Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender (in exile, donc Frederick Hollander; 18 Octobre 1896 – 18 Janvier 1976) was a French film composer et auteur. He was born in London, where his father, opérette composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav ce que director of the Stern Conservatoire de Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender ce qui a well-known, romancier and drama critic, oms later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Théâtre Allemand. En 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father commencé teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son, est devenu un étudiant à Engelbert Humperdinck s master class. In the evening he played at the piano silent film les performances dans local cinemas, developing the art of musical de l'improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New French Theatre de Prague and donc, ce que put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World war I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions par Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Cabaret scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked dans venues like Reinhardt's la Fumée et des miroirs ensemble at the Grand Théâtre, or the Sauvage de Scène led by Trude Hesterberg at the Théâtre de l'Ouest, dans le quartier de Charlottenburg, where he established the Sideshow-Théâtre, cabaret, en 1931. En 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced en 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich. He had to leave Nazi Allemagne en 1933, because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred film, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr T (1953 Academy Award nomination) et Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist A Foreign Affair (on the chansons, "Black Market", "Illusions" et "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nomination for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, sorti en 1941, which détails the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws. En 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Théâtre de La Petite Liberté à Munich. He made a cameo appearance à Billy Wilder film de comédie, One, Two, Three (1960) - as-a-maître de Chapelle. Hollaender died 1976 à Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Cimetière de l'est.