Karl Schwedler

Karl Schwedler, artist name, Charlie ( born August 13, 1902 in Duisburg, † June 20, 1970 in Feldafing ) was a German jazz musician, entertainer and in the time of National Socialism namesake of Swing Orchestra Charlie and His Orchestra.

Life

Schwedler was the son of Master Plumbers Emil Schwedler and Anna Müller. He married in 1944 Catherine Kirchner and had a son.

Schwedler made ​​a commercial apprenticeship and emigrated in 1923 to the United States, where he conducted a concert agency. After the outbreak of World War II, he returned in September 1939 back to the German Reich and was discontinued in November 1939 with the official title of a Scientific laborer at the Foreign Office in the " Unit broadcasting matters ." He made radio broadcasts together for the English enemy propaganda and was a singer and lyricist of Swing Orchestra Charlie and His Orchestra, which was led by Lutz Templin. The original texts of arranged from Templin American jazz standards were rewritten by Schwedler the purposes of Nazi propaganda in political and racist lyrics and sung by himself.

Shortly before the war ended Schwedler has been drafted for military service.

Schwedler later worked among other things as an entertainment manager at the luxury hotel Breidenbacher Hof in Dusseldorf.

Recordings (selection)

  • Swing: the German Dance Orchestra Lutz Templin as secretive Swing Orchestra " Charlie and his Orchestra " in 20 unreleased recordings from 1940 to 1943 by Karl Schwedler. Cologne: TMK Musikprod. and Verl, 2003
  • Propaganda swing Dr. Goebbels ' jazz orchestra by Charlie & His Orchestra. Lale Anderson; Karl Schwedler; Lutz Templin; Charlie & His Orchestra. Chicago, IL: International Historic Films, 2001.
  • Charlie and his orchestra by Charlie & His Orchestra. Nth Caulfield, Vic.: Lyric Records, o.J.
  • Never again! Words and music of Nazi Germany. Adolf Hitler; Joseph Goebbels; William Joyce; Karl Schwedler. Roswell, Ga, U.S.A.: Intersound, 1991
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