Franz R. Friedl
Franz R. Friedl , also under the pseudonym Jacques Renée (born May 30, 1892 in Oberkappel , Upper Austria , Austria-Hungary ; † December 5, 1977 in Berlin ), was an Austrian violist , composer and film composer .
Live and act
The son of a cooper attended grammar school and then received artistic training from Rosé and Carl Flesch . Friedl then worked as a concertmaster in Dortmund and Dresden. From 1923 to 1926 Franz Friedl was principal violist at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, since 1927 the Upper Austrian, who also used the pseudonym Jacques Renée several times, worked as a freelance composer and composed chamber music, overtures, entertainment and from 1933 also film music.
In the Third Reich Friedl was one of the busiest cinema composers in Germany and also made himself available for propaganda and anti-Semitic inflammatory films such as the pseudo-documentary The Eternal Jew . Between 1941 and 1945 Friedl also provided the background for propagandistic contributions to the German newsreel . Friedl also wrote a number of scores for cultural and documentary films. In the early years of DEFA Friedl also worked for the communist state company. In 1951, the composer largely finished his work on feature films.
Filmography
- 1933: rivals of the air
- 1934: Hubertus Castle
- 1935: A breath of fresh air from Canada
- 1935: Abyssinia Today - The World Spotlight (Documentary)
- 1935: Sustaining society
- 1935: The saint and her fool
- 1935: Hangover lamp
- 1936: honeymoon
- 1936: Annemarie
- 1937: Spreehafen Berlin (documentary film)
- 1938: The stars shine
- 1938: The marriage sanatorium
- 1938: flirtation and love
- 1938: Riddle of the primeval forest hell (documentary film)
- 1938: The edelweiss king
- 1939: The disgust
- 1940: The Eternal Jew (full-length propaganda "documentary" film)
- 1941: Lake Neusiedl (short documentary film)
- 1942: Mysterious Moorland (short documentary film)
- 1943: Popular life on the edge of the Sahara (short documentary film)
- 1943: The Smallest World (short documentary film)
- 1944: Call to Conscience (WP: 1949)
- 1949: Quartet of five
- 1950: Mayor Anna
- 1951: Berlin comes back
- 1951: irregular train traffic
- 1951: It doesn't work without Gisela
- 1958: canals
literature
- Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 188.
- 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. 447.
- Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 175
Web links
- Franz R. Friedl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Franz R. Friedl at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stefan Schweizer: "Giving our worldview a visible expression": National Socialist images of history in historical pageants on the "Day of German Art" . Wallstein Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0107-8 ( google.de [accessed on January 12, 2018]).
- ^ Literature, film, theater and art . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-034088-4 ( google.de [accessed on January 12, 2018]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedl, Franz R. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Renée, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian violist, composer and film composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberkappel , Upper Austria |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 1977 |
| Place of death | Berlin |