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Der kleine Trompeter
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Wikipedia article
" in front of the Fritz Weineck monument in Halle an der Saale, East Germany, in 1958.
'Der Kleine Trompeter' is a German song, originally about a fallen comrade in World War I. It became a political song in the interwar period, especially in East Germany with some ideological changes to the text. In this modified version, it was also performed by west german singer-songwriters, such as Hannes Wader. It was also used in a modified form in Nazi Germany.
The original version was created by Victor Gurski and Thomas Hagerdon in 1915. The song describes the death of the bugler Karl Gustav Ulbach, a tram driver from Plauen. He is buried in the Souain-Perthes-ls-Hurlus military cemetery in France.
In the modified 1925 version, the protagonist is changed to 'Friedrich August Weineck', better known as Fritz Weineck, a brush maker born in Halle in 1897. From 1924 he was a member of the Red Front Fighters Association (RFB), a paramilitary combat unit of the Communist Party of Germany. Weineck was a horn player in a marching band of the RFB, and was killed on March 13, 1925 by a police officer. Weineck's death was used by the communist party for propaganda purposes, which led to the creation of the song.
In another modified version, the protagonist is instead Horst Wessel, a prominent martyr in Nazi Germany and a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary combat unit of the Nazi Party.
German lyrics with changes
References
Category:East German music
Category:Nazi songs
Category:1925 songs
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