Georg von Wysocki
Georg von Wysocki (* 1890 in Graudenz ; † 1973 ) was a pioneer of the German shellac culture.
Life
Von Wysocki was the son of a postal director and was familiar with the invention of the phonograph as a child . In 1920 he went to Berlin and, after working in press advertising in 1922, applied to the record company Lindström Odeon , which hired him as artistic production manager because of his musical training as a pianist and his in-depth knowledge of the current record market. In the 1920s and 1930s he brought the Berlin dance and variety orchestras into the recording studio. Over the years he managed to bind world-famous artists to the company with exclusive contracts: Richard Tauber , friend and the most successful record star of the time, Leo Slezak , Lotte Lehmann , Martha Eggerth and Jan Kiepura . Von Wysocki was first married to Edith Frank, they had the sons Günther von Wysocki and Gerd von Wysocki. Edith von Wysocki was Jewish, the marriage was divorced in 1936 and the sons grew up with their father. Gerd von Wysocki later became known as a musician under the pseudonym Harald Banter . Edith Frank married Victor Domkiewicz around 1940, the two and their eight-month-old daughter were deported to Auschwitz on February 26, 1943 and murdered.
Von Wysocki married a second time, a daughter from the second marriage is the essayist, playwright and prose writer Gisela von Wysocki .
Von Wysocki's grave is in the Zehlendorf forest cemetery in Berlin.
Record productions
In the course of the advancing sound recording technology, Georg von Wysocki engaged famous UFA stars, who sang songs known from their films for Odeon: u. a. Lilian Harvey , Willy Fritsch , Heinz Rühmann , Fritzi Massary , Henny Porten and Zarah Leander , Willi Forst and Adolf Wohlbrück , Dajos Béla , Barnabás von Géczy , Pola Negri , Hans Albers and Claire Waldoff . Under his leadership, u. a. the recordings of the songs: I kiss your hand, Madame ; Yours is all my heart ; The wind told me a song ; There's only one time ; You're lucky with women, Bel ami ; Whether blond or brown, I love all women ; I feel in me, I feel in me ; Love came like a miracle ; Always smiling and always happy ; I was happy to kiss the women ; When the white lilac blooms again ; I dance with you to heaven .
After moving from Odeon to Cologne , Georg von Wysocki switched to the Tefifon company as production manager , which had brought a new sound preservation process (music tape recordings) onto the market. From 1953 he worked for the European Phonoclub, where he made several recordings as a producer with the tenor Fritz Wunderlich : Madame Butterfly , Mask in Blue (1956) and The Magic Flute (1958).
literature
- Harald Banter : tone sequences. A life with right and wrong notes, Regensburg 2002 ISBN 3-932581-57-1
- Gisela von Wysocki : We make music. History of a suggestion , Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42208-3
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther von Wysocki: Edith Domkiewicz (née Frank) , at Stolpersteine Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wysocki, Georg von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Pioneer of the German shellac culture |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Graudenz |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1973 |