Willy Breuer

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Wilhelm "Willy" Breuer (born August 8, 1903 in Cologne ; † November 18, 1969 there ) was a German singer, carnivalist and hand-made speaker .

Live and act

As a teenager, Breuer was already active as a hand-made speaker and singer of couplets , mood songs and carnival hits , some of which he had written himself. In the 1930s he sang numerous hits that have since become classics of the Rhenish Carnival, such as Heidewitzka Herr Kapitän , You Can't Know That , Cornflower Blue or Die hinge de Gadinge stonn , written by u. a. August Batzem , Karl Berbuer , Gerhard Ebeler and Hans Otten , Gerhard Jussenhoven and Jupp Schmitz and Willi Ostermann .

From 1944 he ran an inn at Kümpchenshof in Cologne as a “Singing Landlord” , and in 1961 he founded the “Deutsche Glatzenbruderschaft”, for which he also wrote a marching song. He appeared on the radio at the Cologne station and sang numerous gramophone records. On "Grammophon", where he was always announced on the labels as a "Rhenish singer", he was usually accompanied by the orchestra of the conductor Egon Kaiser , and on "Telefunken" by the Cologne band Christian Reuter. At “Odeon” he sang with the large dance orchestra Josef Breuer.

After 1945 he sang with the "Rheinisches Stimmungsorchester Ferdy Klein" for the Cologne company Tefifon , for example "The Grosse Tefi Carnival Revue 'Spass muss sein!'" For the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger he sang in 1950 with orchestra accompaniment and choir on one Advertising record the Willi Ostermann-Schlager If someone was in for a hunt .

He became famous for his version of We Are the Natives of Trizonesia on the Union Record label with the Teddy Kleindin band and with his flower song (on Odeon), which he had written for the 1957 Federal Garden Show , which was first held in Cologne . This was followed by other hits that, like the waltz song Kinder der Zeit with the subtitle “Wir Wirtschafts-Wunder-Kinder”, the marching song Erst ein Schnäpschen , or the waltz song Wir hab'n se nich all , also dealt with German post-war reality .

Breuer died in 1969 at the age of 66 in his apartment in Cologne's old town. He had married in 1937 and the couple later divorced.

Works

  • Better to be bald than no hair at all!
  • Dat next round, dat round, what now kütt; Kölsch Marschleed
  • De Hüsjer colorful om Aldermat
  • First a schnapps
  • It was in Altenahr
  • Give me a kiss! Rhine
  • Do you want to do that thing with me?
  • I closed with you ...
  • I know why you don't go home!
  • Children of Time ("We Economic Miracle Children")
  • Let flowers speak
  • Girl, it can be
  • No show, what can it do ...
  • Just a little beautiful woman ...
  • Opjepass, opjepass
  • Su jet like you! something like you!
  • Much too beautiful, always when it is most beautiful!
  • Why do people sing such beautiful songs on the Rhine?
  • We don't have it all

Audio documents

Gramophone / Polydor

  • 12 099, also 2466 (die number: 6820 ½ GR-8) Heidewitzka Mr. Captain. Marching song by Karl Berbuer. / (Die number: 6822 GR-8) Adjühs Frau Schmitz, goodbye. March song (Otten - Ebeler) Willy Breuer, Rhenish singer, with Egon Kaiser Dance Orchestra.
  • 12 102, also 2834 (die number: 8123 ½ GR-8) You can't have guessed that. Waltz song (Karl Berbuer) Willy Breuer, Rhenish singer, with Egon Kaiser dance orchestra.
  • 2841 (die number: 8134 ½ GR-8) Die hinger de Gadinge stonn. Kölsch Fox-trot Leed (Music: G. Jussenhoven - Text: J. Schlösser) / (Matrix number: 8133 ½ GR8) Cornflower blue. Waltz song (music: G. Jussenhoven - text: J. Schlösser) Willy Breuer, Rhenish singer, with Egon Kaiser dance orchestra.
  • 2869 (die number: 8062 ½ GD-9) Jupp let go: marching song (music: Peter Kronenberg - text: Walter Pengel) / (mx. 8122 ½ GR-8) Ess dat then nothing Marie? : Rhinelander (Karl Berbuer) Willy Breuer, Rhenish singer, with Egon Kaiser dance orchestra.

Odeon

  • O-28221 (mx. Be 14500) If you can and want: Waltz song (Erich Keufenheuer, Gerhard Ebeler) / (mx. Be 14499) You are the woman the doctor prescribed for me ...! : Waltz song (Gerhard Jussenhoven, Jupp Schlösser) Willy Breuer and choir with large dance orchestra Josef Breuer, Cologne.
  • O-28224 (mx. Be 14494) Give me a kiss! : Rhine. Marschlied (Willy Breuer) / (mx. Be 14495-1) Whether you kiss on the Rhine, whether on the Elbe! : Waltz song (August Batzem) Willy Breuer and choir, md gr. Dance orchestra Josef Breuer, Cologne.
  • O-29101 (mx. Be 15568-1) Let flowers speak! Waltz song (music: A. Weingarten, text: W. Breuer) Willy Breuer, Werner Preuss and the happy musicians.

Telefunken

  • A 11035 (mx. 36 086) The dangerous years: Waltz song (Dr. Jussenhoven) / (mx. 36 082) Start with love: Waltz song (Adam Blum) Chapel Christian Reuter, Cologne. Singing: Willy Breuer with choir.
  • A 11036 (mx. 36088) Humor is when you laugh anyway (Music: Steinbüchel) / (mx. 36087) The golden recklessness (Music: Steinbüchel) Chapel Christian Reuter, Cologne. Singing: Willy Breuer with choir.
  • A 11037 (mx. 86 031) The most beautiful op in the world, that’s a lot of money. March song by Jupp Schmitz. / (mx. 86 083) And et Arnöldche fleut. Waltz song by Karl Berbuer. Christian Reuter Chapel, Cologne. Singing: Willy Breuer with choir.

crystal

  • Kristall 9109 (mx. C 9718.1) Oh what was that beautiful earlier, but en Colonia: Lied (Willi Ostermann) / (mx. C 9719.1) Opjepass, opjepass: March song (Breuer) The Kölsche Rabaue . Solo voice: Willy Breuer.

Tempo and branch brands

  • Union Record 2574 (mx. 574) Trizonesien-Song: Marschfox (Karl Berbuer) / (mx. 575) Can you be sober? : Waltz song (Karl Berbuer) band: Teddy Kleindin, vocals: Willy Breuer, Cologne.
  • Special Record 2580 (mx. 726) Ich schloof bei dir…: Waltz song (text and music: Willy Breuer) / (mx. 727) No show, what can it do…: March song (Willy Breuer, Franz Steinbüchel) Singing: Willy Breuer , Cologne, with special orchestra. Head: Carl Röntgenz.

literature

  • Joseph Klersch : The Cologne Carnival from its beginnings to the present (=  writings of the Bund Deutscher Karneval, Bund Deutscher Karneval . No. 1 ). JP Bachem, Cologne 1961.
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters, 1898–1945 . Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Andreas Vollberg: From Trizonesia to the Starlight Era: Popular music in North Rhine-Westphalia (=  music state NRW . No. 4 ). Agenda Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-89688-172-4 , pp. 243 .
  • Manfred Weihermüller, Heinz Büttner: German National Discography: Discography of German cabaret . tape 6 . B. Lotz, Bonn 2002, ISBN 978-3-9805808-7-8 , pp. 1495 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Death certificate no. 1978 from November 18, 1969, Cologne Old Town registry office. In: LAV NRW R civil status register. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ so in Berthold Leimbach, Tondokumente der Kleinkunst and their interpreters, 1898–1945; the line “Better to be bald than no hair at all!” from his marching song is a quote from the 6th stanza of the Otto Reutter Couplet “Don't grieve”, Teich / Danner No. 253, cf. otto-reutter.de
  3. ↑ cf. Article “Fairy tales from the running tape” in Der Spiegel 33/1950 from August 17, 1950
  4. ↑ cf. Tracks 9 Zwesche Zwei un Drei (with the “Kümpchen-Hofsängern”) and 19 Ja, We want to make up again (with the Eilemann Trio ), cf. sammler.de (accessed June 12, 2019)
  5. ↑ "Manufactured by the Electrola Gesellschaft Köln", label shown. at picclick.de (updated 13.06.19), to be heard on YouTube
  6. ↑ cf. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1957, p. 518 to No. EF0 47262; listen on YouTube
  7. ↑ published by Verlag Musik-Edition-Forte, Cologne (MM V / 14)
  8. ↑ Heidewitzka, Mr. Captain. In: YouTube. October 17, 2014, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  9. ↑ label shown. at plattenshop.net (updated 13.06.19)
  10. ↑ Willy Breuer - The most beautiful op in the world, this is a punk of money - 78 rpm. In: YouTube. June 15, 2011, accessed June 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Un et Arnöldche fleut - Willy Breuer - 78 rpm. In: YouTube. June 13, 2011, accessed June 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breuer, Wilhelm (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer, carnivalist and hand-made speaker
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 1969
Place of death Cologne