Karl Blume (composer)

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With the man with the lute by Hans Gerd Ruwe , Osnabrück set a monument to Karl Blume.

Karl Blume (born October 13, 1883 in Osnabrück , † January 5, 1947 in Berlin ) was a German composer and singer ( baritone ). He became known for setting Hermann Löns poems to music . Blume's best-known work is the setting of Löns' Grün ist die Heide . The song was sung by Rudolf Schock , Willy Schneider and Richard Tauber , among others . The Löns song When I went lonely yesterday , Hannes Wader recorded his 1990 album Hannes Wader singt Volkslieder .

Life

Blume was the son of a cigar maker from Osnabrück . He received his musical training at the music school in Quakenbrück . He worked as an orchestral musician in Düsseldorf and as a conductor. He was a soldier during the First World War . During this time he was composing at the front in France Green is the Heath . The song became a hit , which Fred Bertelmann and Roy Black also sang. Rosemarie also became a hit . He also composed waltz songs. After the war he was the “last traveling singer” in Germany. In the 1920s he published a series of sound recordings in which he often accompanied himself on the lute . He later settled in Berlin.

In the film adaptation of Grün ist die Heide (1932), Blume himself appeared. The Heide melody also served as the musical leitmotif in the remake Green Was the Heide from 1951 and in the film Grün ist die Heide from 1972. He also composed the music for Carl Boese's film When a Girl Makes a Wedding (1935) . In the 1940s he appeared again as a singer with a lute.

Blume died in Berlin in 1947 and was buried in the forest cemetery in Kleinmachnow .

In 1963 his hometown set a monument to him with the man with the lute created by the Osnabrück sculptor Hans Gerd Ruwe . The bronze sculpture is located in a green area on the Riedenbach and was unveiled in December 1963 in the presence of his widow Ida-Elisabeth Blume.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Blume at hitparade.ch
  2. ^ Vox artist discography (PDF; 2.1 MB) at lotz-verlag.de, pp. 42–44
  3. ↑ Liederlexikon.de
personal data
SURNAME Blume, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blume, H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and singer
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1947
Place of death Berlin