Arthur Rebner

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Arthur Rebner (born July 30, 1890 in Lemberg , Austria-Hungary , today Ukraine ; † December 8, 1949 in Los Angeles , California , USA ) was a chansonnier , author , librettist , composer , reviewer, emcee and lyricist .

Life

Rebner moved from Lemberg to Vienna in his youth , where he wrote texts and music for songs and chansons. He studied from 1909 to 1914 at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna a . a. Music with Guido Adler and Richard Wallaschek . From 1915 he also wrote texts for Robert Stolz , with whom several successful titles were created, and in 1918 his first cycle of operetta one-act plays " People of Today" came on stage. He later lived, permanently from 1924, as a conférencier and revue author in Berlin (Berlin W 30, Schwäbische Str. 30) and became a member of the German Stage Club in Berlin.

In the early 1930s, Rebner was also active in film, for example as a copywriter for Richard Oswald's Schubert's Frühlingstraum (script jointly with Leo Lasko , 1931), Erich Waschneck's Eight Girls in the Boat (1932) and William Thiele's Grand Duchess Alexandra (1933). After the takeover of the Nazi regime in 1933 Rebner was expelled by the Nazis from Germany; he returned to Vienna and worked there as an operetta librettist for Robert Stolz, Leo Fall and Hans May and others.

After the annexation of Austria in March 1938 , he emigrated via Switzerland to France, where he was a participant in the Viennese artist club in Paris. After the beginning of the Second World War, he (like many other emigrants) was briefly interned in France in 1940. Soon after his release, he emigrated to Mexico in 1940 (so he escaped the occupation of northern France in June 1940 ) and lived in Mexico City until 1947 . In 1947 he moved to the USA. He settled in Hollywood and in the spring of 1948 put together the ensemble of the Ebell-Wilshire-Theater Los Angeles as director .

Stage works

  • Confetti , revue for the Nelson Theater Berlin (together with Hans H. Zerlett ), music: Rudolf Nelson (with Kurt Gerron , who made his first appearance in the Nelson Theater in 1925)
  • The Fräuleins ' husband , operetta in 3 acts by Rudolph Lothar, music: Paul Abraham , Marton, 1930. (lyrics)
  • Saint Ambrosius , music: Leo Fall , Drei Masken Verlag, Berlin, 1921
  • The fox trap , music: Harry Lutz, 1918 (premiered at the Orpheum in Budapest in Vienna)
  • The divorce journey , music: Hugo Hirsch , 1918
  • The dancing city , music: Hans May , 1935
  • The great Lola , Schwank operetta based on Gustav Kadelburg, music: Hugo Hirsch, 1922
  • Felix the hangover , music: Pat Sullivan, Berlin, Robinson Verlag GmbH, 1927
  • Isabella and Pantalon , comic opera by Max Jacob. German by A. Rebner, music: Roland-Manuel, Heugel, Paris, 1926
  • People of today , together with Fritz Lunzer , music: Edmund Eysler / Robert Stolz / Arthur M. Werau , 1918
  • Alone with you on a lonely island! , Operetta in 3 acts. Music: Ralph Benatzky , Berlin, Crescendo Theaterverlag, 1930
  • Strange Adventure Verses by A. Rebner. Preface by Alfred Polgar
  • When you're in love , operetta by Martin Zickel and A. Rebner, music: Hugo Hirsch, 1924.
  • Wiedner Metropol , Revue in 40 Pictures, Berlin, E. Bote & G. Bock, 1926. (lyrics)
  • Yvonne , Operetta in 3 Acts, Berlin, Rondo Verlag, 1926.

Songs and chansons

  • When the last blue goes , music: Willy Engel-Berger , 1919
  • Hello, you sweet bellboy , music: Robert Stolz , 1919
  • Salome , music: Robert Stolz , 1920
  • The gramophone (with Friedmann)
  • The thousand crown note , text: Theodor Waldau
  • Find that Constanze is behaving correctly , music: Mischa Spoliansky
  • Count Nicki , text: Theodor Waldau
  • I'm crazy about Hilde , music: Otto Stransky , 1929
  • I have no money! You have no money! He's got the dalles! , Music: Zez Confrey , 1922, Leo Feist Publishing, New York
  • Joachim and Madeleine with Friedmann and Benno de Vigny
  • Young man , music: Richard Fall , 1923, Gabor Steiner Verlag, New York
  • O Vienna, I don't know you again! , Music: Robert Stolz , 1917, Verlag Ludwig Doblinger, Leipzig-Vienna
  • Table and bed , music: Robert Stolz
  • If you've never done it before , Foxtrot, music: Richard Fall , 1923, Gabor Steiner Verlag, New York

Sound samples

Movies

Literature and Sources

  • Arthur Rebner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  • Monika Kornberger: Rebner, Arthur. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 ., As of October 22, 2019
  • 25 years DBK Berlin , 1928; Microfilm Wiener Library, London
  • Frank Arnau (Ed.): Universal Filmlexikon 1933. Europe . 3 parts in 1 volume, Berlin a. a. 1933. (With numerous illustrations and biographies of actors)
  • Hans Hauenstein: Chronicle of the Wienerlied. A foray from minstrels to dear Augustine, harpists and folk singers up to the present day . Jasomirgott-Verlag, Klosterneuburg-Vienna, 1976
  • Werner Mittenzwei , Henning Rischbieter , Hansjörg Schneider , Frithjof Trapp (eds.): Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945 2 vols., Munich, 1999
  • Arthur Rebner . In: Habakuk Traber, Elmar Weingarten (Ed.): Displaced music. Berlin composer in exile . Argon, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87024-118-7 , p. 315 .
  • Reinhard Oberschelp (ed.), Willi Gorzny, (arrangement): Complete directory of German-language literature (GV) 1911–1965 , Munich, 1978
  • Karl Prümm, Barbara Felsmann: Kurt Gerron (1897–1944) celebrated and hunted. The fate of a German entertainer . Berlin, 1992
  • Georg Wacks: The Budapest Orpheum Society. A vaudeville theater in Vienna 1889–1919 . (Foreword by Gerhard Bronner ). Verlag Holzhausen, Vienna 2002
  • Viennese song treasure. A carefully selected songbook of the most famous and popular Viennese songs and operetta hits . 3rd edition, Lyra-Verlag (H. Molitor), Leipzig-Vienna, 1921

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Monika Kornberger: Rebner, Arthur. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 ., As of October 22, 2019