Max Schmeling March

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Max-Schmeling-Marsch is the name of a marching song that the hit and operetta composer Hugo Hirsch wrote. The text is from Felix Josky . It is dedicated to boxing , "fistfight" and its heroes and is subtitled "The Hymn of the German Pugilers".

Emergence

The title of the piece of music, which was published by Drei-Masken-Verlag Berlin, is actually, after the first line of the refrain, “Fighters without defense and weapons” and alludes to the fact that the boxer only uses his fists to fight; The name “ Max Schmeling -Marsch” possibly came about because the then extremely popular athlete said a dedication on the record.

Max Schmeling and Gerhard Pechner can be heard on the gramophone record recorded by Electrola ; the Berlin baritone Pechner, a popular song interpreter, performs the lines of text to accompany a salon orchestra after boxer Schmeling has spoken the words “May this march sound wherever there are pugilists in the ring” in the world. The recording was made in March 1930 in the Beethoven Hall in Berlin.

In contrast to the “Boxer Song” that Schmeling recorded with Hugo Fischer-Köppe and Kurt Gerron for the sound film “ Liebe im Ring ” in 1930, and which is still known today, the “Max Schmeling March” was not a success and fell into oblivion.

content

In his text, Josky evokes the ancient Rome of Nero and the Circus Maximus in the first stanza in order to introduce the historical dimension of the fistfight, while in the second stanza he reminds of the transience of glory even for the victorious and admonishes the carpe diem . The refrain repeatedly emphasizes the weaponlessness of the pugilists who compete as the Lord created them: only with their strong arms.

The refrain is:

|: Fencer without defense or weapons,

Without a shield of cold ore,

Fight as the Lord made you:

Strong arms and strong heart: |

(1)

Nero's horns roar through the streets

and a hard step roars through the streets.

The masses are drawn to the Circus Maximus

And everything on the way is carried away.

You will hardly find an old man at the herd

So hunt .... up to the circus and ... at. [unintelligible in the recording]

Where they tie their straps for a fist fight

Breaths hot breath of a whole city.

(2)

But where the cups of life spill over,

There is no space for you alone:

You have no right to miss life

Because time is all too short.

The wreath is not granted to everyone,

But every winner that he loses it.

Therefore be satisfied even with a short luck

And be happy as long as the wreath adorns you.

Sound document

  • Electrola EG1848 / 60-942 (Matr. BLR 6166-2) Max-Schmeling-Marsch (Hugo Hirsch, text by Felix Josky) Gerhard Pechner with salon orchestra. Dedication spoken by Max Schmeling. Recorded in the Beethoven Hall in Berlin.

literature

  • Hartmut Bartmuß: Hugo Hirsch "Who will cry ...". (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 122). Verlag Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-942271-54-7 .
  • Adolf Moritz Hofmeister (ed.), Carl Friedrich Whistling: Hofmeister's handbook of music literature. Volume 18, part 1, 1934, DNB 1003987931 , p. 275.
  • Martin Krauss: Schmeling, the career of a century German . Verlag Die Werkstatt, 2005, ISBN 3-89533-472-3 .
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ...: History and stories of popular music up to 1945. First part, Verlag Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-4508-9 .
  • Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk: Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. Bernd Hahnefeld Verlag, Berlin 1940, DNB 36280513X . [Anti-Semitic Publication]
  • Eva Weissweiler, Lilli Weissweiler: 'Ausgemerzt!': The lexicon of the Jews in music and its murderous consequences . Dittrich-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 , p. 242. [cited Stengel-Gerigk sp. 113 to Hugo Hirsch]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hirsch composed other marches as 'use music', e.g. B. the “March of the German Republic” (see Ploog p. 378) or a march for the Hamburg-America Line, the HAPAG song, for which CG von Negelein wrote the text. Compare with this Arnold Kludas : The history of the German passenger shipping. Volume 4: Destruction and rebirth 1914 to 1930. (= writings of the German Maritime Museum. Volume 21). Verlag E. Kabel, 1989, ISBN 3-8225-0047-X , p. 73.
  2. ↑ cf. Hofmeister's “Musical-literary Monthly Report (1930)”, p. 96: “Hirsch, Hugo. Max Schmeling March: The hymn of the German pugilists, f. Salon orchestra. m. Jazz St. edit v. R. Ellinger M 2. - f. Ges. M. Pfte M 1.80. Berlin, Drei Masken-Verlag. Max-Schmeling-March, together with A. P rofes, the soldier has a saber. March songs, f. Harm.- u. Blechmus, arr. v. H. Mannecke. 8 M 2. Berlin, Drei Masken-Verlag. "
  3. ↑ Electrola EG1848] (Matr. BLR 6166-2), to be heard on youtube
  4. ↑ Hofmeister p. 96: “Guttmannn, Artur. Roehr A.-G. Love in the ring. Sound film. From this: Boxer song and march: A boxer's heart only knows f. Ges. M. Pfte M 1.80. Berlin, Alrobi. "
  5. ↑ cf. Krauss, p. 70: "Even a Max Schmeling March composed by Hugo Hirsch and written by Felix Josky will not be a hit."