Jean Moreau (cabaret artist)

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Jean Moreau (* 1876? / 1878 ; † June 28, 1952 in London? / Berlin ) was a German cabaret artist , chansonnier and actor .

Life

Moreau was born on January 8th, 1878 in Sisak, Croatia, as the son of a timber merchant. His birth name was Giovanni Morovich. After studying singing in the lyric baritone vocal subject, he went to Vienna . He conducted further studies in Brussels , Paris and Dresden . In 1906 he came to Berlin to take up an engagement as an opera singer. In 1909 he was hired by Rudolf Nelson , the director of Berlin's Chat Noir , as a chansonnier for his cabaret. As a result, guest tours took him around the world. Soon he was regarded as the 'grand master of the metropolitan cultivated chanson'.

His repertoire ranged "from small sentimental ditty to socially committed chanson to highly dramatic ballads". His lectures that have become famous include: B. "Das Ladenmädel" by Rudolf Nelson, the mother song "Zwei kleine dirtige hands" by OA Alberts and Siegfried Nicklass-Kempner , and "La Glu", the ballad of the mother's heart, which Yvette Guilbert made famous.

Even before 1914 he made several recordings for 'Grammophon'. After the First World War he worked as an actor in several silent films. In 1927 he was still in the role of Medical Councilor Dr. Gray bird can be seen in the film “Zwei unterm Himmelszelt”.

In 1925 Moreau performed a Russian ballad and setting a poem by Nikolaus Lenau to music in the Berliner Funkstunde , accompanied on the piano by Franz S. Bruinier , who also set several texts for him.

In 1926 he suffered a stroke from which he did not fully recover and therefore ended his stage career. He now earned his living as a singing teacher, u. a. in Prague and Munich. In the last years of his life he was forced to live in poverty. At the beginning of the 1950s he moved back to Berlin. An event in his honor was held there in 1952.

Moreau died on June 28, 1952 in Berlin of a heart condition.

Filmography

Sound documents (selection)

Made in Germany (text by Fritz Grünbaum , music by Rudolph Nelson) Sung by Jean Moreau, baritone from the cabaret "Chat noir", conference: Fritz Grünbaum, on the piano: the composer. Berlin. Gramophone Concert Record GC-4-42186 (mx. 195 from)

Das Ladenmädel (text by Willi Wolff , music by Rudolph Nelson) Sung by Jean Moreau, baritone from the cabaret "Chat noir", at the piano: the composer. Berlin. Gramophone Concert Record GC-4-42187 (mx. 196 from)

Abbé and Countess (text by Leo Heller , music by Béla Laszky ) gramophone 14 335 (mx. 1083 ar)

Three letters (Nicklass-Kempner) gramophone 14 335 (mx. 1084 ar)

Two dirty little hands: Part I (text by Alberts, music by Nicklaß-Kempner) Record “Grammophon” 13 499 (mx. 17 750 L)

Two dirty little hands: Part II (text by Alberts, music by Nicklaß-Kempner) Record “Grammophon” 13 499 (mx. 17 751 L)

Czardas [plays the Csárdás for me, plays it well for me] (Nicklass-Kempner) record “Grammophon” 15 897 (mx. 110 on)

The homeless (Nicklass-Kempner) record “Grammophon” 15 897 (mx. 111 on)

literature

  • German stage yearbook. Theater history year and address book. Vol. 61, 1953, ISSN  0070-4431 , p. 86.
  • Peter Jelavich: Berlin Cabaret, Studies in Cultural History . 336 pages, illustrated edition. Harvard University Press, 2009. ISBN 0-674-03913-0
  • Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Göttingen, self-published, 1991, unpag.
  • Horst Bergmeier and Rainer Lotz: The Bruinier family . In: Fox on 78, issue 12, summer 1993. ISSN  0948-0412
  • Manfred Weihermüller and Rainer Lotz: Discographie der Deutschen Kleinkunst, Volume 2 , Bonn, Verlag B.Lotz, 1993. ISBN 978-3-9802656-6-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leimbach and rateyourmusic: 1878
  2. ↑ so Leimbach and rateyourmusic
  3. ↑ cf. rateyourmusic.com
  4. ↑ a b c so Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Göttingen, self-published, 1991
  5. ↑ Kaiser Wilhelm II is said to have liked this song so much that Moreau had to sing it for him five times, cf. Jelavich p. 99
  6. ↑ chanson de Charles Gounod sur des paroles de Jean Richepin, cf. [1]
  7. ↑ cf. filmportal.de [2] ; in the review of the film "Alcohol" by Dr. JB (= Dr. J. Brandt) in 'Film-Kurier' No. 2 of January 3, 1920 the “brilliant cabaret artist” is certified as having a “splendid acting character drawing”, cf. [3]
  8. ↑ cf. filmportal.de [4]
  9. ↑ according to Berthold Leimbach: sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945 . Göttingen, self-published, 1991 and rateyourmusic
  10. ↑ listen on youtube [5]
  11. ↑ Released on CD on the BearFamily label , Hundert Jahre Cabaret 1901-33, 3 CDs, order number: 5949315, date of publication: June 18, 2007, as track 14 on CD No.1
personal data
SURNAME Moreau, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morovich, Giovanni (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cabaret artist, chansonnier and actor
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: January 8, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Sisak , Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1952
Place of death unsure: Berlin