Otto Roehr

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Otto Röhr in the Metropol cabaret

Otto Roehr (also Otto Röhr ; November 9, 1880 in Berlin - after 1919 in Düsseldorf ) was a German piano humorist.

Life

Roehr was born in Berlin on November 9th, 1880 and soon showed a natural talent for music. Since he also had a cheerful disposition, he embarked on the career of piano humorist who accompanied his own performance himself. His lecture style was based on the variety show, but above all on Ernst von Wolzogen's “Überbrettl”.

As early as 1905, he had recordings on records that refer to Otto Reutter in the style of the couplets with their refrain lines that concisely summarized the stanzas . But his style was also influenced by the humorous songs of an Oscar Straus and the Berlin cabaret.

His original couplets were also sung by other well-known cabaret artists such as the tenor Ludwig Arno.

During the First World War, Roehr appeared before interned Germans in Switzerland. As a gramophone artist, he also wrote patriotic war humor in “patriotic” potpourris at this time. Between 1916 and 1918 the artist stayed in Zurich and Bern , then in Vienna .

Posters from around 1919 document Roehr's appearances in the Berlin Metropol Cabaret by Alex Braune in Behrenstrasse and in the Kammer-Brettl in the Admiralspalast under the direction of Rudolf Nelson .

As the theater tickets show, Otto Roehr last appeared at the Apollo Theater in Düsseldorf . He also died in Düsseldorf.

Nothing is known about further engagements and life dates.

Sound documents (selection)

  • Gr 2-42 974 (mx. 1175) If you think you can
  • Gr 2-42 975 (mx. 1176) What a real German is (Text Roehr, Musik Boehme)
  • Gr 942.698, 942.699 (mx. 18 172 L, 18 173 L) War Chronicle 1914/15, 1. u. 2nd part (tube)
  • Gr 942.700 (mx. 18 137 L) Italy - no harm, nothing (text by Martin Freudenberg, music Röhr) Performed by Otto Röhr, piano humorist
  • Gr 942.701 (mx. 18 135 L) The rooster, the dog and the bear: original couplet by Otto Röhr. Performed by Otto Röhr, piano humorist
  • Gr 942.744 (mx. 18 138 L) advice for marriage prospects
  • Gr 942.745 (mx. 18 139 L) The Deceiver
  • Gr 942.783 (mx. 18 679 L) yes yes if it weren't for love
  • Gr 942.784 (mx. 18 680 L) Käthchen with the pompadour
  • Gr 942.786 (mx. 18 682 L) Then life is wonderful in the world (Röhr)
  • Gr 13 474 (mx. 18 139 L) The Deceiver (Röhr) [= Gr 942.745]
  • Gr 13 564 (mx. 18 680 L) Käthchen with the Pompadur (tube) [= Gr 942.784]
  • Gr 13 647 (mx. 18 136 L) "2 to 15" (text by Antonie Gates. Music by Otto Röhr) [= Gr 942.804]
  • Gr 13 647 (mx. 18 681 L) We men have it worse than women (Röhr) [= Gr 942.805]

Audio samples

  • “2 to 15” (text by Antonie Gates. Music by Otto Röhr) Otto Röhr, piano humorist. Grammophon 13 647 / 942.804 (mx. 18 136 L) Otto Röhr, piano humorist, Berlin 1917/18, to be heard on YouTube
  • “Yes, yes, if it weren't for love” (text and music by Otto Röhr) Otto Röhr, piano humorist. Grammophon 13 564 / 942.243 (mx. 18 679 L), approx. 1919 (refers to the line of text “If love weren't” by the Walter Bromme hit, which was very popular at the time ), to be heard on YouTube
  • "Käthchen with the Pompadour" (text and music by Otto Röhr) Otto Röhr, piano humorist. Gramophone 13 564 / 942.784 (mx. 18 680 L), ca.1919, can be heard on YouTube

Illustrations

  • Poster for Ernst von Wolo's colorful theater (Ueberbrettl)
  • Metropol-Cabaret: Otto Röhr 3-color original advertising poster design by Jo (Josef / Joseph) Steiner (1919); Format: 15.0 × 20.2 cm; Cardboard: 20.4 × 27.7 cm. 3-color original lithograph. Laminated on cardboard. - Poster text: “Metropol-Kabarett. Directorate Alex Braune, Behrenstrasse 54. Otto Röhr. "(Image number AKG82314, enlarged 10.01.17)
  • Poster “Kammer-Brettl in the Admirals-Palast / Otto Röhr”. Berlin, 1919. Design: Jo Steiner. Printing: Dinse & Eckert, Berlin. Picture number AKG82939.
  • Grammophon label 13 564 / 942.784 Käthchen with the Pompadour (accessed on November 25, 2014)

literature

  • Alan Kelly: Catalog of the vocal recordings of Deutsche Grammophon Berlin-Hanover from 1898–1925 (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) , photomechan. Reprinted by Hansfried Sieben, Düsseldorf undated [around 1970]
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945 . Göttingen, self-published, 1991.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ z. B. How can a person be so meschugge (Text: Gates, Gr 42 217, mx. 582 d, 1905)
  2. ↑ Two to fifteen . Original couplet (Antonie Gates / Otto Roehr) Ludwig Arno, tenor. Beka Grand No.12 358. Feb. 1909
  3. ^ Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945 . Göttingen, self-published, 1991.
  4. ↑ Apollo Theater Düsseldorf → XII. Variété season 1910/11 on uni-duesseldorf.de, accessed on May 23, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b Alan Kelly: Catalog of the vocal recordings of Deutsche Grammophon Berlin-Hanover from 1898–1925 (The Gramophone Co. Ltd.) , photomechan. Reprinted by Hansfried Sieben, Düsseldorf undated, p. 347 f.
personal data
SURNAME Roehr, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röhr, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piano humorist and lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH after 1919
Place of death Dusseldorf