History
The editions Musikverlag Hans Wewerka, Edition Modern Musik- und Bühnenverlag, Edition Modern AG, Edition Modern Zürich, Edition Cosmoton, Terraton-Verlag were founded in 1952 by Hans Wewerka. They worked from their headquarters in Munich until 2008, then moved to Switzerland, to their MHW Musikverlag GmbH office situated in Horgen (Zürich), managed by Fabio Hugel.
The catalogue includes over 5,000 titles. Songwriters like Klaus Doldinger, Stephan Massimo, Andreas Köbner, Helmut Trunz, Joe Haider, Werner Heymann, Eugen Thomass, Karl-Ernst Sasse, Peer Raben, Florian Fricke, etc. have given over their work to Editions Hans Wewerka and to Edition Modern. Even rock music is part of the Hans Wewerka Editions repertoire, such as tracks from the albums "Rock Ballads" (with the book "The Scorpion - Here I Am"), "Herman Ze German and Friends - Stings Like a Scorpion" by Herman Rarebell, member of the famous German group the Scorpions.
TV Series and Publishing Catalogues
An important part of the repertoire is the music from 400 TV series, such as "Ein Fall für Zwei", "Wolffs Revier", "Derrick", "Der Alte", "Lady Cop (Die Kommissarin)", "Soko 5113", "Tatort", "Die rote Zora", "Popeye", "Die Verbrechen des Prof. Capellari", "Krtek the Mole", "Faust", "Urmel", "Around the World in 80 Days", "Le clan du bonheur", etc.
Film Music
MHW Musikverlag also owns the rights to numerous soundtracks such as those by Rainer Werner Fassbinder: "Lili Marleen", "Lola", "Die Ehe der Maria Braun", "Querelle", "Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss", "In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden", etc., but also "Fitzcarraldo", "Agilok & Blubbo", "Nosferatu", "Drei Schwestern Made in Germany", "Goodbye, Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death" and the last of the series "Azzurro" with Paolo Villaggio, soundtrack written by a composer from Switzerland, Louis Crelier. We must not forget the soundtrack for "Three Wishes for Cinderella (Tri orisky pro Popelku)" by Karel Svoboda, which is broadcasted throughout the world at Christmas.
The Jazz Repertoire
The Jazz music catalogue is equally important. In the 50s and 60s, Hans Wewerka produced hundreds of interpretations by the legendary Mal Waldron, Dusko Goykovich, Carlos Diernhammer, Hans Posegga, the trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, the saxophonist Heinz Sauer, the bassist Günter Lenz, the drummer Ralph Hübner.