Walter Hedemann

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Walter Hedemann (born July 17, 1932 in Lübeck ; † November 6, 2019 ) was a German singer-songwriter and cabaret artist who became known from 1965 to 1967 at the Chanson Folklore Festival at Waldeck Castle .

Life

Hedemann grew up in Naumburg (Saale) and studied music at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg as well as German and English at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 1961 he came to Hameln as an assessor , where he lived with his family.

In the early 1960s he began to write chansons and couplets , which he performed himself on the piano . Some were more nonsense songs (e.g. his flip-up horn verses ), others again from ironic - critical (small town idyll; big city idyll; interim question, resigned) to macabre character and are somewhat reminiscent of Georg Kreisler's early black-humored songs (Zwei Nature children). His real role model, however, was the Viennese cabaret artist Gerhard Bronner . Radio Bremen published the first half dozen of his chansons in 1963 in the series of the time Das Funkdebut, including the titles Der Verkehrsampel-Fan and Madeleine or Das Shirt. In a “singer's war” of the station, he won first prize in 1967, ahead of Hanns Dieter Hüsch .

There followed three decades of nationwide appearances and numerous radio and television productions, mostly in Germany, several times as a participant in Hanns Dieter Hüsch's social evening (SR); 1977 in Alfred Biolek's Kölner Treff ( WDR ) and Heinz Schenk's Blauem Block ( hr ).

On the occasion of the LP Herzlich Willkommen (1975), the specialist magazine HiFi Stereophonie wrote: “... A lieder singer of stature, a guy who has it harder than one would initially assume. Hedemann was a keen observer, his pleasant, unobtrusive, charmingly harmless way of performing the songs and accompanying them on the piano belied the precision of the lyrics. Hedemann was excellent at nailing his objects; He succeeded in clairvoyant satires against German choir smacking, Parisian musette clichés, primitive mood makers and small-town interest groups. Two masterpieces are The Song of More and The Adaptation . [...] The weak pieces are rare, on the other hand we find unusually humorous rhymes in the stronger titles and, although composed of simple basic patterns, consistently interesting, clichéd forms. ”(HiFi Stereophonie 8/75)

Despite such recognition, Hedemann stayed largely out of the marketing industry because of his main job as a high school teacher, which is why he did not gain the fame of similar singers such as B. Schobert and Black or Ulrich Roski . Between 1977 and 1994 Hedemann wrote several radio skits for West German and Saarland radio , including several episodes of the series Papa, Charly said… .

Walter Hedemann was active as a pianist, copywriter and arranger for the Hamelin teachers' ensemble "Pädagogian Harmonists". Since 2002 he has also written and spoken weekly radio glosses for the local Hamelin broadcaster Radio Aktiv . Here Hedemann also read Alphonse Daudet's novel Tartarin von Tarascon in German translation, of which an audio book with three CDs came out.

Hedemann died in November 2019 at the age of 87.

Publications

Sound carrier

Own

  • Well listen! EP, Xenophon 1967
  • Sch (m) erz beiseite, EP, Xenophon 1967
  • Under the gooseberry bush, LP, Intercord Xenophon 1970
  • Welcome, LP, Songbird 1975
  • Pleasing balance, LP, Thorofon 1979
  • At breakfast, LP, Thorofon 1982
  • Cabaret from Hameln, LP, 1984
  • Chansons - what else ?, MC, 1992
  • Chansons from recently until afterwards, CD, 1995
  • In old love, CD, Conträr Musik 1999
  • Walter Hedemann reads: Alphonse Daudet, Tartarin von Tarascon, 3-CD audio book, 2008
  • Chansons, what else? Walter Hedemann sings his own chansons from 40 years, 3 CDs, Conträr Musik 2012

On collections with other artists

  • Makaber makes fun - songs from the "Schützen Turm", LP, Xenophon 1967 - (Steter consolation or: You too can be happy, two boys had a fiddle ( French horn verses ))
  • Burg Waldeck Festival 1967, LP, Xenophon 1968 - (small town idyll)
  • Chanson & Folk Supersession Volume 1, LP, Intercord Xenophon 1975 - (City idyll)
  • Chanson & Folk Supersession Volume 2, LP, Intercord Xenophon 1975 - (Der Verkehrsampel-Fan)
  • Hanns Dieter Hüschs social evening, double CD, Conträr Musik 2000 - (Laudation - let's have a look at the Hüsch)
  • Burg Waldeck Festivals 1967 - Chanson, Folklore International, double CD (extended new release of the LP from 1968), Studio Wedemark 2004 - (small town idyll)
  • For whom we sing - songwriters in Germany, Vol. 1, 3 CDs, Bear Family Records 2007 - (two boys had a fiddle (clapper horn verse), Wald-Mädel-Sang (for male choir), steady consolation or: You too can be happy )
  • The Burg Waldeck Festival 1964–1969, book and 10 CDs, Bear Family Records 2008 - (The astronaut march, steady consolation, small-town idyll, forest-girl-song, the little German, letter to over there, the half-decomposed)
  • The German Chanson and its story (s), 100 Years of Song - Part 3, 3 CDs, Bear Family Records 2012 - (The little things)

Books

  • Dorothea or Who's Afraid of Hermann Gessler? - Posse with singing, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel and Basel 1970
  • Chansons, Voggenreiter Verlag, Bad Godesberg 1970
  • Only one case Werner, Deutscher Theaterverlag, Weinheim / Bergstrasse 1973
  • Grapefruit and tin pot - a piece for children, Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel and Basel 1974
  • Household without mom, Deutscher Theaterverlag 1985
  • It stays in the family, Deutscher Theaterverlag 1993
  • Des Ventilator - radio glossaries, Wagner Verlag, Gelnhausen, 2007

literature

  • Rolf-Ulrich Kaiser : The Songbook, 1967
  • Kaarel Siniveer: Folk Lexicon, 1981
  • Matthias Henke : The great chansonniers and songwriters (Hermes Handlexikon), 1987
  • Hotte Schneider: The Waldeck, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries. In: Deister and Weser newspaper , November 9, 2019. Retrieved November 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Walter Hedemann. In: Kürschner's German Literature Calendar 2018/2019. Volume II: PZ. Walter de Gruyter , 2018, ISBN 978-3-11-057616-0 , p. 356.
personal data
SURNAME Hedemann, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German songwriter, cabaret artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2019