took part in the cabaret and revue programs of the cabaret series “MA” (“Monday evening”), for which Franz Bruinier wrote the music; also about the revues What You Want ( Marcellus Schiffer ) and That's You with music by Friedrich Hollaender . In 1928 Bruinier took part in a German tour of the Weintraubs Syncopators, which took them to the Feldberghaus on the Großer Feldberg (concert with Kate Kühl ). The proceeds from Bruinier's musical activities helped finance his studies.

In September 1928, Bruinier temporarily gave up making music in order to complete his studies with a degree in engineering , but returned to the Weintraubs Syncopators at the end of 1929, because as a foreigner he was unable to get an engineering position in Germany during the Great Depression to find. But at the end of September 1930 he found work at Shell . In the following years he worked on Shell's oil fields around the world, in Romania, Borneo and Argentina, and from 1936 onwards in the Shell branch in Hamburg. He worked there until his retirement and then moved to Bernried am Starnberger See .

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Bruinier can be heard on a series of recordings by Weintraub's Syncopators on shellac records , as a trumpeter on Up and at 'em and Jackass Blues and with a pipe solo on the Marion Tango , recorded on February 15, 1928 for Odeon . As Horst Bergmeier writes, Bruinier's “whistling on two thumbs was an art in itself, which always earned him prominent mentions in the press”. He also taught his daughter Katharina how to use artificial whistles, as she reported and demonstrated on the occasion of a film about the Weintraub Syncopators 2010 by the Augsburger Allgemeine .

He can also be heard and seen in some films to which the Syncopators contributed music, including Der Blaue Engel and The Cabinet of Dr. Larifari . Neither sound recordings nor sheet music, but only reports from viewers, are about the adaptation of Yvan Goll's Paris burns as an “ecstatic scene with jazz” (music: Franz Bruinier), which the MA performed on February 28, 1927 in Berlin. According to the program list, Ansco Bruinier was also involved here.

Sources of knowledge and images

Much of the existing knowledge comes from Rainer Lotz , who knew Ansco Bruinier well in the 1960s and received his collected documents for evaluation. Lotz's collection includes a whole series of photos showing Ansco Bruinier appearances with the Weintraubs Syncopators. He made them available to Horst Bergmeier for his publication The Weintraub Story , where they were published. At least one of these photos was published as early as 1927, namely in The Cross Section 12/1997. Immediately below the photo by Lili Baruch , which shows Ansco Bruinier on the trumpet on the far right, the magazine printed a reproduction of an oil painting by Max Oppenheimer , Jazz Band , which also shows Ansco Bruinier with trumpet.

Sound recordings

  • Friedrich Hollaender with his Weintraub Syncopators at Odeon on February 15, 1928 (Ansco Bruinier: tp, whistling).

literature

  • Horst Bergmeier, Rainer Lotz : The Bruinier family. In: Fox at No. 78. 12, summer 1993, ISSN  0948-0412 .
  • Horst Bergmeier: The Weintraub Story. Incorporated: The Ady Rosner Story , Der Jazzfreund, Menden 1982. Jazzfreund Publication No. 16.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ An autograph guest book sheet with drawings and signatures of all band members can be seen at http://www.feldbergrennen.de/grosser%20feldberg%20im%20taunus.htm .
  2. ^ Bergmeier / Lotz: The Bruinier family , p. 11; Bergmeier: The Weintraub Story , p. 11ff .; Manfred Weihermüller, Heinz Büttner: Discography of German Cabaret , Volume 6, Lotz, Bonn 2002, p. 1551; Rainer Lotz: Discography of German Dance Music , Volume 3, Lotz, Bonn 1994, p. 821.
  3. ↑ Bergmeier: The Weintraub Story , p. 9.
  4. ^ Sil: film about music and an adventurous journey . In: Augsburger Allgemeine from February 11, 2010 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Bergmeier: The Weintraub Story , p. 19f.
  6. ↑ Der Cross Section, 12/1927, after p. 950, unpaginated ( online ).
  7. ↑ Information from Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945 . Göttingen 1991, article Hollaender, Friedrich (unpaginated); Bergmeier: The Weintraub Story , p. 11f .; Rainer Lotz: Discography of German Dance Music , Volume 3, Lotz, Bonn 1994, p. 821.
personal data
SURNAME Bruinier, Ansco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bruinier, Julius Ansco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1972
Place of death Bernried am Starnberger See , Germany