Hans Ebert (composer)

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Hans Ebert (* 15. May 1889 in Berlin , † 31 August 1952 ) was a German composer , conductor at the theater and film composer .

Life

Ebert received his artistic training in Berlin from 1910 to 1912 and continued his music studies in Düsseldorf from 1913 to 1915. In the war years 1914 to 1918 he worked as Kapellmeister at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus . In 1921, Hans Ebert accepted an appointment at the Lessing Theater in Berlin. From 1925 to 1927 he returned to the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus. In 1927 Ebert went to Cologne for two years to take composition lessons from Philipp Jarnach . Ebert then worked as a permanent composer at the Kölner Rundfunk until he was dismissed without notice by the Nazis who had just come to power in 1933 due to his marriage to a Jewish woman. In search of a new employer, Ebert came across the cinema in 1934, where the UFA initially had him set short documentaries and short fiction films to music.

From 1936 onwards there were also orders for music for full-length feature films. There he covered the then common range of topics: Ebert composed for Heimatfilme (e.g. " Waldwinter ", 1936, " Gewitter im Mai ", 1937) as well as for thrillers (" Der Fall Deruga ", 1938, Der Fall Molander , 1945) , for family melodramas (“ His Son ”, 1941, “ Der Seniorchef ”, 1942) as well as for romances and comedies (“ Die Jungfern vom Bischofsberg ”, 1942, “ Heaven, we inherit a castle! ”, 1943). In addition, he also composed orchestral works, songs and ballet pieces. The premiere of his opera “ Hille Bobbe ” in Darmstadt on November 16, 1940 brought Hans Ebert into trouble with the regime again. " The piece, which was written between 1934 and 1938 and can be interpreted as critical of the regime in large parts of the plot, is the first opera in Ebert's oeuvre and is described by Nazi critics as decadent, dissonant and" Negro music " ." After the first performance in Berlin in 1942, Reich dramaturge Rainer Schlösser demanded that the " reputation of the Reich dramaturgy with regard to its National Socialist reliability, which had been shaken by the negligence that was criticized here , be restored ". After the war, Hans Ebert barely found a connection to the film industry and was only able to accommodate compositions for a few productions that were created or premiered around 1950.

Filmography

  • 1934: What the Isar roars
  • 1935: Soldiers songs
  • 1935: The watch shop
  • 1935: The interesting case
  • 1935: Abyssinia today - focus of the world
  • 1936: Forest winter
  • 1936: The argument
  • 1936: King of Diamonds
  • 1937: Poachers
  • 1937: Heinz coughs
  • 1937: Thunderstorm in May
  • 1937: The silence in the forest
  • 1938: The embarrassed child
  • 1938: The Deruga case
  • 1938: What to do, Sibylle?
  • 1939: The Green Emperor
  • 1939: marriage with obstacles
  • 1939: cornflower blue
  • 1940: For the cat
  • 1940: South America Zoo
  • 1941: his son
  • 1941: bison
  • 1941: Modern plant breeding
  • 1942: The senior boss
  • 1942: Spring in the Vosges
  • 1942: Heavens, we inherit a castle!
  • 1942: The maidens from Bischofsberg
  • 1943: Bird paradise in the Arctic
  • 1943: let's go!
  • 1943: Carnivorous Plants
  • 1944: The Molander case
  • 1949: Fate on the Mountain
  • 1950: game of the economy
  • 1950: shining light

literature

  • Music in the past and present : Entry by Hans Ebert, third volume. Kassel / Basel / London / New York / Prague / Stuttgart / Weimar 1954
  • Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 139

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First performance of the opera "Hille Bobbe" by Hans Ebert in Darmstadt, November 16, 1940. Contemporary history in Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Ebert, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, conductor at the theater and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1952
Place of death Berlin