Hans Landsberger
Hans Landsberger (born August 20, 1890 in Berlin , † January 8, 1941 in Camp de Gurs , France ) was a German composer and silent film composer .
Life
Landsberger attended high school in Berlin and then the university there. He then enrolled at the University of Rostock on April 30, 1914 and began studying music in the upcoming summer semester. In 1920 he received his doctorate there with a doctoral thesis entitled "The Secular Cantatas G. Ph. Telemans".
In the same year 1920, Landsberger returned to Berlin and made contacts in the celluloid industry. In just two years he composed cinema music for four films, two of which have legendary productions: Ernst Lubitsch's costume drama Anna Boleyn , in which Landsberger also took over the musical direction, and Paul Wegener's classic of the fantastic cinema Der Golem, How It Came Into the World . Both original compositions were considered lost. In 2018, the silent film pianist Richard Siedhoff discovered the original music of Der Golem, How It Came into the World, and reconstructed it for small and large orchestras. The version for small orchestra will have its world premiere on September 3, 2020 in the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar under the direction of Burkhard Götze as part of the Kunstfest Weimar and the annual silent film retrospective of the Lichthaus Kinos Weimar .
As early as 1921, after his score for the famous screen chamber play Hintertreppe , Hans Landsberger left the world of film again. His activities in the last two decades of his life are currently completely in the dark. Apparently, Landsberger finally settled in Baden, from where he was deported as one of about 6,550 German Jews, according to a Führer order concerning the Jews in Baden, the Palatinate and Saarland, via the regained Alsace to the Camp de Gurs camp in southern France In order to get the German south-west, as it was called, "free of Jews" in this way. There Dr. Hans Landsberger, possibly by his own hands, at the beginning of 1941 under currently unexplained circumstances.
Filmography (complete)
- 1920: The Golem as it came into the world
- 1920: Anna Boleyn (musical director)
- 1921: The Genoa conspiracy
- 1921: back stairs
Web links
- Hans Landsberger in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hans Landsberger at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Camp de Gurs death list
- ↑ Landsberger's enrollment
- ↑ Landsberger's dissertation
- ^ Richard Siedhoff - News. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ The Golem as He Came into the World. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Kunstfest Weimar 2020 - program. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Lost "Golem" original music experiences a "new" premiere. Retrieved on August 20, 2020 (German).
- ^ Deportations of Jews from Baden - Palatinate - Saarland in October 1940 to Gurs
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Landsberger, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and silent film composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1941 |
| Place of death | Camp de Gurs , France |