Michael Jary

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Michael Jary (born September 24, 1906 in Laurahütte near Kattowitz ; † July 12, 1988 in Munich ; actually Maximilian Michael Andreas Jarczyk ) was a German composer .

life and work

In 2008, Berlin unveiled a memorial plaque for Jary on his former home on Fasanenstrasse

Jary's father was a foreman in the Königshütte, his mother a seamstress. His brother Herbert Jarczyk became known as a film and television composer. As a child, Maximilian wanted to become a missionary, so he spent his school days in the monastery of the Steyler missionaries near Neisse . It was there that he discovered his love for music. With 18 years Jary left the monastery and attended the conservatory in Bytom . He directed a church and workers' choir and wrote the first chamber music works that the Gleiwitz station broadcast. The city theater of Neisse and Plauen finally hired him as the second conductor .

In 1929 Jary was accepted into the Berlin State Music Academy ; he studied with Franz Schreker , Paul Hindemith , Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky . He also worked as a pianist in cafes and cinemas. In 1931 he was awarded the Beethoven Prize of the City of Berlin. At the university's final concert on February 8, 1933, he conducted his concert for two pianos, trumpet and trombone and was booed by members of the Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur . Paul Graener , the new director of the Stern Conservatory , vilified the work as a “cultural Bolshevik music stammer of a Polish Jew”.

Jarczyk had to go into hiding until the matter grew on it. He wrote arrangements under the pseudonyms Jackie Leeds and chansons under Max Jantzen . When he signed his first film deal, he was reminded that he couldn't make a career with a Polish-sounding name. A friend then deleted three consonants from the surname and chose his middle name: Michael Jary was born. Symphonic background music was his domain; In 1936 he composed his first film music for the film The Big and Small World, based on a novel by Honoré de Balzacs in 1936 .

Also Swing -Arrangements and Jazz were despite the government diktat to his repertoire. He founded the Michael Jary Chamber Dance Orchestra, a pure studio orchestra that has never performed publicly, but has made a big name for itself. Among other things, a cycle of settings of the zodiac signs in this style was created. As a member of the jazz and swing scene in Germany in the 1930s and a proven connoisseur of this era, Jary declared in the 60s for the record Papa's dance tea is not dead! Using numerous music examples, their most important rhythms, melodies and representatives.

Jary's breakthrough as a pop composer came in 1938 with Roter Mohn . Before that, he almost turned his back on popular music. As conductor of the Szymanowski Memorial Concert in Berlin , he received an invitation from Ernest Ansermet to Geneva . But the German authorities refused to allow Jary to leave the country. So he composed, mostly together with the lyricist Bruno Balz , for the Ufa film hits, which are now evergreens: Von Das Can't Shake a Sailor (from the film Paradies der Junggesellen with Heinz Rühmann , Josef Sieber and Hans Brausewetter , 1939) I know that one day a miracle will happen and that won't end the world (from the film Die Große Liebe mit Zarah Leander , 1942) up to carousel .

Single Manhattan Boogie , 1953
Cushion stone Michael Jary ,
Ohlsdorf cemetery

Shortly before the end of the war, Jary founded a new chapel. With this foundation (and reinforced by musicians from other orchestras, for example from Charlie and His Orchestra ) on behalf of the Soviet control officers with the 48-man Radio Berlin Dance Orchestra (RBT-Orchester), he was able to already nineteen days after the surrender (May 8, 1945) occur. He hired Ilse Werner and Bully Buhlan as soloists for the radio broadcasts . In November 1948 he gave the singer Zarah Leander a successful comeback in Germany with two concerts in Saarbrücken (November 13th and 14th, 1948). On this occasion he put together a Saar Dance Orchestra of 40 musicians, with whom he accompanied the singer and also played his own works. The frequently rumored claim that Jary founded the Radio Saarbrücken dance orchestra in 1947 is incorrect, since Radio Saarbrücken had had its own dance orchestra under the direction of Heinz Gebhardt since the spring of 1946. In 1948 he founded his own publishing house, Michael Jary-Produktion, which even had an office in New York in the 1950s . In 1949 "Mäcki", as his friends called him, went to Hamburg . More successful films and hits follow. Songs like Leise rustles on the Missouri , Only Dolores ' legs do that, Mäcki-Boogie , Today there is something in the air and many others are now standard works of popular music. Performers such as Zarah Leander , Rosita Serrano , Evelyn Künneke , Lale Andersen , Gerhard Wendland , Heinz Rühmann , Hans Albers sang Michael Jary's songs.

For the German preliminary decision for the 1960 Grand Prix , Jary composed for Heidi Brühl We never want to part . The song took second place in the festival jury; But it is still considered to be one of the greatest successes in German hit history.

After this success, Jary found his way back to his roots. He wrote the musical Nicole , which premiered in Nuremberg in 1963 and was later performed in Poland. He wrote symphonic works in his adopted Swiss home above Lake Lugano . In 1973 he suffered three heart attacks .

Michael Jary was married to the mannequin Christiana for the second time and is the father of the writer Micaela Jary .
He died on July 12, 1988 in Munich. His grave is in the Ohlsdorf cemetery in Hamburg at the Jarczyk family grave, grid square M 17 (south of Cordesallee, east of Ringstrasse ).

Honors

Compositions

Stage works

  • The vice admiral . Operetta. First performance (premiere) 1934
  • Nicole. A Parisian story in four pictures . Musical. Libretto: Ernst Nebhut . Premiere 1963 Nuremberg ( Opera House )

Instrumental music

  • Concerto for two pianos, trumpet and trombone
  • Symphonic works

Filmography (selection)

See also

literature

  • Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz, Frank Oehme, Joachim Schütte: The "Eternal Friend" - Eterna and Amiga; The discography of the shellac records (1947–1961) , Albis International Bibliophilen-Verlag, Dresden-Ústí 2006, ISBN 80-86971-10-4
  • Micaela Jary: I know there will be a miracle one day - The great love of Zarah Leander, edition q 1993/2001 ISBN 3861241528

Web links

Commons : Michael Jary  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ mp3 and text
  2. ↑ Axel Jockwer: light music in the 3rd Reich . Dissertation Konstanz 2004 at kops.uni-konstanz.de ( PDF , 4.223Mb, 645 pages )
personal data
SURNAME Jary, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jarczyk, Maximilian Michael Andreas (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Laurahütte near Katowice
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1988
Place of death Munich