I dreamed of love in May

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With I dreamed in May by love which starts refrain of a shimmy -Liedes that the conductor and composer Franz Doelle wrote. Alfred Berg wrote the text for it . In 1926 it became the title hit for the silent film of the same name by Franz Seitz senior , for which Doelle also wrote the screenplay , while Willy Schmidt-Gentner composed the music for illustration. The artistically less demanding film I dreamed of love in May was premiered on August 16, 1927 in Berlin.

However, Doelle's Shimmy song was already used in 1925 in the James Klein revue Das lachende Berlin in the Apollo Theater , the libretto of which Carl Bretschneider wrote after his farce of the same name written in 1921 .

The hit, which was published in 1924 by Mignon-Verlag Berlin, appeared again in 1926 by Rondo-Musikverlag Berlin. He was also quoted on motivational postcards. Well-known artists such as the operetta tenor Max Kuttner and the singer and songwriter Willy Weiss sang it on gramophone records .

Sound documents (examples)

  • Homocord B.1777 (Matr. M 17 680) [A 27 2 25] In May I dreamed of love , from "Das lachende Berlin" (text by Alfred Berg - music by Franz Doelle) "Homocord" orchestra with refraing singing .
  • Beka-Record B. 5285 (Matr. 32 900) In May I dreamed of love : Lied (Franz Doelle) Willy Weiß with orchestra, aufgen. April 16, 1925
  • Polyphon 31 408 / 2-23 806 (Matr. 1806 at) I dreamed of love in May , a shimmy song by Franz Doelle. Max Kuttner with orchestra.
  • Record "Grammophon" 19 313 / B 60 511 (Matr. 798 az) I dreamed of love in May , Shimmy-Lied (Franz Doelle) Efim Schachmeister ms Künstler-Ensemble.

literature

  • Petra, Christopher, Franz Doelle: Biography of Franz Doelle (1883–1965)
  • Astrid Eichstedt, Bernd Polster : Like the wild ones, dances at the height of their time . Rotbuch-Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88022-709-8 .
  • Wolfgang Jansen: Splendid revues of the twenties. (= Sites of the history of Berlin. Vol. 25). Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-926175-34-6 .
  • Astrid Kusser: Body tilted, dancing in the whirlpool of the Black Atlantic around 1900 . (= Post_colonial Media Studies. Volume 1). transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-2060-7 .
  • Kurt Laser: The film in Berlin in the twenties and thirties . In: Berlin monthly magazine ( Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein ) . Issue 6, 2000, ISSN  0944-5560 , p. 157-165 ( luise-berlin.de ).
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Part 2: History and stories of popular music up to 1945 - composers - librettists - lyricists. Edition 3. Books on Demand , 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-7287-9 .
  • Evelyne Polt-Heinzl: “With two fingers: tick-tick, rrr” - writers and their writing implements. In: Wiener Zeitung . June 24, 2005 (wienerzeitung.at)
  • Magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk" (Ed.): Artists on the radio - A pocket album of the magazine "Der deutsche Rundfunk". Dedicated to our readers. Rothgießer & Diesing publishing house, Berlin 1932

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Song in shimmy rhythm, as it became fashionable in Europe after 1920, dances of the time , Eichstedt-Polster, Kusser p. 401, 406, 414.
  2. ^ He wrote entertainment programs and critical contemporary song texts, many together with Hugo Hirsch , Ploog p. 264; In 1933 he took his own life out of desperation about the political situation
  3. ↑ the artistic direction had Wilhelm Dieterle , who also produced the film.
  4. ↑ Laser pp. 162-163.
  5. ↑ I dreamed in May of love in the Internet Movie Database (English) . filmportal.de
  6. ↑ assignment to label Homocord B.1777 (Matr. M 17 680) [A 27 2 25]; Jansen, Glanzrevuen p. 75 and Polt-Heinzl. Wiener Zeitung , June 24, 2005: “'The living typewriter' was the name of a scene from the revue 'Das lachende Berlin' (1925). The discs with the printed characters were big enough to cover the girls' faces when their bodies formed the typewriter as tableau vivant . "
  7. ↑ Wilh. Kosch (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon . Volume 4: Braungart – Busta. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2002, ISBN 3-11-096112-1 , Sp. 203-204.
  8. ↑ Issue Schlager and Chansons , Harmonie / Rondo-Verlag-Ges., Hamburg H. 4 - Content: Fragrant Parmvaeilchen: Fragrant Parmvaeilchen have done it to me; Valse. - Charleston, Charleston, that's something new !: Foxtr. - Amalie goes with rubber cavalier Foxtr. - Youth in May: youth, youth, youth in golden May; Along. Waltz. - I dreamed of love in May: Foxtr. - Everyone wears his own Pinkerl: Yes, I wear a pointed hood. Year of publication ([1964]), length 16 pages .; 4 °
  9. ↑ Postcard Photochemie Berlin 5784/2 ( memento of August 27, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ): young lovers in the room, refrain line “I dreamed of love in May”, also postcard Photochemie Berlin 5784/4 (extended 25 August 2015)
  10. ^ "Artists on radio" p. 135.