Mark Lothar

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Grave of Mark Lothar and his wife Corry Nera in the Munich-Solln cemetery

Mark Lothar (actually Lothar Hundertmark ; born May 23, 1902 in Berlin ; † April 6, 1985 in Munich ) was a German composer .

Life

He studied in Berlin with Franz Schreker , with Walther Carl Meiszner (piano, 1921–1926) and in Munich with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari . Mark Lothar became known early on as a song accompanist for famous singers, including Erna Berger and Hermann Prey as well as Corry Nera , who became Lothar's wife in 1934. In 1933, Lothar, who was a member of the ethnically -minded, anti-Semitic Kampfbund for German culture, was appointed by Max Reinhardt as a music expert at the German Theater. In 1934 Gustaf Gründgens was appointed to the Prussian State Theater in Berlin , where he worked as musical director until 1944. During the Nazi era , he received various composition commissions from the Reich Office for Music Arrangements, which was subordinate to Goebbels . In August 1944, Adolf Hitler added Lothar to the list of the most important composers in his eyes, which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front .

From 1945 Mark Lothar worked at the Bavarian State Theater and from 1955 as a freelance composer in Munich .

With "Tyll" he achieved his first major opera success in 1928. This humorous play opera with lyrical and cheerful parts once again delighted audiences and critics when it was performed again in 1984 at the Oberhausen Theater . "Tyll" joined u. a. Operas such as “Münchhausen” (1933), “ Schneider Wibbel ” (1938), “ Rappelkopf ” (premier: Munich 1958) and “ Momo and the Time Thieves” (1978). His stage work “Hans Sonnenstössers Höllenfahrt” dates from the 1930s.

Lothar also made a name for himself as a composer of stage music, film music (for example to " Friedemann Bach ", " Tender Secret " and " Faust " by Gustaf Gründgens ) and songs based on texts by Hermann Löns , Joachim Ringelnatz , Christian Morgenstern and others. His song cycle “Music of the Lonely” op. 69 based on poems by Hermann Hesse , which Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau also interpreted , met with great approval . (EMI SME 91660)

His grave is in the Solln cemetery in Munich.

Filmography (selection)

Radio play music

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Lothar, Mark" in Munzinger Online / KLfG - Critical Lexicon for contemporary foreign-language literature. The New German Biography (NDB), Volume 15, p. 233 incorrectly mentions "piano lessons with WC Meiszner in Dresden [sic]"
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 378f.
  3. ^ Walter Abendroth : Is the Volksoper still possible? Reflections on Mark Lothar's “Rappelkopf” and its Munich premiere. In: The time . September 11, 1958 .;
personal data
SURNAME Lothar, Mark
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hundertmark, Lothar (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1985
Place of death Munich