Hans-Otto Borgmann

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Hans-Otto Paul Friedrich Borgmann (born October 20, 1901 in Linden ; † July 26, 1977 in Berlin ) was a German film composer .

Life

The son of a senior government councilor learned the piano, violin and organ in his childhood. At the age of sixteen he was already working as an organist at the castle church of Schloss Gottorf in Schleswig . From 1910 to 1919 he attended the cathedral school Schleswig , a humanistic grammar school, and then studied from 1920 to 1922 at the State Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin. Here he trained as a music teacher, organist, choir director and conductor.

From 1924 to 1927 Borgmann worked as a theater and opera conductor. He also later composed incidental music , especially for the Deutsches Theater Berlin . His filmmaking began when, from 1928 onwards, as Kapellmeister he provided the background music for silent films. He then became a music assistant and from 1931 was musical director of the UFA and film composer.

In 1933 he composed the score for the Nazi propaganda film Hitlerjunge Quex . The Hitler Youth song, Our flag, composed by Borgmann, flutters ahead to a new text by the " Reich Youth Leader " of the NSDAP Baldur von Schirach as a leitmotif throughout the film and became the anthem of the Hitler Youth .

From 1937 Borgmann worked frequently for Veit Harlan . He made extensive use of the technique of the leitmotif, which he assigned to certain film characters and modified depending on the situation. His eingängigster movie hit in 1937 Tango Notturno from the eponymous movie with Pola Negri .

After Borgmann had set a Greater German hymn to a text by Baldur von Schirach in 1938 , he became head of the music department of the newly opened German Film Academy and received the title of professor.

After the end of the Second World War , he conducted Brecht / Weill's Threepenny Opera in August 1945 at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin . In addition, Borgmann initially composed further film scores: in 1946 for a documentary about the Nuremberg war crimes trials ( Nuremberg and its teachings ), in the 1950s for various strips of predominantly maudlin content. Borgmann later turned increasingly to atonal music . From 1953 he was head of the Berlin regional group of the German Composers' Association. From 1959 to 1971 he taught as a lecturer, since 1970 as honorary professor for stage song and literary chanson at the State University for Music and Performing Arts Berlin . During this time he composed around seventy stage songs and chansons based on texts by Bertolt Brecht , Erich Kästner , Joachim Ringelnatz and Kurt Tucholsky .

Hans-Otto Borgmann died in 1977 at the age of 75 and was buried in the municipal forest cemetery in Dahlem in the southwestern Berlin district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf .

Works

Filmography

Other compositions

  • Little Caprice (1962) for orchestra
  • Petite Promenade (1962) for orchestra

literature

  • Frank Noack: Hans-Otto Borgmann ; in CineGraph vol. 26 (1995), edition text + kritik
  • Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The large lexicon of film composers , Verlag Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-89602-296-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema 2009 p. 52 "A musical prodigy, Borgmann started piano lessons aged four, played the violin by seven, and was state-appointed church ... After the Nazis seized power, a melody he had written for use in a documentary about the island of Svalbard .. "
  2. ^ 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. 68.
  3. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Hans-Otto Borgmann
personal data
SURNAME Borgmann, Hans-Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borgmann, Hans-Otto Paul Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Linden trees
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1977
Place of death Berlin , Germany