Alexander Flessburg (actor)

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Alexander Flessburg (born January 19, 1883 in Königsberg / Prussia; † January 3, 1942 in Berlin ) was a German actor , opera singer ( tenor / baritone ) and lyricist .

Life

Alexander Flessburg only went to the stage after he had gone to sea professionally for a few years. He trained as a singer and actor. As an opera singer he first appeared as a tenor and later as a baritone.

Flessburg had engagements in Hanover, Gent and then especially in Berlin. There he was part of the Meinhard - Bernauer 's theater ensemble . In the 1920s, he became famous through appearances on the radio. Numerous shellac records also appeared on which Flessburg performed popular vocal pieces. He had great success, especially with Berlin songs and seaman's tunes. Occasionally Flessburg also performed with his wife, the soprano Frida Weber-Flessburg. A number of songs come from his work as a lyricist and translator of song texts from English. He also wrote song lyrics for the films Phantoms des Glücks (1929) and Weiberregiment (1936).

Alexander Flessburg also worked in the German Reich after the National Socialists came to power, but avoided serving the Nazi regime. In a file of the Reich Security Main Office it was recorded that before 1933 he had participated in the "Festival of 5000" of the KPD-affiliated International Workers Aid (IAH). Alexander Flessburg is not to be confused with his namesake, the military musician Alexander Heinz Flessburg (as SS-Obersturmführer, among other things, composer of the march SA marches ).

Lyrics (selection)

  • Do you think you Berlin plant , fire brigade gallop, march polka with bouncer ( medley , based on the Berlin hit song of the same name; music by Otto Kermbach )
  • My love has to be a trumpeter , Foxtrot (music by Hans May )
  • It's going to be nice tonight , Foxtrot (music by Harry Waens and Will Meisel )
  • In the hayloft. Sports Palace Waltz. With whistles from Krücke alias Reinhold Habisch (music by Siegfried Translateur )
  • Oh Hedwig, sweet Hedwig (music by F. Darras)
  • The Schunkelwalzer (text together with Vorteillader, music Otto Kermbach)
  • Just you (Musik Kochmann)

Discography (selection)

CD

  • Gay songs , pearls of cabaret, hit collection, among others with Alexander Flessburg Josef, Josef laß los , Carinco AG 2007
  • Schlager im Spiegel der Zeit 1933 , Schlager collection, among others with Alexander Flessburg Denkst de denn, you Berlin plant , Bear Family Records 2010
  • Berlin, Berlin, Berliner Gassenhauer 1912-1936 , hit collection, a. a. with Alexander Flessburg Das Tempelhoflied , Duophon Records

Shellac records

  • Take this bouquet of forget-me-nots , Foxtrot, Artiphon (1928)
  • Erika, don't you need a friend , Tango, Deutsche Grammophon (1930)
  • Take me with Cherie , Foxtrot, BuScha-Elektro (1929)
  • Funny seafaring (A seafaring that's funny), Polka, Gloria (1935)
  • Josef, Josef let go , Foxtrot, Clausophon
  • The Tempelhoflied. What kind of fire department do we have here in Tempelhof . Marching song, Gloria
  • From Victor Holländer's hit folder, Potpourri, Part I and II . Together with Frida Weber-Flessburg, Grammophon

Filmography

  • 1919: Maria Evere (directed by Friedrich Zelnik )
  • 1929: Phantom of Luck (Director: Reinhold Schünzel)
  • 1936: Women's regiment (directed by Karl Ritter)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artists on the radio . A pocket album of the magazine Der deutsche Rundfunk, Rothgießer & Diesing, Berlin 1932
  2. ^ Wilhelm Kosch / Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: German Theater Lexicon . Klagenfurt and Bern 1953-1998
  3. ↑ Berthold Leimbach (ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Göttingen 1991
  4. ^ Fred Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . CD-Rom, self-published, Auprès des Zombry 2004
personal data
SURNAME Flessburg, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, opera singer (tenor / baritone) and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH January 19, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg , Prussia
DATE OF DEATH January 3, 1942
Place of death Berlin , Germany