And Meyer looks at me kindly
And Meyer looks at me friendly is a couplet from 1901. Kurt Tucholsky called it the “classic” Berlin couplet.
The music is by the Viennese operettas - composer Fall Leo , who was then resident composer of the Berlin cabaret was "the bad guy". Its founder, Rudolf Bernauer , wrote the text in which a young man in the pub is flirting with the handsome and apparently neglected wife of a rich industrialist who is sitting next to him and - apparently unsuspecting - gives him a friendly look. This remains the case with the resulting Schäferstündchen - only the horned husband Meyer hangs as a painted portrait on the wall.
The first interpretation comes from the Viennese comedian and operetta singer Joseph Giampietro . An early record was sung by Robert Koppel . Versions by entertainer Peter Frankenfeld (1975) and pop singer Graham Bonney date from the 1970s .
Web links
literature
- Helga Bemmann: Berlin muse children memoir. A cheerful chronicle from 1900 - 1930 Berlin (East), 1981
- Rudolf Bernauer: The theater of my life. Memories Berlin, 1955
- Karl Bosl : Life pictures for the history of the Bohemian countries Munich, 1974 [1]
- Kerstin Pschibl: The system of interaction in cabaret - attempt at a sociology of cabaret (dissertation), University of Regensburg, 2000 pdf
- Kurt Tucholsky: "The Couplet" review, 1920 [2]