Peter Wehle

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Peter Wehle (born May 9, 1914 in Vienna ; † May 18, 1986 ibid) was an Austrian composer , author and cabaret artist .

Life

Studies and military service

As a boy, Peter Wehle attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna , which, according to him, listed Franz Grillparzer , Johann Nestroy , Johann Strauss and Kaiser Karl as prominent students. He was to take over his father's law firm and therefore studied at the University of Vienna Jus . His studies, interrupted by one year of voluntary military service in the Breitenseer barracks , he completed in March 1939 with a doctorate .

During his studies, he worked as a bar pianist and also wrote chansons for cabarets and revue stages. He also passed the Kapellmeister examination. It was then that he got to know Gert Fröbe and Curd Jürgens , both members of the German Volkstheater's ensemble .

In the Second World War , Wehle had to do military service from January 1940, initially in France . In Vienna, his father had to leave his law firm within 24 hours, reported anonymously, because Grandfather Wehle, who died in 1888, was a baptized Jew. The report also reached the Wehles division command. His battery boss, Hauptmann Obermayer (correct: Hubert Obermair), explained to him that he would have to be disarmed or demoted. Because as a “ quarter Jew ” he should not be the superior of “Aryans”. In any case, the plan to send him to the officers' school was void. Obermair, later one of the first officers of the Austrian Armed Forces of the Second Republic, however, according to Wehle, took it upon himself to ignore the complaint and to let him continue to serve as a sergeant.

His unit was later deployed on the Eastern Front. Thanks to his talent for languages, he was able to communicate with locals in France, Russia and the Ukraine and was often called in for interpreting services. Shortly before the German defeat in the Battle of Stalingrad , Wehle was transferred to an interpreting company in Vienna in autumn 1942 on the initiative of a Viennese pen friend, where he learned Serbian.

In Vienna he made friends with Gunther Placheta , whom he met during a colorful evening in a reserve hospital, and learned Modern Greek in 1943 because a friend wanted to organize his transfer to Greece. He was actually transferred to Salonika in April 1943 . There he worked as a piano player and chansonnier in the soldier broadcaster, then at the soldier broadcaster Belgrade , where he met Theo Mackeben and Evelyn Künnecke and had to use his knowledge of Italian and Serbian as a soldier .

In 1944 he was transferred to Vienna. The operators of this transfer intended to be able to prove their attitude against the Nazi regime after the end of the war . In the last days of the war he fled to Tyrol and after an intermezzo worked as the legally qualified secretary of the politician Ludwig Draxler in Innsbruck at the theater in Salzburg .

The little four

With Gunther Philipp (later replaced by Rolf Olsen ), Fred Kraus and the former state opera ballerina Eva Leiter, he founded the cabaret ensemble Die kleine Vier in 1948 . As the director married, Hilde Berndt took her place, who remained loyal to the ensemble until the last performance . In 1949, Franz Antel arranged for the little four to participate in a large public broadcast of the Bavarian Radio , which led to further engagements of the ensemble in all of West Germany and in Switzerland. On the tour he met Vico Torriani and Caterina Valente , both at the beginning of their show careers. According to Wehle's recollections, the ensemble never officially disbanded , but was increasingly difficult to get together in the 1950s due to other obligations of the members . Around 1970 there was another nostalgic appearance in Munich with the original cast.

Theater in Vienna

In Vienna in 1948 Wehle played a half-starved negro in William Saroyan's play Time of our life with Maria Andergast , Lotte Lang , Attila Hörbiger , Leopold Rudolf and Paul Hubschmid in the Theater in der Josefstadt, directed by Rudolf Steinboeck ; like him, Kurt Sowinetz and Ernst Stankovski were beginners on the stage.

Cooperation with Gerhard Bronner

In 1948 he met Gerhard Bronner , with whom he had a lifelong friendship. Bronner wrote in 1992, Wehle was an unlikely talent had, to live side of things , and wrote him an eagle eye for the inessential to. In 2002, Bronner said in an interview: The Wehle was a Catholic monarchist. Together, Bronner and Wehle wrote over 1000 texts and melodies over the years.

In the 1950s, both were also members of the cabaret group known as the Nameless Ensemble , which also included Michael Kehlmann , Helmut Qualtinger , Georg Kreisler , Louise Martini , Carl Merz and other changing partners. In 1978, Bronner and Wehle started the sunday satirical radio program Der Guglhupf , which was broadcast weekly until 2009 with Lore Krainer and Herbert Prikopa .

Composer, lyricist

In addition, Peter Wehle worked as a composer for Marika Rökk , Johannes Heesters , Paul Hörbiger , Willi Forst , Eddie Constantine , Peter Cornelius , Peter Alexander and Marianne Mendt , among others .

The old Indian chief spoke as the lyricist of the very successful hit song Da , music: Werner Scharfenberger , interpreted by Gus Backus , he received a gold record in 1961.

Germanist

In 1974 Wehle received his doctorate again in German studies ; his dissertation first resulted in the book Die Wiener Gaunerssprache and then Sprechen Sie Wienerisch ?, an etymological dictionary of the Viennese dialect .

Afterlife

Peter Wehle rests in an honorary grave in Vienna's central cemetery (group 40, number 128). One star in the Walk of Fame of cabaret is dedicated to Peter Wehle . In 2014 the Wehleweg in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after him.

Peter Wehle's 1967 born son Peter jun. is also active as a cabaret artist , musician and writer .

Works

Musical comedies

  • 1947: The Singing House
  • 1947: Klimbim (with Karl Farkas )
  • 1953: The hot iron (with Gerhard Bronner and Fritz Eckhardt )
  • 1957: Me and the Devil (with Gerhard Bronner)
  • 1963: The restless sphere (with Gerhard Bronner)

Books

  • 1977: The Viennese crooks language
  • 1980: Do you speak Viennese? From Adaxl to Zwutschkerl
  • 1982: Do you speak foreign? From Amor to Zores
  • 1983: The laughing second. Wehle about Wehle (autobiography)
  • 1986: Do you sing Viennese? A satirical declaration of love to the Wienerlied

Sound carrier

  • 1957: Vienna Midnight Cabaret I , EP - Amadeo
  • 1957: Vienna Midnight Cabaret IV , EP - Amadeo
  • 1957: Vienna Midnight Cabaret with Peter Wehle , 10 "LP - Amadeo
  • 1958: Vienna Midnight Cabaret with Peter Wehle II , 10 "LP - Amadeo
  • 1959: Choose the Wehle , EP - Preiser Records "Cabaret from Vienna"
  • 1960: The Chanson Building for Babel , single - Preiser Records "Cabaret from Vienna"
  • 1962: "Doctor" does not protect against stupidity with Gunther Philipp , single favorite
  • 1962: Wehle (,) your songs , EP - Preiser Records "Cabaret from Vienna"
  • 1962: The Restless Ball with Gerhard Bronner , 2LP - Preiser Records
  • 1963: Portrait of a cabaret artist , LP - Preiser Records "Cabaret from Vienna"
  • 1965: Servus Rudi, Servus Bobbi with Gunther Philipp , LP - Preiser Records
  • 1975: The Devil Does Not Sleep , LP - Preiser Records
  • 1999: The Well-Tempered Chanson , split CD with Louise Martini - Preiser Records
  • 1999: Late harvest with Gerhard Bronner , CD - Preiser Records

Individual evidence

  1. Peter Wehle: The laughing second. Wehle on Wehle , Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-8000-3193-0 , p. 11.
  2. General i. R. Hubert Obermair celebrates his 90s on the website of the Federal Army, October 30, 2001.
  3. Peter Wehle: The laughing second. Wehle on Wehle , Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-8000-3193-0 , p. 64.
  4. Peter Wehle: The laughing second. Wehle on Wehle , Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-8000-3193-0 , p. 72.
  5. Peter Wehle: The laughing second. Wehle on Wehle , Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-8000-3193-0 , p. 118.
  6. Peter Wehle: The laughing second. Wehle on Wehle , Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-8000-3193-0 , p. 127.
  7. Peter Wehle: The laughing second. Wehle on Wehle , Ueberreuter, Vienna / Heidelberg 1983, ISBN 3-8000-3193-0 , p. 115 f.
  8. Gerhard Bronner: No leaf in front of my mouth. An unwritten book , Astor Verlag, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900277-16-8 ; P. 27
  9. Grand Master of Cabaret is dead Obituary for Gerhard Bronner in: Der Standard 20./21. January 2007
  10. Catalog list Austrian National Library

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