Toni Hämmerle

Death mask by Toni Hämmerle

Toni Hämmerle (born December 11, 1914 in Mainz , † December 8, 1968 in Gießen ) was a German composer , pianist , organist and violinist .

Life

After childhood and school, Hämmerle completed his music studies with the state examination at the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz and worked as a music teacher in his hometown from 1933 . Hämmerle, who had always suffered from poor eyesight, completely lost his eyesight when he was buried in a bomb attack on Mainz in 1941 . After the war he was employed as a telephone operator at the University of Giessen, but soon made a name for himself as a composer, especially in the field of hit and carnival hits.

In 1952 the musical collaboration began with Ernst Neger and thus also with the Mainz Carneval Association . He had his greatest success in 1963 with the title Humba Täterä . He wrote numerous mood and carnival songs and composed, in addition to numerous titles for Ernst Neger, also for Margit Sponheimer , Heinz Schenk , Camillo Felgen , Ralf Bendix and Paul Kuhn .

Hämmerle died three days before his 54th birthday in Giessen, where he lived. In memory of him founded Ernst Neger 1970 in Ahlen in Westphalia , the Pony station Toni Hämmerle, site health promotion physically disabled children are cared for in the mostly blind children. In front of his apartment in Giessen on the corner of Stephan- and Goethestrasse, the city of Giessen and the local carnival association erected a bronze bust of the composer in 2009.

Compositions (selection)

Toni Hämmerle always met the taste of the times with his compositions. Until his death he wrote around fifty hits, including:

• Suddenly you're fifty
• You always have to be with your heart
• Had Adam made Äppelwoi out of the apple (for Heinz Schenk)
• When I stand high up on the rooftops
• The sun doesn't go down here on the Rhine in 1959
• The Humpta-Täterä 1963 (also Humba Täterä )
• Hoppe Hoppe Reiter 1964
• Don't give the boy the violin in 1964
• I ordered luck for tonight, 1966
• Yell, you like me yell 1965

literature

• Died . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1968, p. 176 ( online ).
• Bowing in mood songs - Margit Sponheimer singing recalls the gifted composer Toni Hämmerle in the Rhein-Main-Presse (Allgemeine Zeitung), November 14, 2007
• "Toni Hämmerle" pony station - Aid organization for disabled children V.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger: Gießen: Commemoration for the 100th birthday of Toni Hämmerle. February 7, 2016, accessed November 25, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Gießener Anzeiger: Gießen: Commemoration for the 100th birthday of Toni Hämmerle. February 7, 2016, accessed November 25, 2016 . 
3. ↑ The text partly corresponds to an older song. In the Wiesbadener Zeitung of December 27, 1944, an article with the headline “Gell, Nikolaus, da lachste aach !?” is printed on page 4 , the text part of which rhymes : “Gell, Santa Claus, I love you! And yell, you aach me? And yell, when I laugh, yell, you laughed aach? "