Emanuel Rambour

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emanuel Rambour (also Emanuel Rambur ; born June 20, 1908 in Berlin ; † June 21, 1980 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German violinist and orchestra conductor.

Life

Emanuel Rambour learned to play the violin as a child and played accompanying music in the silent movie theater as a teenager. After studying music in Berlin, Rambour came to the Bernard Etté orchestra , with whom he traveled to the USA in 1930. Rambour left the orchestra there and stayed in the USA for over two years. There he was, among other things, concertmaster in the orchestra of Ernö Rapée . After his return to Berlin, Emanuel Rambour led his own orchestra, with which he performed in various Berlin bars such as the "Femina" and the "Villa d'Este", before he got an engagement as the house orchestra of the noble Hotel Kaiserhof in the course of 1933 . In 1935 he made a guest appearance with his orchestra in the Café des Varieté "Wintergarten". As one of the first orchestras, his appeared in 1936 in the still young medium of television. With his orchestra, Rambour also made numerous recordings for the Tempo label. After the war, Emanuel Rambour moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, where he again led an orchestra until 1959 and was buried in the Garmisch cemetery.

literature

  • Hans Joachim Berringer: The king of sounds from the imperial court - Emanuel Rambour. In: Fox on 78, ed. v. Dr. Klaus Krüger, Munich-Dietramszell, issue 10.Autumn-Winter 91/92, page 19.
  • Knut Hickethier in: Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Volume 10, Supplement 002, 1990 “Dramatic productions broadcast by TV station 'Paul Nipkow' Berlin, 1936–1941”, pp. 1 - 17. doi : 10.1080 / 01439689008604530
  • Knut Hickethier: History of German television. Stuttgart 1998. JB Metzler publishing house. 594 pp.
  • Knud Wolffram: Dance floors and amusement palaces: Berlin nightlife in the thirties and forties. From Friedrichstrasse to Berlin W., from "Moka Efti" to "Delphi". Edition Hentrich; Edition: 4th, through. u. erg. A. (1995)

Individual evidence

  1. Fig. On postcard, used 1930, under [1]
  2. there he replaced the orchestra from Dajos Béla , cf. Hans Joachim Berringer: The king of sounds from the imperial court - Emanuel Rambour. In: Fox on 78, ed. v. Dr. Klaus Krüger, Munich-Dietramszell, issue 10.Autumn-Winter 91/92, page 19.
  3. Emil Roósz had already worked there with his orchestra as a house band.
  4. cf. Photo at Berringer p. 11
  5. on " TV station Paul Nipkow " of the Reichs-Rundfunkgesellschaft, cf. Hickethier (1990) and [2] (with ill.)
  6. That was the successor brand of "Brillant" and "Brillant Special", which the Berlin entrepreneur Otto Stahmann founded in the early 1930s, cf. [3] . After the war, the Tempo-Werke became the property of VEB Lied der Zeit.