Rudolf Schröder (music producer)

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Rudolf Schröder (* 1926 in Berlin ; † November 22, 2016 ) was a music producer who primarily devoted himself to German hits .

Life

Rudolf Schröder attended school in Berlin from 1932. In 1942 he was first employed as an air force helper and in 1944 he was called up for military service in the Navy . During his active military service in the Baltic Sea and Norway, he was musically engaged as a drummer in the on-board band. After the end of the war , Schröder was interned as a prisoner of war in Bad Hersfeld for a year and did not return to Berlin until 1946. From 1947 to 1950 he worked as an assistant production manager at Lens-Film and as a freelance journalist. He started as a factotum in 1950 at Will Meisel's publishing house and soon became a traveling chapel supervisor. He takes care of the promotion of the stage and musical works of the publishers and is continuously "on the move" for months, visiting radio stations and theaters. From 1958 he also made trips abroad (Paris, Milan, New York) with international publishing contacts.

In 1960, Schröder began producing monopoly records . Over the years he has created the artists Ilse Werner , Ekkehard Fritsch , Marlène Charell , Peter Petrel and Dagmar Frederic as well as the Berolina Sound Orchestra, the Scottish military orchestra "Queen's Own Highlanders" and the Palast Orchester with its singer Max Raabe .

In 1966 Schröder became the publishing director of the Meisel publishing group, in 1978 spokesman for the publishers' curia in the GEMA evaluation committee and in 1982 a member of the admission committee for music publishers.

Honors and prizes

  • 1978 German Record Award for the Jeff Conway production (Evergreens)
  • 1981 German record award for the " Sir Gusche Band and Peter Petrel" production
  • 1989 Award of the GEMA Medal of Honor
  • 1991 Awarded the Bismarck Medal in silver with oak leaves for the maintenance of German music creation
  • 1992 Schöneberger "Ehrensängerknabe"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MusikWoche | News | Rudolf Schröder died. In: www.mediabiz.de. Retrieved December 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Schröder, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 22nd November 2016