Grete friend

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Grete Freund , also Grete Freund-Basch and Grete Basch , (born July 3, 1885 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † May 28, 1982 in Vienna, Austria ) was an Austrian actress and operetta singer .

Life

At the beginning of the 20th century, Grete Freund received vocal training at the conservatory in her native city. In 1906 she got her first engagement at the Volksoper Vienna . She made the red Lisi known in Leo Falls' operetta Der fidele Bauer . In 1911 she married the actor and director Felix Basch , with whom she went on an operetta tour to Russia . The following year the couple settled in Berlin .

After the First World War, Grete Freund appeared on theaters in Berlin such as the Theater am Nollendorfplatz , sang to several gramophone records and took part in several films. She was seen with leading roles in her husband's productions. However, the music stage remained Freund's main field of activity. After just one sound film and an engagement at the Prussian State Theaters in the last season of the Weimar Republic , the Jewish couple fled Germany with their son, who later became photographer Peter Basch , and moved to New York . In the years to come, Felix and Grete Basch commuted back and forth between Europe and the United States. In October 1939 the family settled permanently in the United States.

During the Second World War, Grete Freund organized charity events for the benefit of Viennese children and ran a restaurant in New York called Greta's Viennese, which specializes in Viennese specialties . In 1941 the Basch family moved to Los Angeles in order to open a specialty restaurant there too, this time unsuccessfully. After her husband's death (1944), Grete Freund received a tiny film role and occasionally gave concerts. She later returned to Vienna.

Filmography

  • 1918: The merry women of Windsor
  • 1919: prostitution
  • 1920: Mascotte
  • 1920: people of today
  • 1920: Hannerl and her lovers
  • 1921: The curse of silence
  • 1922: End of Sodom
  • 1922: The stream
  • 1930: The one from the fairground
  • 1945: Her Highness and the Bellboy

Sound documents (selection)

1. at the Gramophone :

  • The blessing from "The merry farmer" by Leo Fall. Grete Freund, Gusti Stagl, Lily Wiska, Hubert Marischka and Adolf Lussmann, with orchestral accompaniment under the personal direction of the composer. Vienna. Gramophone Concert Record GC-2-44 388 (Matr. 12 989 u), recorded in 1908
  • Heinerle, Heinerle, have no money . Duet from “Der fidele Bauer” by Leo Fall. Grete Freund and little Poldi Braunberger with orchestral accompaniment under the personal direction of the composer. Vienna. Gramophone Concert Record GC-2-44 389 (Matr. 12 990 u), recorded in 1908
  • Hajji Stavros, you noble hero! Song from the operetta “Das Fürstenkind” by Franz Lehár. Grete Freund from the Johann Strauss Theater, with orchestral accompaniment under the personal direction of the composer, Vienna. Gramophone Concert Record GC-2-43 276 (Matr. 15 301 u), recorded October 8, 1909.
  • When you kiss a girl . Duet from "Always solid druff!", A patriotic folk piece, text by H. Haller and W. Wolff - music by W. Kollo. Grete Freund and Hellmut Hallendorf , Berlin, German. Duet with orchestral accompaniment - record gramophone 13 275 / 2-944.230 (mat. 17 129 L)
  • Faithful and heartfelt from "Blaue Jungens". Text by Hermann Frey - music by Rudolf Nelson . Sung by Grete Freund and Paul Heidemann . German. Duet. Record gramophone 13 565 / 2-944.345 (mat. 18 872 Lb)
  • The naval lieutenant from "Blue Boys". Text by Hermann Frey - music by Rudolf Nelson. Sung by Grete Freund and Paul Heidemann. German. Duet. Record gramophone 13 565 / 2-944.346 (mat. 18 873 Lb)
  • I don't know who I belong to from the sound film “Storms of Passion” (Dutch, Liebmann) Fred Marley dance orchestra with German refrain singing: Grete Freund. Gramophone brown 803 B (die number: 1589 BN II), recorded in Berlin 1930
  • Overland trip . Foxtrot song (Herm. Leopoldi) Fred Marley dance orchestra, with refraing singing by Grete Freund and Alfred Strauss. Grammophon brown 1639 A (Matr. 2965 BH 3), recorded in October 1931
  • With the Sch-Sch-Sch surprise train . Foxtrot (Leopoldi, Herz, Salpeter) Ilja Livschakoff Dance Orchestra with German vocals: Alfred Strauss u. Grete friend. Polydor 17 039-B (Matr. 2037 ½ BN7), recorded in March 1933

2. for Homocord :

  • The blonde Lorelei . A sound play by H. Hiller - H. Brennecke. I. part. Large homocord ensemble ( Alice Hechy - Grete Freund - Paul Westermeier - Hermann Feiner - Luigi Bernauer - Felix Basch) with orchestra. Homocord 4-9025 (Matr. H-2-53014), dto. II. Part, Homocord 4-9025 (Matr. H-2-53015) dto., III. Part, Homocord 4-9026 (Matr. H-2-53016), dto., Part IV, Homocord 4-9026 (Matr. H-2-53017)

literature

  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, DNB 911350551
  • Kay Less : "In life, more is taken from you than given ...". Lexicon of filmmakers who emigrated from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945. A general overview. ACABUS Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86282-049-8 , p. 174.
  • Otto Schneidereit: Berlin how it cries and laughs. Walks through Berlin's operetta history. Music publisher Lied der Zeit, Berlin 1968, DNB 575459948 .
  • Manfred Weihermüller, Rainer E. Lotz (Hrsg.): German National Discography. Discography of German Cabaret. Volume 5, Verlag B. Lotz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-9802656-6-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As early as 1908/09, recordings with her from Vienna with operetta melodies by Leo Fall and Franz Lehár , in which the composer himself conducted the accompanying orchestra, are available. An advertisement advertised in 1913 that “all hits” from Walter Kollo's operetta “Der Juxbaron” had appeared with her on gramophone , cf. Schneidereit p. 169. At the beginning of the 1930s she sang with the tenor Alfred Strauss Liedschlager by Hermann Leopoldi on the brown gramophone label . At Homocord, she and her husband took part in recordings for a "sound play" that extended over several sides of the record.
  2. ↑ Audio sample at dismarc-audio.org
  3. ↑ "Helmut Hallendorf was active on numerous stages in Germany as an operetta buffo and play tenor. He has been known to the listeners of the Silesian Radio since 1929. ” can be read in the pocket almanac Artists on Radio p. 53.
  4. ↑ premiered on October 1, 1914 in the Theater am Nollendorfplatz, brought it to 800 performances, cf. Eva Krivanec: War stages - theater in the First World War. Berlin, Lisbon, Paris and Vienna . transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-1837-6 , p. 117.
  5. ↑ Fred Marley Orchestra “Überlandpartie” 1931 on YouTube
  6. ↑ Ilja Livschakoff: With the Sch-Sch-Sch surprise train (Alfred Strauss & Grete Freund, 1933) on YouTube
  7. ↑ see The blonde Lorelei: a sound game; 3rd part OCLC 920775489 in the catalog WorldCat and Weihermüller / Lotz, p. 1209.
personal data
SURNAME Friend, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freund-Basch, Grete; Bash, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian actress and operetta singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1982
Place of death Vienna , Austria