Walter Andreas Schwarz

Walter Andreas Schwarz ( born June 2, 1913 in Aschersleben, resin, † April 1, 1992 in Heidelberg ) was a German singer, writer, comedian, radio play author and speaker and translator for the BBC.

Life

After graduation in 1932 left black Aschersleben to study German literature and music in Vienna. Because of his Jewish ancestry, he was brought in 1938 with his entire family in a concentration camp in Lower Saxony.

In 1956 he took part with the self-penned title in the waiting room to a large fortune at the Euro Vision Song Contest and was (along with Freddy Quinn ), the first German representatives in this competition. The rankings were, apart from winning titles, not disclosed. Musically, this piece was his only major success.

After he had lived a long time in London, he died in 1992 in Heidelberg.

1995 saw a CD set to music poems and prose texts by Erich difficulty that Black had recorded together with Dieter Süverkrüp.

Works

Discography

  • Masterly songs by and with Walter Andreas Schwarz, with the orchestra Hans -Georg Arlt - EP with four songs, Ariola 1956
  • In the waiting room to the great happiness / for 300 francs - Single Ariola 1958
  • The fruit of the illegality. The Germans MAI Hambach 1832-1982 - Double LP 1982 Southwest Radio Baden- Baden, SWF # 71 and 72 ( Soiree by Walter Andreas Schwarz )
  • Erich difficulty: I invite you to Requiem, with Dieter Süverkrüp - Conträr 1995

Radio plays

  • Life and deeds of the ingenious noble Don Quixote of La Mancha, HR / BR 1962 ( editor and narrator)
  • War and Peace, WDR 1965 ( narrator)
  • Wilhelm Meister's Theatrical Mission, HR / WDR, 1967 ( Editor)
  • Anna Karenina, WDR / HR 1967 ( narrator)
  • The Subject, WDR 1971 ( editor and narrator)
  • For all flesh is as grass, NDR November 16, 1980 - Feature commemorating the liberation of the concentration camp at Bergen -Belsen
  • Jud Suss, SWF / SR 1981 ( Editor)
  • 1984 ( reading), SDR 1984 ( Speaker)
  • Hitchhiking into space, SWF / BR 1991 ( Translator and Editor)
  • Christoph Martin Wieland: The history of Abderites ( audiobook - download only ), SWR Edition, 2013
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