Marc Roland

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Marc Roland (born January 4, 1894 in Bremen , † February 25, 1975 in Munich , actually Adolf Beeneken ) was a German composer who was best known for his film scores .

Life

The son of an accountant studied composition with Max Meyer-Olbersleben and Simon Breu . From 1919 he worked as Kapellmeister at the Theater am Kottbusser Damm in Berlin-Grunewald and as a freelance composer. He wrote pieces for cinema libraries in the late romantic style, but also original music for silent films . In doing so, he used fixed musical forms, but also strived for an illustrative image synchronicity of the music. For example, he wrote a battle scene in Fridericus Rex (1920-22) in sonata form. He also composed the parade march of the tall guys for this film , which was added to the army march collection in 1925 and is still part of the repertoire of many marching bands today.

Roland was head of the German Film Music Union and founded an academy for film music in 1928, in which cinema band masters were to be trained. His film music work includes around 100 compositions for cinema and television films .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists in 1933, he composed the music for the feature film Der Choral von Leuthen , which received the title "popular education" and was banned in 1945 by the Allied military governments. In 1935, together with Erwin Offeney , he wrote the music for the anti-Semitic film Just don't become soft, Susanne! . Since 1934 he was a member of the administrative committee of the Reich Chamber of Music . He wrote film scores for militaristic films such as Fridericus (1936) based on the novel by Walter von Molo and Karl Bunjes Der Etappenhase (1937), both banned in 1945. In 1940 he composed incidental music to Heinrich von Kleist's Prince von Homburg , after which he received no more film commissions. Roland was not a member of the NSDAP; In 1944 he was drafted as a soldier.

In the post-war period he lived in Munich and later in Tegernsee. He continued to work as a film music composer and wrote, for example, the music for the film Ferien vom Ich (1952). He also wrote the play opera The Long Pepper , which was the first piece by a West German composer to be performed in the GDR and premiered there in Halle (Saale) in 1952. In 1970 he joined the Freemason Lodge Friedrich in Bad Pyrmont to the three sources and wrote a ritual music for Freemasons, which was only completed after his death. His grave is in the cemetery on Lortzingstrasse in Bad Pyrmont.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, pp. 5.829–5.830.
  2. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbuch , pp. 5.830-5.831.
  3. ↑ Article on Roland on the website of the Bad Pyrmonter Lodge
  4. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture 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. 495.
  5. ↑ Article on Roland on the website of the Bad Pyrmonter Lodge
personal data
SURNAME Roland, Marc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1975
Place of death Munich