Paul Chicken

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Paul Hühn (born February 13, 1883 in Berlin , † April 11, 1958 in Berlin-Halensee ) was a German Kapellmeister , composer , film composer and musical director.

Live and act

After his musical training, Hühn dedicated himself to the light muse shortly after the turn of the century. He wrote cabaret songs and revues such as Die Welt ohne Schleier and had already worked as a bandmaster before the First World War . In this profession he worked on theaters in the capital, such as the German Art Theater (so-called Saltenburg-Bühnen) and the Great Playhouse, where Hühn was mainly responsible for the major revues of Erik Charell .

With the dawn of the sound film age, Paul Hühn was brought in to compose films. In addition to his own creations, the Berliner also created adaptations and arrangements of film adaptations of well-known operettas such as The Last Waltz (by Oscar Straus ), Der Landstreicher (by Carl Michael Ziehrer ) and Frau Luna (by Paul Lincke ). After 1945, Hühn was no longer active in film and returned to the stage as a conductor or Kapellmeister. At the Berlin Metropol-Theater, to which Hühn belonged for almost the entire 1940s, he also worked in the early post-war period with the later star tenor Rudolf Prack , at the Berlin State Opera he conducted, among others, Straussen's Die Fledermaus and Eine Nacht in Venice . Hühn's last cinematic contribution was an appearance in the artist film Drei vom Varieté in 1954 .

Filmography

Only as a composer (without musical lines or arrangements)

literature

  • Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 2: Hed – Peis. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560744 , p. 725 f.
  • Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2003, p. 248.

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personal data
SURNAME Chicken, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Kapellmeister, composer, film composer and musical director
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1958
Place of death Berlin-Halensee