Matthias Lixenfeld
Matthias Lixenfeld (born September 11, 1899 in Duisburg , † November 20, 1986 there ) was a German composer , illusionist and carnivalist .
Life
Matthias Lixenfeld was born in the working class district of Hochfeld as the son of Johann-Friedrich and Sophia Lixenfeld. In his birth certificate, the first name is still given as "Mathias". Towards the end of the First World War he was drafted. After the war he learned mechanical engineering and started at Demag . At the same time he took composition lessons in evening school . During the period of inflation Matthias Lixenfeld played the piano until Demag employed him again.
Matthias Lixenfeld had been a carnivalist since 1928 . In all parts of the city there were, in contrast to today, larger and smaller halls or lounges. If not, the carnival bustle also took place in the restaurants. In 1930 he met the “Oldstädter Jong” Hans Hemmer in one of these restaurants, namely “Zum Klösterchen” in the old town. He was so convinced of Lixenfeld's piano playing that he took the two songs of "Pfeffermünzmariechen" and "Wedaustrand" into the program at the carnival meeting of the gymnastics and sports club in 1848/99. The performance was a complete success and the beginning of Lixenfeld's musical and carnival career. At that time he was also awarded his first “real gold medal made of brass” with a black and white ribbon, hand-hammered by Karl Emmerich.
Many pioneers of the Duisburg Carnival such as Josef Grabowski, Hubert Neukirchen or Harry Waldmann put Matthias Lixenfeld at the center of their meetings. He wrote a variety of songs and marches. As a real Duisburg and even Hochfelder Jong, dialect was very important to him. His love for his hometown inspired him early on for the text "Op min old Duisburg", which was premiered in 1932 on the occasion of a radio broadcast from Tohnalle by the famous Leo Eysoldt orchestra. He made his close ties to his home in the Rhineland clear with the following song: “I greet my homeland, the plaice on the Rhine, I greet you, German maids, castles and vines on sunny heights. O home, how beautiful are you! ”. When the “Tierpark” in Duisburg was set up in 1934, there was of course a Fastelowes song by Matthias Lixenfeld: “City of Duisburg kreg en Zoo met Aape dren! Dröm look forward to you, dat ek ut Duisburg ben! "
In the years before the war, Matthias Lixenfeld wrote a song for almost every Rose Monday procession motto:
- 1935 "Wi häwwe utgeschlope"
- 1936 "How häwwe the Karr roll"
- 1937 "An ene Streck"
- and also in 1952 "Wie make wat met"
For the “Hochfelder Serenade” with a powerful swipe at the good Hochfeld air, the Duisburg copper smelter had provided him with a several meter high chimney with 3 rows of “red lights”.
Also in 1938 Lixenfeld wrote a folk piece with music "The Oil Prince of Hochfeld", a grave event in the history of the Hochfelder. In 1937, some carnival revelers buried a large barrel of old machine oil in the sand pit at Immendahl owned by the haulage company Hans Dömkes. A master plumber and “antiquarian”, who was the subject of this joke, set the city and other authorities in motion to the frightening of the authors. Of course, everything dissolved in favor. Even the mayor got on the oil prince car on Rose Monday. After the war, Lixenfeld learned that his oil prince had been turned into a state action in the truest sense of the word, as even the “Secret State Police” had confiscated all of the role books at the “Alt Heidelberg” theater association. In 1938, Hans Bier recommended reviving the oil prince for the children's carnival on the Hochfelder Markt. The intensive research revealed such an abundance of comical situations that Lixenfeld wrote a full-length theater piece from this - freely designed and effective on the stage - with the addition of his own songs.
A spark guard was formed under President Hans Bier, whose main pillars were Hans Bier junior. and Heinz van Groen were. Funkengarde without dance was of course an absurdity, and so Lixenfeld composed the “Stippeföttkestanz” in 1935 at the Rheinländerempo, which was performed for the first time in front of the town hall and is still an integral part of the now independent “Rote Funken”. Lixenfeld had also composed a march for the Prinzengarde, which he heard on the evening of October 26, 1938 and which is still used today.
In 1947, Paul Baumeister, at that time still managing director of KG Blau-Weiß, wanted Lixenfeld to organize his own Büttenmarsch, which he wrote as the “March of the Blue-White”. In 1953 the blue-whites had formed a handsome guard. Ex-Prince Karl I, Karl Burggräfe, thought it appropriate to have a separate march for this guard. The "March of the honor guard of the city of Duisburg Blau-Weiß 1929 eV" can still be heard today.
After the Second World War , Lixenfeld recognized another talent, his talent for magic . From 1945 to 1948 the long-time member of the “Magical Circle” gave appearances as a magician “Lixerni” in American clubs after joining the “ International Artist Lodge ”, for example in 1945 in Ulm, and from 1946 also in English clubs in the Ruhr area.
In 1949 he followed DEMAG's insistence, because there were hardly any designers left for Siemens-Martin ovens . A former colleague remembered that he sometimes put music lines on paper instead of technical drawings.
The post-war period and the abnormal conditions offered the carnivalist Lixenfeld a wealth of suggestions. He wrote, among other things, the “black marketeer ballad” and the song “Love is still free of points”, in which he described the flood of cards for supplying people. Albert Taeger, humorist and co-founder of the “Blau-Weißen”, suggested Lixenfeld to write a bigger potpourri “Die Hamsterfahrt”. Presented by Albert Taeger and Willi Reinboldt (as "Bang and Fall") it was a resounding success. That is why “Die Schwarzbrenner” - “Demontagen-Klänge” and “The last black marketeer” soon followed in a similar design. In addition, Lixenfeld wrote carnival songs, poems, rose songs, male choir songs and much more. And always in the best picture with his texts: “You are a little Casanova” - “Moonlight - Waltz” - “Let me be your Sputnik” - “We keep measure” - “ Just don't take the pill ”or“ Oh Jacky ”are just a few examples. His work at the children's carnival of the honor guard is unforgettable and exemplary. “Uncle Matthes” often operated in the old “Rheinhof”.
At retirement age, Matthias Lixenfeld rediscovered his love for roses. As early as 1928 he had written his first "Rose Song". Now he wrote rose songs based on poems by Gottfried Benn , Clemens Brentano , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and Friedrich Rückert , which were premiered in 1968 at the 85th anniversary of the “ Association of German Rose Friends ”.
When Matthias Lixenfeld died very old on November 20, 1986 at the age of 87, he had enlivened and delighted the Duisburg Carnival with his songs for over four decades. Matthias Lixenfeld found his motto in life with Horaz: "Dulce est desipere in loco - it's lovely to be a fool in the right place"
Once he said: “In a quiet hour I sometimes sat down at the piano: Then seng ek en Liedke op Duisburger Platt, Son Liedke, dat brave one. On wor ma dat Läwe uk, no matter how fed up - Et weed but in the end it hurts! "
In honor of the great son of the city of Duisburg, there was a concert with his most famous pieces on November 14, 2010 in the auditorium of the Gertrud Bäumer Vocational College. On August 4, 2011, the "Matthias Lixenfeld Society" was founded in Duisburg, which was dissolved on June 30, 2014. Today his memories and compositions are kept by the Zeitzeugenbörse Duisburg eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg takes the preservation of Lixenfeld's estate back into their hands
- Duisburger Jahrbuch 2011 - Contribution by Harald Molder, ISBN 978-3-87463-478-6
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lixenfeld, Matthias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, illusionist and carnivalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 20, 1986 |
| Place of death | Duisburg |