Armin L. Robinson

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Armin Lackenbach Robinson , born as Armin Lackenbach (born February 23, 1900 in Vienna ; † September 12, 1985 in Bad Ischl ) was an Austrian music publisher and lyricist who experienced his professional high point in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Life

Armin L. Robinson was born as Armin Lackenbach. He was the son of Béla Lackenbach and Regina Robinson, an opera singer. He also turned to music, adopted his stage name to echo his parents and became a successful music publisher and lyricist. His wife, the soubrette Trude Lieske , played leading roles in numerous revues and operettas during the heyday of the “Golden Twenties”.

Together with Viktor Alberti, Robinson founded the Alrobi publishing group. The best-known companies in this group included the name-giving music publisher Alrobi and the companies Doremi, Drei Masken, Alberti and Charivari, some of which still exist today. With the advent of the sound film, Robinson was also involved in founding the Ufaton publishing house. One of the great discoveries of Armin L. Robinson was the composer Paul Abraham , whose successful pieces such as Viktoria und ihr Husar , Die Blume von Hawaii und Ball im Savoy he published in the early 1930s.

In addition to his work as a publisher, Robinson was also a sought-after lyricist for popular songs by Oscar Straus , Paul Abraham, Ralph Benatzky and, above all, Robert Stolz . His well-known hits included Two Hearts in 3/4 Time , You too will deceive me one day , When it's spring again or I have an old aunt , where Walter Reisch or Robert Gilbert were often at his side as co-authors.

After the Nazis seized power, Robinson fled Berlin to Switzerland, where he founded Musikverlag und Bühnenvertrieb AG in Zurich in 1934. In his home country Austria he was often in his Villa Haidenhof in Bad Ischl. In 1938 he also had to leave Austria and went into exile in the USA via France. Returned after the war, he lived in Ascona, Switzerland, and in Munich. During his stays in Bad Ischl, where he later also spent his twilight years, Robinson and his wife worked primarily on a social level as the “center of an operetta network”. After his return to Europe he got his publishing houses back as restitution and later sold them to Ufa.

literature

  • Armin Lackenbach Robinson , in: Sophie Fetthauer: Music publishers in the “Third Reich” and in exile . 2nd edition by Bockel Verlag, Hamburg 2007, p. 483. ISBN 978-3-932696-74-9
  • Sleeping Beauty in Haiden. Salzburger Straße 148 , in: Marie-Theres Arnbom: The villas of Bad Ischl - When houses tell stories . Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna 2017, pp. 244–249. ISBN 978-3-903083-56-1

Web links

  • Robinson family . In: Friedhofsführer (www.friedhofsführer.at / friedhof-bad-ischl)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sophie Fetthauer: Music publishers in the "Third Reich" and in exile. 2nd ed. Von Bockel, Hamburg 2007, p. 483. ISBN 978-3-932696-74-9
  2. ^ Marie-Theres Arnbom: The villas of Bad Ischl. Amalthea Signum, Vienna 2017, p. 248. ISBN 978-3-903083-56-1
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Armin L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Armin Lackenbach (full name); Lackenbach, Armin (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music publisher and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1985
Place of death Bad Ischl