Ernst Heinrich "Teddy" Stauffer (2 May 1909 – 27 August 1991) was a
Swiss
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bandleader
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musician
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actor
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,
nightclub
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owner, and
restaurateur
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. 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.
Life and career
Annual trips to
St. Moritz and
Arosa
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, and also a guest appearance in
London
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, were responsible for the international fame of the Teddies band. Until 1939, he appeared with his ''Original Teddies-Band'' especially in
Berlin
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and
Hamburg
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Hamburgian(s)
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. With his jazzy swing music, however, Stauffer increasingly got in trouble with the
Reichsmusikkammer The Reich Chamber of Music (German: ''Reichsmusikkammer'') was a Nazi Party, Nazi institution. It promoted "good German music" which was composed by Aryan race, Aryans and seen as consistent with Nazi ideals, while suppressing other, Degenerate musi ...
.
Further reading
*Stauffer, Teddy, ''Forever is a Hell of a Long Time: An Autobiography'' (1976)
References
External links
Teddy Stauffer in Acapulco*
*
Teddy Stauufer: The King of Swing's Paradise
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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