Schnuckenack Reinhardt

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Schnuckenack Reinhardt 1972 in Mainz

Franz "Schnuckenack" Reinhardt (born February 17, 1921 in Weinsheim near Bad Kreuznach , † April 15, 2006 in Heidelberg ) was a jazz musician ( violinist ), composer and interpreter. He was considered the "great violin virtuoso of Sinti music." He was a German Sinto ; his music was mostly published and categorized under the contemporary designations "Gypsy Jazz" or " Music of German Gypsies ". He “made this music accessible to a broader public” and made a decisive contribution to the fact that in Germany it changed from dance and light music performed in the context of street music to “a concert music form”.

Live and act

Reinhardt, a cousin of the French guitarist Django Reinhardt , whom he never met personally, studied music at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz . His nickname "Schnuckenack" - which quickly became his official nickname - comes from the Romani expression schnu (c) ker nak (German for "beautiful nose" ). During National Socialism , he and his family were deported to Częstochowa in 1938, in the terminology at the time as "Gypsies" . There the family fought for five years, camouflaged as German-Hungarian musicians, always on the run from discovery. Reinhardt narrowly escaped being shot by the SS several times . He stayed underground until the Allies invaded. He then returned to Germany, where he played light music for the 7th US Army for several years.

Then, through the mediation of the music agent Siegfried Maeker, the contact between Schnuckenack Reinhardt and the guitarist Daweli Reinhardt came about (who by the way are not related). From a group of 10 to 15 Sinti musicians, first a quartet was formed, then in 1967 the Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintet , whose drum-less line-up with two rhythm guitars represents an exact image of Django Reinhardt's Hot Club de France and a model for numerous other Sinto jazz -Groups became. Also there was Bobby Falta , who contributed significantly to the creation of the Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintet . In 1967 and 1968 the group performed at the International Waldeck Festival . According to the record company Da Camera Song in Heidelberg, the (old) Schnuckenack-Reinhardt quintet broke up in May 1972. In September 1972 the Häns'che-Weiss-Quintet was founded, in which, in addition to Häns'che Weiss (solo guitar), Titi Winterstein ( violin ), Holzmanno Winterstein (rhythm guitar), Ziroli Winterstein (rhythm guitar) and Hojok Merstein (double bass) played.

Then Schnuckenack Reinhardt founded Das neue Quintett with the musicians

At Falta's urging, this quintet oriented itself more towards jazz. In the following years the quintet was changed and Schnuckenack Reinhardt's son Forello became the solo guitarist; the folkloric part of the repertoire was also emphasized more strongly. By 1991 the formation changed into a sextet made up of family members. In his Talal project , Reinhardt traced the migration of the Roma from India to Europe.

Reinhardt lived in St. Leon-Rot from 1982 until his death . In 2000 Andreas Öhler's documentary Die Ballade von Schnuckenack Reinhardt was made about his life .

The Austrian artist André Heller , who was friends with Reinhardt, wrote the song "Mein Freund Schnuckenack" together with Ingfried Hoffmann , in which he refers to the biography of the musician with a bitter life record.

Schnuckenack Reinhardt's grave is in the main cemetery in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse .

Awards

Discography (selection)

  • Music of German Gypsies - Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintett , Vol. 1 (Da Camera Song, LP, first edition February 1969, recorded: 23/24/25 November 1968)
  • Music of German Gypsies - Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintett , Vol. 2 (Da Camera Song, LP, first edition November 1969, recorded: 10/11 June 1969)
  • Music of German Gypsies - Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintett , Vol. 3 (Da Camera Song, LP, first edition September 1970, recorded: May 13/14, 1970; live recordings from Heidelberg, D and Ludwigsburg, D)
  • Music of German Gypsies - Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintett , Vol. 4 (Da Camera Song, LP, first edition April 1972, recorded: 29/30 November 1971)
  • Music of German Gypsies - Schnuckenack Reinhardt- Das neue Quintett , (RBM music production, LP, first edition approx. 1973)
  • Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintet - March 15, 1973 (LP, 1973)
  • Schnuckenack-Reinhardt-Quintet - Swing Session (LP Intercord, 1975)
  • Schnuckenack Reinhardt - Star Portrait (CD, 1989)
  • Music of German Gypsies , Vol. 1–8 (CDs, 1996)

literature

  • Anita Awosusi (ed.), The Music of the Sinti and Roma. Series of publications by the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma, Vol. II - Der Sinti-Jazz, Heidelberg 1997, ISBN 3-929446-09-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anita Awosusi: The Music of the Sinti and Roma. Volume 2: The Sinti Jazz. Heidelberg 1997, p. 109
  2. ↑ a b Ernst Wilhelm Holl The guitar in gypsy jazz. (Diploma thesis Dresden 1999). P. 19
  3. ↑ See Michael Dregni Gypsy Jazz: In Search of Django Reinhardt and the Soul of Gypsy Swing Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 90ff.
  4. ↑ Cf. Daweli Reinhardt and Joachim Hennig One Hundred Years of Music by the Reinhardts - Daweli tells his life, Dietmar Fölbach Verlag, Koblenz 2003
  5. ^ David Robb Protest song in East and West Germany since the 1960s Camden House 2007, p. 116
  6. ↑ Recommended film (learning from history)
personal data
SURNAME Reinhardt, Schnuckenack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reinhardt, Franz (civil)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz musician (violinist), composer and interpreter
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Weinsheim , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2006
Place of death Heidelberg