Gerhard Heinz
Gerhard Heinz (born September 9, 1927 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer , pianist and songwriter who wrote the music for countless entertainment films from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Life
Heinz had attended the Technical University in his hometown of Vienna and also worked as a hobby musician. In 1950 he became a member of Horst Winter's orchestra and four years later Kapellmeister at the Moulin Rouge . In 1958, the music producer Gerhard Mendelson engaged him as a unit manager at the Vienna branch of Polydor . In the following years, Heinz also worked in this role outside of Austria, including in France , Italy and the USA .
In these early years, Heinz had preferred to work in the hit, and later in the pop music business. For the singer Connie Francis he wrote the German text of her US success ' Till I Kissed You (1959) under the title Until we kissed. Other artists temporarily supervised by Heinz were Peter Kraus , Domenico Modugno and Freddy Quinn . In 1976 he contributed the music to the song My Little World , Austria's contribution to the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson performed by the duo Waterloo & Robinson . Heinz had already founded his own recording studio in 1964.
At the beginning of the 1960s, Gerhard Heinz also turned to film music, and since the end of the same decade he has concentrated primarily on this area. Heinz wrote the scores for over a hundred films. This is often very simple entertainment: comedy games, comedies and, since the mid-1970s, a considerable number of soft sex strips. Often directed by Austrian entertainment film veterans such as Franz Antel , Peter Weck , Franz Marischka , Franz Josef Gottlieb and Hubert Frank. For the production company Lisa Film of his compatriot Karl Spiehs , for whom Heinz had worked regularly since the end of 1968, the Viennese also composed the music for several box-office comedies with Thomas Gottschalk in the 1980s .
Film music (selection)
- 1961: The girl on the front page
- 1962: You don't kiss underwater
- 1965: Scourge of the flesh
- 1968: Shameless
- 1968: The maddened stories - based on Honoré de Balzac
- 1969: Help, I love twins!
- 1969: All kittens like to snack
- 1970: Music, music - the pen wobbles
- 1970: Ms. landlady does it even better now
- 1970: Neighbors are there to annoy you
- 1970: When the great aunts come
- 1970: Josefine Mutzenbacher
- 1971: Aunt Trude from Buxtehude
- 1971: We beat the landlord in the pan
- 1971: Help, the relatives are coming
- 1971: That knocks out the strongest twin
- 1971: Rudi, behave yourself!
- 1971: my father, the monkey and me
- 1971: One is always crazy
- 1971: Reverend turns a blind eye
- 1971: Out of control at Lake Wolfgang
- 1972: Don't get angry
- 1972: Hustle and bustle around Trixie
- 1972: Always trouble with the Reverend
- 1972: The cry of the black wolves
- 1973: If every day were a Sunday
- 1972: The funny four from the gas station
- 1973: The gentian blooms blue
- 1973: Crazy - totally crazy
- 1973: Go take off your dirndl
- 1973: Teenager Report - The Very Young Girls
- 1973: What school girls are hiding
- 1973: Mr. Müller loves hiking
- 1974: There is no sin on the Alm
- 1974: Keep drilling, buddy
- 1974: The craziest car in the world
- 1974: When girls blow maneuvers
- 1974: It wasn't the nightingale
- 1976: Everyone dies for himself alone
- 1976: Greek figs
- 1976: The she-wolf from Teufelsmoor
- 1977: Three Swedes in Upper Bavaria
- 1977: The joy of flying
- 1977: Vanessa
- 1978: The Love Hotel in Tyrol
- 1978: Hurray, the Swedes are here
- 1978: The island of a thousand joys
- 1978: Melody in Love
- 1978: Popcorn and raspberry ice cream
- 1979: oysters with mustard
- 1979: Cola, Candy, Chocolate
- 1979: Count Dracula (now biting) in Upper Bavaria
- 1979: Hot dogs in Ibiza
- 1979: Naked and hot in Mykonos
- 1979: Sunnyboy and Sugarbaby
- 1979: The school girls from Treffpunkt Zoo
- 1980: The Bockerer
- 1980: Three Swedes on the Reeperbahn
- 1981: The saw of death
- 1980: The beautiful savages of Ibiza
- 1980: Affectionate but cheeky like Oskar
- 1981: A cactus is not a lolly
- 1982: Cathérine
- 1982: a fat dog
- 1982: The devil breaks loose in the jungle
- 1983: Sunshine Reggae in Ibiza
- 1983: The crazy beach hotel
- 1983: The super noses
- 1984: The French breakfast
- 1984: Bring the little pigs
- 1984: Popcorn & Paprika
- 1984: The Practice of Love
- 1985: The beginners
- 1986: money or liver!
- 1986: Kunyonga murder in Africa
- 1987: Tender chaos
- 1999: The Bockerer III - The Andau Bridge
- 2003: The Bockerer IV - Prague Spring
annotation
literature
- Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers . Berlin 2003, p. 229 f.
Web links
- Gerhard Heinz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Gerhard Heinz at filmportal.de
- Biography Gerhard Heinz at Cyranos.ch
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Heinz, Gerhard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer, lyricist and pianist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1927 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |