Hans Carste
Hans Friedrich August Carste (born September 5, 1909 in Frankenthal ; † May 11, 1971 in Bad Wiessee ; actually Hans Häring ) was a German composer and conductor . Among other things, Hans Carste wrote the tune for the Tagesschau .
Life
Hans Carste was the son of a graduate engineer and grew up in Marbach an der Donau in Lower Austria and in Mährisch-Ostrau . After graduating from high school, he began studying political science and economics in Vienna in 1927 before moving to the music academy and thus finding his actual calling. He gained his first practical experience at the Vienna Volksoper before joining the Breslau Opera as a répétiteur in 1929 . In 1931 he moved to Berlin , enjoyed the revealing lifestyle and quickly found his artistic home there. After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was in May 1933 a member of the Nazi party . During the pre-war period in Berlin, Carste wrote 24 film scores and numerous cabaret compositions. He had signed an exclusive contract with the record company Electrola , and he ran a dance band under his name.
In 1942 he was called up for military service in Poznan. He was seriously wounded on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in November 1942, from which he was released in 1948. During this time, a large part of his operetta Lump mit Herz , which premiered in 1952 at the Nuremberg Opera House, was written.
As the successor to Friedrich Schröder, Carste became head of the department for entertainment and dance music at RIAS Berlin on April 1, 1949 . In addition to his radio work, he continued to compose film music , hits as well as dance and light music .
In 1957, Carste was the first German to be appointed President of the Bureau International des Sociétés gérant les Droits d'Enregistrement et de Reproduction Mécanique (BIEM) in Paris. He was also the chairman of the supervisory board of GEMA and a member of the board of the German composers' association. In 1961 he was given the title of professor . Due to illness, Carste resigned all honorary posts in 1967 and finally retired to Bad Wiessee in 1970. He died there on May 11, 1971 and is also buried in the local cemetery.
The six-note melody of the Tagesschau comes from the closing bars of the Hammond Fantasy , which Carste composed while a Soviet prisoner of war. It was arranged by Rudolf Kühn in 1956 for a 90-member radio orchestra. The widow Grit-Sieglinde Carste received a monthly four-digit GEMA payment for a fanfare fragment from the Hammond fantasy .
Works
- Don't lie baby , musical comedy in three acts, premiered in Berlin in 1939
- Through the keyhole revue , premiered in 1941 in Berlin
- Lump mit Herz , operetta, 3 acts, premiered in Nuremberg in 1952
- Spotlight , play with music, 3 acts, radio production for BR and NDR 1969
- Hammond fantasy
Film music
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Awards
- Paul-Lincke-Ring , 1961
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Carste in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Carste in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Commemorative publication on the occasion of his 90th birthday ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 94.
- ↑ Tagesschau-Ton-Widow fears GEMA check
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Carste, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carste, Hans Friedrich August (full name); Häring, Hans (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 5, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankenthal |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 11, 1971 |
| Place of death | Bad Wiessee |