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Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch (22 January 1900 – 8 June 1980) was a German singer and actor.




Biography


Busch was born to a Kiel worker family. He started in life as a shipyard worker before he decided to make use of his acting and singing talent.
Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin Kabarett scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. He also appeared in the movie Kuhle Wampe.
A lifelong communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933, accompanied by his wife, Eva Busch, and with the Gestapo on his heels, initially settling in the Netherlands. By 1938 they had divorced, without acrimony, as their lives diverged. Eva settled in Paris while Ernst initially made his home in the Soviet Union where he worked with Gustav von Wangenheim on the 1935 film "Kämpfer" ("Fighters"). In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to fight against the nationalists in Spain. His wartime songs were then recorded and broadcast by Radio Barcelona and Radio Madrid. After the Spanish Republic fell to General Franco, Busch migrated to Belgium where he was interned during the German occupation and later imprisoned in Camp Gurs, France and Berlin. Freed by the Red Army in 1945, he settled in East Berlin, where he acted in the first play to be produced in the American-occupied zone, Robert Ardrey's Thunder Rock. He would go on to start his own record label and work with Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator at the "Berliner Ensemble". A beloved figure in the German Democratic Republic, he is best remembered for his performance in the title role of Brecht's Life of Galileo and his recordings of workers songs, including many written by Hanns Eisler. He also lent his voice to a memorable recording of "Peat Bog Soldiers".




Recordings of Spanish Civil War songs (incomplete list)


From "Canciones de las Brigadas Internacionales" and "Solidarität".

Adelante Campesinos
Am Rio Jarama – "On the Jarama Front"
Ballade der XI Brigade on YouTube / Lied von der XI Brigade – "Song of the XIth Brigade"
Los Campesinos – "The Peasants"
Las Compañías de Acero
Los Cuatro Generales
Himno de Riego / Riego Hymne – "Colonel Riego's Hymn"
Hans Beimler
Des Lied von der Einheitsfront' / Einheitsfrontlied
Lied der Internationalen Brigaden' / Lied Der Interbrigaden – "Song of the International Brigades"
Mamita Mia
Die Moorsoldaten – "Peat Bog Soldiers"
Nuestra Bandera – "Our Flag"
Peter, Mein Kamerad – "Peter, My Comrade"
"Spaniens Himmel" or "Die Thälmann-Kolonne" – "Spain's Heaven" or "The Thälmann Battalion" (Page 30f)




Recordings of Second World War and other songs (incomplete list)


Ach Ihr Wege
Alle Waffen gegen Hitler
Ami go home
Aufbaulied
Die Armeen Europas
Ballade von den Säckeschmeißern
Der Barrikaden
Dank Euch Ihr Sowjetsoldaten
Das Lied vom SA-Mann
Diplomaten
Der Graben
Der heimliche Aufmarsch
Es Kommt der Tag
Einheitsfrontlied
Frieden der Welt
Kämpfen wie Lenin
Kampflied gegen den Faschismus
Korea
Lenin
Lied der Bergarbeiter
Lied der Interbrigaden
Lied der Partei
Lied der Werktätigen
Lied vom Adler Stalin
Lied vom Vaterland
Linker Marsch
Links Rechts
Lob des Kommunismus
Marsch der Antifaschisten
Der Marsch Ins Dritte Reich
Matrosen von Kronstadt
Der rote Wedding
Sehnsucht nach der Heimat
Solidaritätslied
Stalin Freund Genosse
Trotz alledem
Vorwärts Bolschewik
Wir sind des Geyers schwarzer Haufen




Awards, medals, and recognition



Germany's most prestigious school for stage acting and directing is named after the actor, the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst "Ernst Busch", HFS) in Berlin. Busch was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize for 1970–71.




Filmography






See also


Pete Seeger (section 'Spanish Civil War songs')
International Brigades order of battle (section 'XI International Brigade' point 'Songs')
VEB Deutsche Schallplatten the state-run record label started by Busch in 1946




References

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• Marc Rissmann
• Felix Kammerer
• Ernst Busch (actor)
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• Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
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• Songs of the Spanish Civil War
• Devid Striesow
• List of Germans who resisted Nazism
• VEB Deutsche Schallplatten
• Sylvester Groth
• Alexander Fehling