Halunkenpostille

The scoundrels of Piety is a collection of poetry by the German writer Fritz Grasshoff, which first appeared in 1947. It is one of the most successful poetry books of the postwar period; numerous texts and ballads were set to music and recorded by well-known artists.

The author

Fritz Grasshoff (1913-1997) earned his money with pop lyrics; best known is his Evergreen Take me captain, on the journey, he wrote for Hans Albers. His appeal, however, he saw as a painter, illustrator, translator and writer. His books of poetry, found little favor; He had greater success with his sometimes bawdy lyrics lyrics and ballads, some of which were gladly sung as songs and many are gathered in the outputs of scoundrels Piety.

The book

The scoundrels Postille contains more than 100 poems. Since they are rhymed throughout, they exist almost at for song settings. Theme is the people and hardships of the lower layer, small anarchists who is the author of time-critical, often with surprising humor and great affection. Graßhoff was even in a milieu - his father, only sailor, and later coal merchant - grew up in the pubs, drunks, prostitutes, thugs and scoundrels were commonplace. The titles of the poems usually have the same on this subject for: rascal song, Penner story in Sideshow Yourself, Moritat does the freezing gas works director or one you will shanghaien you and Captain Byebye.

The book was a great success, the total circulation is now, surprisingly for a poetry book, more than 200,000 copies. Graßhoff loved to give his books a long subtitle and sometimes joined them in new editions. You can Graßhoff with his scoundrels postils texts readily described as a descendant of Erich Kästner, Walter Mehring and Ringelnatz.

Effects

For some cabaret texts, were created, and so it is not surprising that many large German Chansonnièren ( Hannelore Schroth, Hanne Wieder, Kirsten Heiberg and Inge Brandenburg) occurred with recitations of his poetry and song presentations. Some composers went to edits, such as Hans -Martin Majewski, Norbert Schultze and Alfons Nowacki. In the mid-sixties Graßhoff was discovered and appreciated by young people; in the progressive youth movement of the frets were settings of today popular " rascals song" My horse is old and no longer or sung by the " rags brotherhood " scroungers, Penner, oblique fools, tinkers, thieves want. The singing duo Schobert & Black scooped, especially for their first two LPs, also from this fund, set to music by Wolfgang " Schobert " Schulz.

Expenditure

Book editions

  • Scoundrels Postille. ( Second edition in the same year with the title: rascal Piety ). With illustrations by Bernd Hering. Notes. J. A. Keune. Hamburg 1947
  • Scoundrels Piety. Lumber-room romances, ballads port, Spelunkensongs. With drawings by Fritz Grasshoff. Carl Lange. Duisburg, 1954 ( 20th - 25th thousand 1955)
  • Scoundrels Piety. Lumber-room romances, ballads port, Spelunkensongs. New: zinc piano. (25th - 37th thousand). Carl Lange. Duisburg 1959. ( 38 thousand). Now: Mercator -Verlag. Duisburg 1968
  • The great scoundrels of Piety. Songs, ballads, ballads. Old and new verses. dtv 150 Munich 1963; 11th edition ( 142 - 147th thousand) in 1981. ISBN 3-423-00150- X
  • Graßhoffs new great scoundrels of Piety. This is the first time published in 1947 tailored to growth and herewith significantly enhanced scoundrels Piety. Attached work: In addition to the general invalid Bauer Calendar 1954 New illustrated by the author himself Limes Verlag. . Wiesbaden 1981. ISBN 3-8090-2183-0
  • Little rascals Postille. A Querbeet read from the songs and blasphemous books of Fritz Grasshoff. Special edition Bertelsmann club. Gütersloh 1988

Musical settings (selection)

  • Rascals songs. ( The Sailor Heart - The Flying Barber - New Night Watchman way - In Tingeltangel Something is happening ) for baritone solo, trumpet, violin, accordion, bass and drums. Music: Siegfried straw Bach. Published by Breitkopf & Härtel. Wiesbaden 1956
  • Rascals songs. Gothic ballads, rats whistles, Bänkelgesänge, laundry songs and ballads. Melodies of Hanns armies on texts from the scoundrels of Piety. Sets and Klampfengriffe by Hans Grappenach. Südmarkverlag. Heidenheim 1963. Reprint Witzenhausen 1978
  • The Song of the Flea on a long journey. Music for Male Choir by Franz Biebl. Hagen 1980
  • Rascals song ( My horse is old and does not want ). Numerous musical settings: In the early 60s in the new German society of young Roland Eckert, later of Mac in the songs leaves German Youth ( Heidenheim 1984) and more classic for four-part mixed chorus of Bert reputation ( Palatinate Choir Verlag 1996 )
  • Captain killer. Music: Thomas Chandler. Score for male chorus and piano. Gummersbach 1987
  • Ninoschka and Anjuschka or Besenbinder song. Way and set for male chorus: Franz Biebl. Breidenbach 1998

Recordings of songs from the scoundrels Piety (selection)

  • Scoundrels Piety. Weird songs, sleazy songs and beautiful poems. Music: Hans -Martin Majewski and Norbert Schultze. Spoken and sung by Hanne Wieder, Hannelore Schroth, Gustav Knuth, Gisela from Schwabing, Kirsten Heiberg, Ralf Bendix, Jens Brenke, Inge Brandenburg, Werner Schmalenbach and Fritz Grasshoff. Electrola. LP. Cologne 1967
  • All year. Music: Wolfgang " Schobert " Schulz. Schobert and Black. Double LP. (LP 1: Generally not valid almanac ). Teldec. Hamburg 1975
  • Adele, Adele the gold in your throat. Pintenballaden of Fritz Grasshoff. Music: Alfons Nowacki, sung by Brigitte Lebaan. LP. Baedeker BAE2501, Essen 1976
  • The little bit. German chansons. LP. Clock Tower Publisher. Gümlingen 1978
  • Midnight syringes. Jens Brenke. Double LP. Hannover 1980
  • Hanne re singing chansons. LP. German Austrophon. 1983
  • Dash lines. Love, vice, pleasure and blasphemous songs by Fritz Grasshoff. LP. Music: Christian Weber. Clock Tower -Verlag. Gümlingen 1984
  • Banjo Songs. Double LP. Ernst Klett. Stuttgart 1984
  • Over and over again. Erich and the Polk. CD. welzheim 1992
  • Naughty songs - love songs. Episode 4 CD. German Grammophon 1995
  • Café Knax. Susanne Grütz, Hubertus Schmidt. CD. Leipzig 1998
  • Fridolin, you kiss so impetuous! Songs and chansons, sung and spoken by Hans -Martin Majewski, Günter Pfitzmann, Inge Brandenburg. CD. Hamburg 2001
  • Scoundrels Piety. Michael H. Gloth. CD. Northeim 2003. ISBN 3-922647-18-9
  • Germany or what bites me?. Schobert and Black. ( Republication of the LPs blasphemous songs and moral songs and Germany or what bites me? 1967 and 1968 on a CD). Lübeck 2004. ISBN 3-932219-54-6

The classic villains Postille

In a second " scoundrels Piety ," which published Graßhoff and to which he gave the title of the classic villains of sermons, he published in free poetic editing texts of some Greek and Roman poets of antiquity (eg Martial, Catullus and Philodemus ) on the hardships and joys of the man on the street and the follies of the rich.

  • The classic villains Piety. Translated two dozen ancient Greek and Roman poets, dusted and vice host, to the new Solomon. Songs, songs and ballads provided by the preacher's words with pictures and brought to light new. Kiepenheuer & Malevich. Cologne / Berlin 1964
  • Ditto: dtv 417, Munich 1967
  • Advanced edition. Nymphenburg. Munich 1982. ISBN 3-485-00441-3
  • Ditto: Ullstein Paperback No. 22546 Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-548-22546-2. .
Anarchism Siegfried Strohbach Deutsche Grammophon Epigram Classical antiquity Friedrich Zehm Muschelhaufen
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