Fred Raymond

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Fred Raymond

Fred Raymond (born April 20, 1900 in Vienna as Friedrich Raimund Vesely ; † January 10, 1954 in Überlingen ) was an Austrian composer .

Life

Raymond was the third of four children (three other sisters) of Vinzenz Vesely, a revisionist for the Austrian State Railways and his wife Henriette, a native of Dluhos. Both parents were of Czech origin. The son should study mining after high school and aim for a civil servant career.

In 1915, father and mother died in quick succession. Friedrich and his three sisters were on their own. This prompted him to give up his studies and start an apprenticeship at the Austrian National Bank. He also attended the World Trade Academy on a scholarship and graduated. At that time he only made music for his own enjoyment and took lessons in piano and harmony at the Vienna Conservatory .

His first operetta in 3 acts, performed by the Viennese society “Thespis”, was named Madame Inkognito . Here he used his later stage name Fred Raymond for the first time. After this initial success, he contacted Fritz Grünbaum . The Jewish emcee and lyricist was director of the cabaret "Hell" in the 1909 musical comedy Fraternal strife of Leo case was first performed. Grünbaum encouraged the young Fred Raymond by having him write a revue for cabaret , which was performed in 1924. It contained the hit song I saw Fraulein Helen bathe on a text by Fritz Grünbaum.

Fred Raymond gave up his job as a banker in Vienna and first went to Frankfurt am Main. There he composed the song I lost my heart in Heidelberg , which quickly developed into a folk song and was his greatest success of that time. In 1927 Fred Raymond took advantage of this success and wrote the Singspiel I lost my heart in Heidelberg with Bruno Hardt-Warden and Fritz Löhner-Beda on texts by Ernst Neubach . It was premiered on April 29, 1927 in his hometown of Vienna at the Vienna Volksoper . He celebrated further successes with the nonsense hit I tear out an eyelash and stab you dead with it and I stand well with Ruth .

From 1926 onwards, Fred Raymond was able to establish one of his latest hits as a film almost every year. The first film adaptation in 1926 was to be followed by several repeated film adaptations of his important stage works.

In 1928 Raymond moved to Berlin . In the same year he had his next big success with the hit In a small pastry shop , which he included in the musical comedy Die Jungfrau von Avalon , premiered in Dresden in 1929 . Due to the popularity of the hit, the authors changed the title of the comedy to In a small pastry shop . Also in 1929, the first sound film (still dubbed) around this hit was produced in Munich .

From 1930 Fred Raymond devoted himself to the new medium of sound film and composed a whole series of film melodies . Numerous operettas were also written in the 1930s, the most successful of which was the mask in blue in 1937 .

When drafted into the Wehrmacht, Raymond wrote the hit It all goes over in 1942/43 , it all goes over based on a text by Kurt Feltz , which Lale Andersen made world famous. This waltz was one of the titles that were used in 1943 for sound reinforcement as part of the Majdanek camp's “ harvest festival ” . After the war, Raymond temporarily returned to his native Austria and initially worked as a resident composer in Vienna and Salzburg for what would later become the ORF .

Based in Hamburg , he published further musical works for the stage from 1948, which were premiered in the Flora Theater and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus . In 1951 Fred Raymond moved from Hamburg to Überlingen on Lake Constance. In the same year the Nationaltheater Mannheim brought out its last operetta Beliebte Manuela . On January 10, 1954, Fred Raymond died unexpectedly of heart failure. He left behind his young wife Eva-Maria († 2016). He did not live to see the birth of his only son, Thomas. His grave is in Überlingen on Lake Constance, a lyre adorns his marble tombstone.

The composer's son, Thomas Raymond, donated the artistic estate of Fred Raymond to the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg in 2015 .

On his 80th birthday in Vienna, he was honored with the Fred-Raymond-Gasse in the Donaustadt district , which is named after him, and in his adopted home Überlingen with the Fred-Raymond-Weg named after him.

Works

Operettas

Most famous songs

Commemorative plaque 1996–2014 for “I lost my heart in Heidelberg” in Heidelberg's main street.
  • I lost my heart in Heidelberg (1925, T .: Ernst Neubach and Fritz Löhner-Beda)
    Stone plaque commemorating the “Heidelberger Lied” with supplementary plaque “Text: Fritz Löhner and Ernst Neubach” at the new location from 2014, north end of the old Heidelberg bridge
  • I saw Miss Helen bathing (1926, T: Fritz Grünbaum)
  • I tear an eyelash out (1928, T .: Charles Amberg )
  • In a small pastry shop (1929, T .: Ernst Neubach)
  • Yes, the temperament (1937, T .: Günther Schwenn )
  • On the Rio Negro (1937, T .: Günther Schwenn)
  • Julischka from Budapest (1937, T .: Günther Schwenn)
  • When Toni with Vroni (1938, T .: Max Wallner and Kurt Feltz)
  • And the music plays along with it (1938, T .: Max Wallner and Kurt Feltz)
  • It all passes, it all passes (1942, T .: Max Wallner and Kurt Feltz)
  • My brother makes the noises in the sound film (T .: Charles Amberg, composition by Fred Raymond and Luigi Bernauer ).

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Klemp : Action harvest festival. With music to death: reconstruction of a mass murder. Villa ten Hompel, Münster 2013 (= current. Volume 19), ISBN 978-3-935811-16-0 , p. 79.
personal data
SURNAME Raymond, Fred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vesely, Friedrich Raimund (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1954
Place of death Überlingen