Paul Gerber (musician)

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Paul Gerber (born April 8, 1889 in Saint-Imier , † July 1, 1941 in Bern ) was a Swiss yodeler and folk singer.

Live and act

Paul Gerber attended elementary school in his birthplace of St. Imier in the Swiss canton of Bern , learned to be an electrical installer and later was a sergeant in the Zurich city police . Together with his wife he formed a celebrated yodel duet, which knew how to convey the "primordial nature" of this alpine folk art "with naive grace" and could also be heard on gramophone records from 1909 onwards.

As a soloist and with his wife in a duet, he recorded for gramophones / zonophones, later also for Odeon , Homocord , Artiphon and Vox , in Switzerland for the «Phonoplattenwerke Zürich» ( Fabrique de Disques Phonographiques ). To accompany both were piano and zither used as well as entire orchestra.

Gerber's art was also available in the USA through the General Phonograph Co. New York of German-American record manager Otto Heinemann (1877–1965) on his “OkeH” -Odeon label. Their labels contained the note recorded in Europe or recorded in Germany or recorded in Switzerland and were sometimes in Gothic script to confirm their authenticity .

Gerber sang well-known Swiss folk tunes such as Mi Vater isch en Appezeller and Vo Luzern uf Wäggis zue and traditional yodels such as Durlhofer , Rigi Jodel or Unterwaldner Jodel . His best-known piece was the cuckoo song , which he recorded several times in the course of his career, acoustically with a funnel and electrically with a microphone . It became world famous through him.

In his record review in the cultural magazine Der Cross-section , critic Hans Reimann noted: “Paul Gerber and partner. Vox No. 4223 - Why do you only yodel on the mountain pastures? This larynx training should become a compulsory subject in the new school curriculum ... »

Paul Gerber died in Bern at the age of 61.

Sound documents (selection)

Gramophone, Zonophone, Polyphonic

  • Kukuk song with yodel . Sung by Paul Gerber, Zurich. German. yodle song.
  • Yodelling parties . Singing Paul and Marieli Gerber.
  • Early when the sun rises . Folk song. Paul Gerber and wife. Switzerland. Yodelling duet.
  • Styrian yodelers / Hans and Liesel . Paul Gerber.
  • Yodelling duet . Paul Gerber and wife. Switzerland.
  • From Lucerne to Wäggis . Folk song. Sung by Paul Gerber, Zurich. German. Yodle song.

Odeon

  • My father is an Appezeller . Paul Gerber, Zurich, Swiss prize yodeler.
  • Swiss yodelling song . Paul Gerber, Swiss Prize Yodeler, Zurich, with piano accompaniment. Up. April 1923.
  • Bi us in Bärnerland (Krenger and Schmalz). Paul Gerber and wife. Preisjodler with orchestra.
  • Cuckoo Song (Hans Hasler) / Shepherd's Song . Paul Gerber and wife.
  • Unterwaldner - yodelers . Paul Gerber, Zurich, with zither accompaniment. Swiss Yodel with Zither accompaniment. Recorded in Germany.

Homocord

  • The Gaisbueb . Swiss yodelling song. Paul Gerber, Preisjodler, Zurich, with zither accompaniment.

Vox

  • Brienzerburli . Paul Gerber, Zurich, yodel solo.
  • My father is in Appenzeller . Folk way.
  • D'r red Schwyzer . Folk way. Paul Gerber, yodeler with piano accompaniment.

Artiphon

  • The cuckoo song . Sung by Marie and Paul Gerber, Zurich.
  • Bi us im Bärnerland / 's Berner Oberland Lied (Hans Hasler), Betty and Paul Gerber.

Phonoplattenwerke Zurich / Fabrique de Disques Phonographiques “Sung by Paul Gerber and wife, Zurich”.

  • Oh how short sin usi days .
  • Zwöi Schümli .
  • Kukuk song .
  • Emmenthaler song .

literature

  • Christian Büchele, Helga König, Cordula Schütz: The historical sound carriers of the Eichstätt University Library (= catalogs of the Eichstätt University Library. Volume 10). Schneider, Tutzing 1999, ISBN 3-79520967-6 .
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Rainer E. Lotz (eds.), Andreas Masel, Susanne Ziegler: Discography of ethnic recordings (= German National Discography. Volume 5). Lotz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 978-3-98058082-3 .
  • Bart Plantenga: Yodel in Hi-Fi. From Kitsch Folk to Contemporary Electronica. University of Wisconsin Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-29929053-5 .
  • Hans Reimann: Record review. In: The Cross Section. Volume 8, Issue 1, 1928, p. 376.
  • Zurich paperback. Volume 114. Buchdruckerei an der Sihl, 1994, p. 269 and p. 288.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonia, b. February 13, 1873 Lucerne, died April 14, 1924 Zurich; however, other names are also mentioned on the labels, e.g. B. Marieli, Marie (at Gramophone GC) or Betty (at Artiphon).
  2. ↑ so with Berthold Leimbach: Tondokumente der Kleinkunst and their interpreters 1898–1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991
  3. ↑ cf. Labels shown. at shoprosa.ch (accessed June 4, 2019)
  4. ↑ cf. Fig. At discogs.com and announcement in “Deutsch-Amerika und sport rundschau”, Volume 8, p. 99. Published 1922. (online at books / google.de )
  5. ↑ z. B. for “Concert Record Gramophone” and for “Homocord Elektro”, cf. Plantenga p. 170: we should also mention these yodelers: Paul Gerber, Kukuklied with yodler ...
  6. ↑ Volume 8, Issue 1, 1928, p. 376
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss yodeler and folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Imier
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1941
Place of death Bern