Billmann-Berlin,
Berlin-Zehlendorf, 1950s
German
- Wolfgang Billmann
(1947-, voc, steeld, d, urban planning, ...)
- Ralph Billmann
(1949-2019, p, org, comp, architecture, ...)
- Evi Billmann
(1953-2022, voc, as, cong, landscape planning, ...)
...
Memories
(maps, photos, videos ...) :
-
Berlin-Zehlendorf, Teltower Damm, Heinrich-Laehr-Park ...
- Waldmueller-,
Hammerstr. ...
- Heinrich-Laehr-Park
...
- Spot
of a discarded damaged US parade snare drum in 1954
- Rock & roll and a
little bit jazz were the main influences
- 1952 &
earlier:
Through the rolled down car windows of the sometimes
casual US military convoys on the
Beeskow- &
Teltower Damm (from the McNair & Andrews
Barracks to the maneuvers in the Grunewald), the playing
Billmann children could hear the punching beat of the
Swing-style bass drums that were dominant at that time:
. Harry James & His Orchestra, "9:20 Special",
1945 (signature tune of 'Frolic At Five', the most
important AFN radio show; first recorded in 1941 by Count
Basie), cf. above, 'Rock & roll ...'
. Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, Gene
Krupa (d), "Sing
Sing Sing", 1937
- 1952-55:
. Charlie Chaplin, "Limelight..."
. George Shearing (p), "Lullaby Of Birdland"
. Elvis Presley (voc), "Love Me Tender"
- 1956-57:
. Chuck Berry (voc, g), "Roll Over Beethoven"
. Fats Domino, (voc, p), "Blueberry Hill"
. Sonny James (voc), "Young Love"
. Elvis Presley (voc), "Hound Dog"
. Louis Prima (voc), "Buona Sera"
. Johnnie Ray (voc), "Just Walking In The
Rain", "Yes
Tonight Josephine"
. Little Richard (voc), "Tutti Frutti"
- 1958:
. Chuck Berry (voc, g), "Sweet Little Sixteen"
. Eddie Cochran (voc, g), "Come On Everybody",
"Summertime Blues"
. Jerry Lee Lewis (voc, p), "High School
Confidential"
. Thelonious Monk (p): "Blue Monk"
. The Coasters, "Yakety Yak"
. Ritchie Valens (voc), "Donna", "La Bamba"
- 1959:
. Paul Anka (voc), "I'm Just A Lonely Boy"
. Dave Brubeck (p), "Take Five"
. Freddy Cannon (voc), "Tallahassee Lassie"
. Dave Baby Cortez (org), "The Happy Organ"
. Don Gibson (voc), "Sea Of Heartbreak"
. Frankie Ford (voc), "Sea Cruise"
. Johnny & The Hurricanes, "Buckeye", "Red River Rock"
. Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband, "Schlafe Mein Prinzchen"
(not via AFN)
. Phil Phillips (voc), "Sea Of Love"
. The Coasters, "Charlie Brown"
. Sarah Vaughan (voc), "Broken-Hearted Melody"
- Place
of birth
...
Re: the post-war period.
' On April 22,
1945, the 1st Ukrainian Front under Marshal Konev prepared to
overcome the Teltow Canal in a broad front. After the failure of
a first attack in the area of Lichterfelde, the first bridgehead
was won on
April 24, 1945
(1) at the Fritz-Schweitzer-Bridge, and
the Soviet tanks reached Zehlendorf Sued at noon. ' ( https://www.berlin.de/ba-steglitz-zehlendorf/ueber-den-bezirk/historisches/artikel.14440.php,
January 2023 ).
On the back side of the property at
Ladiusstrasse 5, where the Billmanns lived around 1949-53,
according to recollection, there was a fallow area with an
abandoned trench system.
And during kindergarten
walks, there were many pits in the Heinrich-Laehr-Park that
meanwhile were covered with leaves. (2)
All children were forbidden by parents
and kindergarten teachers to play there.
In 1952 the
external border (West Berlin - GDR) was closed.
Until then, people from Zehlendorf could buy something in
Teltow, for example a wooden toy bus for the Billmann children,
and only had border controls on the
Knesebeck bridge
*.
Where did they come
from?
- Parents, grandparents
- Paternal line
- Berlin ≈
1945-95
- Pirmasens ≈
1895-1950 (3)
- Hellmitzheim ≈
1870-90
- Nuremberg-Fuerth region,
Rhineland-Palatinate, 16th-19th century
...
- Maternal line
- Berlin ≈
1935-2015
- Bad Polzin
/ Polczyn-Zdroj ≈ 1910-45
- Osterode
(Ostpreussen) / Ostroda ≈ 1880-1910
- East & West
Prussia, Posen, Poland, Schweden, Seven Years War (1756-63) /
Prusy Wschodnie i Zachodnie, Poznan, Polska, Szwecja, Wojna
Siedmioletnia (1756-63). 18th - 19th century /
XVIII - XIX wiek ?
...
____
(1)
- Joerg Volker Dietrich, Kinder der Goerzbahn, 2020,
p. 6,
https://books.google.de/books?id=lwPtDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA6&hl=de&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin
(2)
Kindergarten (in hospital & rest
home): early 1950s, then closed
(3)
https://m.facebook.com/stadtpirmasens/photos/dem-tanzlehrer-leonhard-billmann-war-es-noch-1937-geradezu-peinlich-dass-man-ihn/948201048573207/:
- Correction (also for Internet users without a Facebook account) :
https://www.mozart-hat-den-blues.de/Pirmasens.jpg (screenshot)
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