Karl Theodor Uhlisch

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Karl August Wilhelm Hugo Theodor Uhlisch (born June 23, 1891 in Braunschweig ; † September 26, 1958 ibid.) Was a German composer who composed marching songs and hits .

Life

Karl Theodor Uhlisch was born as the son of the businessman Karl Moritz Julius Uhlisch and his wife Emilie Frieda Anna Uhlisch, née Meyer. In 1916 he married Hedwig Siegeler in Lehe (Bremerhaven) , their son Günter was born in 1920. Hedwig Uhlisch died in 1955, and in 1958 Uhlisch married Adelheid Heinicke. In 1923 Uhlisch registered a trade in sea fish, and in 1935 a trading agency for glass, porcelain and hotel supplies. From 1949 to 1952 he ran a mail order business for hotel and commercial kitchen supplies.

Uhlisch is known as a "hobby composer". He composed his best-known song Köhlerliesel in 1923 during a recreational stay in Altenau in the Upper Harz Mountains as a hobby. In the following three decades the song hardly found its way out of the native Harz mountains. In the mid-1950s, Uhlisch lived on the welfare of the city of Braunschweig . It was not until 1957 that the song was published commercially and released on record in May of this year by the yodeler Erich Storz and his “folk musicians”. Also in 1957 the song was sung by the group “ Die Heimatsänger ” and was at the top of the charts for four weeks. Due to the success of the title, Uhlisch's financial situation improved shortly before his death.

In 1951, Uhlisch submitted a proposal to the Federal Ministry of the Interior for a new version of the German national anthem .

Works

  • Ernst Bergfeld (text), Karl Theodor Uhlisch (music): The Tannenburg - A fairy tale game for young and old in 6 pictures , Braunschweig 1942, DNB 576725358 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City Archives Braunschweig, Document Sign. E 34: G67
  2. ^ Braunschweig City Archives, Document Sign. D | 12: 746
  3. ^ City Archives Braunschweig, Document Sign. E34: S 0286
  4. ↑ Commercial index of the city of Braunschweig, city archive Sign. E 32: 66 Akz. 2009/067
  5. ↑ a b Bernd C. Langnickel: The ABC of Folk Music: From Alpine Rebels to Zillertaler. The comprehensive lexicon of stars, musicians, composers and lyricists. Moewig, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86803-370-0 , p. 105.
  6. ↑ 1958 - Köhler-Liesel: A marching song goes around the world. The Chronicle of the Janissaries Chapel Altenau, accessed April 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ a b Personal details: Karl Theodor Uhlisch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1957, pp. 65 ( Online - Oct. 30, 1957 ).
  8. ↑ Köhlerliesel from Die Heimatsänger , chartsurfer.de, accessed April 11, 2015
  9. Jump up ↑ Die Heimatsänger - Köhlerliesel (Song) , germancharts.com, accessed April 11, 2015
  10. ↑ Clemens Escher: “Deutschland, Deutschland, Du mein Alles!” The Germans in search of their national anthem 1949–1952. Schöningh, Paderborn 2017, ISBN 978-3-506-78715-6 , p. 245 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Uhlisch, Karl Theodor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uhlisch, Karl August Wilhelm Hugo Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1958
Place of death Braunschweig