Harry Waldau

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Harry Waldau (born April 7, 1876 in Liegnitz as Valentin Pinner ; † March 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German pianist , composer , and lyricist .

Life

Stumbling block at the house, Xantener Strasse 6, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Little is known about Waldau / Piner's childhood and youth in Lower Silesia , including his education. It is believed that he began his career as a singer and actor on antics and operetta stages.

Pinner lived in Berlin as a conductor and pianist and wrote music and texts for the entertainment stage and cabaret as “Harry Waldau” in the 1910s and 1920s. Well-known artists of the time interpreted them. Gramophone recordings have survived from many of his works. In April 1921 he became the house conductor in the cabaret “Schall und Rauch”. At times he himself ran a cabaret in Berlin.

Pinner worked with lyricists such as AOAlberts , Richard Rillo and Hanns Dekner and with composers such as Rudolf Nelson , Max Niederberger and Alfred Pickert . In 1919 he wrote the revue "Wetten dass ...?" With Nelson and AOAlberts, with Niederberger he wrote the operetta "Der Liebesexpress" , which was also made into a film in 1931. For Leo Ascher's operetta Bravo Peggy , which premiered on April 29, 1932 in Berlin he wrote the libretto together with Walter Lichtenberg and Armin Robinson.

He has also composed music for several films. In 1914 he even directed a cinema band himself.

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work as an artist of Jewish descent and was exposed to racial persecution.

Pinner last lived in Wilmersdorf at Xantener Strasse 6. At the age of 67, he was taken from his apartment on March 2, 1943, deported to Poland and killed there in Auschwitz .

Harry Waldau is not to be confused with Theodor Waldau , who was actually called Dorku Goldberg and was also a hit poet: as “Wauwau” he wrote many songs with Hermann Leopoldi . He died on March 27, 1942 in Buchenwald concentration camp .

On May 17, 2017 , a stumbling block was laid in front of his former home, Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Xantener Straße 6 .

Works

1. Songs, dances, chansons:

  • The Bed Canopy: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • The Pied Piper Waltz [for piano for two hands] = The rat-catcher = Le ratier by Harry Waldau. Berlin: Globus-Verl. [approx. 1900]
  • The marriage spiral by Hanns Dekner / Harry Waldau. 82 pp.; 8º. Manuscript. Berlin: Verb. Dt. Stage writer u. composers, 1932.
  • The Little One: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • The naive woman: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • The red mill, from "Wetten dass" by Rudolf Nelson / Words by Harry Waldau (1919)
  • The misunderstood woman: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • The Wild Woman: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • Halali by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • In the love garden: Intermezzo; Alfred Pickert op.52 / text by Harry Waldau (1919)
  • Little girls have to go to sleep! Chanson by Harry Waldau (1920)
  • Maple leaves: Intermezzo = Ahornblätter by Harry Waldau (1920)
  • Princess Adventures: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • Revanche pour Sédan: Chanson by Harry Waldau (1912)
  • Serenade d'amour: Op. 60 by Harry Waldau. Berlin: Pegasus Theater- und Musikverlag o.J.
  • Serenade d'amour = Carnival Flirt by Harry Waldau (1920)
  • Sérénade d'amour ": op. 60; Waltz song by Harry Waldau (1920)
  • What does Rosalinde want in Binz and Swinemünde: Shimmy for a voice and piano by Harry Waldau (1928)

Die Kuh / Harry Waldau (Chanson) in: Either way is life: Chansons and cabaret songs from yesterday and today. - p, voc. - Berlin: Dreiklang-Dreimask Bühnen- u. Music publ. - Grades. [approx. 2009]. - 34 p.: Notes. Order no .: UFA 127510.

Rixdorfer Polka / Harry Waldau. In: Alfred Michows Musikalische Volksbibliothek, Berlin-Charlottenburg. 4 pages, size approximately DIN A 3

Sérènade dàmour / Harry Waldau op.60, arranged for bandoneon by Oskar Seifert. Publishing house by O. Seifert, Eppendorf Sa., No.800.

Ecstasy ("Come to my heart, beautiful woman"): Words and music by Harry Waldau. Edition Accord, Berlin W9 Potsdamer Str. 2

Moon night. Boston song. Words and music by Harry Waldau. Edition Accord, Berlin W9 Potsdamer Str. 2


2. Music for the cabaret:

After the First World War, Waldau ran the cabaret “Die Spinne” in Berlin . This is where Willy Rosen's career as a piano humorist began.

Some sound recordings from this time with songs by Harry Waldau have been preserved on VOX records. These include:

  • VOX 5069-A Four poisons (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 05/1923)
  • VOX 5069-B The spirit of the new time (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 05/1923)
  • VOX 5070-A Young girls want to have love (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 05/1923)
  • VOX 5070-B Holla Jazzband (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 05/1923)

Waldau wrote songs for the Berlin Diseuse Claire Waldoff , among numerous other works . These include people, come over , why did I always piss on the bees or the thousand-crown note that are preserved in the artist's recordings:

  • Gramophone 14 628 (mx. 522 ax) Come on over there (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 03/1923)
  • Gramophone 14 628 (mx. 523 ax) Why did I always piss on the beds? (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 03/1923)
  • Grammophon 14 844 (mx. 1324 at) The thousand-crown note (Text: Harry Waldau) (NE 05/1924)

In addition, musical contributions were made for the literary cabaret . The title The Murder in the Villa Marcuse became famous with the music of Rudolf Nelson. Waldau also wrote “occasional compositions” like the Christmas Polka on the song Tomorrow, children, there will be something .


3. Music for the cinema

3.1 Music to accompany silent films

  • Fought for luck. Feature film Italy 1914, with Francesca Bertini . Music (cinema music): Harry Waldau
  • Wilted laurel. Feature film Germany 1916, directed by Walter Schmidthässler . Music (cinema music): Harry Waldau

3.2 Music for the sound film

  • The love express. Feature film Germany 1930/1931, based on the same operetta. Direction: Robert Wiene, music Max Niederberger and Harry Waldau. Lyrics by Robert Gilbert.


3.3 In 1914 Waldau conducted the music to accompany the films in the cinema "Cines Nollendorffplatz"

  • Otto marries. Feature film France 1914
  • The shot. Feature film Sweden 1914
  • Medical dogs in military service. Documentary film Germany 1914

Audio samples

  • youtube "Why do you always kiss me uff de beene?" (Harry Waldau) Fritzi Frou [born in Emma Frühling] with orchestral accompaniment. Apply Beka B.5153-I (Matr. 32 468). August 9, 1924 in Berlin
  • youtube The Stephansturm greets Berolina (Harry Waldau and Hanns Dekner) Engelbert Milde with orchestra accompaniment. Tri-Ergon TE5481 (Matr. 02195), apply. 1928 in Berlin
  • youtube Madam Loulou (music: Harry Waldau, Polish text: Konrad Tom) Adam Aston [born Adolf Loewinsohn] with the "Syrena" orchestra, Syrena Electro 9214 (mat. 24 761). 1934 in Warsaw

literature

  • Helga Bemman: Berlin Musenkinder memoirs . Berlin-Ost, Verlag VEB LdZ Musikverlag Berlin, 1981
  • Karin Ploog: When grades learned to run. History and stories of popular music up to 1945 . First part. Books on Demand publisher 08.2015. ISBN 978-3-7347-4508-9 . 696 pages
  • Stengel / Gerigk = Lexicon of Jews in Music. With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party officially checked documents, Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk (edit.) , (= Publications of the Institute of the NSDAP for the investigation of the Jewish question, vol. 2), Berlin: Bernhard Hahnefeld, 1941, ( 1st edition 1940, anti-Semitic publication).
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 418.

Web links

Commons : Harry Waldau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ he played z. B. 1903 at the Berlin Theater in der Posse, one time with 100,000 Thaler by David Kalisch as a stage director; he also sang in the operetta Alt Heidelberg , cf. Ploog p. 689–692: "As it appears to me, he probably first worked as an actor and singer." (P. 689)
  2. ↑ by EMELKA Münchner Lichtspielkunst AG, with Joseph Schmidt and Therese Giehse
  3. ↑ on him cf. LexM Hamburg (2010, updated March 6, 2015)
  4. ↑ cf. Ploog p. 691
  5. ↑ cf. GECD # 5212
  6. ↑ cf. Stengel-Gerigk p. 231
  7. ↑ cf. LexM Hamburg , Ploog pp. 689, 691
  8. ↑ cf. [1] . Evidence that this couplet is still offered and performed up to the present is provided by: concordia-holtensen.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 'Now we sing (and play) "Die Kuh" by Valentin Pinner alias Harry Waldau. A song from 1912. ' and wissembourg-festival.com Valentin Pinner alias Harry Waldau (1876–1943): The cow @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.concordia-holtensen.de
  9. ↑ cf. ebay.de (accessed October 27, 2015)
  10. ↑ Note title displayed at imagesmusicales.be
  11. ↑ Note title displayed at imagesmusicales.be
  12. ↑ cf. Popular Jewish artists
  13. ↑ Source: VOX Record Catalog 1925, cf. Vox5000 series
  14. ↑ cf. MUGI Hamburg ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Catalog raisonné @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de
  15. ↑ cf. Bemman: Berliner Musenkinder-Memoiren, p. 65.
  16. ↑ Christmas sounds
  17. ↑ cf. GECD # 21441
  18. ↑ cf. filmportal.de , GECD # 38085
  19. ↑ cf. filmportal.de
  20. ↑ cf. filmportal.de
  21. ↑ 1913–1915 operated by the German Cines Society, from 1916 “UT Lichtspiele”, later the Ufa pavilion on Nollendorfplatz, cf. allekinos.com
  22. ↑ In this two-act silent film, the well-known couplet singer Otto Reutter plays under the direction of Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers , cf. GECD # 31216 and filmportal.de , plus Robert Ostermeyer's Otto Reutter page "Otto Reutter im Film"
  23. ↑ cf. GECD # 33376
  24. ↑ cf. GECD # 32770
  25. ↑ Photo at bibliotekapiosenki.pl
personal data
SURNAME Waldau, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinner, Valentin (real name); O'Brien, Harry (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, composer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1943
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp