Weather-Beaten Melody, Fischerkoesen (1942)

This video in fact was made in the Hague in holland by fisherkosen and my nan johanna der kleyn all by hand sketching, it took about six months to create, 5 days a week and was paid good wages for it too, she also sketched the original snowman with him too. Oh one more thing, grow up anti german people ur all pathetic.

that's fascinating.

Hi!

My wife's grandfather Paul Kunstmann was a special effects camara with UFA at the time. His daughter Vera was his assistant. Both knew Fischerkoesen and highly appreciated his work.

I wonder if you could send me the file(s) of the movies. I would love to burn them on a cd and give it to Vera as a surprise.

Thanks anyway!

Matthias Rose

Let me try to bring some clarification into this confusion about Jazz/Swing and Nazi Germany.
The musicians between 1933 and 1945, when jazz and Swing were oficially banned in Bermany, were inventive: one of the official 'cover ups' for this highly popular music was the label 'Foxtrott'. Main difference to the originals: no clarinet and no saxophone. Those instruments were considered (no kidding!) un-aryan! Absurd, but a reality musicians at the time in Germany had to deal with.

Lyrics were by Bruno Balz. He was later incarcerated by the nazis, because he was gay. Only the intervention of his buddy and composer of many highly successful song cooperations, Michael Jary (the most successful composer of popular music at the time), saved him from the 'concentration'/death camps. Balz was the lyricist of other songs that occurred in Hans Fischerkoesen's animations (e.g. 'Die Beine von Dolores', on YouTube under 'Stocking Advert').

Especially funny is the beginning of the lyrics: "Freier Tag, Feiertag..." A pun, which can translate either into:"day off, celebration day..." or "suitor day, celebration day..." Take your pick ... Considering Bruno Balz's ironic tone in most of his lyrics, and the observation that, together with the grammophone, a piece of a broken garter (with 'clover leaf, so someone 'got lucky') was left behind, leaves little to no doubt to what was meant. take your pick! ... Cheers, Julia