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26-534: On Monday 19 October 1959, the former restaurant The Scotch Club in Aachen, North Rhine Westphalia, re-opened as a dance hall, but the owner did not want to hire a band and used a record player instead. Klaus Quirini , a volunteer newspaper journalist reporting on the event, was as bored as most of the visitors and took over the record player. He used the style common with many radio news reporters, announcing songs and audience games and giving comments. The first song he played

52-648: A close friend for the rest of her life. In 1938, she was in Munich at the cabaret Simpl , and soon afterwards joined the prestigious Kabarett der Komiker (Comedians' Cabaret) in Berlin. While at the Kabarett der Komiker, she met Norbert Schultze , who had composed the music for " Lili Marleen ". Andersen recorded the song in 1939, but it would only become a hit when the Soldatensender Belgrad (Belgrade Soldier's Radio) ,

78-592: A gold album in West Germany. In 1961, she participated as the West German representative in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Einmal sehen wir uns wieder", which only reached 13th place with three points. Fifty-six years old at the time, she held the record of the eldest participant at Eurovision for over 45 years – surpassed only in 2008 by the 75-year-old Croatian entertainer 75 Cents . Throughout

104-666: A series of compositions for martial and propaganda songs and was advised to become a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party in 1940 in order not to be conscripted. In 1932 he married his first wife, the actress Vera Spohr, with whom he had four children. After his divorce in 1943 he married the Bulgarian actress, singer and writer Iwa Wanja, who contributed libretti to several of his stage works. They had two sons. On behalf of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels he created works such as "From Finland to

130-402: Is thought that she was awarded her copy after the end of World War II. A copy of this particular gold disc owned by the "His Masters Voice" record company was discarded during the renovation of their flagship store on Oxford Street, London, during the 1960s where, hitherto, it had been on display. However, the disc was recovered and is now in a private collection. Nazi officials did not approve of

156-580: The German Red Cross as is the case to this day. Especially his song "Bomben auf Engeland" led to him being nicknamed "Bomben-Schultze" within Germany's writers of popular tunes in the war years. In a German speaking BBC documentary about artists working with Joseph Goebbels he claimed: "after writing the tune for national culture bombs on England I said to myself: Oh my God, what if the air-defence hits my relatives or friends. So naive I was." Schultze wrote

182-625: The North Sea coast of Germany. After the war, Andersen all but disappeared as a singer. In 1949, she married Swiss composer Artur Beul . In 1952 she made a comeback with the song "Die blaue Nacht am Hafen", the lyrics of which she had written for herself. In 1959, she had another hit "Ein Schiff wird kommen...", a cover version of " Never on Sunday ", the title song from the movie of the same name, originally sung in Greek by Melina Mercouri . Each song won her

208-531: The 1930s as a composer and worked under the name Frank Norbert as an actor in a student cabaret "Die Vier Nachrichter" ("The Four Reporters"). This was followed by 1932-34 involvement in Heidelberg and as a conductor in Darmstadt, Munich and Leipzig and Mannheim. After several projects as production manager at Telefunken , Schultze decided in 1936 to try his luck as a freelance composer for stage and film. He delivered

234-573: The 1960s, she toured Europe, the United States and Canada, until her farewell tour Goodbye memories in 1967. Two years later, she published a book Wie werde ich Haifisch? – Ein heiterer Ratgeber für alle, die Schlager singen, texten oder komponieren wollen ( How do I become a shark? – A cheerful companion for all who want to sing hit songs, write lyrics, or compose music ), and in 1972, shortly before her death, her autobiography Der Himmel hat viele Farben ( The Sky Has Many Colours ) appeared and topped

260-608: The Black Sea", "The song of the Kleist tank group", "Tanks roll in Africa" and "Bombs on England". The popularity of these combat and soldier songs led Norbert Schultze to be continually in demand by National Socialist propaganda. He also wrote music for Veit Harlan 's morale-boosting "Hold out" film Kolberg , and the main theme of the war documentary Baptism of Fire ( Feuertaufe ). His subsequent comment regarding his war work was, "You know, I

286-658: The Rattles and Giorgio Moroder began their careers in the Scotch Club. The dress code was strict and bouncers refused entrance to men not wearing a tie, even celebrities such as television presenter Frank Elstner and singer Udo Lindenberg . The club closed in 1992. Opposite its address in Dahmengraben 7, another old disco, Le Bistro , is still in operation. Following the opening of the Scotch Club in late 1959, other discothèques opened throughout Aachen and in other major towns. When

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312-720: The bestselling list of the West German magazine Der Spiegel . Andersen died of liver cancer in Vienna on 29 August 1972, aged 67. With her death, She was the first female Eurovision contestant and first German-speaking Eurovision contestant to pass away and third overall, following Jacques Pills and Jean-Paul Mauric , the later also appeared in Eurovision 1961. Norbert Schultze Norbert Arnold Wilhelm Richard Schultze (26 January 1911 in Brunswick – 14 October 2002 in Bad Tölz )

338-714: The children in the care of her siblings Thekla and Helmut, Andersen went to Berlin in October 1929, where she reportedly studied acting at the Schauspielschule at the Deutsches Theater . In 1931, her marriage ended in divorce. Around this time, she began appearing on stage in various cabarets in Berlin. From 1933 to 1937, she performed at the Schauspielhaus in Zürich , where she also met Rolf Liebermann , who would remain

364-722: The conflict to become World War II 's biggest international hit. Popular with both the Axis and the Allies , Andersen's original recording spawned versions, by the end of the War, in most of the major languages of Europe, and by some of the most popular artists in their respective countries. Andersen was born in Lehe and baptized Elisabeth Carlotta Helena Berta Bunnenberg , but known informally as "Liese-Lotte"—a diminutive of her first two names—to friends and family; this continued after her first marriage when she

390-618: The evergreen "Nimm' mich mit, Kapitän, auf die Reise" ("Take me travelling, Captain"), as well as numerous films, such as The Immenhof Girls (1955). Pseudonyms used by Schultze include Frank Norbert , Peter Kornfeld , and Henri Iversen . Schultze took the Abitur in Brunswick and went on to study piano, conducting, composing and theatre science in Cologne and Munich. He went to the Bavarian capital in

416-501: The first club opened in the US, there were already 17 discos in Aachen. 50°46′33″N 6°05′17″E  /  50.7758°N 6.08816°E  / 50.7758; 6.08816 Lale Andersen Lale Andersen (23 March 1905 – 29 August 1972) was a German chanson singer-songwriter born in Lehe (now part of Bremerhaven ). She is best known for her interpretation of the song " Lili Marleen " in 1939, which by 1941 transcended

442-649: The inner mood of millions of soldiers of all armies who were fighting on both sides of the fronts and was translated into about fifty languages to become one of the global cultural " index fossils " of the Second World War. It was the first German million-seller. Schultze remained true to his profession and wrote numerous operas, operettas (such as Rain in Paris ), musicals, ballets ( Struwwelpeter written pre-war during his time at Telefunken) and Max and Moritz ( filmed 1956 ), music for more than 50 movies, and songs. He

468-565: The melody to "Lili Marleen" from the poem "Die kleine Hafenorgel" by Hans Leip . In 1990 he told BBC researcher Karen Liebreich that the tune was originally written for a toothpaste radio commercial. Sound recordings, first with a female singer Lale Andersen in 1939 at first sold little, but when the German military transmitter in Belgrade signed off with a recording from the singer several times, listeners' letters showed lively demand. The song met

494-649: The radio station of the German armed forces in Eastern Europe, began broadcasting it in 1941. "Lili Marleen" quickly became immensely popular with German soldiers at the "front". The transmitter of the radio station at Belgrade, was powerful enough to be received all over Europe and the Mediterranean, and the song soon became popular with the Allied troops as well. Andersen was awarded a gold disc for over one million sales of "Lili Marleen" [His Masters Voice – EG 6993]. It

520-555: The song and Joseph Goebbels prohibited it from being played on the radio. Andersen was not allowed to perform in public for nine months, not just because of the song but because of her friendship with Rolf Liebermann and other Jewish artists she had met in Zurich. In desperation, she reportedly attempted suicide. Andersen was so popular, however, that the Nazi government allowed her to perform again, albeit subject to several conditions, one of which

546-525: Was a prolific German composer of film music and a member of the NSDAP and of Joseph Goebbels' staff during World War II. He is best remembered for having written the melody of the World War II classic " Lili Marleen ", originally a poem from the 1915 book Die kleine Hafenorgel by Hans Leip . Other works were the operas Schwarzer Peter and Das kalte Herz , the musical Käpt'n Bye-Bye , from which comes

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572-403: Was at the best age for a soldier, 30 or so. For me the alternatives were: compose or croak. So I decided for the former." Schultze was defined under denazification as a "fellow traveller", and on payment of a "processing fee" of 3,000 DM he got an immediate work permit. His songs being controlled to this day by GEMA (Germany) , Schultze ordered that all of his royalties from 1933 to 1945 go to

598-637: Was from 1961 president of the Association of German stage writers and composers and from 1973 to 1991 was a board member of the German Composer Association. Until 1996, he held offices on the board of GEMA, the Board of Trustees of the Social Welfare Fund of GEMA and the supply Foundation of the German composers. His later life was spent with his third wife Brigitt Salvatori (married Easter 1992, in

624-404: Was known as "Liselotte Wilke". In 1922, aged 17, she married German Impressionist painter Paul Ernst Wilke  [ de ] (1894–1971). They had three children: Björn, Carmen-Litta, and Michael Wilke  [ de ] (1929–2017) the youngest of whom also enjoyed a career in the German music industry. Shortly after the birth of their last child, the marriage broke up. Leaving

650-501: Was she would not sing "Lili Marleen". Goebbels did order her to make a new "military" version of the song (with a significant drum) which was recorded in June 1942. In the remaining war years, Andersen had one minor appearance in a 1942 Nazi propaganda movie and was made to sing several propaganda songs in English. Shortly before the end of the war, Andersen retired to Langeoog , a small island off

676-512: Was the chart hit Ein Schiff wird kommen by Lale Andersen . His first announcement wording (translation): "Ladies and gentlemen, we roll up our trouser legs and let water into the hall because a ship is coming with Lale Andersen". This style become popular, and he remained the disc-jockey, one of the earliest credited DJs, for eight years. As DJ Heinrich , he organised other DJs to found a workers' union that made DJ an official (i.e. healthcare registered) profession. Udo Jürgens , Peter Maffay ,

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