Kurt Henneberg

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Kurt Henneberg (* 1915 or 1916; † beginning of 1945 in Prague ) was a German jazz and entertainment musician ( violin ).

Henneberg was a student of Georg Kulenkampff ; he played with Peter Kreuder in the late 1930s ; In addition, from 1939 he took part in the recordings of various studio orchestras under the direction of Adalbert Lutter , Albert Vossen , Michael Jary , Peter Igelhoff (“I wish you a good night”) and Kurt Weg . In the field of jazz he was involved in 35 recording sessions between 1937 and 1944, most recently in March 1944 with the Adolf Steimel string dance orchestra (“The music is my talisman”). In 1941 he also recorded a number of titles under his own name, such as the Kreuder composition “As a song blows in the wind” (Odeon Be-12828) or “I'm so in love today!” (By Willy Schmidt-Gentner , Odeon O- 31671a).

In 1944/45 Henneberg was a member of the German Dance and Entertainment Orchestra (DTU), which worked in Prague during the last months of the war; he had been chosen by the musicians involved as their spokesman. When the Czechs recaptured Prague at the end of the war, the German DTU musicians holed up in their hotels; Henneberg was the only one who dared to go out onto the square where he was surrounded by a mob. He died at the age of 29 after the crowd hung him from a lamppost and set him alive on fire.

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  1. ↑ Peter Kreuder: The time was beautiful: Music is my life . Munich, Kindler, 1955, p. 278.
  2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 21, 2016)
  3. ↑ a b Michael H. Kater : Daring game. Jazz under National Socialism . Kiepenheuer and Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-462-02409-4 . P. 308 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Henneberg, Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1915 or 1916
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death Prague