Werner Hass

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Werner Hass (also Bob Gerry , Pat Hardy ; born December 25, 1927 in Danzig ; died February 2017 ) was a German singer.

At the end of the Second World War , the family fled to Denmark, where Werner Hass and his sister Ilse received their first singing lessons. The family went to Berlin in 1947. Werner Hass performed with his sister Ilse. Together with Sonja Siewert and Herbert Klein they formed the quartet Die singenden Vier . Werner Hass was hired by Kurt Henkels as a singer for his orchestra. From 1953 he published songs as a singer in the Kurt Henkel Orchestra in the GDR. The music styles were mostly big band sound , swing and hit music . From 1958 Werner Hass was no longer allowed to perform in the GDR, and his songs were no longer allowed to be played on the radio. He was accused of singing rock and roll . This style of music was frowned upon in the GDR during the Cold War . Ultimately, Hass had to emigrate to West Germany in order to earn a living. There he performed cover versions under the stage names Bob Gerry and Pat Hardy and was under contract with Telefunken . He moderated the first broadcasts of The Sounding Sunday Puzzle , which was first broadcast on March 7, 1965 . In 1973 he took over the artist support in the Berlin Senate , and has not appeared on stage since.

Singles

  • Willi plays today ( Amiga )
  • Penguin Mambo (Amiga)
  • 1956 Simsalabim , German cover version of Shake, Rattle and Roll (Amiga)
  • 1959 Plitsch Platsch , German cover version of Splish splash by Bobby Darin (Telefunken U 55 112)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ralf Bei der Kellen: 50 years of musical Sunday riddles - East-West entertainment during the Cold War (archive). In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. March 11, 2015, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bärbel Wachholz. In: baerbelwachholz.de. Retrieved May 17, 2019 .
  3. ^ Simsalabim on YouTube , accessed February 25, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Hate, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gerry, Bob; Hardy, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH February 2017