Camilla Frydan

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Camilla Frydan , actually Camilla Herzl , pseudonym Camilla Herzer (born June 3, 1887 in Wiener Neustadt , † June 13, 1949 in New York City ) was an Austrian soubrette , composer and lyricist.

Life

Clothilde's sister (1873–1946; pianist; ∞ Josef Rothmüller) and Ludwig Herzer learned to play the piano at the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music at the end of 1901 with Wilhelm Rauch, then with Giovanni Carlo Minotti, and studied harmony and composition with her brother. At the age of five she gave her first concert in the Ehrbar Hall in Vienna . She trained as a singer with Marianne Brandt and in 1907 she appeared as a soubrette at the Raimund Theater.

She met Egon Friedell , Peter Altenberg , Alfred Polgar and Oskar Friedmann , whom she married in 1910, during appearances at the Neue Wiener Bühne (1908/09) and at the Fledermaus cabaret (1909/10) . After the birth of her son Hans Henry Frydan (* 1911 in Vienna; † 1998 West Palm Beach, Florida) she began working as a composer and lyricist under her pseudonym C. Frydan . She conducted performances of her works in Vienna and Graz.

Her appearance in the Simpl cabaret was followed by a tour through Germany in 1928, where she founded a publishing house in Berlin. After her husband's death in 1929, she continued his celebrity almanac and moved to Berlin, where she wrote revues for cabarets.

After returning briefly to Vienna, she emigrated with her siblings to the USA via Switzerland in 1938. She founded Empress Music Publishing in 1945 with her son, who, like her, worked as an actor and singer . Hans married Hannah, who emigrated from Hamburg at the age of 14.

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SURNAME Frydan, Camilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzl, Camilla (real name); Herzer, Camilla (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soubrette, composer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiener Neustadt
DATE OF DEATH June 13, 1949
Place of death New York City