Rainer Bertram

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Rainer Bertram , born in Rainer Hans Clemens Schink , (born December 19, 1932 in Dachau , † December 23, 2004 in Munich ) was a German pop singer and television director .

Life

Rainer Hans Clemens Schink, his real name, was a member of the Windsbach boys' choir for three years . He attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and, like his father, was to become an architect. After just three semesters, he broke off his studies at the building college to start training as an actor instead. After successfully completing it in 1953, he received his first engagements in Munich and Hamburg . After returning to Munich, he joined the Lach- und Schießgesellschaft as a cabaret artist. Starting in 1957, her first roles in film and television followed.

Adrian Hoven saw him in the laughing and shooting company and put him in touch with Fred Bertelmann , who made him a pop singer. Rainer Bertram , as he now called himself, was initially able to benefit from his musical talent at the cheap label Tempo . There he sang mainly cover versions of Fred Bertelmann, Ted Herold , Tommy Kent and Peter Kraus, among others, between 1958 and 1960 . With the hits Blacky Jones and Jenny-Jo , Bertram unexpectedly took second and third place at the German Schlager Festival, which was held for the first time in 1959 in Wiesbaden . He was helped by the fact that Curd Juergens , who was supposed to be the Blacky Jones interpreter, had to cancel for scheduling reasons. Since these two titles were also published at Tempo, the commercial success remained low.

After all, the big record companies became aware of the young singer. Inexperienced in business matters, Bertram signed contracts with two labels ( Metronome and Polydor ). After some legal back and forth, Bertram recorded four singles for metronomes in 1960 . Only the title Barfuß , the German version of the US hit Footsteps by Steve Lawrence , was reasonably successful.

In the summer of 1960, Bertram was seen in a larger role in the successful film comedy Pension Schöller . In the film he sang the rock 'n' roll numbers composed by Martin Böttcher Sie had green eyes, red hair and Jub Jub Jumbo . Both titles by Boy Berger were released on record . In the same year he took part in the preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Ein Picasso in der Liebe, which was also not released on record .

From mid-1960 Bertram's records were released by Polydor, where he was supervised by the music producers Werner Cyprys and Gerhard Mendelson . His first single Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini convinced. But Bertram could not prevail against the text version of Caterina Valente and Silvio Francesco , who landed a number one hit .

After a spectacular car accident on April 13, 1961, in which his fellow singer Gina Dobra was seriously injured, the press portrayed Bertram as a ruthless speedster. His sung version of the world hit Brigitte Bardot could not make it into the charts, even though competing record labels did Brought song with largely unknown performers on the market. After the equally unsuccessful publication of the hit Peppino , with which Vico Torriani made the jump into the top ten , the contract with Polydor was not extended. Bertram turned back to acting, was on stage at the Raimund Theater in Vienna and at Friedrich Hollaender's in Berlin, and was involved in film and television productions as before.

In autumn 1962 it was again the Metronome with which Bertram signed a record deal. Producer Günter Henne recorded the cover version of Paul Anka's Give Me Back My Heart with him . With Gib mein Herz mir wieder , so the German title, Bertram made it into the German charts for the first time in February 1963. This was followed by television appearances in music programs such as Hotel Victoria , Come with me to the fairground and the Telebar meeting point . In the same year, the Metronome sends Bertram to the German Schlager Festival in a duet with the Swedish singer Ann-Louise Hanson with the title It doesn't need Hawaii to be . The piece could not prevail against the tough competition. On the record, however, the two managed a satisfactory success. After another duet single, Bertram recorded three cover versions of Marty Robbins in 1964 . Even these remarkable recordings could not prevail against the emerging beat music .

When his last record was released by Vogue in 1965 , Bertram had long since had other plans for the future. As early as 1964, he was working as an assistant director for Swiss television and for the broadcaster Free Berlin . Two years later he was behind the camera for the first time as a television director. He staged portraits of Count Basie , Juliette Gréco , OW Fischer , Erroll Garner , Zarah Leander and others. In addition, he worked temporarily as a radio presenter at the SFB and from 1967 to 1970 presented the Hey Music hit parade . From the 1970s onwards he directed the successful quiz series All or nothing . After long-time director Sigmar Börner left the program Musik aus Studio B , he took over directing here from October 18, 1971, for which he was responsible until the 97th and final edition of this series on September 20, 1976. From 1979 Bertram staged some German preliminary decisions for the Eurovision Song Contest and in 1983 he was responsible for broadcasting the 28th Eurovision Song Contest in Munich. This was followed by work for private television such as the RTL show Everything nothing or ?! (1988 to 1992).

Discography (selection)

EPs

  • Blue hour with Rainer Bertram: In Valencia / She had black hair / Up in the mountains / Be good again (1964; Metronome)
  • Horses, songs and campfires: Seven Thousand Cattle / Speedy Gonzales / True Love (with Peggy Brown) (1965; Vogue )

Albums

Singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Give my heart back to me
  DE 42 02/25/1963 (13 weeks)
Label of the single All Girls Want to Kiss , 1960
Label of the single Barefoot , 1960
  • If you go out today / Cheerio (1958; Tempo ; B-side: Margit Schumann )
  • Your tender smile / Beautiful girl from the Rio Negro (1958; Tempo; B-side: The hummingbirds)
  • The young years / Sexie Hexy (1959; Tempo; B-side: Margit Schumann)
  • Kitty Cat / I need you for it (1959; Tempo)
  • Cowboy Billy / Mach no Heck-Meck (1959; Tempo; B-side: Jimmy Brown)
  • Carolin / Your little brother (1959; Tempo)
  • Wonderful like you / Havanna-Love (1959; Tempo)
  • Jenny-Jo / Under Stranger Stars (A white ship goes to Hong Kong) (1959; Tempo; B-side: Harry Graf )
  • White Christmas / When the bells ring brightly (1959; Tempo)
  • Blacky Jones / Tom Dooley 2 (1959; Tempo; B-side: Harry Graf)
  • I'm so alone / Little Lucienne (1959; Tempo; B-side: Margit Schumann)
  • Tears in Your Eyes / A Dozen Kisses (1960; Tempo; B-Side: The Perrys)
  • Our home is the whole world / Amigos (1960; Tempo; B-side: The Belcantos)
  • Playboy Blues / Something I like to do (1960; Tempo; B-side: Erika Berg)
  • All girls want to kiss / Bum Ladda Bum Bum (1960; Tempo; B-side: Billy Buck)
  • Moonlight / Prego, Prego Gondolier (1960; Tempo; B-side: Gaby Wolff )
  • And she wasn't much older than 18 years' / The Cowboys from the Silver Ranch (1960; Tempo; B-side: Margit Schumann & the Perrys)
  • You too will go / The end of love (1960; Tempo; B-side: Bernd Andersson )
  • Only the steppe wind / Roslie, don't have to cry (1960; Tempo; B-side: Erika Berg)
  • Laila-Lu / Surrender (1960; Tempo; B-side: Bernd Andersson)
  • Old Shatter / Do you see the star (3/1960; Metronome )
  • Barefoot / Why are you looking at me so in love today? (6/1960; metronomes)
  • Darling Good Night / Your heart already belongs to someone else (9/1960; Metronome)
  • Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Honolulu Beach Bikini / Forgive Me (9/1960; Polydor )
  • I would like to be loyal to you / When you consider what you are missing (10/1960; Polydor; only promo single )
  • Kalinka / Give me your hands (12/1960; Polydor)
  • Karina Lu / It's nice to be in love (2/1961; Metronome)
  • When you consider what you are missing / Carena (4/1961; Polydor)
  • The time will be nice / Betty please stay (8/1961; Polydor)
  • Brigitte Bardot / That shouldn't happen to me again (10/1961; Polydor)
  • Peppino / My dreams (11/1961; Polydor)
  • Give my heart back to me / Haziendero (10/1962; Metronome)
  • Oho, Comme-Ci, Comme-Ca / You can have it all (4/1963; Metronome)
  • It doesn't have to be Hawaii / side by side (6/1963; metronomes; A and B sides: with Ann-Louise Hanson )
  • Let the others all wander / All your wishes (10/1963; Metronome)
  • So nice / a little more every day (10/1963; metronome; A and B sides: with Ann-Louise Hanson)
  • In Valencia / Never again I leave from Mary (4/1964; Metronome)
  • Happy End in Switzerland / She had black hair (6/1964; Metronome)

Filmography (selection)

actor

Director (television)

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Bertram, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schink, Rainer Hans Clemens (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer and television director
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Dachau
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2004
Place of death Munich