Paul Warmuth

Paul Warmuth (born November 26, 1911 in Hambach , † October 17, 1981 in Schweinfurt ) was a Franconian dialect poet and composer .

Life

Paul Warmuth learned tailoring from his father after graduating from school and took over his father's business after his father's death in 1931. From 1939 to 1940 he was a part-time employee at the Hambach, Dittelbrunn and Maibach administrative association. During the Second World War he served as a non-commissioned officer in the occupation forces in Norway from 1941 to 1945 and was taken prisoner by the Americans at the end of the war . In 1945 he was transferred to the French as a prisoner and held in France for reparation work until 1947. From 1950 he was first employed part-time, from 1953 full-time, by the then independent municipality of Hambach as an administrative clerk. He practiced this profession until 1977.

In his youth he developed a love for music, especially for Franconian folk music. He learned several instruments including the violin , tenor horn and accordion . In 1928 he was a founding member of the Hambach brass band. On May 7th and 8th, 1932, he performed with the four-member singing group he founded, the Hambacher Volkssängern, at the Lower Franconian folk song competition of the German Academy in Würzburg and immediately won a silver medal. After the Second World War he re-founded the Hambacher Volkssänger and composed several folk songs. His best known piece is the folk song Sou a Schöppla Frankewei .

1954 to 1976 he was director of the Hambacher Heimatkapelle. In 1970 he co-founded the Hambach Music School, of which he was director until 1979.

In the field of homeland care , he worked closely with the Franconian Association and especially with the respective district homeworker of Lower Franconia. He worked on the East Franconian dictionary of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, in the folk music department at Studio Nuremberg and in the Franconian folk music working group. His poems and songs are also in the holdings of the Institute of Franconian Literature at the Nuremberg City Library. He made material available to students of the pedagogical faculty of the University of Würzburg, who wrote their admission thesis about the Hambacher Volkssänger.

He died on October 17, 1981 in the Leopoldina Hospital in Schweinfurt after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage during a performance by the Hambacher Volkssänger in Gädheim.

Hambach folk singer

In 1932 Paul Warmuth put together a vocal quartet that won a silver medal at the folk song competition of the German Academy in Würzburg for the performance of traditional Hambach songs. After his return from captivity, he and main teacher Paul Galmbacher founded the “Hambacher Volkssänger” in 1948, a group of idealists who gave Franconian dialect, Franconian songs and dances not only to people of their homeland, but also to entertainment and entertainment beyond the Franconian borders The opportunity to get to know the Franconian character and customs offered. Since he was also the conductor of the Hambacher Heimatkapelle, singers and musicians could play together.

As the head of the folk singers, Paul Warmuth not only provided a repertoire of songs, poems, dances and dialect theater, but also took care of the group's engagements. Some of the dialect songs and poems listed come from his pen. They appeared in two editions in the booklet “Franconian home cooking”.

By his death in 1981, the Hambach folk singers had over 400 public appearances, and their songs continued to be broadcast in folk music broadcasts from the Bavarian Radio's Nuremberg studio. In addition, Paul Warmuth took part in appearances in friendly groups as a moderator or dialect speaker. For the Franconian groups that were newly founded in the 1970s, he was a consultant in questions of song choice, costume and folk dance.

Honors

For his services to the community of Hambach and his commitment to Franconian customs, he received the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1976 .

The local council of the community of Dittelbrunn , to which Hambach belongs as a district, gave the path behind its property the name Paul-Warmuth-Straße .

The community of Dittelbrunn opened the Paul Warmuth Collection in 2006. The complete records and collections were given to the community by son Ekbert Warmuth. The collection forms the basis for the Hambach Village Museum, which is currently under construction.

Publications

• The Hambach affiliates. , New Year's song from Hambach. , in: J. Scheuring, Vo-Lie-Sa 2nd episode, Ma-Mä-Mee-Main-Verlag Aschaffenburg 1932.
• 25 years of Hambacher Volkssänger , in: 25 years of Hambacher Volkssänger S 7th - 11th publisher Hambach community 1957.
• Franconian home cooking , collection of poems 1982

Songs

Standard German

• In the lovely valley of the Marienbach , May 15, 1949
• Captured Sunshine , November 17, 1957
• Bocksbeutelland , October 27, 1970
• The pure gold from the Land am Main , November 19, 1974
• Beer song , February 3, 1979

dialect

• Sou a Schöppla Frankawei , May 18, 1952
• Es Dreschlied , June 15, 1952
• Es basalong , July 14, 1962
• Franconian home cooking , May 12, 1977

Melodies

• Vier schüana Sacha , text: Alois Ruckert, March 11, 1978
• En Unterfrank is a favorite food , text: Alois Ruckert, April 7, 1978
• If you get a Frankamädlae n Wenqertsträubl , text: Ernst Luther, November 15, 1980
• Feuerroata Nachelich , text: Hanns Rupp, March 28, 1981

Song lyrics

• I like going out into the forest , melody: Sepp Böhm, March 8, 1953
• I'm last through the Garta ganga , melody: traditional dance, July 14, 1962
• On the Main in beautiful Franconia , melody: Karl Schöner, September 28, 1968
• Today the bloas music is playing , melody: Karl Schöner, 5th December 1968

grades

• Songs from Franconia, compiled by Ludwig Moritz, Franconian Folk Music Working Group

Sound carrier

• Wir sen fei vo Hamich , In the lovely valley of the Marienbach , Sou a Schöppla Frankawei at Marienkirche in Hambach , Rolf Binder documentary sound recordings, Bi 44, 1966
• Bocksbeutelland , Captured Sunshine in Franconia - Heimatland , Baccarola 86 946 ZU in Ariola sales 2nd edition 1974: Record: Ariola 202 048-241, cassette: Ariola 402 048-242
• I'm last through the Garta ganga , Sou a Schöppla Frankawei in Franconian is not so difficult , Darnok DF 1055, 1977
• Sou A Schöppla Frankewei on folk music from Lower Franconia , CD, Bogner Records, CD 02300

literature

• Gerhard Spitzner: Paul Warmuth - 70 years. - The Hambach folk singers. in: Fränkische Volksmusik-Blätter 5, 1981 (4): 42-5.
• Ekbert Warmuth: The folk singer Paul Warmuth died 25 years ago. in: Frankenland - magazine for Franconian regional studies and culture, issue 5, October 2006.
• Karl-Heinz Hennig: 50 years of Hambach folk singer. 1982.