Lothar Perl

Lothar Perl (born December 1, 1910 in Breslau ; died April 28, 1975 in New York City , United States ) was a German-American pianist, composer and conductor.

Life

Perl studied piano in Berlin and was active in the field of syncopated piano music. With Rudolf Bielschowsky he formed a piano duet that could be heard on the radio. At the beginning of the 1930s he published a dozen novelty piano solos with B. Schott Söhne's publishing house in Mainz. He also recorded some of them himself under the title “Jazz on the wing” for Lindström's label Odeon . Others came out on the label of the gramophone / Polydor , two pieces are preserved on a radio wax plate.

When the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Perl as an artist of Jewish descent had to leave Germany with his wife Gitta Wallerstein, a dancer, and fled to America. There he settled in Hollywood, where he worked for dance troupes and for film. He composed and played the piano as a studio musician. He performed as a piano pair with Paul Schopp . In the 1950s he was musical director on the television program The Ernie Kovacs Show . In one episode of this he also appeared himself and played Frédéric Chopin's minute waltz .

literature

Horst Bergmeier, Rainer E. Lotz: B&L Special - Lothar Perl. In Klaus Krüger (Ed.): Fox on 78. Heft 9, Munich, Winter 1990/1991, p. 52
Stuart Isacoff: A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians - from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between. Illustrated edition. New York: Button Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011. ISBN 9780307701428 . Pp. 322, 357 (English)
Lilian Karina, Marion Kant: Hitler's Dancers. German Modern Dance and the Third Reich. Berghahn series, illustrated edition. New York, Oxford: Verlag Berghahn Books, 2004. ISBN 9781571816887 , pp. 281, 357 (here as Peel-Perl, Lothar)
Ross Laird: Tantalizing Tingles. A Discography of Early Ragtime, Jazz, and Novelty Syncopated Piano Recordings, 1889-1934. Portsmouth NH .: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995. pp. 122–123, 214–215, 219, 221–222, 226 (English)
Horst Heinz Lange: Jazz in Germany - the German jazz chronicle 1900–1960. Berlin: Colloquium Verlag 1966, 2nd edition, Hildesheim et al.: Olms 1996. ISBN 3-487-08375-2
Horst Heinz Lange: The German '78 discography of hot dance and jazz music 1903–1958. Berlin: Colloquium-Verlag, 1966, p. 747
Anna Langenbruch: Topographies of Musical Action in Exile in Paris. A “Histoire croisée” of the exile of German-speaking musicians in Paris 1933–1939. Musicological publications, No. 41. Hildesheim et al: Olms, 2014
Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 896
Ellen Schwannecke [Electronic Resource] In: Pem's private reports. November 1, 1937, No. 79: 62 (published 1937, article on page 62) By the way: Die Wessely - Nikolaus Brodsky - Lothar Perl - Georg Alexander - London in a few lines - Journalistic - Pem saw - Zurich theater. See entry in the German National Library
Habakuk Traber, Elmar Weingarten (ed.): Displaced music. Berlin composer in exile. Berliner Festspiele, Berlin: Argon, 1987

Web links

Lothar Perl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Leroi Cortot: Lothar Perl compositeur de Novelty. (French)
Susanne Leinemann: Berlin Treasures - The writer Paul Marcus, called Pem. Berliner Morgenpost, September 2, 2013 (morgenpost.de)
Lothar Perl - Entry at LexM, Hamburg (2009, updated on June 18, 2014)
Thomas Willimowski: A forgotten "Pope of Exile". Berliner Zeitung, April 24, 1997 (berliner-zeitung.de)
A Jazz Etude - Serendipitously Surreal. Lothar Perl accompanies tap dancer Billy Burt on the piano. Short film. Castle Films. YouTube, 2:42 min., Black and white picture

Individual evidence

↑ Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft , matrix number 2 010 502, added in 1932
↑ ^a ^b Georges Szirtes: Tap Dancing… blogspot.de
↑ cf. Billboard, July 2013, 1946. p. 4
↑ cf. Leinemann and Willimowski: “Pem's private reports. A circular for all German artists and writers who have fled. From May 1936 onwards, week after week, Pem typed on two duplicated pages about her attempts to gain a foothold abroad. Anyone who wanted to know where which colleague was and what he was doing subscribed to Pem's private reports. The paper was sent all over the world by post: New York, Paris, Shanghai, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro. Although the circulation never exceeded 250 copies, the effect on emigrant circles was enormous. "

personal data
SURNAME	Perl, Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American pianist, composer and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 1, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1975
Place of death	New York City , United States

[1] Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft , matrix number 2 010 502, added in 1932

[szirtes-2] Georges Szirtes: Tap Dancing… blogspot.de

[3] . Billboard, July 2013, 1946. p. 4

[4] . Leinemann and Willimowski: “Pem's private reports. A circular for all German artists and writers who have fled. From May 1936 onwards, week after week, Pem typed on two duplicated pages about her attempts to gain a foothold abroad. Anyone who wanted to know where which colleague was and what he was doing subscribed to Pem's private reports. The paper was sent all over the world by post: New York, Paris, Shanghai, Bombay, Rio de Janeiro. Although the circulation never exceeded 250 copies, the effect on emigrant circles was enormous. "