Franz Engel (cabaret artist)

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Franz Engel (born September 16, 1898 in Vienna ; † October 16, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian comedian , emcee , couplet singer and actor .

Live and act

Engel was known both in Vienna and Berlin and played in the most famous variety shows and cabarets in Vienna and Berlin , such as the Simpl , Hölle and Moulin Rouge . He was one of those cabaret greats in Vienna who was forgotten in Austria after the Nazi era . Only a few of his texts and couplets were republished, in contrast to other greats of the period before 1938 such as Armin Berg , Karl Farkas or Fritz Grünbaum , with whom he shared the same fate.

Occasionally, Engel also played in German and Austrian film comedies, such as in Carl Lamac's The False Field Marshal in 1930 and in Otto Preminger's Die Große Liebe in 1931 .

Between 1930 and 1938, Engel discussed a number of records for the Austrian branches of His Master's Voice and Columbia . T. with well-known cabaret colleagues. Today they are valuable testimonies to the cabaret in Vienna during the First Republic.

1933, after the seizure of power of the Nazis in Germany , had angels flee because of his Jewish faith. He returned to Vienna, where he had to flee again in 1938 after the Anschluss . He first came to Paris with other cabaret artists , where in 1939, together with Erwin Saldern and Fred Berger, he became part of the exile cabaret group “Vienne à Paris” formed by Karl Farkas . He then fled further into the Netherlands , where, after the German occupation of the Netherlands in Westerbork transit camp was interned. There he took part in the theater evenings designed by Max Ehrlich . From there the National Socialists deported him to the Theresienstadt ghetto , from where he finally got to the Auschwitz concentration camp and was murdered on October 16, 1944.

Audio documents

On His Master's Voice (Austria)

Fisolen only / comp .: Otto Berkowitz - text: Franz Engel. Franz Engel [in German with piano] - the composer at the piano. His Master's Voice AM 3135 / 70-1593 (matrix number BL 6577-I)

Artist portraits: "Der Erlkönig" / Text: F. Engel & A. Kaps . Franz Engel [Talking (prosa) in German] His Master's Voice AM 3135 / 70-1594 (matrix number BL 6578-I), also: BA 246 / 70-1594 (matrix number BL 6578-I)

In Paris, in Paris the men are so cute / Text: Ms. Engel & A. Kaps - Music: Raoul Moretti. Franz Engel - at the piano: Otto Berkowitz [in German with piano] His Master's Voice AM 3323 / 70-1805 (matrix number BL 6828-II)

At the post office counter / Text: Ms. Grünbaum - Music: AM Werau . Franz Engel, humorist [in German with piano] His Master's Voice AM 3323 / 70-1806 (matrix number BL 6829-1), also: BA 273 / 70-1806 (matrix number BL 6829-I)

Everything is up to me / Text: Franz Engel. Franz Engel [in German with piano] - piano accompaniment: O. Berkowitz. His Master's Voice BA 246 / 70-1807 (matrix number BL 6830-II)

Just don't get married / Text: Franz Engel - Martin Loewe . Franz Engel, humorist [in German] His Master's Voice BA 273 / 70-1965 (Matrizennummer OL 780-II)

On Columbia (Austria)

One should not associate with Pollaks / AM Werau - W. Saliger - F. Engel. Franz Engel - on the piano: Karl Inwald. Columbia DV 924 (die number WHA 427)

What do people live from? / AM Werau - O. Kanitz - A. Kaps. Franz Engel - on the piano: Karl Inwald. Columbia DV 924 (die number WHA 428)

The work in Vienna / AM Werau - O. Kanitz - F. Engel. Franz Engel - on the piano: Karl Inwald. Columbia DV 925 (die number WHA 429-2)

I really don't care about that / Karl Inwald - Louis Taufstein . Franz Engel - on the piano: the composer Karl Inwald. Columbia DV 925 (die number WHA 430-2)

On the Mississippi. An Indian wailing bench (F. Engel - P. Ollop, music by Trojan Wellisch). Franz Engel with piano accompaniment. Columbia DV 945 (die number WHA 457-2)

Experience at my hairdresser (F. Engel) Franz Engel [talking]. Columbia DV 945 (die number WHA 458-2)

Battle of poets on the microphone: Sketch, 1st part / by Karl Farkas - Franz Engel. At the microphone the two lyricists [Karl Farkas - Franz Engel]. Columbia DV 958-I (die number WHA 463-2)

detto 2nd part: Columbia DV 958-II (die number WHA 464-2)

How are you, Mr. Merry? (Text by F.Grünbaum and A. Kaps, music by K.Inwald and B.Uher ) Franz Engel with piano accompaniment. Columbia DV 1153 (die number CHA 692)

Hello! Here Radio Vienna !: Part 1, Franz Engel & Fritz Wiesenthal - at the piano: Carl Breyer. Columbia DV 1185-I (die number CHA 742-2)

detto 2nd part: Columbia DV 1185-II (die number CHA 743-2)

Yes, that couldn't happen in Vienna: Part 1 / H. Lengsfelder - S. Tisch - P. Weiß - F. Kramer. Lola v. Hübner & Franz Engel with the Heinz Sandauer orchestra . Columbia DV 1352 (die number CHA 844-1)

detto 2nd part: Columbia DV 1352 (die number CHA 845-1)

Re-releases (incomplete)

Posts on samplers:

  • Dance of death cabaret in the concentration camp. CD with DVD. Displaced German / Jewish actors. Edited and selected by Volker Kühn , Edition Mnemosyne, Neckargemünd 2000
  • Popular Jewish Artists - 1903–1936, Vienna. (CD) Edited and selected by Chaim Frank, Trikont , Munich 2001. Thereupon the following contributions (with date of recording):
    • One should not associate with Pollaks , 1931
    • Experience at my hairdresser's , 1932
    • What do the people live on , 1932
    • Hello! Here Radio Vienna , with Fritz Wiesenthal, 1936
  • Old masters of humor: Franz Engel, Fritz Grünbaum & Karl Farkas CD Preiserrecords, No. BSIN01639286. Published: 1999; contains from Engel:
    • At the post office counter in 1931
    • How are you, Mr. Merry? 1936
  • Cabaret from Vienna: Karl Farkas - Fritz Grünbaum. (CD) Contains contributions by Franz Engel. Archiv Verlag, Vienna 1990

Audio samples on youtube:

literature

  • Armin Berg Society Vienna (Ed.): Vienne à Paris. Cabaret in exile in France. A production by ORPHEUS TRUST, ARMIN BERG GESELLSCHAFT and LEO as part of the French festival 'Douce France?' of the Orpheus Trust. Program booklet. Online at [6] (PDF; 2.4 MB), page 7
  • Roland Knie: forgotten comedian all-rounder Franz Engel. OE 1, ORF.at v. February 14, 2009
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898 - 1945. Self-published. Göttingen 1991. approx. 2000 unpagn.
  • Rainer Lotz - Axel Weggen (Ed.): Discography of the Judaica recordings, Vol. 1. Verlag Birgit Lotz, 2006. ISBN 978-3-9810248-3-8 [7]  : Annotated discography of the recordings on historical records with 78 revolutions per minute related to Judaism in Germany.
  • Rolf Michaelis: Cabaret in the concentration camp , in Zeit online Kultur v. November 2, 2000
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 106.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German-czechoslowakische coproduction by e. Screenplay v. Václav Wassermann u. Alexander Roda-Roda , who also played along, cf. filmportal [1] and cs.wikipedia K. and K. Field Marshal  : Engel played a Cabaretiér.
  2. ↑ Franz Engel played the reporter Fritz Eckstein, cf. film portal [2]
  3. ↑ Ulrike Oedl: Theater in Exile - Austrian Exile Theater (PDF) , University of Salzburg, 2002
  4. ↑ Westerbork, program leaflet at aufrichtigs.com
  5. ↑ Roland Knie: Forgotten comedian: all-rounder Franz Engel.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oe1.orf.at   oe1.ORF.at, February 2009 (accessed on May 11, 2009)
  6. ↑ cf. Jeremy Wilson, Jazzbiographies [3]
  7. ↑ See hagalil [4]
  8. ↑ Eigtl. Lola Hübner, Austrian Actress and singer, worked in films between 1936 and 1943, cf. imdb [5] .
personal data
SURNAME Engel, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian comedian, emcee, couplet singer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp