Hans-Joachim Sohn-Rethel

Dotz son-Rethel
	Paul Citroen , 1932-1936
	photo
	9.0 x 6.4 cm
	Leiden University Libraries Link to the picture; (please note copyrights )

Dotz Sohn-Rethel, drawing by Rudolf Großmann , 1927

Hans-Joachim Sohn-Rethel (born November 15, 1905 in Düsseldorf , † 1955 in Hollywood ) was a German painter , theater actor and noise simulator under the name Freddy Dosh .

Life

Sohn-Rethel came from a family of painters . He was the youngest son of the painter Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1875–1958), grandson of the painter Karl Rudolf Sohn , and great-grandson of the painter Alfred Rethel . His brother was the social philosopher Alfred Sohn-Rethel . His sister Elisabeth, called Lissi (1897-1993), married the actor Albert Steinrück in 1921 . His mother Anna Julie, b. Michels, came from the Oppenheimer family. Sohn-Rethel, called Dotz in his youth , was a pupil at the Odenwald School in the early 1920s and studied painting under the guidance of his uncle Karli Sohn-Rethel (1882–1966).

In March 1928, Sohn-Rethel stayed in Sanary-sur-Mer, France, and painted there. The stay was financially supported by his brother-in-law Steinrück. In June 1929 he took part in the anniversary exhibition of the Rhenish Secession in the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf . He went to Berlin, lived in the artists' colony and carried out the decorations for the theater and cabaret stages. Since he couldn't make a living from painting, he remembered his second talent and became a noise simulator. He had his breakthrough in the second program of the cabaret Die Katakombe (December 9, 1929): “If you want to know what the noise of an express train sounds like through the open or closed lid of a toilet, you will find that, along with subway , Show Mr. Rethel imitations of chickens and small cars. "

Ping-pong cabaret in the Rika Hopper Theater, August 1933

He had further engagements for the third and sixth program of the catacomb in June 1931. From 1931 he went on tour with the Kurhaus Cabaret Ensemble in the Netherlands. In 1933 he joined the Ping-Pong cabaret in exile founded by Kurt Egon Wolff . With ping-pong appearances in the Leidse Plein Theater, Rika Hopper Theater in Amsterdam and in the West End Theater in The Hague. Then (summer 1933) he toured the Netherlands as a solo entertainer . There he had performances with the Dutch soubrette Jopie Koopman and the German dancer Lydia Wieser in Groningen , as well as a guest performance at the Pier Pavilion in Scheveningen .

In Amsterdam he met his future wife Hedwig Citroen (1910–1989), the youngest sister of Lena Blumenfeld -Citroen, whom he married in 1934. 1934 Sohn-Rethel went to Switzerland and has performed there for two months in Zurich in Tonhallen cafe of Liselott Wilke . This was followed by a Swiss tour with the Die Pfeffermühle ensemble . Here, Sohn-Rethel gave himself the stage name Freddy Dosh .

In Switzerland he met the jazz trumpeter Adi Rosner , who persuaded him to join the band of Fud Candrix in Ostend. In 1935 he joined the big band of Jack Hylton and worked in the dance show Life Begins at Oxford Dircus with that went on tour in England. Some of his sound imitations were recorded on Decca Records , heard today on the music album by John Peel and Sheila: The Pig's Big 78s, Impressions Part 1 & 2.

In 1936 and 1937 he had a long engagement in Chicago. From 1937 to 1939 he lived again in England, where he toured variety theaters as a solo act and appeared in November 1938 in the BBC TV series "Cabaret", produced by Harry Pringle (1903 – after 1959). Shortly before the outbreak of the Second War , in March 1939, a short-wave radio broadcast of "AB Radiotjänst" was recorded with his son-Rethel in Stockholm before he emigrated to the United States in the same year . There he continued to work as a noise imitator, first with the cabaret Horrorscope in Hollywood, then as a solo entertainer with appearances on radio and television.

exhibition

1991: Collectie Dosh, Provinciehuis, Zwolle
2014/2015: Nussbaum's World of Things, still life by Felix Nussbaum and guests , Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück

literature

Horst JP Bergmeier: Chronology of German cabaret in the Netherlands 1933-1944 . Published by Hamburger Arbeitsstelle für Deutsche Exilliteratur, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-9802151-4-8 (series of publications by the P. Walter Jacob Archive, No. 6).
Dotz son-Rethel. In: The Cross Section (Illustrated), January 1, 1927
Freddie Dosh in comedy impressions (PDF) In: Radio Times, Television Supplement , July 9, 1937, p. 4

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Margret Heymann: "Life is a slide ..." Albert Steinrück, A biography of the actor, painter and bohemian (1872–1929). Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2014, page 117/118, ISBN 978-3-940384-57-7
↑ Rhenish Secession. Anniversary exhibition in the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. May 4 - June 30, 1929, in Participating Artists: Dotz Sohn-Rethel , at eifel-und-kunst.de, accessed on March 4, 2017
^ Rethel, Hans Joachim . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, part 1, p. 2680. "Kunstmaler, Wilmersdorf, Kreuznacher Str. 34".
^ US Acts on One London Show . Freddy Dosh, continental mimic, recently In Jack Hylton's act at the Palladium. Variety (December 1935) , in Variety Publishing Company, New York, NY, December 1935
↑ Cabaret (TV Series), episode dated November 21, 1938, Full Cast & Crew: Freddy Dosh, Impressionist , on imdb.com, accessed November 1, 2016
↑ Photo with impersonator Freddie Dosh. Swedish Radio, March 6, 1939. , on sverigesradio.se, set March 7, 2006, accessed November 1, 2016
^ Sound impersonator Freddie Dosh: In 1939, British impersonator Freddie Dosh visited Stockholm for a broadcast in Swedish radio - in those days called "Radiotjänst". , on YouTube, accessed November 1, 2016
↑ Exhibition in Osnabrück is dedicated to the still lifes of the painter Felix Nussbaum. The works are juxtaposed with works by contemporaries in which similar motifs emerge; including Hans-Joachim Sohn-Rethel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.

personal data
SURNAME	Son-Rethel, Hans-Joachim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Freddy Dosh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor
DATE OF BIRTH	November 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH	1955
Place of death	Hollywood

[1] Margret Heymann: "Life is a slide ..." Albert Steinrück, A biography of the actor, painter and bohemian (1872–1929). Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2014, page 117/118, ISBN 978-3-940384-57-7

[2] Rhenish Secession. Anniversary exhibition in the Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. May 4 - June 30, 1929, in Participating Artists: Dotz Sohn-Rethel , at eifel-und-kunst.de, accessed on March 4, 2017

[3] Rethel, Hans Joachim . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1932, part 1, p. 2680. "Kunstmaler, Wilmersdorf, Kreuznacher Str. 34".

[4] US Acts on One London Show . Freddy Dosh, continental mimic, recently In Jack Hylton's act at the Palladium. Variety (December 1935) , in Variety Publishing Company, New York, NY, December 1935

[5] Cabaret (TV Series), episode dated November 21, 1938, Full Cast & Crew: Freddy Dosh, Impressionist , on imdb.com, accessed November 1, 2016

[6] Photo with impersonator Freddie Dosh. Swedish Radio, March 6, 1939. , on sverigesradio.se, set March 7, 2006, accessed November 1, 2016

[7] Sound impersonator Freddie Dosh: In 1939, British impersonator Freddie Dosh visited Stockholm for a broadcast in Swedish radio - in those days called "Radiotjänst". , on YouTube, accessed November 1, 2016

[8] Exhibition in Osnabrück is dedicated to the still lifes of the painter Felix Nussbaum. The works are juxtaposed with works by contemporaries in which similar motifs emerge; including Hans-Joachim Sohn-Rethel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.