Gloria Lilienborn

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Gloria Lilienborn (* around 1910; † after 1945) was a German singer , accordionist and band leader .

Life

From the mid-1930s Lilienborn led the accordion band Gloria Lilienborn and Her Five Harmony Ladies , or Gloria Lilienborn and her 5 Glorias , with whom she performed in the German Empire , Austria and the Netherlands. In the early 1940s Lilienborn and her Ensemble Original Glorias recorded a series of partly swing- oriented records for Electrola , such as “Don't leave me alone tonight” (# 7206) by Michael Jary and Bruno Balz. Other titles were “Come back”, “Young man in spring doesn't want to be alone” (# 7051), “Ride, little rider” (# 7154), “Libidi” (# 7151) “Ship ahoy” (# 7246) and “We pass the great luck so easily” (# 7206). Lilienborn and her troupe made appearances with their songs in the films Polterabend (1940, directed by Carl Boese ), Ein Mann auf Abwegen (1940, directed by Herbert Selpin , with Hans Albers ) and Family Connection (1941, directed by Carl Boese). Nothing is known about her life in the post-war period .

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Individual evidence

  1. Under this name she appeared in Dutch cinemas in 1934, cf. Event poster of the West End Theater
  2. Günther Drommer: DC Switched. Everyday life under the swastika . Schwartzkopff Buchwerke, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-937738-13-4 , p. 128.
  3. Information at Grammophon-platten.de