René Carol

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René Carol , real name Gerhard Tschirschnitz (born April 11, 1920 in Berlin , † April 9, 1978 in Minden ), was a German pop singer in the 1950s and 1960s.

Life

Gerhard Tschirschnitz grew up as the son of a toolmaker in Berlin and initially wanted to become an engineer . He began an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Telefunken in Berlin and was already noticed at the age of 14 as a singer at a company party. After the outbreak of World War II he was drafted into the Air Force. During this time he made his first appearances: as a parodist by Theo Lingen and Hans Moser . At the end of the war he was captured by the French, from which he was able to flee to Paris in April 1946 . There he performed in bars and nightclubs, and when he needed a passport, a French fiend got him a fake one in the name of René Carol.

At the end of 1946 he managed to return to Germany and initially settled in Hamburg . As Karol with the 30 variations he was soon performing all over Germany. During one of his performances in April 1949, Kurt Feltz , the discoverer of many German pop stars in the 1950s, became aware of him. The Kurt Feltz production Maria from Bahia is Carol's first solo record in 1950, with it he began a long-lasting singing career, which was only stopped by the beat wave in the mid-1960s. In 1953 René Carol sold the plate Rote Rosen, Rote Lips, Rote Wein over 500,000 times. His last big hit was in the spring of 1960 with the title No country can be more beautiful , which made it to third place on the hit lists.

In the 1950s, Carol was also noticed by several traffic offenses. In 1955 he had to go to prison for six weeks for hit and miss and negligent assault. Carol later said of herself: "I was completely crazy about cars, alcohol and women!"

When his popularity began to decline, his wife Margit, as his manager, ensured that he continued to find organizers for concerts and tours. At the beginning of the 1960s, René Carol spent a long time in North America, where he found an enthusiastic audience at concerts for Americans and Canadians of German origin. Since he had a permanent residence through his cousin in Chicago , he succeeded in joining the American singers' union, which made these appearances possible in the first place. Especially for his American fans, Carol had records with homesickness-for-Germany-topics pressed, which, however, caused little response. One of them, Why are you not a sailor on Lake Constance , was published in small numbers in Germany by Cornet . The last René Carol hit parade listing in Germany was with Bianca Rosa in 44th place. Thanks to a tour of the Netherlands , the title even made it into the top ten there. René Carol was married three times, most recently to his wife Hannelore. In the late 1960s he moved from Hamburg, where he owned a bungalow, to Haselhorn in Petershagen . After he had been operated on by Günther Heinemann in the Minden Clinic for his colorectal cancer , he died two days before his 58th birthday in Haselhorn. He was initially buried there. His widow Hannelore returned shortly afterwards to her hometown Lüdenscheid and made sure that he was reburied in Lüdenscheid in May 1978, where his grave is still visited by admirers to this day.

Discography

Filmography

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gerhard Tschirschnitz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1955 ( online ).
  2. ↑ a b due date - WDR. In: www1.wdr.de. October 8, 1981. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Troubador behind bars. (No longer available online.) In: generalblatt.de. January 28, 2010, archived from the original on January 8, 2017 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / generalblatt.de
  4. ↑ a b René Carol. In: haselhorn.de. Archived from the original on April 12, 2003 ; accessed on January 7, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Carol, René
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tschirschnitz, Gerhard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pop singer, actor and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1978
Place of death Minden