Erwin Straus (composer)

Erwin Straus (born April 5, 1910 in Vienna , † December 28, 1966 in Munich ) was an Austrian composer.

Life

Erwin Straus, son of the composer Oscar Straus and the singer Clara Singer, was a concert pianist and composer in Vienna and later in Monaco . The texts for his operettas were often written by his half-brother Leo Straus (1897–1944), who was deported with his wife to Theresienstadt in 1942 and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944 .

Occasionally Straus also composed hits and worked for the cinema; so in 1931 he wrote the music for the film The Naked Truth by Karl Anton .

Works

• 1930: Think of me ... Operetta in 3 acts . Libretto by Felix Basch .
• 1931: Bobby cries, Bobby laughs (A game about Chaplin ). Grotesque in 11 pictures . Libretto by Norbert Garai and Richard Arvay . (Premiere: January 16, 1931)
• 1931: A delightful person. Musical comedy in 3 acts . Original (Un homme exquis) by Jean de Létraz , translated by Berth Ebelsbacher , lyrics by Leo and Erwin Straus.
• 1932: Professor Unrat. Comedy in ten pictures . Libretto by Dr. jur. Erich Ebermayer (based on the novel of the same name by Heinrich Mann ). (Premiere: September 24, 1932)
• 1932: The dancing Shylock. Revue at any price in 2 parts . Libretto by Leo Straus , based on a sketch by Géza Herczeg .
• 1935: Three hussars. Operetta in 3 acts . Libretto by Peter Herz , Julius Wilhelm and Paul Frank .

literature

• Austrian music lexicon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 , Volume 5, p. 2326.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1339.

Web links

• Literature by and about Erwin Straus in the catalog of the German National Library
• Erwin Straus in the Internet Movie Database (English)