Peter Deutsch (composer)
Peter Deutsch (born September 18, 1901 in Berlin ; † May 13 or 15, 1965 in Copenhagen ) was a German-Danish composer. He created the music for numerous films.
Life
Peter Deutsch was trained in Berlin. He first worked as an opera director and from 1924 conducted an entertainment orchestra. From 1929 he wrote music for film productions, initially still in Germany, after moving to Denmark in 1929 or 1933. He also worked for the theater and radio productions, but also composed pieces that were not tied to these institutions. On October 6, 1943, he was sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto . Together with Carlo Sigmund Taube, Peter Deutsch led the so-called Stadtkapelle, a prisoner orchestra with more than forty members that played popular classical music. He chose the music for the propaganda film Der Führer gives the Jews a city and also conducted during the recordings.
After the liberation by the Allies, he returned to Denmark. From 1951 to 1955 he directed the Danish Youth Symphony Orchestra, and later a Copenhagen orchestra.
Peter Deutsch was married to Else Deutsch. He sometimes used the pseudonym "Pete Alman".
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 .
Web links
- Peter Deutsch in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Joža Karas: Music in Terezín 1941-1945 . Pendragon Press, New York 1985, ISBN 0-918728-34-7 , pp. 182 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 10, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Peter Deutsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- ↑ a b Fritz Bauer Institute: Auschwitz: History, Reception and Effect . In: Fritz Bauer Institute (ed.): Yearbook ... on the history and effects of the Holocaust . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-593-35441-1 , p. 347 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 10, 2017] note 34).
- ↑ Milan Kuna: Music at the Limit of Life. Musicians from Bohemian countries in National Socialist concentration camps and prisons . Zweiausendeins, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-86150-018-3 , p. 223-226 .
- ↑ Karel Margry, The concentration camp as an idyll. "Theresienstadt" - a documentary film from the Jewish settlement area ( Memento from April 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ life data on lexm.uni-hamburg.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | German, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Danish composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1965 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |