Rainer Roscher

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Rainer Roscher (* 27. November 1924 in Seifhennersdorf ; † 19th September 2017 ) was a German elementary school - teacher , author , choirmaster , cantor and organist and composer .

Life

Rainer Roscher was born during the Weimar Republic in 1924 in the small town of Seifhennersdorf in Upper Lusatia . Around the beginning of the National Socialist era , the student and his parents moved to Gotha for a short time , then to Berlin .

In World War II Roscher was established in 1941 as a 17-year-old to the Wehrmacht confiscated and soon after in the Air Force as a flight engineer of a mainly as a night fighter used Junkers Ju 88 used. Since the German pilots towards the end of the war "due to a lack of fuel [could not fly as high as the English", Roscher was transferred to the paratroopers and had to fight infantry in the Harz Mountains . He passed through the forces of the United States of America in captivity . In the meantime, Roscher's parents had left the capital of the Reich at the time because of the Allied air raids on Berlin without Rainer Roscher having any news of their whereabouts. After his release from captivity in June 1945, he initially worked for a farmer near Bad Hersfeld for 6 months before he was able to find his parents in the Stralsund district and move in with them.

During the time of the Soviet occupation zone , Rainer Roscher married his fiancée Ilse on March 3, 1946, who bore him a daughter and - also in 1948 - a son two years later. In the German Democratic Republic , Roscher began studying to become a teacher, but after only two semesters was allowed to teach at an elementary school. Only later did he study music for two more semesters in Berlin, but then fled to West Berlin , where he was only able to find shelter in a refugee camp . Finally, he found a job as a teacher in Bissendorf in Lower Saxony north of Hanover in West Germany , in the Federal Republic of Germany . However, he had to go through further training and exams before he got a permanent position as a teacher at the Bissendorf elementary school in 1961 at the age of 36 . There he taught - briefly interrupted by working as a music teacher at the secondary school in Bissendorf - until his retirement in 1986.

The St. Michaelis Church in Bissendorf was the place of activity of the teacher, choirmaster , cantor and organist for decades

Also in 1961, Rainer Roscher founded a school music group and in the same year began to learn to play the organ . In addition to his teaching activities, Roscher worked from 1963 and until 1999 both as cantor and organist for the Evangelical Lutheran parish of St. Michaelis in Bissendorf. During these years, for example, he accompanied church services or funeral ceremonies with music. With his “Listening to and Understanding Music” courses, he brought interested parties closer to the different styles and epochs of music. In 1967 he composed his Frohe Runde ... for mixed or male choirs . Roscher led the Bissendorfer Choir and children's choirs in Bissendorf and Mellendorf . He visited Rome with the male choir in Hanover , which he led and sang in front of Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica in 1988 .

Rainer Roscher was a member and later a long-term honorary member of the Hanover District Choir Association , worked as a district choir director and organized various choir festivals.

In addition to a “music guide ” for amateur choirs, the former German teacher published the Bissendorfer “ Döneken ” as a co-author in 1996 . In 2013 he published his autobiographical text “Komm gut Heim”.

In 1999, Rainer Roscher was awarded the Lower Saxony Order of Merit on ribbon by the Lower Saxony Minister-President for his commitment to the choir .

The author of “Come on home” was buried on September 29, 2017 in the cemetery chapel in Bissendorf.

Works (selection)

Fonts

  • Happy round. When the glasses ring / words and music by Rainer Roscher :
    • (= Robitschek choir sheet series , 469), for 4-part mixed choir, Vienna; Wiesbaden: Robitschek, 1967
    • (= Robitschek choir sheet series , 284), for 4-part male choir, Vienna; Wiesbaden: Robitschek, 1967
  • Music primer for amateur choir singers by Rainer Roscher , 1980
  • Rainer Roscher, Cord Knibbe (ed.): Döneken. Factual and laughing stories from Bissendorf and the surrounding area. Anecdotes, poems, songs and pictures , second, expanded edition, 244 pages, Bissendorf: Knibbe & Roscher, 1998; as a PDF document from wedemark-chroniken.de
  • "Come home well" - a biography , 2013

Sound carrier

  • 1969: Not a beautiful country at that time , mixed choir Bissendorf and folk music group Bissendorf under the direction of Rainer Roscher, 12 inch vinyl long play record in a German printing (Teldec TST 76 516), picture cover with a view of the Bissendorf church and surrounding half-timbered houses in a linocut and the artist's signature "Grewe-W."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Bernd Stache: "Come home well" - a biography. Elementary school teacher Rainer Roscher presents his new book on the Extra Verlagsgesellschaft website on December 17, 2013, last accessed on October 4, 2017
  2. ↑ a b c d Compare the obituary notice of the Kreischorverband Hannover eV in the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of October 4, 2017, p. 24
  3. ↑ a b c Compare the obituaries in Echo Langenhagen from September 23, 2017, p. 19; as a PDF document on epaper01.niedersachsen.com , last accessed on October 4, 2017
  4. ↑ a b Compare the information and cross-references in the catalog of the German National Library
  5. ↑ Friedhelm Bönig: Lecture / report of accounts by Sangesbruder Friedhelm Böning / honorary member of the Sängerkreis Hannover / 1949-1999 ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Kreischorverband Hannover (KCVH) on the 50th anniversary of the founding on November 6, 1999, last accessed on October 4, 1999 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kcvh-alt.de
personal data
SURNAME Roscher, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German elementary school teacher, author, choir director, cantor and organist as well as composer
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Seifhennersdorf
DATE OF DEATH 19th September 2017