Erwin W. Spahn

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Erwin Wendelin Spahn (born January 15, 1898 in Vienna ; † June 3, 1941 in Dachau concentration camp ) was an Austrian writer and librettist.

Life

Spahn was born Erwin Grünspan in Vienna, lived in Vienna 2, Obere Donaustraße 59 until 1938, and worked there as a writer and librettist. a. for Hermann Leopoldi and Ernst Arnold ; he wrote well over a hundred texts for composers such as Edmund Eysler , Willy Engel-Berger , Leopold Kraus-Elka and others; a large part of them were Viennese songs.

Spahn's lyrics appealed to both the intellect and the feeling of the listener. His songs, which were created in collaboration with Hermann Leopoldi, show clear time references, such as the ironic Ich bin an incorrigible optimist (1929, co-author is Robert Katscher ) and the local patriotic I stay in Vienna (1932). Ironically, in the milieu of the student associations, who were the most violent representatives of racist anti-Semitism, the sentimental - memorable song on Das Töchterlein vom Herr'n Pedell (1929) is set; later the couplets become more thoughtful: For 32 groschen ... (1933), from which world disgust and longing for harmony speak; the waltz song Landsleit ' , composed after 1934 , in which the audience is asked not to “politicize” any more, but to remain peaceful, up to the bitter confession at the end of the civil war , poor, we are now from 1935.

The songs with Ernst Arnold, whose spectrum ranges from the old Viennese idyll ( Der Herr von Schubert , 1927), the touching song on dog loyalty (1927) and the mother's heart (1928), to songs of praise to celebrities such as the popular actor and singer Alexander, are different Girardi ( Our Xand'l , 1927) or the composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1927), to the exotic ( Flower of the East. Chinese Blues , 1927). Turandot and The Woman One Longs for , both in 1927, and overseas dance songs in blues-tempo Pass auf (1926) and Oh Miss Maud (1929) point to literary models . The dog theme is also taken up by the Foxtrot couplet What has Bonzo done again (1929), but this time from the cheerful side. The suggestion was probably the cartoon dog of the same name invented by the Englishman George E. Studdy .

He wrote hit lyrics for Willy Engel-Berger and other composers. They quickly become popular thanks to the performance of well-known dance bands in Austria and Germany. The gramophone record and later the radio also play their part.

Spahn also worked for talkies and revues. He wrote hit texts for Die große Sehnsucht (Germany 1930, director: Stefan Szekély, music: Joe Alex) and for the Viennese revue Achtungkur ! (1930, music: Willy Engel-Berger).

Spahn's texts were interpreted by Austria's first artists: in addition to Hermann Leopoldi and Ernst Arnold, Fritz Imhoff , Jacques Rotter , Walter Simlinger and Ernst Davis. In the "Reich" they were u. a. Presented by Alice Hechy , Max Mensing and Leo Monosson .

Erwin Grünspan, who called himself Erwin Wendelin Spahn by his stage name, was of Jewish descent. After the annexation of Austria by the National Socialists in 1938, Spahn was deported to Sachsenhausen , from there to the Dachau concentration camp , where he died.

Works

Texts for Hermann Leopoldi

  • We are poor, poor, poor now! ...
  • Camilla (with Hans Weidt)
  • I'll whistle a song!
  • The great miracle called "love"
  • Mr. Pedell's daughter
  • Your eyes are magnets
  • A song of praise to the mother-in-law
  • A waltz from Vienna and a girl from Vienna
  • I am an incorrigible optimist (with R. Katscher)
  • I stay in Vienna
  • Compatriots!
  • Make way for the youth
  • My darling is a sailor
  • Müller Marianne (with Alfred Möller)
  • Austrian tourism advertising (with Theodor Waldau)
  • Temperenzler-Fox

Texts for Ernst Arnold

(all in Verlag Blaha; the date given is that of the work registration)

  • Farewell song ( let me look you in the eye again) , op. 243, song (with E. Arnold), January 3, 1929, print edition: Gesang / Klavier
  • Drink it ma no! , op. 359, Wienerlied (with Fritz Gerold), April 18, 1935, printed edition: Voice / Piano
  • It's May on the Türkenschanze ...! (A Viennese song from bygone days), op. 190, Wienerlied, November 24, 1926, printed edition: Voice / Piano
  • Flower of the East , op. 245, Chinese Blues , January 3, 1929, printed edition: Singing / Piano
  • The woman you long for , op. 227, Tango, August 30, 1928, Blaha Verlag
  • A Beethoven song (The blasphemous tongues were silent) , op. 203, song, February 20, 1927, print edition: singing / piano
  • Das ist der Herr von Schubert (An old Viennese waltz idyll) , op. 191, song, November 24, 1926, print edition: Singing / Piano
  • Today 'i' my old people's money on their economic money, op.331 , Wienerlied (with E. Arnold), June 8, 1934, print edition: vocals / guitar (VA)
  • I 'waß an Wein , op. 228, Wienerlied (with Erwin Wendelin), August 30, 1928, print edition: Voice / Piano
  • Spring cannot always be , op. 214, Bostonlied, date of registration of works: December 12, 1927, print edition: Gesang / Klavier
  • Let the people talk , op. 242, song (with Erwin Wendelin), January 3, 1929, print edition: voice / piano
  • Das Lied von der Hundetreue (A loyal heart, a loyal look) , op. 206, song (with Erwin Wendelin), May 27, 1927, print edition: Singing / Piano
  • One walks past each other , op. 209, Lied, December 12, 1927, printed edition: Singing / Piano
  • Mutterherz , op. 230, Lied (with E. Arnold), August 30, 1928, print edition: Singing / Piano
  • O Miss Maud , op.250, Blues, June 30, 1929, printed edition: Voice / Piano
  • Watch out! , op. 197, Lied und Blues, November 24, 1926, print edition: Singing / Piano
  • It can't go any further like this (Something must be done) , op. 244, Couplet, January 3, 1929, print edition: Singing / Piano
  • Turandot , op.199, Lied, February 20, 1927, printed edition: Singing / Piano
  • Our Xandl - der Girardi , op. 205, song, February 20, 1927, print edition: singing / piano
  • What did the bonzo do again? (A philosophical dog contemplation) , op. 240, song (with E. Arnold), January 3, 1929, print edition: Singing / Piano
  • What do you know! , op. 200, Bostonlied, November 24, 1926, printed edition: Singing / Piano
  • The wine, just the wine! , op. 152, Wiener Bostonlied, September 2, 1925, printed edition: Voice / Piano

Texts for Willy Engel-Berger

  • I buy a car (with Willy Engel-Berger): Vienna, Scala, approx. 1930, folio, 3 pp, color ill. Obrosch., Notes a. Text.
  • You have blue eyes like the blue Adriatic . Foxtrot (with Willy Engel-Berger)
  • Why so alone, beautiful woman? Slowfox from Revue Watch out for the curve! (with Willy Engel-Berger)
  • Dream little girl, dream ...! Song and Tango from the Viennese Review Watch out for the curve! Tango for voice and piano, two-handed by Willy Engel-Berger; in: Wiener Monatshefte für Musik - magazine for music, music literature, theater and concerts; Edition U - 2nd year; 1st issue. Julius Töpfner, Vienna, 1930
  • Say hi to my darling on the Rhine! Rhumba / music by Willy Engel-Berger and Will Meisel, text by Erwin W. Spahn.

Sound documents (selection)

Revue and sound film

  • Why so alone, beautiful woman? Slowfox from Revue Watch out for the curve! (Willy Engel-Berger, text: Erwin W.Spahn). Saxophone Orchestra 'Dobbri' with vocals: Max Mensing. Beka B.6914-II (mx. 38 117), up. in January 1930
  • The girl has sex appeal (espanjade) . Paso Doble from the sound film Die große Sehnsucht (Music by Joe Alex. Text by Karl Brüll and Erwin W. Spahn. Arrangement: Nico Dostal)

Marek Weber and his orchestra, refrain singing: Leo Monosson [as 'Leo Moll'] Electrola EG2075 (mx. 60-1218)

Cooperation with Ernst Arnold

  • Dog loyalty . Lied (Ernst Arnold - Text: EW Spahn) Ernst Arnold, with orchestra. Columbia D 8499 (mx. L 224)
  • Mother heart . Lied (Ernst Arnold - Text: EW Spahn) Ernst Arnold, with orchestra. Polydor 23 263 (mx. 889 BT)
  • What did the bonzo do again? Lied and Foxtrot (Ernst Arnold - Text: EW Spahn) Jazz Orchestra Ernst Holzer with Refraingesang Fritz Imhoff. Polydor 23 282 / B 43 226 (mx. 939 BT), attach. 1930

Cooperation with Hermann Leopoldi

  • I am an incorrigible optimist . Foxtrot by Hermann Leopoldi and Robert Katscher. Text: Robert Katscher and Erwin W. Spahn. Saxophone Orchestra 'Dobbri' with vocals: Max Mensing. Parlophone B.4487 (mx. 38 140) - Berlin 1929
  • Austrian tourism advertisement . Potpourri (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn and Wauwau) Hermann Leopoldi, humorist. HMV AN 597 (2 WX 182-III)
  • My darling is a sailor . Foxtrot (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Saxophone orchestra 'Dobbri' with vocals: Max Mensing, and women's trio. Parlophone B.12 257-I (mx. 38 650)
  • My darling is a sailor . Foxtrot (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Dajos Béla dance orchestra, with singing: Alice Hechy and men's choir. Odeon O-2939 b (Be 9027), recorded in Berlin, August 1930
  • Mr. Pedell's daughter . Lied (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Ernst Davis, tenor with piano accompaniment. Odeon A 86 093 (Ve 1499)
  • Your eyes are magnets . Foxtrot (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Hermann Leopoldi sings and plays. HMV AM 2230 (Bv 605), taken in Vienna 1930
  • The Temperenzler (Hermann Leopoldi, Text: Erwin W. Spahn) Hermann Leopoldi sings and plays. HMV AN 345 ​​(CV 607), recorded in Vienna 1930
  • I stay in Vienna! (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Hermann Leopoldi sings and plays. HMV AM 3974 (OWX 197-II), recorded in Vienna 1932
  • For 32 groschen . Lied (Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Hermann Leopoldi sings and plays. HMV BA 395 (OWX 607-III), recorded in Vienna 1933
  • Landsleit '! Mood waltz (music: Hermann Leopoldi, text: Erwin W. Spahn) Walter Simlinger, with Dietrich's Schrammel Quartet Vienna. Parlophone B.49 367 (mx. 105.727) - approx. 1934

literature

  • Franziska Ernst: Hermann Leopoldi. Biography of a Jewish-Austrian entertainer and composer . Diploma thesis at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna, 2010 ( Online ; PDF; 1.4 MB)
  • Monika Kornberger, Christian Fastl: Spahn, Erwin. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  • Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945 . Self-published, Göttingen 1991
  • Norbert Leser: Weird Encounters. Mosaics on Austrian intellectual history . With a foreword by William M. Johnston. Böhlau, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-205-78658-0 , p. 244.
  • Frank Stern, Barbara Eichinger (ed.): Vienna and the Jewish experience 1900–1938. Acculturation - Anti-Semitism - Zionism . Böhlau, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-205-78317-6 .
  • Georg Traska, Christoph Lind: Hermann Leopoldi, Hersch Kohn - A biography . Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85476-383-3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Another source [1] introduces the (Croatian?) Name Fanto.
  2. ↑ See: Victims database of the DÖW (Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance): “Last known residential address Vienna 2, Ob. Donaustraße 59 " [2]
  3. ^ Spahn wrote 26 lyrics for Hermann Leopoldi between 1926 and 1929, some together with other librettists, cf. PDF
  4. ↑ See catalog raisonné published by the Bosworth publishing house [3]
  5. ↑ For example the songs Nur zu bald / one becomes old or In Neustift am Walde , which are contained in an anthology from the holdings of the Schubert Kino Salzburg, n.d. (Vienna and others), n.d. (around 1925).
  6. ↑ For example, for Leopold Krauss-Elka: “Ruder-Fox” When it's beautiful Sunday , text: Erwin Spahn, cf. DNB [4] , played by the Isy Geiger dance orchestra, vocals: Hans Rotter, MP3 of the sound recording with Orpheus Trust [5] and Eugen! (Eugen, I would really like to go into the hay with you) - Foxtrot / music: Krauss-Elka, text: Erwin W. Spahn, cf. DNB [6] , for Julio C. Hauer: Walk horses , song and tango / by Julio C. Hauer, text: Erwin W. Spahn [7] or Paul Pallos (* 1870 in Budapest): Am Kanapee. Lied and Shimmy, words by Erwin W. Spahn, music by Paul Pallos, op. 120. 1923. [8]
  7. ↑ For example, The wine, only the wine , op. 152 | Wiener Bostonlied; I waaß an Wein , op. 228 | Wienerlied; Today 'i' my old man's money , op. 331 | Wienerlied;
  8. ↑ So Ernst in 2010
  9. ↑ like the last opera by Giacomo Puccini , whose premiere on April 25, 1926 was not long ago and whose main character z. B. also inspired Robert Stolz and Alfred Grünwald to a blues, cf. DNB [9] and [10] Turandot. Lied und Blues, March 23, 1927, received on Derby brown O-637 a
  10. ↑ This is the name of a novel by Max Brod , which was made into a film by Kurt (later Curtis) Bernhard two years later with Marlene Dietrich and Fritz Kortner in the leading roles; under the same title, cf. [11]
  11. ↑ It has the subtitle "A Philosophical Dog Viewing" | op. 240, cf. Catalog raisonné.
  12. ↑ “The plump dog with the black-spotted fur and blue eyes was a creation by George E. Studdy and was initially launched as a postcard and cigarette image, as well as in magazines, picture books and as a poster. At the beginning the figure was only known as the studdy dog ​​until it was officially baptized in November 1922 ”, cf. Bonzo . The dog figure also inspired other artists, such as B. the Czech composer Karel Hašler on Bonzo Blues (played by Bernard Etté, received on Vox 08050-B / 2541 A), the German Hermann Krome on the jazz interlude 'Bonzo's Stelldichein' (played by Mario Iseglio, received on Homocord 4- 3162 / mx.TC1418, and Dajos Béla, on Odeon O-2730, Be 7590). Marcellus Schiffer composed the German text "I love my Bonzo / His dog's eye so suns" on the American melody Dolores by Messrs. Kassel and Bloom (cf. recording with Irene Ambrus on Homocord 4-2752).
  13. ↑ For example the jazz orchestra Ernst Holzer, cf. [12] and Charles Gaudriot, cf. [13] or the dance orchestras of Dajos Béla , Otto Dobrindt (Dobbri) and Marek Weber
  14. ↑ The great longing . DFF - German Film Institute and Film Museum. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
  15. ↑ cf. DÖW [14]
  16. ↑ http://www.hermannleopoldi.at/content/view/15/32/
  17. ↑ http://www.bosworth.at/deutsch/ErnstArnold.html
  18. ↑ Spahn according to AKM
  19. ↑ http://www.klassika.info/Komponisten/Engel_Berger_Willy/lebenslauf_1.html
  20. ↑ received on parlophone B.4485 (mx. 38 117) saxophone orchestra 'Dobbri', vocals by Max Mensing. Cf. DISMARC [15] , also on Odeon O-11 174 (Be 8683) Dajos Béla dance orchestra with singing: Alfred Strauss, cf. DNB [16]
  21. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15E6PLi0DOA
  22. ↑ DNB 382425952
  23. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCfh79y7ihI
  24. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QKw9M9bs0s
  25. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrlZ2OoA1pU
  26. ↑ http://www.dismarc-audio.org/GHT/GHT001/001_8049_a.mp3
  27. ↑ http://www.dismarc-audio.org/GHT/GHT001/001_6559_b.mp3
  28. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMrRUHKaUlw
personal data
SURNAME Spahn, Erwin W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spahn, Erwin Wendelin (full name); Grünspan, Erwin (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 3, 1941
Place of death Dachau concentration camp