Jakob Geis

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Jakob Geis

Jakob Geis , called Papa Geis (born December 27, 1840 in Athens , † March 3, 1908 in Munich ) was a Bavarian folk singer and director of the Singspiel. He was considered a master of the Bavarian couplet . The dramaturge and director Jacob Geis was his grandson.

Life

Geis was born in Athens as the son of Nikolaus Geis, a court officer at the Greek royal court . At the age of six he came to Munich with his parents. There he stepped on stage for the first time at the age of 26. From 1869 he could be seen regularly as a humorist in the café of the elegant Hotel Oberpollinger, for some time also belonged to Anderl Welsch's ensemble and in November 1875 became director of his own musical group.

Other well-known folk singers also performed in Geis' Singspielgesellschaft, B. Christian Seidenbusch, who had been head of the troupe before him and who wrote many couplets himself, and Willy Schäffer, both esteemed imitators of women; also the comedians Anderl Mayerhofer, M. Königshöfer and Franz Haibl.

The pianist Paul Damas (also: Dammas) wrote music for Geis' couplets; after him Georg Huber, who also appeared as a humorist, was the troupe's house composer.

Geis was characterized above all by his solo scenes, in which “the aim was to bring out the character of an imaginary personality by telling the fate of life in the most purring kind of way”. Types in Geis' repertoire were 'little people' such as house servants, service men or cab drivers. The greatest and most lasting success, however, was his caricature of a lost corps student in the costume lecture “The mossy head”, in which he appeared with a sash, mustache and thrown on his face.

Around 1900 he was the most popular folk singer in this city as a representative of the middle class Munich. Everyone was talking about his couplets. One of his most famous rantings is everyone , I have left , Drah di Madl, drah di, the Mahdi is coming tomorrow .

"Geis and his society set guidelines for the following generation of folk singers. The level and design of the program, the structure of scenes and lectures were largely shaped by him." Even today his memoirs, which he wrote in 1905, are welcome testimonies to the old Munich folk singer culture.

The from Nuremberg -born Jakob Peuppus (1859-1905), Royal Bavarian music master at the Royal. Bayr. Infantry Leibgrenadier Regiment No. 1 and founder of the popular 'Kapelle Peuppus', composed the “Papa Geis March” in his honor in 1901 using various couplet melodies.

In 1884 Geis married Theres, b. Lechl (* 1841), daughter of the bricklayer Franz Lechl. The marriage produced a son, who later became actor and singer Josef Geis (1867–1940). The screenwriter Jacob Geis and the graphic artist Josef Nikolaus Geis were Jakob Geis' grandsons.

Geis died at the age of 67 and was buried in the Westfriedhof in Munich .

Audio documents

At the "Gramophone Co." Geis recorded five tracks in 1902:

  • G&T 42 230 (mx. 594) Kalauer-Couplet (Music: Julius Einödshofer)
  • G&T 42 231 (mx. 596) Daradl-Dadl (Text: Krakauer)
  • G&T 42 232 (mx. 593) travesty over the "wagtail song" (Tit-willow) (music: WSGilbert)
  • G&T 42 233 (mx. 592) couplet with opera refrain
  • G&T 42 234 (mx. 594) Through the keyhole (Text: Verney)

Re-releases

  • CD "Rare Schellacks - München: Volkssänger", at Trikont (order no. US 0199) contains the "Wachstelzenlied" by 'Papa' Geis as track 2.

literature

  • Jakob Geis: autobiography. Typescript Munich 1905.
  • Jakob Geis - Munich folk singer and host of the “Oberpollinger” on his 150th birthday. From the historical calendar . In: Charivari 16, 1990, 12, ISSN  0343-2548 , p. 75.
  • Susanne von Goessel: Munich folk singer - entertainment for everyone . In: Till, Wolfgang (Ed.): Karl Valentin - Volkssänger? Dadaist? [Catalog for the] exhibition for Karl Valentin's 100th birthday. Munich, Schirmer / Mosel 1982, p. 26 ff.
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898 - 1945, Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated.
  • Joseph Maria Lutz: The Munich folk singers. A book of memories of the good old days. After a collection by Erwin Münz . Munich 1956
  • Claudia Preis: The entertainer Jakob "Papa" Geis in the context of the Munich folk singer scene . Munich 2005, (Munich, Univ., Master's thesis).
  • Claudia Preis: Folk singing in Munich 1870-1930. For the production of entertainment culture in the city . Dissertation Munich 2010, online (PDF; 869 kB)
  • Ludwig M. Schneider: The popular criticism of the state and society in Munich (1886-1914). A contribution to the prehistory of the Munich Revolution of 1918/19 . Commission bookstore Wölfle, Munich 1975 (= Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia, issue 61).
  • Wolfgang Till (Ed.): Karl Valentin - Volkssänger? Dadaist? . [Catalog for the] exhibition for Karl Valentin's 100th birthday. Munich, Schirmer / Mosel 1982.
  • Hanns Vogel:  Geis, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 153 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a program of the society from the “Hotel and Restaurant Ober-Pollinger” [sic] of the season 1891/92 is reproduced in Von Goessel p. 34
  2. ↑ Christian Seidenbusch in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)Template: BMLO / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  3. ↑ received in his multi-volume collection "A bouquet of comical lectures", cf. Von Goessel p. 35, Preis, Volkssängerei p. 150
  4. ↑ cf. Preis, Volkssängerei pp. 40, 80; Lutz p. 22
  5. ↑ cf. Preis, Volkssängerei p. 55 and note 185; a photo with Geis, Seidenbusch and Haibl from 1885 is reproduced in Von Goessel p. 32
  6. ↑ cf. Reproduction of Huber's musical titles in Till pp. 306–307
  7. ↑ cf. From Goessel p. 35
  8. ↑ so Schneider 1975, p. 92.
  9. ↑ cf. Preis, Volkssängerei p. 116 and Anmm. 441 to 447; the lecture is unfortunately no longer available as a print.
  10. ↑ cf. volkssaengerei.de: Jakob Geis
  11. ↑ cf. Vogel in the NDB
  12. ↑ so von Goessel p. 35
  13. ↑ Peuppus, Jakob: Papa Geis March: using different couplets. Issue f. Piano. Munich, Dennerlein, 1901. Copy available in: BSB Munich, signature: 2 Mus.pr. 5189
  14. ↑ Hanns Vogel:  Geis, Jakob. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 153 ( digitized version ).
  15. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Jakob Geis
  16. ↑ Tracklist
personal data
SURNAME Geis, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geis, papa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bavarian folk singer and singspiel director
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1908
Place of death Munich