Otto Dobrindt

Otto Dobrindt (born August 24, 1886 in Henkendorf / West Prussia (today Hanki ), † September 13, 1963 in Berlin ) was a German orchestra director and film composer .

Life

Dobrindt started out as a unit manager at the record company Carl Lindström AG, of which he became chief unit manager. From 1925 he recorded his own productions in different styles under various pseudonyms (including the Dobbri Saxophone Orchestra , Odeon Tanz-Orchester , Wiener Bohème-Orchester , Dobbri , Robert Renard , Eddie Saxon , Frank Sandlers , Eric Harden , Götz Höhne , Horst Platen ), from swing to light classical music. The "Otto Dobrindt Orchestra" accompanied many Ufa stars on recordings, for example Lilian Harvey , Willy Fritsch and Hans Albers . Dobrindt conducted the recording of a potpourri of the " Merry Widow " with Zarah Leander . In 1935 Dobrindt took over the management of the entertainment orchestra at Germany's broadcaster . In the same year he wrote the music for the film “Everything listens to my command”. He conducted numerous wish concerts with the NSDAP party badge on his lapel .

From 1945 Dobrindt directed the Berliner Rundfunk entertainment orchestra in the city's eastern sector. He only gave up this post after the Berlin Wall was built in 1961. Dobrindt also conducted other orchestras in the GDR . He recorded cross -sections of operettas with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the DEFA version of the bat with the DEFA Symphony Orchestra in 1955 .

Lexical entries

• Jürgen Wölfer : Jazz in Germany. The encyclopedia. All musicians and record companies from 1920 until today. Hannibal, Höfen 2008, ISBN 978-3-85445-274-4 .

Web links

• Works by and about Otto Dobrindt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Otto Dobrindt in the Internet Movie Database (English)