Grandpa's Schlager Festival

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Grandpa's Schlagerfestival was a music and entertainment program on ARD radio that was broadcast in 10 episodes from 1967 to 1972.

The series Opas Schlagerfestival was a co-production of the RIAS with the WDR, which was taken over by almost all broadcasters of the ARD. The program was directed by Ernst Kalthoff (WDR) and Hans Rosenthal (RIAS).

history

The series was moderated by Hans Rosenthal mostly in a double conference with the inventor of this "subsequent hit parade for the more mature youth from 19 to 90", the cabaret artist, author and composer Günter Neumann . In each episode hits, songs, chansons and operetta melodies from a year were presented by performers. A jury from the audience in the hall then selected the “winner” by awarding points. Historical events of the time were presented in a pointed conference; there was also a joke corner, which presented little skits and jokes from newspapers of the time.

Overview of the programs "Grandpa's Schlagerfestival":

  • 1st episode (born 1926)
Recording: November 10th, 1967 in Berlin's Urania
Winner: "Blind"
  • 2nd episode (born 1927)
Recording: September 6th, 1968 in the concert hall in Bad Salzuflen
Winning hit: "Ol Man River"
  • 3rd episode (born 1928)
Recording: October 24th, 1968 in the Bad Godesberg City Theater
Winner: "When the white lilac blooms again"
  • 4th episode (born 1925)
Recording: April 6th and 7th, 1969 in the Berlin Sportpalast
Winner: "The Spree still flows through Berlin"
  • 5th episode (born 1929)
Photo: September 2nd, 1969 from the exhibition grounds of the 26th German Radio Exhibition in Stuttgart
Winner: who put love in our hearts "
  • 6th episode (born 1930)
Recording: July 3rd, 1970 in the concert hall in Bad Salzuflen
Winning hit: "In the white Rößl on Lake Wolfgang"
  • 7th episode (born 1924)
Recording: November 20th, 1970 in Berlin's Urania
Winner: "Hello my Vienna"
  • 8th episode (born 1923)
Recording: April 1st, 1971 in the Forum in Leverkusen
Winning hit: "As long as Unter Linden"
  • 9th episode (born 1931)
Recording: August 28, 1971 from the Haus des Rundfunks in Berlin on the occasion of the 1st International Radio Exhibition
Winner: "That is the love of the sailors"
  • 10th episode (born 1932)
Recording: March 24th, 1972 in the Heinz Hilpert Theater in Lünen
Winning hit: "Oh Mona"

Participants in the entertainment series included the ensemble members of the well-known RIAS radio cabaret "Günter Neumann und seine Insulaner" in almost every episode: Tatjana Sais, Edith Schollwer, Bruno Fritz and Ekkehard Fritsch. That was no coincidence, because at the end of the sixties "Die Insulaner" suddenly were no longer up to date and not in the so-called. Age of 68 fit. After several compulsory breaks imposed by Günter Neumann himself, the once popular radio cabaret series was finally discontinued in 1968. Hans Rosenthal and Günter Neumann were looking for a new field of activity and thus invented the subsequent hit parade "Grandpa's Schlagerfestival". Other participating soloists in this series were Margot Eskens, Loni Heuser, Nina Lizell, Marion, Undine von Medvey , Paola , Fred Bertelmann, Bully Buhlan, Uwe Friedrichsen, Peter Fröhlich, Werner Hass, Jo Herbst, Andreas Mannkopff, Ralf Paulsen, Bill Ramsey , Willy Schneider, Günther Schwerkolt , Harald Sielaff, Ewald Wenck, as well as the Günter Kallmann Choir , the Medium Trio, the Moonlights and the Rosy Singers, also singing stars of classical music: Ursula Benz, Dorothea Christ, Monika Dahlberg, Sonja Schöne, Margit Schramm, Waldemar Arnold, Donald Grobe, Heinz Hoppe, René Kollo , Peter Lagger, Peter Minich, Martin Vantin and Horst Wilhelm. The musical direction was primarily in the hands of Heinrich Riethmüller and Werner Müller.

A similar series with the title Schlagerfestival was later broadcast on the TV station ZDF.