Robert Goetz

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Robert Götz (born March 9, 1892 in Betzdorf , † February 15, 1978 in Dortmund ) was a radio editor, music teacher, poet and composer of many songs sung in the youth movement , some of which are still known and loved today.

Life

Born in Betzdorf, he spent part of his childhood and youth there because his father had got a job in Upper Silesia . Around the years 1904/05 he joined the Wandervogel movement and initiated a local Wandervogel group with friends. With this group he regularly went on long hikes during the school free time, during which there was a lot of singing. Here he received the first suggestions to write his own hiking songs. After graduating from high school, he served his recruiting period in Wesel . The subsequent music studies in Cologne were interrupted by the First World War. From 1932 Götz was head of the department for landscape broadcasts and folk music at Kölner Rundfunk (Westdeutscher Rundfunk AG Cologne, from 1934 Reichssender Cologne). Because the bullying on the part of the Hitler Youth became unbearable for him, he moved to Bochum in 1935 ; here he worked as a freelancer in folk work and created songs from the homeland , folk dances and amateur plays . After returning from the Second World War , he worked in the Iserlohn district in 1946 in the musical youth care department. From 1953 he worked as a music teacher in Dortmund . From here he regularly drove to Bochum, where he sang self-composed songs and other folk songs in the Naturfreundehaus with local youth from Upper Silesia. Other youth groups, such as scouts, Protestant and Catholic as well as socialist groups, regularly invited him to their meetings to perform his songs and to sing with them. Until 1961 he wrote textbooks for playing instruments, and until 1966 he published song books. On February 19, 1973 Götz received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his services to folk music . He died in his adopted home Dortmund in 1978 at the age of almost 86.

His hometown of Betzdorf and the city of Dortmund have named streets after him. Götz's popularity is also reflected in the fact that news of his death in 1978 was spread worldwide by the AP news agency . And Robert Götz's death was also worth a headline in the newspaper Bild : “The man who made Heino famous”.

Works

At the age of 24, Robert Götz set to music wild geese rushing through the night , a poem that Walter Flex wrote on the western front in 1915 during the First World War . In 1920 his most famous melody to the text by Hans Riedel From gray cities walls (4th verse by Hermann Löns ) followed - a song that long before it was printed in 1932 in the songbook of the same name published by the composer became "a kind of hymn of the youth movement". The setting of the song Jenseits des Tales, which is much sung in youth circles, also dates back to 1920. Their tents were set up with a text by Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen .

Robert Götz has set over 500 pieces to music, including poems by Matthias Claudius (e.g. love, dear sun ), Robert Burns (a beautiful day comes to an end) , Ludwig Uhland (you can barely suspect the sun's light) , Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (When the brooks of the sea are foaming) , August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (My heart flames, my courage swells) , Theodor Storm (musicians have to hike) , Theodor Fontane (on a Sunday morning) , Hermann Löns (I'm looking for the heather and I'm all alone) and other lesser-known poems by Hermann Hesse , Werner Bergengruen , Manfred Hausmann , Agnes Miegel , Walter Dehmel and others. v. a.

In addition, Götz wrote many scores and wrote his own texts, such as B. A little more joy and less strife; The waves rustle in the wind and sing a strange song; The sun greets the wide open country, we are driven by the blowing air and what should we drink, we have no wine as well as numerous song books and some textbooks, such as the recorder school in the style of the old piper (1930) and playing the guitar, simply and skillfully (1961 ), published.

more publishments

  • Heraldic music. 12 booklets, publishing house Günther Wolff, Plauen i. V. 1925-1927.
  • Fresh off to dance, craft songs and dances. Cologne 1929.
  • We trot into the distance - songs of a German youth. Publishing house Günther Wolff, Plauen i. V. 1931.
  • Heraldic music for horns, fanfares, recorders, Landsknecht drums and other instruments. Publishing house Günther Wolff, Plauen i. V. 1931.
  • From gray city walls - new songs by a German youth. Publishing house Günther Wolff, Plauen i. V. 1932.
  • When we march out in the morning: soldiers, march and Wanderlongs. Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1934.
  • Haime, Laiw Haime, songs in Westphalian dialect. Voggenreiter Verlag, Potsdam 1940.
  • We're going into the world - old and new songs by Robert Götz. Voggenreiter Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1960.
  • I wanted to write folk songs. Conversations with Ernst Klusen (Musical Folklore. Materials and Analyzes 6). Hans Gerig, Cologne 1975.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robert Götz: "I wanted to write folk songs". Conversations with Ernst Klusen . Research on Westphalian Music History, Volume 3. Hans Gerig, Cologne 1975, pp. 8-10.
  2. ↑ Robert Götz: "I wanted to write folk songs". Conversations with Ernst Klusen . Research on Westphalian Music History, Volume 3. Hans Gerig, Cologne 1975, pp. 18-19, 59-60.
  3. ^ A b Claudia Geimer: Robert Götz enthusiastic singing grouch. Rhein-Zeitung from March 9, 2013 (for the 121st birthday) ( online )
  4. ↑ Robert Götz: "I wanted to write folk songs". Conversations with Ernst Klusen. Research on Westphalian music history, volume 3. Hans Gerig, Cologne 1975, p. 65 u. a.
  5. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  6. ↑ Entry on Robert Götz in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database
  7. ↑ Liedtext Volksliederarchiv. German folk songs - songs, rhymes and background information on the German folk song
  8. ↑ Robert Götz in the information collection Scout-o-Wiki
  9. ↑ Entry on Beyond the Valley at deutscheslied.com
  10. ↑ a b Entry on Robert Götz on deutscheslied.com
  11. ^ Catalog entry on Robert Götz in the German Music Archive
personal data
SURNAME Götz, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music teacher, song writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Betzdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1978
Place of death Dortmund