Online Discography Tri-Ergon Musik-Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin

Please note: This is a discographical catalog - items are NOT available for sale from us
Achtung: Dies ist eine Discographie - die Platten stehen NICHT zum Verkauf

This is a preliminary and incomplete draft. If you can add, please get in touch. This listing was compiled in close cooperation with Andreas Schmauder (Horben). Among those who have provided information are the following: Renee Aagard (Denmark), Arkivet for ljud och bild (Stockholm), Rinus Blijleven (Amstelveen), Ralf Bönschen (Dortmund), Bundesarchiv (Koblenz), Heinz Büttner (Köln), Deutsches Musikarchiv (Berlin), Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv (Frankfurt am Main), Björn Englund (Stockholm), John C. DeMetrick (Cluj), Bill Dean-Myatt (UK), Deutsches Musikarchiv (Berlin), Björn Englund (Stockholm), Patrik Forss (Turku), Joachim Freese (Pfalz), John Gibbs (Washington), Klaus Grund (Kiel), Günther Grunow (Radebeul), Michael Gunrem (La Ferté-Milon), Wolfdieter Jordan (Hamburg), Hans Koert (Heinkenszand), Michael Konhäuser (Frankfurt/Main), Thomas Krispens (), Rainer Künzler (), Willy Kyburz (Basel), Michael Ladwig (Hannover), Frank Lotz (Bonn), Kevork Marouchian (München), Robert Masopust (Basel), Renato D. Menrare R. (Santiago de Chile), Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz (Dresden), Norbert Nitsche (Wien), Åke Nyke (Stockholm), Jan Onderwater (Amsterdam), Enrico Pigorsch (Dresden), Hendrik Schreiner, Didi Schulze (La Ferté-Milon), Walter Schwanzer (Österreich), Georg Schwarz (Dresden), Sibeliusmuseum (Turku), Statsbiblioteket (Aarhus), Henning Trab (Aarhus), Peter Tschupp (Yverdon-les-Bains), Jerome F. Weber (Utica), Manfred Weihermüller† (Bonn), Konrad Weisrad ( ), Jörg Werner (Leipzig), Frank Wernicke(); Matthias Wilmshorst (), Joe Winstanley (), Hans Peter Woessner (Zürich), Oliver Wurl (Berlin)

 

Company history

For details consult "Das Bilderbuch der deutschen Schellack-Schallplatten" by Lotz, Gunbrem & Puille (ISBN 978-3-89916-707-8 (1919) <www.bear-family.de>

 

Tri-Ergon Discography:  Tri-Ergon all issues    big file, long loading time

Please note that the distinction between A- and B-sides is fictional - the actual records bear no side identifications. Further explanations:

M = Musik, music or composer
T = Text , lyrics or lyricist
NE followed by month/ and year = Neuerscheinung, date of first release
K = Katalog, catalog in which the item was listed

 

Master number prefixes

20cm = 00

25cm = 0

30cm = none

40cm = T.E.

 

Takes
So far, no alternate takes have been detected. Almost all matrix numbers have the suffix "m" followed by a number from 1 to 20. The meaning of these suffixes could not be clarified so far. Since issues with different numbers (m1, m2, etc.) appear to be aurally identical, they are not takes but presumably chronologically successive transfers from the film (the original recording medium) to press shells for discs.On 40cm diameter film sound-track discs, a suffix digit defines the sequence of discs, e.g., TE.40-7 would be disc number 7 of soundtrack number 40..

Locations / Studios
The regular recording studio was at Berlin-Marienfelde, Chaussestr. 254 (1927-1932), and Berlin-Weißensee, Gäblerstr. 13-15 (1933). Occasionally recordings were made alsewhere in Germany.Tri-Ergon recorded three times in Stockholm. The results were issued on flexible "Star" records (sold in cooperative stores). The matrix numbers are perfectly consecutive for each visit. Only a few instrumentals (by the Eichwald orchestra) were issued on Tri-Ergon in Germany.
After Tri-Ergon operations terminated in Germany, a French 6500 series continued for a brief period of time. All other foreign recordings are incorporated in the main 5000-6299 series, even though they may have been recorded abroad, e.g. The Netherlands, Switzerland or Austria.
The flexible Bellaphon and Colorit discs were mainly marketed in Austria, but - apart from a few masters obtained from the US - used exclusively Tri-Ergon regular masters, no original recordings.
Some original Tri-Ergon masters have never been issued by Tri-Ergon on their own regular label, but on other labels such as Christschall and Sonora.

Recording dates

In the absence of recording ledgers, all dates are rough approximations. Exact dates are based on musicians' diaries. For film synchronisation disc we note date of censure and/or date of first showing

 

Catalog series

Tri-Ergon 200-399: 20cm Etikett blau (Preisklasse III)
Tri-Ergon 1000-1299: 30cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)    

Tri-Ergon 1500-Serie: 25cm Etikett grün

Tri-Ergon 2000-2199: 25cm Etikett braun
Tri-Ergon 5000-5299: 25cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)
Tri-Ergon 5300-5499: 25cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)
Tri-Ergon 5500-5699: 25cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)
Tri-Ergon 5700-5899: 25cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)
Tri-Ergon 5900-6099: 25cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)

Tri.Ergon 6000-6005: 25cm Etikett (Czechoslovakian Series)

Tri-Ergon 6021-6035: 25cm Etikett grün (Dutch Series)
Tri-Ergon 6100-6299: 25cm Etikett grün (Preisklasse II)
Tri-Ergon 6500-6599: 25cm Etikett grün (French series)
Tri-Ergon 10000-10099: 30cm Etikett weinrot (Preisklasse I)
Tri-Ergon 20000-20099: 30cm Etikett weinrot (Preisklasse I)
Tri-Ergon J-K: : 30cm Versuchsplatte Etikett grün

Tri-Ergon Esperanto 1-3: 30cm Etikett grün

Tri-Ergon film synchronization discs 30cm Etikett schwarz/weiss

Tri-Ergon film synchronization discs 40cm Etikett schwarz/weiss

Tri-Ergon picture discs („Bildplatten“): 25cm multicolored

 

Special series, custom pressing and master exchanges (Tri-Ergon masters)

 

Artiphon, 25cm. rot

ATA, 25cm multicoloured  (Netherlands)

Audio-Vox Sprachinstitut, Sprecherziehung - Rede - Vortrag, 25cm, rotbraun

Audio-Vox Sprachinstitut, Deutsch, 25cm, schwarz

Audio-Vox Sprachinstitut, English, 25cm, rot

Audio-Vox Sprachinstitut, Espanol, 25cm, grün

Audio-Vox Sprachinstitut, Français, 25cm, blau

Austroton, 30cm

Bellaphon, 25cm coloured vinyl (Austria)

Brillant, 20cm und 25cm

Brilliant Sonderklasse, 30cm

Brillant-Special, 25cm

Café, 25cm. rot (Sweden)

Cefo, 25cm, schwarz-weiß

Champion, 25cm, ultramarin (Sweden)

Christschall: 25cm und 30cm, various colors

Cimaphon 25cm, grün (Switzerland)

Clangor / Schallplatten-Volksverband, 25cm, blau

Colorit 100-173:     25cm Etikett grün (Sweden)

Colorit 3001-3199: 25cm Etikett schwarz (Austria)
Colorit 3200-3299: 25cm Etikett schwarz (Austria)
Colorit 3300-4199: 25cm Etikett schwarz (Austria)

Colorit 4000-4099: 25cm Etikett schwarz (Czechoslovakia)
Colorit 6000-6199: 25cm Etikett schwarz (Austria)
    Some label variations: Colorit and Bellaphon

 

Deutsche Volkspartei, 25cm schwarz

Diva, 25cm rot

Elite, 25cm und 30cm (Switzerland)

Elton, 25cm, braun

Hudson, 30cm

Inton, 25cm, braun

Jufi, 25cm braun-orange

Kalliope, 25cm

Kathreiner Kaffee , 20cm blau

Konsum, 25cm (Sweden)

Kooperative Foerbundets Studieavdelning (Sweden)

Kristall, 25cm, rotbraun

LBB-Kinoprogramm, 25cm, schwarz-weiß

Metallophon, 25cm

Moderner Musikverlag (MMV), 20cm

National 600-699:   25cm (Denmark)

National A.5000-:   30cm  (Denmark)

Novaphon, 25cm, schwarz (Austria)

Orchestrola, 25cm, grün

Pallas, 25cm

Paloma, 25cm (Austria)

Persil, 25cm multicoloured  (Netherlands)

Phönix, 25cm, rot (Austria)

Phonycolor Bildplatten:     25cm multicolored - uncertain whether related to Tri-Ergon

Printophon Bildplatten:      25cm multicolored (Switzerland)
Printophon Werbeplatten: 25cm multicolored (Switzerland)

Record, 25cm, graublau

Sonora: Serie, 25cm (Norway)

Sonora: Serie, 25cm (Sweden)

Special, 30cm

Standard, 25cm

Star 5000-6299: 25cm dunkelgrün (Sweden)
Star C.8000-8200: 25cm (Czechoslowakia)  dunkelgrün
Star Bildplatten: 25cm Etikett coloured (Sweden)
Star Konsums Språkskivor: 25cm (Sweden)

Swisscord (Switzerland)

The Talkie Way: 25cm Etikett hellrot (England)

Tempo, 25cm

Toni, 25cm (Sweden)

Valvo, 25cm braun

Winterhilfe / Winterhilfswerk, 25cm blau

 

Beispiele für Etiketten und Papierhüllen und deren Variationen

 

  If you have additions or corrections: Please contact us by e-mail: Rainer E. Lotz
 
  UPDATE: 2024-07-08

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