Otto Rathke

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Otto Rathke (also: Rathke-Bernburger ; born April 13, 1881 in Danzig - Langfuhr ; † July 24, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German musician and lecturer.

Life

After the death of his father, Otto Rathke moved with the family to Berlin . There he learned to play the trumpet and cornet.

In 1900 he played in the music corps of the 2nd Guards Regiment on foot under music master Max Graf. He studied harmony and composition at the University of Music in Charlottenburg . As a composer, he was best known for his military marches. But he also wrote character pieces, songs and folk dances that show his attachment to his homeland.

After the world war he expanded his musical sphere of activity. He made arrangements for dance orchestras such as Bernard Etté , Marek Weber , Georges Boulanger and Barnabás von Géczy ; he also composed and interpreted modern light music , sometimes under the pseudonym Erik Bloomström .

Rathke played for the stage, the record and the radio. For recordings at the record company Vox he conducted a “wind orchestra with vocals”.

In the Haller review “When and where?” In 1927 he played the trumpet in the Revue's orchestra, which was under the direction of Hans Schindler .

Rathke, however, also appeared as a humorist. As a lecturer, he had sung couplets and humorous lectures from his own pen on record with Beka shortly after the war; several humorous orchestral pieces, which he also recorded himself, are among his works. In the late 1920s he was still discussing several small Derby records with his own cabaret texts that were published.

Together with the laughter artist Lucie Bernardo , he was involved in the creation of the world-famous “Original Laughter Recording” on Beka in 1920. He was then the cornetist who repeatedly 'blew himself up' on the solo “From the youth”. The success led to further "laughing shots" to follow.

In 1931 he had a “curtain sermon” delivered by the soubrette Margarete Wiedeke .

With the emcee and humorist Ernst Petermann he wrote the homage and Festival march “The well-wishers”.

Together with Theo A. Körner , he wrote an instrumentation table for large, salon and jazz orchestras in 1927 , which was published by Anton J. Benjamin in Leipzig with an accompanying word by Alexander von Fielitz . It was reissued in 1951.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he composed the music for the dubious title of Adolf Hitler's favorite flower is the simple edelweiss , the text of which is accounted for by Emil Gustav Adolf Stadthagen.

His military marches with such pithy titles as Out of Steel and Iron or With an Iron Fist were still popular in the “Third Reich”, although they originated much earlier.

Rathke died of a heart attack on July 24, 1936 in Berlin.

Works

Marching music
  • Made of steel and iron
  • German-Austria March
  • German warriors. Force march
  • German presentation march
  • With an iron fist
  • New Prussian March
  • Loyalty to Westphalia
  • Weather lights
Character pieces
  • Marionette bridal procession . Character piece
  • Sailor pranks . Character piece
  • Pan and the forest rascal . Character piece
  • Castle guard of the ants . Character piece
  • Butterflies . Character piece
  • Sparrow parade . Character piece
  • Dance of the bluebells . Concert mazurka
  • Dancing journeyman millers . Character piece
  • Circus lions . Character piece
  • Dwarf patrol . Character piece
Songs
  • Oh come back . Song (TuM .: O. Rathke)
  • Push the glass, fill the cups, long live the Rhine . Lied (arrangement; composer: Erich Ziegler)
  • Adolf Hitler's favorite flower is the simple edelweiss . Song (Text: Emil Gustav Adolf Stadthagen)
Entertainment and dance music
  • The lady from the bar . Two-step
  • The small train ride . Foxtrot
  • The love and the booze . Joke Rhinelander
  • Franz Schubert . Romantic symphonic fox
  • I need love . Shimmy
  • I'm so looking forward to the weekend . Polka modern (Text: Curt Schulz)
  • Idiot jazz . Dadaist foxtrot
  • Come on, Hein, we'll have another drink . Seemannswalzer (music and text: Otto Rathke)
  • Cute little Berliner . waltz
  • Dance around the Christmas tree . Slow Fox
  • When the frog croaks his love song . Waltz (Text: Curt Schulz)

Audio documents

(Selection)

Recordings at Beka

as a lecturer
  • 30 289 and 30 290 Music and Suff (TuM .: Rathke) I and II: Otto Rathke, aufgen. June 26, 1919
  • 30 291 and 30 292 Musikalische Rundschau (TuM .: Rathke) I and II: Otto Rathke, aufgen. June 26, 1919
  • 30 302 The mother-in-law. Humorous waltz (TuM .: Rathke) Otto Rathke, lecture m. Orchestra, open. August 27, 1919
  • 30 303 plem-plem. Original couplet (TuM .: Rathke) Otto Rathke, lecture m. orchestra
  • 30 304 timpani verses (TuM .: Rathke) Otto Rathke, lecture m. orchestra
  • 30 305 New timpani verses (TuM .: Rathke) Otto Rathke, lecture m. orchestra
  • 30 339 And the thing is done! Couplet (TuM .: Rathke) lecture m. Orchestra, open. October 16, 1919
as a conductor
  • Popular music:
    • 30 299 And all of love in general, from “Die Dame vom Zirkus” (Rob. Winterberg - Jean Kren, Leonhard Buchbinder) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke.
    • 30 300 On earth it is made to cry, from “Die Dame vom Zirkus” (Rob. Winterberg - Jean Kren, Leonhard Buchbinder) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke.
    • 30 301 Today I have to have my girl, one-step (Adorjan Ötvös) orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke.
    • 30 454 Max, du Schmalzmelon (TuM .: Rathke) Orchestra, conductor O. Rathke; up. January 20, 1920
    • 31 457 wines, Lene! Couplet (TuM .: Rathke) orchestra, conductor O. Rathke; up. November 11, 1921
  • Reflections on "modern" music after 1918:
    • 30 452 Red Skin - Indian March (Harry Schreier) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke, give up. January 20, 1920
    • 30 453 Nigger piccolo - ragtime ( Siegwart Ehrlich ) orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke, give up. January 20, 1920.
    • 30 510 Smiles - Fox Trot (Lee S. Roberts) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke, give up. March 30, 1920.
    • 30 791 Boxer Trott - Radau-Foxtrot (O. Rathke) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke, give up. January 13, 1921.
    • 30 870 Idiot Jazz - Dadaistic Foxtrot (O. Rathke) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke, give up. February 17, 1921.
    • 32 706 Negerplatte (O. Rathke) Orchestra, conducted by v. O. Rathke, give up. February 26, 1925.
  • Humorous pieces
    • 30 963 Rixdorf am See: Bergstiefel polka with insoles (O. Rathke) Orchestra, conductor O. Rathke, open. April 19, 1921.
    • 30 964 In the Grunewald near Munich. Humorous Rhinelander (O. Rathke) orchestra, conductor O. Rathke, aufgen. April 19, 1921.
    • 31 016, also B.3729 The drunk (Rrrk-pteu!) Joke recording: O. Rathke m. Orch., Aufgen. February 12, 1923
    • 32 080, also B.3150 Piglet Ballet. Humorous character piece: O. Rathke m. Orch., Aufgen. April 12, 1923
  • Marching music
    • 30 321 Baltic March (Victory Call) - March (Rathke) Orchestra
    • 30 324 Wiener Schneid - March (Rathke) Orchestra
    • 30 325 Klingende Schwerter - March (Rathke) Orchestra
    • 30 326 Cavalry March (Rathke) Orchestra

Recordings on Star Record

  • Up on horseback: March (Otto Rathke) star orchestra. Star plate 5316 [16]
  • Made of steel and iron: march (Otto Rathke) Stern-Orchester. Star plate 5317 [17]
  • Victoria March (Otto Rathke) star wind orchestra. Kapellmeister Otto Rathke. Star Record 5957 [18]
  • Weather lights: March (Otto Rathke) Star-Blas-Orchester. Kapellmeister Otto Rathke. Star Record 5958 [19]

Recordings at Derby (around 1928/29)

  • That's when I realized what kind of ox I was! (Text: Rathke) Derby G.5540 (Lb 156)
  • Couplet about German quotations (TuM: Rathke) Derby DO5541 (Lb 157²)
  • Ingenious, but stupid (music: Götze, text: Rathke) Derby G.5544 (Lb 158²).
  • A court hearing (Text: Rathke) Derby DO5541 (Lb 159)

literature

  • Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3: Library of Congress. Copyright Office. Publisher: Library of Congress, Copyright Office, 1932.
  • Stefan Gauß: Needle, groove, funnel: cultural history of the phonograph and the gramophone in Germany (1900–1940). Cologne-Weimar-Vienna, Böhlau 2009.
  • Berthold Leimbach: Audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1895-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated.
  • Fried Poestges: Eric Plessow, in: Fox on 78, Fall 2002, pp. 66-67.
  • Zwarg Phonomuseum = Christian Zwarg, GHT label discographies , Beka / Parlophon 30173 Deutsch - German (1918–1928), 30173 - 34999 a. Deutsch - German (1928–1933), 36000–38999 [20] .

Web links

Audio samples
Illustrations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ There is a reason for this double name because it is only used on certain occasions; so z. B. in the instrumentation table that he had written with Theo A. Körner in 1927, and, here even separately from the name Rathke, in the Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions, Part 3, sp. 1287 to the entry Pan and Waldschrat: Character piece by Otto Rathke of Germany, instr. By O. Rathke-Bernburger of Germany , copyr. May 1931, publisher Albert Schaper, Berlin, No. 25 278 [1] : as a composer he calls himself Otto Rathke, but as an arranger Rathke-Bernburger. This is reminiscent of the Berlin composer and music publisher Erich Plessow, who called himself Eric Plessow as a composer, but Ewald Walter as a lyricist ; these were his two other first names, cf. Poestges 2002.
  2. ↑ his most played was perhaps the "marionette bridal procession": character piece / by Otto Rathke. ISMN: 9790221119650 - Publisher: Simrock.
  3. ↑ z. B. the Altmark peasant dances: Sin'n the old gentleman. Waltz / by Otto Rathke; Krempsteebel polka / by Otto Rathke: on Beka 31 536, 31 537; Peter Wendt'n sin Levlingsdans, Rhinelander / by Otto Rathke and Ick deen nich mieh as Ossenknecht, Polka / by Otto Rathke, on Beka 31 573 and 31 574, recorded in January 1922, cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum p. 133 u. 137.
  4. ↑ so Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1895-1945. Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated.
  5. ↑ z. B. Blossom Festival. Intermezzo Foxtrot (Eric Bloomström: Otto Rathke) on Favorite F.463-II (mx. F-0483) v. September 23, 1922, cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum p. 166, or Mister Radio Man , Foxtrot by Cliff Friend: Eric Bloomström-Orchester, Kalliope K. 647, also Stradivari Record G.647 (mx. Zw 3405), Driftwood [Davis & Lyman]: Bloomström Eric [= Otto Rathke], Kalliope K. 648 (Matrix number Zw 3407), approx. 1924 [2] ; it looks like Rathke used the Bloomström pseudonym primarily for the Kalliope company and its sub-brands.
  6. ↑ cf. Company history at [3]
  7. ↑ cf. Vox recording book [4] with titles like In der Bar ist Großbetrieb Vox 1433 A, Child come with me to Mongolia , Vox 1433 B, both from “The Ladies of Olympus” by Rudolf Nelson , In the Hotel Zur Grünen Wiese , Vox 1434 A, We'll build a little house from “The Spring Fairy” by Victor Corzilius , Vox 1434 B, October 1923. He also recorded his march compositions here, e. B. Aus Stahl und Eisen , Vox 1392 (mx. 1572 B), Westfalentreue Vox 1392 (mx. 1573 B), July 1923
  8. ^ A photo of the orchestra at [5] with text: The orchestra of the Haller-Revue under Hans Schindler in the Admiralspalast in the revue "When and Where" u. a. with Paul Dietrich (acc), Paul Godwin (v, concert master), Leo Monosson (v, 11th next to Schindler), Paul Romby (cl, as), Otto Rathke (tp, 2nd from right).
  9. ↑ cf. Compositions like Hugo on the man hunt: hilarious desperate scene of a widowed father . Tonweise by Otto Rathke. Wording by Max Koch. Leipzig: Verlag Dietrich, [approx. 1905] (= humorous solo scenes, 198)
  10. ↑ cf. Zwarg, Phonomusum, Parlo 0301173: e.g. B. Oh Angelika, Couplet, Beka 31 431, auf. Oct. 28, 1921, or Der dasreichige Franz, Couplet, on Beka 31 457. November 11, 1921
  11. ↑ z. B. Rixdorf am See: mountain boot polka with insoles or the comical, graceful piglet ballet with fine musical humor.
  12. ↑ on these 20 cm records recorded in narrow section cf. Lotz [6] , directory at [7]
  13. ↑ Beka 30 590 “Die unsglückte Jugendzeit”, aufgen. August 6, 1920, also published on Beka B.3727-I, OkeH 4678-A, Odeon A 74 360 (mx. Be 5306), cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum p. 45 [8] (PDF; 3 MB), illustration of the label with the names of the artists at [9]
  14. ↑ z. B. The laughed at sadness , on Beka B.6137 (mx. 33 671), I laugh until my stomach bursts , on Odeon O-2944 (Be 8986), or types of laughter , on Odeon O-11 196 (Be 8757)
  15. ↑ on Gloria GO10 072 (Bi 120)
  16. ↑ Rathke, Otto (music): The well-wishers. Homage and congratulations march. No. 2769, Berlin, Richard Birnbach, 1935.
  17. ↑ [10]
  18. ↑ Hamburg: Benjamin Year: [1951] Extent: 4 sheets, 3 f. ; in quart. Order number (s): Elite Ed. No. 329: 4.00
  19. ↑ The song was banned in the Third Reich; Even if it was intended as propaganda by those who carried it out, the Nazi leadership quickly recognized that it could be understood as “real satire” and took action against its dissemination (as well as against “hooked” egg cups, doormats, etc.), cf. . similar unsuccessful attempts at ingratiation in Gauss, p. 211 ff.
  20. ↑ z. B. from the SA-Kapelle Johannes Fuhsel: (Tono) 2008A, 1932 New Prussian March, March, Otto Rathke, also on Brillant-Special 206, or (Tono) 4055, Ritter und Recken. Marsch, Otto Rathke, cf. List “NS record industry”: wind orchestra, at Lotz-verlag.de [11]
  21. ↑ born on Jan. 3, 1900/1909? in Berlin, Germany, died December 24, 1948 in Den Haag , Netherlands, composer, pianist, entertainer. See LexM [12] (2013, updated on June 18, 2013)
  22. ↑ cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum p. 30
  23. ↑ cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum s. 30th
  24. ↑ cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum p. 74. At the beginning of the 1920s, 'Dadaist Foxtrotts' were in the air, cf. z. B. “DaDa / Da-Da-Da-Da- / Dadaistischer / Foxtrot / for TROTTEL and / SUCH- / who still WANT it / Words from / DaDa Beda / MUSIC FROM / Ober-Da-Da Hajós” home by Karl Hajos (music) and Dr. Fritz Loewy alias Löhner- "Beda" (words), published by the Berlin Bohème-Verlag / Karl Brüll / Berlin W 15, Fasanenplatz. [13]
  25. ↑ cf. Zwarg Phonomuseum s. 184
  26. ^ Record factory "Star Record", Ernst Hesse & Co., Berlin SO. 26, Elisabeth-Ufer 52. See 'intoxicated' at [14] , there also images of labels of this brand.
  27. ↑ Music: “O beautiful time”, song by Carl Götze, with the beginning “It was a Sunday bright and clear”, cf. [15] ; a melody whose popularity around the turn of the century was also used by Karl Valentin in his couplet “Das Lied vom Sonntag” (received on Telefunken A 2968, mx. 24 290, text from archived copy ( memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) information: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review the original and archive link under. instructions and then remove this notice. reproduced) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / tomthecats.blog.de
personal data
SURNAME Rathke, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rathke-Bernburger, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and performing artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig - Langfuhr
DATE OF DEATH July 24, 1936
Place of death Berlin