Franzl Lang
Franz "Franzl" Lang (28 December 1930 – 6 December 2015), known as the Yodel King (German: Jodlerkönig), was an alpine yodeller from Bavaria, Germany. Lang also sang and played the guitar and the accordion and appeared in several German films. Lang's genre is German folk music; he typically sang in the Bavarian dialect of the rural Alpine regions.[1]
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Background information | |
Birth name | Franz Lang |
Also known as | Yodelking (Jodlerkönig) |
Born | Munich, Bavaria, Weimar Republic | 28 December 1930
Died | 6 December 2015 84) Munich, Bavaria, Germany | (aged
Years active | 1957–2000 |
Career
Raised in Munich, Lang trained as a toolmaker. He started playing his trademark accordion at the age of nine. His greatest hit was his 1968 recording of Karl Ganzer's composition "Das Kufsteiner Lied". Throughout the 1970s, he was a permanent feature of musical variety shows on West German television, especially on the ZDF program Lustige Musikanten.
Lang has sold more than 10 million recordings; he has earned 20 gold records and one platinum record within the German recording industry.
On his 70th birthday, he performed for the final time.[2]
Personal life and death
He was married to his wife Johanna since 1954; he had one son (Franz Herbert Lang) and one daughter (Christl). He died at a Munich nursing home on 6 December 2015 from Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. On January 11, 2016, he was buried in a forest cemetery, with multiple dedications from his family and friends.[1][2]
- Williams, Martina (21 December 2015). ""The Kufstein song" interpreter Franzl Lang is dead". Merkur. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
- "Last yodel for Franzl Lang († 84)". Alendzeitung. 12 June 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
Discography (Albums)
- 1970: Bergweihnacht (LP: Philips 63 883, Aufnahme: 1970)
- 1977: Urlaub in den Bergen
- 1979: Musik aus den Bergen
- 1987: Schön ist’s auf der Welt
- 1991: Mir geht’s guat
- 1996: Freude am Leben
- Alpen-Echo
- Das original Kufsteiner Lied
- Der Königsjodler
- Die schönsten Volkslieder
- Die schönsten Jodler der Welt
- Echo der Berge
- Freunde der Berge
- Goldene Sonne, goldene Berge
- Himmel, Harsch und Firn mit den Kaiserlich Böhmischen
- Holladaratata
- In Oberkrain
- Jodlerkönig
- Kameraden der Berge
- Komm mit in die Berge
- Lagerfeuer in den Bergen
- Ski Heil
- Stimmung beim Bier
- Stimmung beim Jodlerwirt
- Wir kommen von den Bergen
- Zillertal, du bist mei Freud
- Tirol Heimat der Berge
- 10 Jahre Jubiläum beim Jodlerwirt
- Im Wilden Westen
- Grüß Gott in Bayern
- Zünftig pfundig kreuzfidel
- Das Bayernland
- Der weißblaue Hammer
Filmography
- 1956: Salzburger Geschichten
- 1961: Drei weiße Birken
- 1961: Der Orgelbauer von St. Marien
- 1961: Schlagerrevue 1962
- 1962: Tanze mit mir in den Morgen
- 1962: Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol