Arndt Bause

Arndt Bause (30 November 1936 – 11 February 2003) was a German composer of popular songs.

Arndt Bause produced more than 1350 dance music melodies, many of which became "hits", which meant that he had a decisive influence on the music scene in East Germany for this genre.

Life Arndt Bause was born in Leipzig, the fourth of the recorded children of Werner Bause, an accountant, and his wife Emma. For several years, starting in 1948, Arndt Bause was made to learn the piano: by 1955 he had been captivated by music in general and Boogie-woogie in particular. He made progress as a self taught musician and started to appear in several bands, both as a pianist and as an accordionist. Between 1960 and 1963 he was also taking trombone lessons. Meanwhile, out of deference to his father's wishes, he had embarked on an apprenticeship in the relatively secure trade of glass blowing, which in 1954 he completed. and Kurt Demmler.

By 1968 his compositions were bringing in enough money to enable him to abandon glass blowing again, this time for good.

In 1975 Bause relocated with his family from Leipzig to Berlin. In April 1976 they acquired a plot of land in Berlin-Biesdorf, which is where Arndt would live for the rest of his life.

After the changes that led to reunification in 1990 there was less demand for his music as audiences in East Germany, for the first time, had unfettered exposure to the more diverse palette of West German Schlager music. The death of Helga Hahnemann in 1991 also removed from stage and screen someone who had, by that time, become the leading performer of his music.

Arndt Bause died in Berlin suddenly, but surrounded by his family, following a major pulmonary embolism. inside a large temporarily reassigned fire station in Berlin-Marzahn.

Their youngest daughter, Inka Bause,