Ernst Brandner
Ernst Rudolf Brandner (born July 4, 1921 in Eibenberg , Czechoslovakia ; † November 27, 2015 ) was a German musician and composer .
Life
The son of a textile merchant from the vicinity of Graslitz attended a private music school in the late 1930s. He experienced the annexation of the Sudetenland to Germany and traveled all over Europe ( Denmark , Sweden , Switzerland , Italy ) as a music artist until the outbreak of war in 1939 . After his military service from 1940 to 1945, Brandner established his own orchestra, with which he also recorded records . In 1947 he moved to Munich and was a saxophonist in the Ernst Jäger dance orchestra until 1952 . On the side he also composed hits like Sailor's Boogie and EB Mambo .
At that time, Ernst Brandner had already made first contacts with film. His early works primarily include compositions for fairy tales and other film material suitable for children. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, Brandner largely stayed away from the cinema; occasionally he wrote the music for industrial and advertising films as well as for animated films by Ferdinand Diehl . It was not until the renaissance of German Heimatfilms in the early 1970s that Brandner was reactivated as a film composer and wrote the music for all of Horst Hächler's productions from 1973 to 1977 .
Brandner also mastered the violin and the xylophone .
Filmography
- 1950: Always lucky
- 1951: Spook with Max and Moritz
- 1952: The bottle devil
- 1954: Kasper's adventure in Turkey
- 1954: Kasper's trip to the dwarves
- 1955: The devil with the three golden hairs
- 1957: The castle in Tyrol
- 1959: Modern technology in the glow of the arc (documentary film)
- 1960: ... and nobody was ashamed
- 1962: Asta-Arzneimittel (short industrial film)
- 1964: The Find (animated short film)
- 1964: Circus (cartoon short film)
- 1964: the beginning has been made (documentary short film)
- 1964: Birthday Serenade (cartoon short film)
- 1971: Carlos
- 1972: The last paradise
- 1973: Hubertus Castle
- 1974: Spring at Immenhof
- 1974: The Hunter of Fall
- 1974: Two heavenly thick skulls
- 1975: The edelweiss king
- 1976: The silence in the forest
- 1977: Forest rush
- 1978: Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand
- 1982: Blood and Honor - Youth under Hitler (TV multi-part)
- 1983: Waldheimat (TV multi-part)
- 1983: Tatort - Roulette with 6 balls
- 1985: Christopher Columbus
literature
- Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 176.
- Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers . Berlin 2003, p. 67 f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituary notice , accessed December 7, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernst Brandner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ernst Brandner in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ernst Brandner at filmportal.de
- Ernst Brandner in cyranos.ch
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brandner, Ernst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brandner, Ernst Rudolf; Brandner, Ernst Rudolph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer, musician and film composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Eibenberg , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 2015 |