Lotar Olias

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Lotar Olias

Lotar Olias (born December 23, 1913 in Königsberg in Prussia ; † October 21, 1990 in Hamburg ) was a German composer and lyricist from the 1920s to 1960s, who often worked in partnership with the lyricists Peter Moesser , Günter Loose and Fritz Graßhoff .

Life

Olias attended the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory in Berlin, where Moritz Mayer-Mahr and the institute director Robitschek were his teachers. At this time he was already composing chansons for singers such as Max Hansen and Lucienne Boyer. He then wrote revues for the Berlin Wintergarten and Hamburg's Planten un Blomen . In 1937 he wrote his first film scores for several short films .

Olias had since November 21, 1932 member of the NSDAP ( member number 1478935) and was NSDAP culture warden of the local chapter Wartburgplatz in Berlin. In the 1930s, he wrote several titles with a National Socialist content for the National Socialist rulers. These include the SA death march , brown and gray and the official march (excerpt from this: "God bless our leader and the work of his deed. That he should always protect us from Judah and betrayal."). Nevertheless, Olias was not one of the house and court composers of the Nazi leadership. During World War II , Olias was the head of the front theater Der Knobelbecher . In 1941 he composed two perseverance songs: When is peace in Berlin and Once the great war ends , which were recorded on record and in which he played the vocal part.

In 1939 Olias returned to Hamburg. After the war ended, in 1945 he helped found the Hamburg literary cabaret “Bonbonnière”, for which he composed and wrote the lyrics. Since he did not receive any major commissions, he had to stay afloat for years with fairground jobs, as a musician at weddings and as a fashion show presenter .

Gravestone of Lotar Olias.

In 1949 he achieved his breakthrough as a sought-after pop and film music composer. In addition to hits and musicals, he wrote film scores for over 40 films from the 1950s and 1960s. The songs sung by Freddy Quinn in particular became great audiences and are now considered evergreens. Until 1964, Olias also regularly composed the music for the films in which Quinn starred. Freddy Quinn competed in the 1956 Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in Lugano with This is how it goes every night .

Lotar Olias died in 1990 from complications from severe circulatory disorders. Olias rests in the Ohlsdorf cemetery .

Honors

Works

Musicals

  • When the Big City Sleeps (1949)
  • Homesickness for St. Pauli (1954, revised 1962)
  • Prairie Saloon (1958)
  • Charley's New Aunt (1966)
  • Millions for Penny (1967)
  • The safe is in the window (1971)

Schlager (selection)

  • Sailors also have a home (1949)
  • If Men Only Knew (1951)
  • You, you, you, leave my little heart alone (1954)
  • I'm homesick for St. Pauli (1954)
  • Above the roofs of Hamburg
  • Such a day, as beautiful as today (1954)

Filmography

literature

  • Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933-1945 . PDF on CD-ROM, Kiel 2004, pp. 5018–5021.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . PDF on CD-ROM, Kiel 2004, p. 5018.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 442.
  3. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 . PDF on CD-ROM, Kiel 2004, p. 5021.
  4. ↑ Died: Lotar Olias . In: Der Spiegel . No. 44 , 1990, pp. 334 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Olias, Lotar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and lyricist
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Königsberg in Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 21, 1990
Place of death Hamburg