Fritz Jellinek (composer)

Friedrich "Fritz" Jellinek (born June 18, 1909 in Vienna ; † July 17, 1994 there ) was an Austrian composer and musician . In order to avoid confusion with the singer of the same name , who was also well known at the time , Jellinek called himself Friedrich Jelli for some time, especially in the 1940s .

Life

Fritz Jellinek was born on July 18, 1909 in Vienna. After attending lower secondary school , he came to the commercial academy, which he attended with the later famous songwriter Hanns Schachner and which he graduated with the Matura in 1928 . He then went to the Textile Studies Institute , before entering the textile industry after graduating. Jellinek received private piano lessons parallel to his school education. Furthermore, he was trained at the music school with Professors Walther Kleinecke and Carl Frühling († 1937) in music theory, composition and instrument science. Jellinek worked in the textile industry for 40 years as a dispatcher and foreign language correspondent and then worked for several years as an authorized signatory and sales manager. This minus five years in which he did his military service in World War II and almost half a year in which he was a British prisoner of war in Carinthia . During his imprisonment, he was part of a small prison ensemble that appeared for the British occupiers and the Carinthian population. In the post-war years, Jellinek worked part-time mainly as a composer and lyricist, but also as a piano humorist and as a song accompanist for various interpreters. From this time on, he was often heard on Radio Vienna as a piano humorist.

Programs in which he appeared at this time included Fideles Brettl , Fideles Wien , Heut 'spiel'n die Schrammeln or Always just smiling with Ferry Zelwecker . On January 30, 1947, he had an appearance on his own almost half-hour broadcast. In addition, Jellinek was present as the accompanist of the castle actor Heim when his chanson texts were set to music. Due to the identical name with the singer of the same name, who was known at the time, he was forced to do so under the name of Friedrich Jelli .

In the course of his career he composed mainly entertainment songs , folk music songs and Viennese songs , with around 300 of his works being registered with AKM authors, composers and music publishers . Above all in cooperation with his childhood friend and school colleague, the already mentioned text author Hanns Schachner, various works were created, such as Stille Wasserln san deep , Let it die of thirst , In love with Vienna , Weinbeerbrocken , I have weak sides for music , Wenn man the youth can buy , in love up to your ears or I am a horseradish on Weana-Liad or further with Josef Kaderka What you promise or I am aner, he is aner .

He was honored several times throughout his life; to the person at the most important awards include him the Robert Stolz Medal , the Medal of Honor of the Austrian capital Vienna in silver , the Great Wienerlied plaque (of the Vienna Song Association), the Golden HBB-ring (from the Humanitarian League of professional singers), The golden Viennese heart (from the Wienerlied association Robert Posch), the statuette Der alten Wiener (from the 1st Alt-Wiener Club) or the Augustin plaque (from the association Das Wienerlied ). In addition, he has also received numerous other prizes and honors.

Jellinek died on July 17, 1994, just under a month after his 85th birthday, in his hometown of Vienna and was buried on July 27, 1994 at Baumgartner Friedhof in Vienna's 14th district of Penzing (group G1, number 203). His wife Leopoldine, known as Poldi, was born in the Wachau and died on January 10, 2007 at the age of 94.

Web links

• Fritz Jellinek on musik-austria.at
• Fritz Jellinek's grave on the official website of Friedhöfe Wien

Individual evidence

1. ^ Theater / Art / Music - Professor Carl Frühling died. In:  Gerechtigkeit , December 2, 1937, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ radio program. In:  Österreichische Volksstimme , January 30, 1947, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Leopoldine Jellinek's grave on the official website of Friedhöfe Wien , accessed on November 2, 2019