Szczecin singer

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Szczecin Singer is the name of a former male vocal quartet that was founded in Szczecin in 1879 under the name “International Comics Quartet 'Victoria'” and from 1880 appeared under the name “Szczecin Singers”.

history

This “gentlemen's society” had chosen its name in honor of the place where it was founded, Stettin. Its founder Ferdinand Meysel, born on April 27, 1858 in Frankfurt an der Oder , where his father ran the Friedrich-Wilhelmstädtische Theater, got together there in 1879 with four like-minded singing brothers, Messrs Rudolf Reese, Johannes Hippel, Eugen Häckel and a certain Eterius , together to make musical cabaret. The result was the “International Comedian Quartet 'Victoria'”, which initially performed in the Pomerania area and the surrounding area. In 1880 it became the “Stettiner Sänger”, to which the comedian Paul Britton soon joined.

They came to Berlin for the first time in the summer of 1888. There they premiered in the “Concerthaus Sanssoucis” on Kottbusser Straße. Soon, however, their colorful programs were valued in all the more well-known establishments in the capital, near Buggenhagen, in the Victoria Brewery and in the Tonhalle. The Reichshallen-Theater on Dönhoffplatz, where they performed for the first time in 1883, was leased by the singers in 1898; they performed there for over 50 years. In the end it even got the addition of the Reichshallen-Theater Stettiner Sänger . On December 2, 1929, the company celebrated its 50th anniversary in Berlin.

In 1930 Ferdinand Meysel handed over the management to his son Konrad Meysel. Under his leadership, the Szczecin singers made guest tours through the German Empire until the end of the 1930s. Ferdinand Meysel died three years later on March 26, 1933. The Berliners put a grave of honor for him in the cemetery Zum Heiligen Kreuz, Eisenacher Strasse 62 (Tempelhof-Schöneberg) .

The hallmarks of the singing society were two Biedermeier country gendarmes: a long, skinny one and a small, fat one. The two figures were shown on an advertising poster. It has become so popular that it was associated with it again and again when people with these body dimensions came into focus and attracted attention.

The program structure of the Stettiner did not differ significantly from that of the other gentlemen's singing societies in Germany: Quartet singing, solo and lied performances alternated; at the end there was always an ensemble scene in which everyone participated. Ferdinand Meysel wrote most of the repertoire himself.

The staff of the Stettiner changed several times in the course of their history; At times other singers and humorists also appeared with them, B. Robert and Fritz Steidl, Albert Boehme, Carl Roehl and the bass player Carl Nebe, who became famous for his own quartet named after him, but who died in 1908.

The "Szczecin Singers" also found their way to the recording funnels of the record manufacturers early on. They made numerous recordings with record companies of their time: Grammophon, Zonophone, Homocord, Beka, Odeon, Favorite and Dacapo.

Works (selection)

Record recordings

  • From the sky high (with bells ringing) . Original Quartet of the Szczecin Singers Berlin. Favorite 1-19 177, dated October 6, 1917
  • Singer fisematents . Potp. 1st - 3rd part. Favorite 1-19 183, 1-19 184, 1-19 185
  • My German Fatherland (Text: Ferd. Meysel) Potp. 1 / 2nd part. Gramophone 18 357 (mx. 524 484, 524 485)
  • Berlin wobbles! Potp. 1 / 2nd part (Camillo Morena). Homocord 14 910, 14 911 (4 9 13 A, 31 1 13 A). 1913
  • Men's quartet with piano accompaniment and Piston / Stettiner singer , Berlin: Odeon No. 302 385 (mx. XBo 5813) Das Meer (Schubert) / Odeon No. 302 386 (mx. XBo 4423) Das Abendglöcklein (Neithardt)
  • Gaudeamus igitur! Student songs -Potp. 1 / 2nd part. Odeon No. 64 339, 64 340 (mx. XB 5046 L, xB 5047 L)
  • Exuberant drinkers , Potp. 1 / Part 2 (Meysel). Parlophone P.936-I and -II (mx. 1283, 1284)
  • Musical Sect , Potp. 1 / 2nd part (without details) Parlophone P.937-I and II (mx. 1285, 1286)
  • Singers purring (text: Meysel) 1/2 part. Zonophone x5- 24 193, x5- 24 194

Re-releases

  • Jürgen Schebera & Klaus-Jürgen Hohn (eds.): “That nothing stays as it was!” - 150 years of workers' and freedom songs. 3 CDs - Bear Family Records GmbH., Item No .: NOL-00844,

CD Workers Songs Vol. 1-3.

  • BCD 16 917 CD 1: Part 1: Man of work, woke up! Songs from the beginnings of the labor movement. Singers, choirs, orchestras 1844-1918.
  • BCD 16 918 CD 2: Part 2: Workers' songs 1919 - 1928.

contains:

  • Quartet "Szczecin Singers": The working men (who brings the gold to light). CD 1, track 24
  • Quartet "Szczecin Singers": To the People's Spring. CD 2, track 19
  • Quartet "Szczecin Singers": The Dawn of Freedom. Part I + II, CD 2, track 26

literature

  • John, Richard and Torley, Richard: The German humorous male singer societies in words and pictures. Edited by Richard John. Under co. Richard Torley. Leipzig, 1940. 210 pages.
  • Leimbach, Berthold: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898 - 1945, Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated.
  • Richter, Lukas: The Berliner Gassenhauer: Presentation, documents, collection. By Lukas Richter, Deutsches Volksliedarchiv (= Volksliedstudien Vol. IV), Berlin (Waxmann) 2004, p. 100.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leimbach, Berthold: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898 - 1945, Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpaginated.
  2. ↑ Berlin and Berlin Stories: Wilhelmshöhe - a disappeared Jdyll. Sunday, November 1, 2009. Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / www.berlin.am
  3. ↑ Paul Britton is mentioned in:
    • Richard John, Richard Torley, gentlemen's singing societies pp. 47–52 (photo on p. 49) and pp. 192–193.
    • Article in the Berlin city newspaper ' Scheinschlag ': “Otto Reutter and Robert Steidl can be seen deep in conversation. The poet Hermann Frey can be seen there among the Szczecin singers with their director Ferdinand Meysel or you can chat, drink and sing with the much laughed at, incomparable Paul Britton ”. [1]
    • Amusement Chronicle, in: Berliner Tageblatt (morning edition) March 3, 1912, p. 38. “Reichshallentheater. The current repertoire number of the Szczecin singers "Pantoffelhelden" gives Messrs. Britton - and Meysel - again the opportunity to let their comedy play in all nuances. The burlesque “A wedding on Müllerstrasse” is in preparation ”. See retro.dwds [2]
  4. ↑ Illustration of the Sanssouci Concert Hall, Kottbusser Straße 4a, from 1881 (cross-section through the hall structure) Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, microfiche scan mi03658e11; Rep. From DBZ 15.Jg. 1881. [3]
  5. ↑ cf. carthalia [4]
  6. ↑ cf. luise-berlin
  7. ↑ cf. Art. Berlin and Berlin Stories: A Temple of Madness , Friday, November 6th, 2009. Archived copy ( memento of the original from August 2nd, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. A picture of the two country gendarmes, who became the trademark of the Stettiners, on a postcard (“Greetings from the Reichshallen”), used in 1904, under archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlin.am @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nobis24.com
  8. ↑ on the back of the cover on Leimbach, sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898 - 1945, the two are reproduced as “Vignette: Stettiner Sänger”.
  9. ↑ A “pair of friends reminiscent of the poster advertisement for the» Szczecin Singers «” in Karl May mentions z. B. Max Finke (“Means of Representation” p. 381), cf. [5]
  10. ↑ Bernd Poch, in his essay “The people raged with pleasure”, connects them with the two similar-looking Danish comedians Schenström & Madsen (“Pat and Patachon”) when he writes: “The two“ Stettineringers ”(see figure! ) have devoted themselves skin and hair to a small, delightful dancer ... ”cf. [6]
  11. ↑ Works - Examples:
    • Popular songs for a voice with piano accompaniment composed by Ferd. Meysel, head of the Szczecin Singers. 4. Peace down there! Repertoire song by Mr. Carl Röhl (Szczecin singer). Edition for low voice and piano. Fritz Steidl, Berlin, undated, 4 pages 34 × 27 cm with a photographic portrait of Ferdinand Meysel on the title page. In: Theaterwiss. Collection Schloß Wahn, Burgallee 2, 51127 Cologne, INV.-NO .: M 1474. cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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 / www.schloss-wahn.de
    • Hugo with the car : Postcard greetings from the Reichshallen (reference to "Stettiner Sänger") with illustration and a song verse, [7]
    • Ferdinand Meysel: "Eener and Eene" (with Ludwig Arno). Preserved on Edison 15 907 (annexed 1908).
  12. ↑ cf. Article in the Berlin city newspaper 'Scheinschlag' about events that took place in Berlin from November 18 to December 15, 1899: “… The smiling master of ceremonies is the 'Szczecin singer' Fritz Steidl, whose brothers Robert and Otto are also present. Krone, Meysel, Werner, Schrader, Kirchmayer, Schneider, Böckmann, lots of funny singing brothers unite the group picture of the Kanaks with gentlemen from the best of society, and again the cry: 'Kanaka-aha!'. "Source: [8]
  13. ↑ on chamber singer Carl Nebe cf. [9] and Leimbach. There is also a reference to his appearance among the Szczecinians.
  14. ↑ cf. Selection discography "Szczecin Singers" under [10]

Web links

  • Sound samples:
    • Gaudeamus igitur (Part I) Potpourri (F. Meisel) [11] , open. 1907
    • Gaudeamus igitur (II. Part) [12]
  • Musical sect. Potpourri, parts 1 and 2 (no details) [13] , apply. 1912
    • In the night, from the operetta "Die Kino-Königin" (Jean Gilbert) [14]
    • Lovely little things, from the operetta “Die Kino-Königin” (Jean Gilbert) [15] . 1913
  • Illustrations:
    • Illustration of the “Reichshallen-Theater Stettiner Sänger” (postcards from 1910 and 1921) [16]
    • Image of the two country gendarmes, who became the trademark of the Stettiners, on a postcard (“Greetings from the Reichshallen”), used in 1904, under [17]
    • Figure plate label (No Name) No.7956 “Christmas at Krause”: Stettiner singer quartet [18]
    • Image plate label Anker No.9460-I “Metropoliana” Potp. Of modern melodies sung by the Quartet of Stettiner Singers Berlin, under [19]