Reinhold Habisch

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Reinhold Franz Habisch , called Krücke (born January 8, 1889 in Berlin ; † January 7, 1964 there ) was a Berlin original . He made the so-called "Sports Palace Waltz" world famous.

Life

As a young man, Habisch lost a leg in an accident when he slipped on a wet street and got under a tram. Since the dream of his own sporting success was denied him, he became a regular guest at the Berlin six-day race , which has been held in the Sportpalast since 1911 . With gossip and jokes, Krücke rose from the cheap places, the so-called hayloft, to become an integral part of the event in the 1920s.

He became known nationwide in connection with the "Sportpalastwalzer". The composition Wiener Praterleben by Siegfried Translateur was played for the first time in 1923 during the six-day race. In the third waltz sequence, Krücke whistled loudly along the third bar and made a significant contribution to the rise of the melody to the hymn of the six-day races. The whistles were deliberately incorporated into later versions of the composition. Habisch was also invited to cycle races in other cities to whistle into the microphone during the Sportpalastwalzers, and later appeared in a feature film alongside Hans Albers . He described the meeting with the tenor Richard Tauber as his best experience . “In shirt sleeves and on socks, Krücke asked the refusing singer to let his voice sound” and sang himself “O Richard, my Richard, how I love you.” Tauber agreed and sang.

tomb

Krücke ran a cigar shop on Berlin's Kommandantenstrasse. Boxer Max Schmeling , for whom he had prophesied a great career, had set this up for him out of gratitude. He lost the business during the Second World War , after which he tried to earn a living with a mobile fruit and vegetable stand. Habisch died one day before his 75th birthday and is buried in an honorary grave of the State of Berlin in Department KG 1-40 in the new part of the churchyard of St. Thomas Parish II in Berlin-Neukölln .

Trivia

According to his own statement, he got his nickname while playing skat in a Berlin beer garden . His friends had hung his crutch from a flagpole in an unobserved moment. Habisch missed it at some point, of course, and kept calling out for the crutch. From that day on his friends called him crutch .

Fonts

  • Germany's original crutch. On racetracks among racing drivers. Info, Berlin-Spandau 1950.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krücke - Berlin's largest pipe ( Memento from July 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Helfritsch: February 6, 1926 - In the sports palace: “Original Böser Buben Ball” . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 2, 2001, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 79-83 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  3. ^ SID: Cycling - 6-day race: Zabel is pedaling for the last time. In: Focus Online . January 22, 2009, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  4. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 3 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1964, p. 9 .
  5. ↑ a b General Secretariat of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Illustrated Radrennsport . No. 10 . Berlin 1950, p. 8 .
  6. ^ Grave of Reinhold Habisch. knerger.de
personal data
SURNAME Habisch, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Habisch, Reinhold Franz; crutch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Berlin original
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1964
Place of death Berlin