Charles Amberg

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Charles Amberg (born December 8, 1894 in Kessenich ; died August 15, 1946 in Berlin ; actually Karl Amberg ) was a German librettist , songwriter and composer.

Charles Amberg

Life

Amberg wrote operetta and hit lyrics . One of his most successful works is the libretto for the operetta Clivia by Nico Dostal . In the 1920s he wrote various texts for the famous Haller reviews . Amberg worked with Fred Raymond on various revues and hits. Many of his hit texts were interpreted by artists such as Hans Albers or the Comedian Harmonists .

There is disagreement about Amberg's internment in Neuengamme concentration camp during the Second World War . Erwin Geschonneck mentions Amberg as a fellow prisoner in the camp and describes Amberg in his book Meine unruhigen Jahre as a Jewish pop composer from Vienna, which Amberg's estate administrators deny. The song about the old railroad worker was premiered by Erwin Geschonneck at a Christmas party in 1944. but cannot be clearly assigned to Charles Amberg.
Charles Amberg died in Berlin in August 1946. The grave, together with his wife Friederike Elfriede Amberg, was in the Heerstrasse cemetery until September 1984 . In October 1984 the right of use was reassigned.

Well-known titles

  • Cheri, you are so different today (sung by Zarah Leander, 1938)
  • Bimbambulla in love
  • The beautiful Josefine in the bathing cabin
  • Who does a woman make herself beautiful for?
  • Kiss me last goodbye
  • Hein Mück from Bremerhaven
  • I have no castle and you have no palace!
  • I'll tear an eyelash out
  • Love is a secret
  • Songs that the gypsy plays for us
  • My brother makes the noises in the sound film (composition by Fred Raymond and Luigi Bernauer ).
  • Without you there is no pleasure (sung by Renate Müller , 1934)
  • Don't tell me goodbye, just say goodbye (sung by Zarah Leander , 1938)
  • Never look too deep into beautiful eyes (sung in a duet by Siegfried Arno and Trude Lieske , 1929)
  • Beautiful Woman in the Moon (from the silent film Woman in the Moon by Fritz Lang , 1929)
  • Our aunt Henriett has flounders in bed
  • Weekend and Sunshine (Originally Happy Days Are Here Again )

literature

  • Josef Niesen : Give me the last kiss goodbye: The life story of the hit writer Charles Amberg (1894–1946) between promotion and imprisonment in a concentration camp . Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056023-1 ; 2nd expanded and improved, revised edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818821-4-8
  • Article Amberg, Charles (Karl) . In: Josef Niesen: Bonner Personenlexikon. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Bouvier, Bonn 2011, ISBN 978-3-416-03352-7 , p. 22.
  • Karin Ploog: … When the notes learned to run… Volume 2: Cabaret-Operetta-Revue-Film-Exil light music until 1945. Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7347-5316-9 , pp. 232–234.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Kühn : Germany's Awakening. Cabaret under the swastika 1933–1945 (= cabaret. Volume 3). Quadriga, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 367.
  2. ↑ Erwin Geschonneck : My restless years. Dietz, Berlin (DDR) 1984, DNB 840703279 , p. 120 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ↑ Volker Kühn : Germany's Awakening. Cabaret under the swastika 1933–1945 (= cabaret. Volume 3). Quadriga, Weinheim 1989, ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 363.
  4. ↑ Josef Niesen : Give me the last kiss goodbye: The life story of the hit writer Charles Amberg (1894–1946) between ascent and imprisonment in a concentration camp . Bonn BuchVerlag, Bonn 2017, ISBN 978-3-00-056023-1 ; 2nd expanded and improved, revised edition 2019, ISBN 978-3-9818821-4-8
  5. ^ Cemetery Heerstraße (register cemetery administration Heerstraße)
personal data
SURNAME Amberg, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Amberg, Karl (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librettist, songwriter and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Kessenich (Bonn)
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1946
Place of death Berlin