My heart is a jazz band (film)

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Movie
Original title My heart is a jazz band
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1929
length 8 acts, 2670 m, at 24 fps 100 minutes
Rod
Director Friedrich Zelnik
script Curt J. Brown
production Friedrich Zelnik
music Artur Guttmann
camera Frederik Fuglsang , Paul Rischke
occupation

My heart is a jazz band is the title of a silent film comedy that Friedrich Zelnik realized and also produced in 1928 for his company Efzet-Film GmbH (Berlin) based on a manuscript by Curt J. Braun . It was also the title of a Foxtrot song by Willy Engel-Berger , for which Fritz Löhner wrote the text under his stage name “Beda”. It was first published in Vienna in 1927 in the Revue Chauffeur, to the Apollo! used and then gave the title to the film.

action

Social comedy in a big city environment. Unfounded jealousy leads a young person in love to try to get money in a criminal way. He is involved in a burglary. When the project threatens to fail, he brings about the return of the stolen goods in a playful way, so that everything will be fine again.

background

The buildings were built by Andrej Andrejew , the designs for the costumes come from Walter Trier . Adolf Essek was the production manager, Louis Domke assisted the director. Frederik Fuglsang and Paul Rischke were responsible for the photography . The music for illustration was composed by the cinema bandmaster Artur Guttmann . Deutsche First National Pictures GmbH (Defina) took care of the distribution. The film was also shown in France, Denmark and Poland.

The film was first available to the Reichsfilmzensur on October 1, 1928 in a length of 8 files equal to 2825 m and received under the number B.20588 youth ban. Despite cuts and shortening to 2670 m, it was again banned for young people on November 27, 1928 under the number B.20933. The Oberprüfstelle Berlin confirmed this ban on December 1, 1928 under the number O.00936.

One took offense at the portrayal of a burglary, which was suitable to "endanger not only the moral, but also the intellectual development of young people".

The film premiered on January 28, 1929 in Berlin in the UT Universum.

reception

“Lya Mara moved into the Gloria Palast with the film 'My heart is a jazz band'. It's Mardi Gras, and any nonsense is allowed if it's just funny, ”wrote Siegfried Kracauer in his 1928 film review“ Carnival in the Cinema ” .

Film hit

The Foxtrot Mein Herz is a jazz band was recorded on gramophone records by various German and Austrian artists. In Austria he was played by Charles Gaudriot Jazz, Moulin Rouge Vienna with singing by duetists Bauer & Reichmann (on Odeon A 186.108, Matr. Ve 1368) and the Jazz Symphony a Tanečni Orchestr by Dol Dauber (on Austrian HMV AM 1224, Matr. BK 2880-1); also the piano duetists Lilly and Emmy Schwarz, singing on the double wing (Bechstein) (on Odeon O-2483 a / A 45 512. Matrix: Be 6914). In Germany, the title took Efim chess champion (942 Grammophon 21227 / B 41985, matr. ½ bd) with its Jazz Symphony Orchestra in October 1927 instrumental up with the chorus singing from Luigi Bernauer also the Homocord Orchestra (with Homocord 4 -2901, Matr. M 20 859) on December 7, 1928.

literature

  • Herbert Birett: Sources on film history 1920–1931. Title list of German silent films. (kinematographie.de)
  • Herbert Birett: Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin 1970, DNB 456121080 , pp. 130–131 (on B 20 588 / IX 400 Alfred (!) Guttmann, Ufa-Theater Am Zoo)
  • Hans Michael Bock, Wiebke Annkatrin Mosel, Ingrun Walks: The Tobis 1928–1945: An annotated filmography. Edition Text + Criticism, Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-88377-748-X , S. 8, 313.
  • Paolo Caneppele, Filmarchiv Austria: Decisions of the Tyrolean film censorship 1922–1938. Materials on Austrian film history (= decisions of the Tyrolean film censorship, Filmarchiv Austria, publisher Paolo Caneppele. Volume 4). Publisher: Film Archiv Austria, 2002, ISBN 3-901932-12-7 , p. 244.
  • Hans Embersmann: Gera: History of the city in words and pictures. Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1987, ISBN 3-326-00225-4 , p. 155.
  • Wolfgang Hirschenberger, H. Parnes: Discography of Austrian Popular Music. Dance, jazz and light music recordings 1900–1958. 2013. (grammophon-platten.de ; PDF)
  • Anke J. Hübel: From the salon to life. Jazz, popular culture and the reinvention of the artist in the early avant-garde (= Edition Kulturwissenschaft. Volume 76). transcript Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-3168-9 , p. 146.
  • Illustrated film courier. Volume 10, 1928, No. 1023.
  • Gerhard Lamprecht: German silent films. Volume 9, No. 400, DNB 457340444 , p. 755.
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. First edition. Self-published, Göttingen 1991, DNB 911350551 , on Luigi Bernauer.
  • Rainer E. Lotz, Axel Weggen: German National Discography: Discography of Judaica recordings. Volume 1, Verlag Birgit Lotz, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-9810248-2-6 , p. 92 on Dol Dauber.
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Volume 2: Cabaret-Operetta-Revue-Film-Exil. Popular music until 1945. BoD - Books on Demand, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7386-9342-3 , p. 432.
  • Karin Ploog: When the notes learned to run ... Volume 3: History and stories of popular music up to 1945. Chronological timetable from 1812 to 1945 Politics-Economy-Culture. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7347-5406-7 , p. 338.
  • Irene Stratenwert, Hermann Simon (Ed.): Pioneers in Celluloid. Jews in the early film world . Henschel, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89487-471-6 , pp. 29, 32, 285-287 Michael Hanisch on Fr. Zelnik.
  • Manfred Weihermüller (Ed.): German National Discography. Discography of German Cabaret. Volume 5, Verlag B. Lotz, Bonn 1998, ISBN 3-9805808-1-4 , p. 1291 on Lilly and Emmy Schwarz.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Inscription on the label Odeon A 186.108 (Matr. Ve 1368), apply. Vienna, February 1928
  2. ↑ cf. Birett, silent film music p. 131
  3. ↑ cf. IMDb release info
  4. ↑ cf. Birett, sources at kinematographie.de
  5. ↑ cf. Test report at filmportal.de
  6. ↑ cf. Test report at filmportal.de
  7. ↑ cf. Film test center Berlin, test number 20 933 of November 27, 1928
  8. ↑ Union Theater Universum, also Luxor Palace; Halensee Palace. 1791 places. Built by Erich Mendelsohn in 1927/28 as part of the WOGA complex . See District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
  9. ^ Ingrid Belke (ed.): Siegfried Kracauer, works. Volume 6: Small writings on film. Part 1, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-518-58346-8 , p. 199 to no.468.
  10. ↑ cf. Hirschenberger p. 90
  11. ↑ cf. Hirschenberger p. 37