Hugo Wiener

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Hugo Wiener in the studio of the station Rot-Weiß-Rot (1950)

Hugo Wiener (born February 16, 1904 in Vienna ; † May 14, 1993 ibid) was an Austrian composer , librettist , chanson , cabaret , screenplay and stage writer as well as pianist .

Life

Grave of Hugo Wiener and his wife Cissy Kraner in the Vienna Central Cemetery, group 33 G, number 3 (Dec. 2014)

Hugo Wiener began to study music privately while he was still at school; after school he worked as an extra and répétiteur at the Raimund Theater in Vienna .

From 1928 to 1938 he wrote revues for the Femina cabaret stage , 25 of which were created between 1930 and 1933 in collaboration with the librettist Kurt Breuer (born August 29, 1896 in Vienna; † December 20, 1960 in New York City ).

The Jewish Viennese managed to escape from Vienna in 1938 by accepting an invitation to Bogotá ( Colombia ) with the revue stage Femina . He did not get the passport required for this, however, when Fritz Imhoff issued him a blank check to pay the so-called " Reich flight tax ". He had to leave his family in Austria, who were subsequently deported to Poland . On the trip to Bogota he met the new ensemble member of the "Femina", Cissy (Gisela) Kraner , whom he married in Caracas ( Venezuela ) in 1943 . According to his own account, he would hardly have survived the time in exile , as the fear for his family left behind in Europe and the absurdity of living as a German-speaking author on a Spanish-speaking continent brought him to the verge of suicide several times . Eventually they opened a piano bar in Caracas, with which they had great success, but returned to Vienna in 1948. From 1950 they were ensemble members of the Viennese " Simpl ", where he wrote a large part of the famous double concerts for Karl Farkas and Ernst Waldbrunn . In 1965 there was a break with Farkas.

Hugo Wiener wrote over a hundred cabaret programs and around 400 chansons, which became an experience thanks to Cissy Kraner's unique interpretation. In addition to scripts such as for “The Crazy Couple” on ZDF , he wrote musical comedies and operetta libretti and edited musicals and operettas .

A particular skill of Wieners was to write his texts "tailor-made" for the respective interpreter.

He is buried in a grave of honor together with his wife Cissy Kraner in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 33 G, number 3). In 1997 the Hugo-Wiener-Weg in the 22nd district of Donaustadt was named after him, in 1999 the Hugo-Wiener-Platz in the 4th district of Wieden ; Cissy-Kraner-Platz was named after his wife in 2013 in Wieden .

Works (selection)

Chansons
  • Novak songs:
    • But the Novak does not let me go to waste (1954 - This version later had to be marked in Germany with the note: "Warning! Sale to young people prohibited according to the decision of the Federal Inspectorate 798 of October 16, 1960", which is due to a confusion with the Gisela - Parody based.)
    • The Novak doesn't want to know anything more about me (The Tragedy Part 2) (1956)
    • But I won't let the Novak go to waste. The third part of the tragedy (recorded in December 1962 - a stanza is not the first literal incidental mention, but the first addressing of homosexuality on record after the Second World War.)
    • From 1957 Gerhard Hildebrand , aka Alexander Gorski, began to add new, more daring stanzas to the first stanza, which were performed by his girlfriend and temporary partner, Gisela from Schwabing, in her restaurant and some of them appeared on record. (e.g. But the Novak ... , The Novak Part 2 , The Novak Part III )
  • A complicated relationship
  • I don't like the Novotny!
  • I wish I had a front tooth for my birthday
  • Opera visit
  • How to make a cake
  • On the panozza varnishes
  • The prayer (k) a virgin
  • The dieter
  • Like the girl Rose-Marie
  • I really want to be a teenager
  • Yes, yes the quiz
  • Mr. Kern is watching TV
  • Why can't I be the Marilyn Monroe
  • I have to get out of the milieu
  • The cruel story of little Albert
Satires
Autobiography
  • Time leaps. Memories of an old youth. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-548-35441-6 .
Comic book
Edits

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Hugo Wiener  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Librettists. Fritz Löhner-Beda , Kurt Breuer and Hugo Wiener . In: Marie-Theres Arnbom : "Your services are no longer needed". Expelled from the Volksoper - the fate of artists in 1938 . Amalthea, Vienna 2018, ISBN 9783990501429 , pp. 25–34.
  2. ↑ Ernst Waldbrunn / Cissy Kraner & Hugo Wiener: This is where the porter speaks / The Novak does not let me go to waste / How to make a cake. Viennaphon - 1512 ( at discogs.com )
  3. ↑ Cissy Kraner: The Novak Does Not Let Me Degenerate / A Twisted Relation. Shellak: Austroton - 9640 V ( at discogs.com ); Single: Austroton - 45-A-9640 ( at discogs.com )
  4. ↑ Cissy Kraner: Why do you always only talk about other women? / The Novak doesn't want to know anything more about me. Single: Austroton - 45-A-9810 ( at discogs.com )
  5. ↑ CISSY KRANER - NOVAK WANTS TO KNOW NO MORE ABOUT ME (THE TRAGEDY 2nd PART) (SONG) on austriancharts.at
  6. ↑ a b c Ralf J. Raber: We are what we are: A century of homosexual love on record. Pp. 72-74;
    Cissy Kraner: But I will not let the Novak go to waste / Why am I only a girl from the people? Single: Elite Special - 10 005-45 ( at discogs.com )
personal data
SURNAME Wiener, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1993
Place of death Vienna