Margot Friedländer (singer)

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Margot Erika Hertha Friedländer (also Friedlaender , married Riemann, born March 12, 1917 in Berlin ; † December 24, 1998 there ) was a German jazz and pop singer.

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Friedländer's talent for singing was particularly encouraged by her mother; at the age of four she appeared in Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel and at nine she sang in a children's choir . Since her father was of Jewish descent, she was considered half- Jewish according to the ideology of National Socialism and was therefore expelled from the Reichsmusikkammer in February 1940 , into which she had been admitted in the late 1930s. In August 1941, however, she was resumed; presumably it was needed to support the troops . As a singer, she was also featured in the propaganda recordings ofCharlie and his Orchestra used. She was sent back to Germany by the troop support on the Eastern Front because she was falsely suspected of espionage.

She then performed with Heinz Sandberg in the Hamburg bars Faun and Trichter . At the beginning of 1944 the Gestapo investigated Sandberg for playing jazz and brought charges. Friedländer was now supposed to do forced labor , but went into hiding after an Italian musician offered her to hide her in Berlin. In the further course of 1944 she performed illegally in Berlin bars in the Latin Quarter such as Orangerie or Patria ; Among the audience was Goebbels adjutant Diether von Wedel , a jazz fanatic. Her fans also included the SS-Obergruppenführer and Police President Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorff .

After the end of the war she quickly made contact with the Radio Berlin Dance Orchestra and sang mainly swinging songs, also with other orchestras. In 1946 she made recordings for Odeon in which she was accompanied by the Kurt Widmann orchestra (sometimes singing in English) (“You are beautiful with me”, “Rum and Coca-Cola”). She became known, among other things, as an interpreter of compositions by George Gershwin , Cole Porter and Irving Berlin . In the post-war years she toured through Germany with Bully Buhlan, among others .

As a soloist, she worked with numerous radio entertainment orchestras, including the orchestras Kurt Edelhagen , Adalbert Lutter , Gerd Natschinski (" The Man I Love ", Amiga 50131) and Kurt Henkels . Her best-known titles included “When the swallows move”, “Every evening I have to think tenderly of you” (1956), “What can the moon do for it?” (Odeon 26642, with Helmut Gardens ) or “Seemann, I let you know ". As an actress, she had a role in the feature film Under the Thousand Lanterns (1952, directed by Erich Engel ).

Although she lived in West Berlin , she was involved in many radio and Amiga productions in the eastern part of the city . With the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, this possibility ceased, which initially limited her career. Two years before her death, she and her husband recorded five songs on the piano on Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information from the University of Hamburg
  2. ↑ a b Obituary in the Berliner Kurier
  3. ↑ a b c d e Michael H. Kater : Daring Game: Jazz in National Socialism . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 1995, ISBN 978-3-462-02409-8
  4. ^ Leif Jerram: Streetlife: The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century . 2011
  5. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed September 1, 2016)
  6. ^ Kurt Henkels, Heinz Quermann: Ten Years of the Leipzig Radio Orchestra . 1957, p. 42
  7. ↑ Margot Friedländer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Friedländer, Margot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Friedlaender, Margot; Friedländer, Margot Erika Hertha; Riemann, Margot (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German jazz and pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1998
Place of death Berlin