Teddy Stauffer
Teddy Stauffer | |
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| Birth name | Ernst Heinrich Stauffer |
| Also known as | Ernest Henry Stauffer Teddy-Stauffer-Septett |
| Born | May 2, 1909 Murten, Switzerland |
| Died | August 27, 1991 (aged 82) Acapulco, Mexico |
| Genres | Jazz |
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Ernst Heinrich "Teddy" Stauffer (May 2, 1909 – August 27, 1991) was a Swiss bandleader, musician, actor, nightclub owner, and restaurateur. He was dubbed Germany's "swing-king" of the 1930s. He formed the band known as the Teddies (also known as the Original Teddies or the International Teddies), which continued after he left in 1941.[1]
Life and career
Annual trips to St. Moritz and Arosa, and also a guest appearance in London, were responsible for the international fame of the Teddies band. Until 1939, he appeared with his Original Teddies-Band especially in Berlin and Hamburg. With his jazzy swing music, however, Stauffer increasingly got in trouble with the Reichsmusikkammer.[2]
Further reading
- Stauffer, Teddy, Forever is a Hell of a Long Time: An Autobiography (1976) ISBN 0-8092-8089-2
References
- ^ Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John, eds. (2001). "Original Teddies". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5. [full citation needed]
- ^ [1]
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Categories:
- 1909 births
- 1991 deaths
- People from Murten
- Big band bandleaders
- Jazz saxophonists
- Jazz violinists
- Nightclub owners
- People from Bern
- Swiss expatriates in the United States
- Swiss male film actors
- Swiss jazz musicians
- Swiss male television actors
- 20th-century Swiss male actors
- 20th-century violinists
- 20th-century saxophonists