Ernst Roters

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Ernst Roters (born July 6, 1892 in Oldenburg , † August 25, 1961 in Berlin ) was a German composer and film composer .

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The son of the graduate engineer Friedrich Roters received his artistic training at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory and at the Berlin University of Music ( Georg Schumann master class ). After graduating, Roters worked at the Gdansk Conservatory before he was drafted in 1916. After his return to civilian life in 1918, the Oldenburger worked as a theater conductor in Hamburg and from 1925 to 1930 he was a music advisor for the Hamburg foreign newspaper . With his final return to Berlin, Ernst Roters appeared as Kapellmeister of the Reichssender Berlin in the early 1930s and began to compose film music for the first time. Until the end of the war in 1945, Roters only worked sporadically as a film composer, rather he had been a lecturer in film music at the German Film Academy since 1940.

After one year of military service (1944/45), Roters was able to return to his old profession in the first year of peace in 1945 and worked as a theater conductor of the German theater until 1947 . At the same time, the East Zone DEFA signed him as their first and most important house composer. In this role, Roters set numerous important films from the early days of this state-owned company to music, including classics such as and The Murderers Are Among Us , The Beaver Fur and The Story of Little Muck . However, he also wrote scores for a number of SED propaganda productions. For a dozen years Roters worked with leading GDR directors Wolfgang Staudte , Erich Engel , Falk Harnack , Kurt Maetzig , Slatan Dudow and Martin Hellberg . This cooperation ended in 1958; the last film composition of the living on Kaiserdamm in Berlin-Charlottenburg Ernst Roters was also the only one for the West German film transporting the humanistic ideals and values war drama On the gallows hanging love .

Ernst Roters also composed beyond film. Chamber music, string quartets, piano concertos, symphonies and operas (" Hamlet ", "The Black Chamber" ) originate from his pen . In addition, he wrote a number of stage and radio music.

Filmography

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1437.
  • Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 441

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SURNAME Roters, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Oldenburg (Oldb)
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1961
Place of death Berlin