{"id":4679,"date":"2017-05-22T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/?p=4679"},"modified":"2017-05-22T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T11:10:06","slug":"songdemo-my-granddad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/songdemo-my-granddad\/","title":{"rendered":"Songdemo: \u201eMy Granddad\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mein Urgro\u00dfvater Ludwig Hermann Sch\u00fctze ist Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts als junger Mann alleine nach New York ausgewandert, hat dort 13 Jahre als Vertreter der Photographischen Gesellschaft Berlin die ans\u00e4ssige Filiale geleitet und eine Familie gegr\u00fcndet. Mein Gro\u00dfvater Ralph Earnest Sch\u00fctze wurde 1902 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York geboren, kehrte aber noch vor Ausbruch des ersten Weltkriegs mit Eltern und Geschwistern nach Berlin zur\u00fcck und wuchs dort auf.<\/p>\n<p>Mein Gro\u00dfvater war Vater von f\u00fcnf Kinder, drei mit der ersten, zwei mit der zweiten Frau. Ende 1943, als Berlin bereits mehrfach bombardiert worden war, brachte er M\u00fctter, Kinder und andere Teile der Familie in das weit entfernte \u00f6sterreichische Bergdorf Gerlos in Tirol, wo sie unter einfachsten Bedingungen, aber sicher vor Krieg, Zerst\u00f6rung und Vertreibung bis 1946\/47 ausharrten um danach in das zerbombte Berlin zur\u00fcckzukehren.<\/p>\n<p>Mein Gro\u00dfvater war wohl ein Lebemann, der gerne erz\u00e4hlte, lachte und sang. Obwohl er als Zivilist nicht direkt am Krieg beteiligt war, hat ihn der Krieg trotzdem gebrochen, in der Nachkriegszeit kam er nicht mehr zurecht. Leider habe ich ihn nicht kennengelernt. Weil er aber von gro\u00dfer Bedeutung f\u00fcr seine f\u00fcnf Kinder war, habe ich viel von ihm erz\u00e4hlt bekommen und gelesen.<\/p>\n<p>Der Song \u201eMy Granddad\u201c handelt von diesem leichtlebigen Mann, meinem Opa, der im entscheidenden Moment Mut und Entschlossenheit bewiesen hat. Seine Ma\u00dfnahmen trugen dazu bei, dass die Mitglieder der erweiterten Familie Sch\u00fctze den Krieg k\u00f6rperlich unversehrt \u00fcberstanden haben. Deswegen musste ich dieses Lied schreiben.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pOmw36NXK08?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ist eigentlich nicht meine Art Songdemos vorab zu ver\u00f6ffentlichen, in diesem Fall musste es aber sein. Wird wohl voraussichtlich als Studioversion auf dem n\u00e4chsten Dennis Sch\u00fctze Album (2018) erscheinen. Hier der Songtext:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My Granddad<br \/>\nWritten by Dennis Sch\u00fctze, for Ralph Earnest Sch\u00fctze (1902-1964)<\/p>\n<p>My Granddad was a player, a joker and a Jack of all trades,<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t always play his cards right, but he knew when he had an ace.<\/p>\n<p>Born 1902 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York City,<br \/>\nHe was the oldest son of German salesman and woman nameless and pretty,<br \/>\nThey named him Ralph Earnest and called him Boykey for the key he wore around his neck,<br \/>\nAnd one day they took a trip to Germany and they never made it back.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Weimar Republic after World War One, the golden twenties in full swing,<br \/>\nAnd he lived his life and took a wife and he loved to talk and sing,<br \/>\nHe claimed to be an engineer, a constructor of machines,<br \/>\nAnd steered his Adler automobile through the streets of old Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>When Hitler came to power in nineteen-thirty-three,<br \/>\nHe worked hard for a company and raised a family,<br \/>\nA daughter born in thirty-four and two more children after that,<br \/>\nBut by then the marriage fell apart and one day he took his hat.<\/p>\n<p>While trav\u2019ling for the company he met a girl so young and fair,<br \/>\nShe fell in love and he gave in and they started an affair,<br \/>\nMy uncle born in fourty-two, my dad in fourty-three,<br \/>\nThat\u2019s when he played his ace out right and saved his families.<\/p>\n<p>World War two had took its toll, Berlin was bombed down to the grounds,<br \/>\nWith papers and passes in his hands he took them out of town,<br \/>\nHe knew of a place deep in the south, a little village in the Alps and then,<br \/>\nHe drove them down in his automobile, two women and five little children.<\/p>\n<p>While Germany was burning up and the whole world was falling down,<br \/>\nHe took care of his family and they came out safe and sound,<br \/>\nAfter the war in fourty-seven they all returned to old Berlin,<br \/>\nAnd he tried to live a life again put just couldn\u2019t fit in.<\/p>\n<p>Times were hard and life just sad and along the way he lost his will,<br \/>\nHe couldn\u2019t find a turnaround and took to alcohol and pills,<br \/>\nWith no perspective and no money, his days had turned to night,<br \/>\nAnd one day in post-war Germany he laid down to rest and died.<\/p>\n<p>As a grandchild born in sev\u2019nty-two I heard some of these stories,<br \/>\nLike how your children all admired you and how you never seemed to worry,<br \/>\nYou were weak and strong and cool and soft and you cheated and you lied,<br \/>\nBut when it was time to lay the cards down, you had played them right.<\/p>\n<p>My Granddad was a player, a joker and a Jack of all trades,<br \/>\nAnd he knew when he had an ace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mein Urgro\u00dfvater Ludwig Hermann Sch\u00fctze ist Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts als junger Mann alleine nach New York ausgewandert, hat dort 13 Jahre als Vertreter der Photographischen Gesellschaft Berlin die ans\u00e4ssige Filiale geleitet und eine Familie gegr\u00fcndet. Mein Gro\u00dfvater Ralph Earnest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/2017\/05\/22\/songdemo-my-granddad\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,19,8,22,9,4,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dennisschuetze.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}