Otto Stenzel

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Otto Stenzel (also Otto Stenzeel , born April 12, 1903 in Berlin , † March 7, 1989 in Baden-Baden ) was a German musician, film composer and band leader .

Life

Stenzel played in Berlin in the 1920s in the Boston Club dance orchestra under the direction of Bernard Etté , was director of the cinema in the UT Kurfürstendamm from 1926 to 1930 and worked as a film composer at the end of the decade a. for the silent films The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin (1927, director: Willi Wolff ), Menschen am Sonntag (1929, director: Robert Siodmak et al.), Mascottchen (1928/29, director: Felix Basch ) and for Diary of a Lost One (1929, director : Georg Wilhelm Pabst ). From 1930 he directed the theater orchestra in the Scala revue theater in Berlin; During this time he recorded a number of records with the orchestra, such as Say ' bei Abschied leise Servus (1936, vocals Luigi Bernauer , Odeon A272082), When I'm happy I have to sing (1937, with Kurt Mühlhardt , Kristall 3654), Violins have never played so beautifully (Brillant 243, vocals Max Mentor ), Wir crank an (Electrola 2675), Penny Serenade (Gloria 21285), La Cucaracha (Tempo 4036), Let's dance (1939, vocals Wilfried Sommer , Gloria 41328), sunshine for everyone (1939, vocals Humoresk Melodios , Gloria 41283) and music! Music! Music! (by Peter Kreuder , from the Marika Rökk film Hallo, Janine! ). In Stenzel's orchestra played a. a. Mike Danzi and Franz Thon .

In October 1939, on the orders of Joseph Goebbels , Stenzel was temporarily arrested together with the singer Anita Spada , Scala press chief Will Meyer and the emcee Heinz Heimsoth.

The band leader should not be confused with the assistant director Otto Stenzel (* 1926).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Otto Stenzel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  2. ^ Herbert Birett : Silent film music. Material collection. Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin. Berlin 1970.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Jansen: Das Variété: the glamorous story of an entertaining art . Edition Hentrich, 1990, p. 210
  4. ↑ Josef Donderer: ... and in the evening in the Scala: Photographs . Berlin: Nicolai, 1991
  5. ^ Wolfgang Jansen: Das Variété: the glamorous story of an entertaining art . Edition Hentrich, 1990, p. 219
  6. Jump up ↑ Peter Cowie, Derek Elley: World Filmography: 1967
  7. ↑ John Howard Reid: Cinemascope 3: Hollywood Takes the Plunge . 206, p. 295.
personal data
SURNAME Stenzel, Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stenzeel, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, film composer and band leader
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1989
Place of death Baden-Baden