Ernst Bader

Life

Bader grew up in Stettin, where he attended King - Wilhelm-Gymnasium from 1920. 1923 the family moved to Kolberg, where he attended the Domgymnasium, but switched to the Berlin drama school without a diploma in 1933. In addition to his studies, he worked as a pianist, played theater and performed as a cabaret artist on variety shows. During this period his first lyrics. In 1936 he passed his exams and was subsequently actresses soldier in the Wehrmacht. After being wounded in World War II he was hired after his recovery as an actor and acted in several movies with that served the Nazi propaganda and of which he later distanced himself.

In Hamburg Ernst Bader was after the Second World War as a lecturer for the International Music publishers Hans Sikorski worked in the 1950s and early 1960s, a predominantly nocturnal activity. Main source of income for the popular music at the time were countless dance bands, which the lecturers recommended new sheet music after the evening performances. Only in this way was to ensure that new titles were requested by the audience for the popular jukebox. Therefore, many of the former editors came up with the obvious idea to also write the lyrics and / or music for the distributed Sheet music equal to itself. And so he and Ernst Bader devoted increasingly to songwriting. In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, these were mainly hit. Ernst Bader wrote several books, among other short stories seniors do not write only for seniors. His house in Norderstedt bought in 1994 befriended with him actress Angélique Duvier.

Texts (selection) and performers

Significant interpreters of his works were:

  • Marlene Dietrich
  • Freddy Quinn
  • Rudi Schuricke
  • Édith Piaf
  • Hildegard Knef

He wrote the lyrics for about 900 hits and songs, including:

  • On the day when the rain came
  • Tulips from Amsterdam
  • You let yourself geh'n
  • The happiness came to me like a dream ( Orfeo Negro)
  • Daba daba dab My heart beats
  • 100 men and a command
  • Homesickness ( Burning hot desert sand ... )
  • The world is beautiful, Milord
  • My Ideal
  • Tiritomba

Trivia

  • In 1994, Ernst Bader was honored on the occasion of his 80th birthday with the Biermann - Ratjen Medal of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.
  • He met three times in the SPD and as many times again. In the 1990s he supported the PDS.
  • Bader's grave is located on the Ev. Cemetery Garstedt the Emmaus church in Norderstedt.

Publications

  • No one lives alone. Publisher 's studio in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1998, ISBN 3- 881-32058 -X.
  • The world is beautiful, Milord. Publisher 's studio in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1984, ISBN 3-881-32056-3.
  • The inn in north Broda. Publisher 's studio in the farmhouse, Fischerhude 1988 ASIN B00CB5HQ4K.
June 7 1914 August 10 1999 Chanson Milord (song) Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille Integrated Authority File
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