Hansheinrich Dransmann

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Hansheinrich Dransmann (born April 12, 1894 in Hagen am Teutoburger Wald / Lower Saxony ; † 1964 ) (also Hans Heinrich Dransmann, stage name Jack Drooning ) was a bandmaster and composer.

Activities as Kapellmeister and composer

In the 1920s, Dransmann led the cinema bands in various Berlin cinemas, a. a. the orchestra at the Titania-Palast in Berlin-Steglitz, with up to 60 musicians at times, and could also be heard as a conductor on the Berliner Rundfunk. Dransmann wrote and conducted accompanying music for silent films, but also composed operetta and light music.

Dransmann set three films to music for Carl Froelich and two for Gerhard Lamprecht . His most successful compositions for the cinema are considered to be the scores for Conrad Wienes “In Exclusion from the Public” (1927), Victor Janson's “The Queen of His Heart” (1928) and Hans Behrendt's “The Regiment's Daughter” (1929). A special achievement was his music, based on original Indian motifs, for the religious film epic “Die Leucht Asiens / Prem Sanyas” (1925, subtitle “Gotama Buddha's struggle for love and renunciation”), which Franz Osten filmed on original locations in India.

As a conductor for Electrola around 1930, he recorded several records with small ensembles . During the Third Reich , he set to music the "Freedom Poems" by the Westphalian Nazi cultural functionary Carl Maria Holzapfel (1890–1945) , published in 1934 under the title "One builds a cathedral ..." . Between 1939 and 1943 he was director of the Lessing Theater in Berlin.

Dransmann died in 1964 at the age of 70.

Works

Silent film accompaniment music

  • Allegro grazioso: Kinothek "Allegro-Serie", Sam Fox-Musikverlag Berlin [1919–1933], Volume 1b No. 3
  • Clownery / Sam Fox-Musikverlag Berlin [1919–1933]
  • Heroic elegy / fair: Musikverlag Heinrichshofen, Magdeburg
  • Cockiness. Funny scene / edit by A. Wilke: Vienna, Universal Edition

Musical theater

  • Caramba | Operetta 1931. Text writer: H. Haberer Helasco u. Theo Halton
  • Münchhausen's last lie. Cheerful opera in 1 prelude and 3 acts. Lyricist: Theo Halton. 1933, premiered in Dortmund on May 18, 1934

Choral work

  • One is building a cathedral for alto, tenor, baritone, choir and orchestra. Text by Carl Maria Holzapfel , Heyer, Berlin a. Leipzig 1934

Sound documents (selection)

For the record, Dransmann conducted film and light music:

  • Electrola EG 1686 / mx. 60-699 / BNR.651-I, salon orchestra. Conductor: Kapellmeister Hansheinrich Dransmann: Butterfly dance ( Clemens Schmalstich ). Recorded at the Singakademie zu Berlin.
  • Electrola EG 1803 / mxx. 60-858 / BNR.652-II + 60-859 / BNR.653-I, Grosses Salon-Orchester, conductor: Hansheinrich Dransmann: On the blue waters of Hawaii, 1. u. 2nd part (from the film " White Shadows ") ( Albert W. Ketèlbey )
  • Electrola EG 1805 / mx. 60-863 / BNR.650-II, salon orchestra. Conductor: Kapellmeister Hansheinrich Dransmann: Circus people (Fr. Kark), aufgen. August 22, 1929.

Other artists play compositions by Dransmann:

  • Oh, God, I'm so in love (Hans Heinrich Dransmann) ad Optte "Caramba": Barnabás von Géczy and his orchestra. Parlophone B. 48 039 (mx. 133.183)
  • Luck is knocking on my door today - Slow Foxtrot (Hans Heinrich Dransmann) from the film "Gesangsverein Sorgefrei": Barnabás von Géczy and his orchestra. Parlophone B. 48 039 (mx. 133.184). June 24, 1931.

Filmography

Hansheinrich Dransmann wrote the music to accompany the following films:

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection . Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970.
  • Storm Bull: Index to biographies of contemporary composers Vol. II: Metuchen, NJ Scarecrow Press, 1974.
  • Hans Heinrich Dransmann: Someone builds a cathedral. Choral work. German Music publ. in the NS Kulturgem., 1935.
  • Hansheinrich Dransmann: Interview with myself; Secrecy; Anita and the devil . In: Lessing Theater - Berlin - Theateranzeiger. PW Becker Verlag, Berlin approx. 1940.
  • Gero Gandert (Ed.): 1929 - The film in the Weimar Republic . De Gruyter, 1993, pp. 17, 26, 35, 63, 67, 72-73, 78, 87, 89, 98, 109, 115, 124, 146, 164, 166-167, 187, 206. ISBN 3- 11-011183-7
  • KAR = "Künstler am Rundfunk" - A pocket album from the magazine “Der deutsche Rundfunk”. Rothgiesser and Diesing, Berlin 1932.
  • John London: Theater Under the Nazis. Manchester University Press, 2000, p. 171. ISBN 0-7190-5991-7
  • Program booklet Sächsische Staatstheater Dresden, Schauspielhaus, May 10, 1931: "Caramba", operetta by Haberer-Helasco / Theo Halt, Hansheinrich Dransmann Musik. Director: Josef Gielen, dances: Ellen von Cleve-Petz. Musical. Head: Chitz / Wurmser. With Luis Rainer, Stella David, Cara Gyl, Paul Hoffmann, Martin Hellberg, Alexis Posse, Reinhold Farecht. Dresden, Publishing House Administration of the Saxon State Theater, 1931.
  • Carlo Schneider: On the history of the Darmstadt Musikverein . In: Festschrift of the Musikverein Darmstadt eV for the hundred and fifty-year anniversary in 1982. In: Festschrift 175 years of the Musikverein Darmstadt eV Darmstadt 2007, pp. 13-25.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rateyourmusic.com
  2. ↑ cf. music sack [1] and film portal [2] Hansheinrich Dransmann. Pseudonym: Jack Drooning [music, production management] 1922–1931 - * April 12, 1894; † 1964.
  3. ↑ cf. Birett pp. 127-128.
  4. ↑ cf. radiomusaeum [3] : “The conductor and composer Hansheinrich Dransmann led the orchestras in various Berlin movie theaters. He made a name for himself with the operetta "Caramba", which he composed. " (KAR-179)
  5. ↑ cf. Carl Maria Holzapfel in the Lexicon of Westphalian Authors ; Holzapfel also wrote, together with Albert Graf von Pestalozza , the producer, the screenplay for the Nazi documentary Ewiger Wald (1936); Film portal [4]
  6. ↑ cf. Schneider, Musikverein Darmstadt, Festschrift p. 21 [5]  : "... unfortunately the Musikverein also had to pay tribute to the National Socialist regime [...] So GMD Friderich [...] brought the oratorio One Builds, which glorifies the Führer , in 1935 a cathedral by the now long forgotten composer Hans Heinrich Dransmann for a performance ... "
  7. ↑ Federal Archives: Regesten R 55/20468 Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda [R 55 Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, 15 Theater Department (T), 15.8 Theater Law]: concessions (file number T 6615) [6]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / midosa.startext.de  
  8. ↑ cf. Birett p. 15. David Mendoza used this composition by Dransmann in his music compilation for the Vitaphone needle film " Svengali " by the American director Archie Mayo from 1931 , cf. IMDb [7]
  9. ↑ cf. Birett pp. 30-31.
  10. ↑ "Caramba ...!" or "Dolores and the Parallels"; [Los extemenos se tocan]; Operetta with obstacles by Hansheinrich Dransmann. Text by Pedro Muñoz Seca u. Perez Fernandez; German by H. Haberer Helasco u. Theo Halton; Lyrics by Theo Halton; Piano reduction with text (piano score). Length 56 pages. Vienna: Pfeffer, 1931.
  11. ↑ cf. universaledition archive link ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , hugedynamic archive link ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and Müller, section 'Further settings', p. 22. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.universaledition.com @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hugedynamic.com
  12. ↑ choral works, cf. musikverein-duesseldorf [8]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Catalog DNB [9]@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.musikverein-duesseldorf.de  
  13. ↑ cf. Catalog of the DNB [10]
  14. ↑ the original American film accompaniment came from William Akst and David Mendoza, cf. Gandert S. 215, IMDb [11] and en.wiki White Shadows in the South Seas  : “ The soundtrack consisted of a romantic score by William Axt and David Mendoza ”; Dransmann probably played Ketèlbey's composition, which is better known in Germany, for the film, which is still shown here in silence.
  15. ↑ cf. Zwarg phonomuseum parlo133000 [12]
  16. ↑ frenchfilmguide [13] , filmportal [14] , IMDb [15]
personal data
SURNAME Dransmann, Hansheinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Drooning, Jack
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kapellmeister and composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen am Teutoburg Forest , Lower Saxony
DATE OF DEATH 1964