Willy Schneider (singer)

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Willy Schneider (left) and Hans Bund with his orchestra during a rehearsal in the WDR radio studio (February 1954)

Willy Schneider (born September 5, 1905 in Cologne ; † January 12, 1989 ibid) was a German folk and pop singer with a bass-baritone voice . Among his most successful songs are Schütt 'die worries in a glass of wine and one should be twenty again.

Life

Willy Schneider was a son of Joseph and Bertha Schneider, born in Cologne-Ehrenfeld. His older brother Josef became an opera singer in Breslau ; his son Dietmar photographer and cultural manager in Cologne .

After attending elementary and middle school, Willy Schneider started an apprenticeship in 1921 in his parents' butcher's shop . When the father died in 1927, the son continued the butcher's business. From 1928 he attended the practical butcher school in Cologne, where he passed the diploma examination for the production of fine meat and sausage products with distinction on February 28, 1929.

He made his first experiences as a singer in a church choir. On January 24, 1930, he was accepted as a bass player from among 354 applicants in the chamber choir of the Reich broadcasters Cologne , to which he belonged until 1937. He received his vocal training as a baritone from the Cologne cantors Hermann Fleischmann and Clemens Glettenberg. He was a regular guest on the radio show Der frohe Saturday Afternoon from Cologne, which was broadcast almost continuously from late 1934 to late 1939. This made him so well known that in 1935 he published his first record entitled Schwalbenlied (Mutterl unter'm Dach ein Nesterl is built) , which became a great commercial success with 300,000 records sold. The single Das Grab auf der Heide (1935) followed. Then he also appeared as a singer of soldiers' songs, such as soldier serenade, brave little soldier's wife and what can the soldier dream of .

Both during the war and with increasing success in the post-war period, Schneider sang folk songs and hits . In the field of operetta , many recordings were made with the conductor Franz Marszalek . He was also particularly successful with rather thoughtful carnival songs . In 1947, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the cathedral, he took over the title Am Dom zo Kölle, zo Kölle am Rhing, composed by August Schnorrenberg (1896–1973) . On November 18, 1947 Schneider married Hanny Osslender (1915–1996) from Cologne. At the end of 1947 he was able to successfully resume his broadcasting career at the NWDR in Cologne. Its great popularity was also based on numerous television appearances, u. a. he was a regular guest on the HR program Zum Blauen Bock . He was nicknamed "The Singer of the Rhine and Wine". His most successful records came out in 1952 and 1953, namely pour your worries into a glass of wine and you would have to be twenty again . In 1960 he was the first singer in Germany to receive a gold record for 6 million “Lieder vom Rhein” sold . At the age of 82, he recorded his last title The Years of Gifts (1988), a tribute to his wife. He recorded a total of around 800 records, around 18 million copies of which were sold worldwide.

Schneider's grave in the cemetery in Cologne-Junkersdorf

He has also appeared in numerous films, such as Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (premiere on December 11, 1947), When the Heath Dreams in the Evening (December 19, 1952) or Southern Nights (September 8, 1953). In the film Cherries in Neighbor's Garden (1956) he can be heard with the song Anka Marianka . He died in January 1989 and was buried in the cemetery in Cologne-Junkersdorf (hall 4). In Cologne-Junkersdorf a street laid out after his death was named Willy-Schneider-Weg; the passenger ship Willy Schneider has had his name since 1987.

Awards

Willy Schneider: You'd have to be twenty again (June 1953)

Well-known titles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
You would have to be 20 again
  DE 17th 04/01/1954 (12 weeks)
Small village on the edge of the heather (with Adalbert Luczkowski)
  DE 19th 06/01/1955 (4 weeks)
  • 1937: The last roses are blooming on the heather
  • 1937: You can't have guessed that / cornflower blue
  • 1938: The heather is green
  • 1938/1939: Blue Danube, Green Rhine
  • 1939: Good night, mother
  • 1940: Liebchen mein unter'm vine roof
  • 1942: Home, your stars
  • 1942: Landser-Lied / Dear mother don't cry
  • 1948: Homesick for Virginia
  • 1949: Homesick for Cologne
  • 1949: Am Zuckerhut (with Danielle Marc and René Carol )
  • 1950: Little waitress from Heidelberg
  • 1951: Once on the Rhine (September 21, 1951)
  • 1951: If the water in the Rhine were golden wine / Pour worries into a glass of wine (October 3, 1951)
  • 1953: You'd have to be twenty again / You just need to be in love (March 1953)
  • 1956: Bergisches Heimatlied
  • 1957: Oh, Mosella / The red devils in red wine
  • 1958: Homesickness for Cologne / Och wat wor dat earlier beautiful but en Colonia (December 1958)
  • 1968: On the Weser / The Pied Piper (September 1968)
  • 1973: Every day is not a Sunday

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Björn Thomann, Willy Schneider. Volks- und Heimatsänger (1905–1989) on www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de
  2. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder , North Rhine-Westphalia: Land and People 1946–2006 , 2006, p. 418
  3. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 536.
  4. ↑ Experience the BUGA from the Neckar: Free ship shuttle connects the Wohlhotels entrance and Campuspark - bus shuttle with a stop at Theresienwiese , December 13, 2018 at: www.buga2019.de
  5. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 25, No. 111, June 16, 1973.
  6. ↑ Chart sources: DE
personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German folk singer
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1989
Place of death Cologne