Lutz Franck

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Lutz Franck (born February 28, 1925 ) is a German carnivalist who was best known as a bailiff .

Life

The postal worker Franck and his colleague Wilfried Rudolph first appeared as a petty singer at Mardi Gras celebrations of the PSV Mainz postal sports club . In 1960 they performed together at the Mainz Carneval Society, where they were discovered by Ernst Neger for the Mainz Carneval Association 1838 eV. The duo was seen in early black-and-white broadcasts of the Mainz Carnival and thus became known nationwide. In 1969, Franck and Rudolph performed the song " Ui-jui-jui-au-au-au " for the first time on a broadcast from Mainz remains Mainz , the refrain of which has become a long-running hit at Carnival and has since been used in particularly appropriate or less demanding punchlines from hand-made speakers is recorded.

At the beginning of the 1980s, Wilfried Rudolph withdrew. Franck initially appeared with changing partners before he found a permanent stage partner in Joachim Seitz (1954–2007) in 1984. On February 28, 1995, his 70th birthday, Franck announced his departure from the carnival stage. Since then, Seitz continued to perform as “Die Bänkelsänger” with his younger brother Guido in the following years.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to "Die Mainzer Bänkelsänger" , Franck celebrated his 70th birthday on Shrove Tuesday 1995.
  2. a b "The Mainz bench singers"
  3. "The Bänkelsänger - Uiuiuiuiuiuiui - auauaua" , SWR Landesschau Rheinland-Pfalz , July 2, 2010.