Max Schraudolf

Max Schraudolf (born May 17, 1918 in Oberstdorf ; † November 1999 ) was a German folk musician from the Allgäu , who did outstanding work there to preserve the Scherrzither .

In the Allgäu, playing with the Scherr zither, an archaic type of zither with 2 to 3 strings, was almost extinct at the beginning of the 20th century. At that time there was reports of a man in Oberstdorf who mastered the instrument. His name was August Bader, or, as the people called him, Gorers Gustl , a shepherd and Holzer . The 18-year-old Schraudolf met Bader by chance this August and was immediately enthusiastic about the almost extinct instrument. He learned to play it and devoted himself to it for the rest of his life, so that today it can be seen as a special Allgäu instrument. He became known throughout Bavaria in 1958 when he appeared together with Rudi Knabl on the radio program Das Bavarian Heart .

In addition to several Scherr zither duos and trios, there are now nationally known folk music ensembles that have the Scherr zither in their instruments, such as the Fraunhofer string music .

literature

• Helga Hoffmann; Otto Kettemann (ed.): Up in the Allgäu, where bread has an end: on the cultural history of a region. Zweckverband Schwäbisches Bauernhofmuseum , Illerbeuren 2000, ISBN 3-931915-03-4 (= printed products of the Swabian Farm Museum Illerbeuren , Volume 14).
• Evi Heigl, Martin Kern, Christoph Lambertz, Max Schraudolf: Max Schraudolf and the Scherrzither. 23 folk music pieces for Scherr zither from the repertoire of Max Schraudolf. Volume 4 of folk music by musical personalities from Bavarian Swabia. Advice center for folk music in Swabia, 2008, DNB 989500896

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Day of the Zither ( Memento of January 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive )