Bruno Gellert

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Bruno Gellert (born May 25, 1878 in Breslau ; † unknown) was a German theater and film composer .

Live and act

Gellert also wrote under the pseudonyms Joachim Arnolt and Harold Getter .

In 1916 he conducted the music for the German-Austrian-Hungarian film Bogdan Stimoff by Georg Jacoby based on the book by Alfred Deutsch-German at the performance on September 7th at the Kammerlichtspiele on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin.

From his cinema music comes Otto Rippert's historical film The Plague in Florence (1919) and Rudolf Meinert officer tragedy Carnival Monday (1924); For William Kahn's film Das Mädchen von der Heilsarmee (1927) he wrote the song Destiny , the words of which Ludwig Hamburger , who was also involved in the script, wrote.

His composition Allegro scherzando was included in volume 1b of the “Allegro Series” in the cinema library of Sam Fox Verlag Berlin .

According to Ruediger Schmidt-Sodingen, Gellert also worked as a bandmaster at the Asta-Nielsen-Kino in Düsseldorf during the silent film era.

Gellert was arrested by the National Socialists because of his Jewish descent in the early 1940s and held in the Buchenwald concentration camp ; he was liberated from Theresienstadt in 1945.

The place and date of his death are currently unknown.

Filmography

Works

In addition to film music, Gellert also composed for stage and cabaret:

  • Bruno Gellert: Op. 14. Souvenir de Nancy. Mazurka brilliant f. Piano. Mk 1; Berlin, glass
  • Bruno Gellert: Lawn Tennis. Valse, op.117
  • Bruno Gellert: Rose u. Butterfly: "In the quiet, shaded grove" f. 1 high sing. - f. 1 deep sing. m. Puffs. Berlin, Wenck à Mk 1.20. - Do you want to be my own: "When the violins sound merrily". Waltz song f. 1 sing. m. Puffs. Berlin, Wenck Mk 1.20.
  • Bruno Gellert: The Brettl Flower: “As a lusty Brettl Flower”. Couplet f. 1 sing. m. Puffs. Berlin, Tschentscher Mk 1.50.
  • To the humorous lecture great-grandfather's birthday party! of the comedian Siegwart Gentes , he composed the music.

He wrote the music for three operettas:

  • Christmas Magic (Libretto by GH Schadeck) Germany 1897
  • Maritana (Libretto by Diego Perez) Germany 1920
  • The Bride from Egypt (Libretto by Robert Garrison and Walter Tripmacher), Poland 1920

Gellert lived as a composer in Berlin in 1940; he wrote Siegheil my German fatherland march u. Song; op. 216, and other musical works, e.g. B.

  • Marry? But right! , a folk piece with music

literature

  • Herbert Birett : Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970
  • Hans Brückner, Christa Maria Rock (Ed.): Judaism and Music - with an ABC of Jewish and non-Aryan music enthusiasts. 3rd edition, Brückner, Munich 1938, (1st edition, 1935; 2nd edition, 1936, anti-Semitic publication).
  • Friedrich Hofmeister (ed.): Musical-literary monthly reports. Leipzig [from 1829]
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Part 2: History and stories of popular music up to 1945 - composers - librettists - lyricists. Edition 3, Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-7287-9
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Volume 2: Cabaret-Operetta-Revue-Film-Exil light music until 1945. BoD publishing house - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-5316-9
  • Stengel / Gerigk = Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk (arrangement): Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents (= publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for research into the Jewish question, Volume 2), Bernhard Hahnefeld, Berlin 1941, (1st edition, 1940, anti-Semitic publication).
  • Eva Weissweiler: Eliminated! The “Lexicon of the Jews in Music” and its murderous consequences. Verlag Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Notation in Ploog: Arnold , notation in LexM according to Stengel / Gerigk
  2. ↑ cf. LexM Hamburg (2007, updated on January 17, 2012), Stengel / Gerigk Sp. 82: "Gellert, Bruno (Ps .: 1. Arnold, Joachim, 2. Getter, Harold), * Breslau May 25, 1878, comp ( including music for 'Marry? But right'. Song and march 'Siegheil, my German fatherland') - Berlin. "
  3. ↑ also: From the great times of Bulgaria , cf. GECD # 19400 , IMDb , filmportal.de
  4. ↑ opened in 1912, redesigned by Carl Stahl-Urach in 1927, space for 1200 people in parquet and tier ( photo at rundbrief-fotografie.de ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ), bombed out 1943, cf. allekinos.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rundbrief-fotografie.de.dd30938.kasserver.com
  5. ↑ “Bruno Gellert, a well-known composer and theater musician, wrote original music for the Decla film 'Pest in Florenz'. Interested parties can already order the 200-page piano reduction and the corresponding solo parts. ”( Der Film (Berlin) Volume 4, No. 41, October 12, 1919, page 36); Ploog, Kabarett S. 427. The difficulties caused by the delayed delivery of the score at the premiere are documented by filmhistoriker.de : “The [well-known] composer Bruno Gellert, who wrote the original music for the Decla film 'Pest in Florenz', asks us to inform that the score could not be completed for the premiere due to technical difficulties and that the film with this original music can only be played from next Thursday in the Marmorhaus and Theater am Moritzplatz. "( Lichtbild-Bühne (Berlin) Volume 12, No. 43 , October 25, 1919, page 20, Der Film (Berlin) Volume 4, No. 43, October 26, 1919, page 32 [in First International : “It was only possible to play from last Thursday”]). "To the on Friday, the 23rd d. M. at the press screening of the Decla film 'Pest in Florenz', which we will report on in the next issue, the music composed by Mr Gellert could not be completed for technical reasons. From next Thursday, Gellert's composition will accompany the screening of this film work. ”( Der Film (Berlin) Volume 4, No. 43, October 26, 1919, page 33). “The composer of the music for the film“ Pest in Florenz ”could not finish the score by the time it was presented to the press. This has now happened and the music is played every evening for the performances. ”( Der Kinematograph (Düsseldorf) Volume 13, No. 669, October 29, 1919.)
  6. ↑ after the play of the same name by Otto Erich Hartleben . Abroad also as Love's Carnival
  7. ↑ cf. filmportal.de ; Hamburger wrote manuscripts for the film, cf. GECD # 7064 , also the 101-page "social artist novel " Durch den Film , which was published by Richard Falk in Berlin in 1914 (cf. Birett , sources on film history up to 1914, evidence of monographs)
  8. ↑ cf. Birett p. 15 and 41
  9. ↑ "The house orchestra under the direction of the 'Kapellmeister' Freddy Beyer, Bruno Gellert and Rudi Kessler accompanied every performance with due seriousness and continued to play even if one of the files tore and the picture briefly disappeared. The musicians covered sudden pauses and technical defects just as surely as the name of the theater consoled the sometimes poor acting performances and the often second-rate program. " (Ruediger Schmidt-Sodingen, Asta Nielsen Kino Düsseldorf)
  10. ↑ Eric Horst: Memories of the Asta-Nielsen-Kino Düsseldorf (1911–1986) . In: astanielsen.net . November 2011; Photo from the post-war period at astanielsen.net
  11. ↑ Cf. Musicians in the memorial book of German Jews sent to the concentration camp, p. 226 (according to Maleen Butte ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and Archive link according to instructions and then remove this note. , Internship report Buchenwald, and Eva Weissweiler, "Ausgemerzt") @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gymnasium-bethel.de
  12. ↑ Hofmeister XIX: July 1897, p. 297
  13. ↑ Hofmeister XIX: March 1899, p. 125
  14. ↑ Hofmeister XIX, February 1899, p. 78
  15. ↑ cf. State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Department State Archive Sigmaringen, Dep. 1 T 41 No. 367
  16. ↑ had its premiere in 1920 at the Neue Operetten Theater Hamburg , cf. operadata
  17. ↑ arr. By Willy Schwittmann. Ufaton-Verlag, 1933. Stengel / Gerigk sp. 82, Ploog, Composers, p. 235
  18. ↑ cf. Ploog, Cabaret, p. 388
personal data
SURNAME Gellert, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Joachim (pseudonym); Arnolt, Joachim (pseudonym); Getter, Harold (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH 20th century