Gustav Beer

Gustav Beer , also Gustave Beer and GW Wheatley (born June 16, 1888 in Vienna , † July 26, 1983 in Nyack , New York ) was an Austrian - American writer and librettist .

Life

Gustav Beer studied in Vienna and worked primarily as a librettist for operettas in Berlin and Vienna. He worked with well-known composers such as Edmund Eysler , Eduard Künneke , Robert Stolz , Oscar Straus and librettists such as Julius Brammer and Ernst Marischka .

After the “Anschluss” of Austria he had to emigrate and in 1939 came to the United States via the Netherlands and Great Britain, where he continued to work as a writer in New York City . Together with Emmerich Kálmán he founded the "American League of Authors and Composers from Austria including Publishers" and was committed to helping Austrian emigrants.

Works

• The fool's house . Operetta in one act by Gustav Beer and Ernst Marischka, music by Hans Cesek. Karczag, Vienna 1914.
• The million gretl . Operetta in 3 acts by Gustav Beer and Alfred Deutsch-German . Music by Franz Schönbaumsfeld. Karczag, Vienna 1916.
• The king is getting married . A gallant picture of the times by Gustav Beer and Ernst Marischka. Music by Edmund Eysler. Sperling, Vienna 1920.
• The jumping jack . Vaudeville operetta in 3 acts. Text by Gustav Beer and Fritz Lunzer. Music by Robert Stolz. Drei Masken-Verlag, Berlin 1924.
• The blonde sphinx . Operetta in 3 acts by Gustav Beer and Emmerich Földes. Music by Max Niederberger. Bürgerertheaterverlag, Vienna 1925.
• The great unknown . Operetta 3 by Julius Wilhelm and Gustav Beer. Music by Franz von Suppè . Cranz, Leipzig 1925.
• Princess Ti-Ti-Pa . Operetta in 3 acts by Gustav Beer and Fritz Lunzer. Music by Robert Stolz. Weinberger, Vienna 1928.
• The singing Venus . Operetta in 3 acts by Gustav Beer and Fritz Lunzer. Music by Eduard Künneke. Edition Bristol, Vienna 1929.
• The peasant general . Operetta in 3 acts by Julius Brammer and Gustav Beer. Music by Oscar Straus. Karczag, Vienna 1931.
• The lady with the rainbow . Operetta in 3 acts (7 pictures) by Julius Brammer and Gustav Beer. Music by Jean Gilbert . Karczag, Vienna 1933.
• Spring storms . Operetta in 3 acts. Text by Gustav Beer. Music by Jaromír Weinberger . Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin 1933.
• Arizona lady . Operetta in 2 acts. Text by Alfred Grünwald and Gustav Beer. Music by Emmerich Kálmán. Weinberger, Vienna 1954.

literature

• Franz Stieger: Opera Lexicon . Part III: Librettists. Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1977.
• Walter Pass , Gerhard Scheit , Wilhelm Svoboda : Orpheus in exile. The expulsion of Austrian music 1938–1945 . Verlag für Gesellschaftskritik, Vienna 1995, p. 393; ISBN 3-85115-200-X .
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 85.
• Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography . Foreword by Hanns Wilhelm Eppelsheimer , Schneider, Heidelberg / Darmstadt, 1962

Individual evidence

1. ^ 70th birthday of Gustav Beer