Richard case

Richard Fall (born April 3, 1882 in Gewitsch , Austria-Hungary , † early 1945 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent. One of his best-known compositions is the hit What are you doing with the knee dear Hans .

Life

Richard Fall grew up in a family of musicians. His two brothers Leo and Siegfried as well as his father were also composers and conductors. Fall worked as an operetta conductor in Berlin and Vienna and as a film composer in Hollywood .

After the annexation of Austria in 1938, he fled to France from the National Socialists .

On November 20, 1943, he was deported from the Drancy assembly camp to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was murdered in early 1945, before the concentration camp was liberated.

Works

Stage works

Gold ring . Fairy tale game in 3 acts. Libretto : Paul Wertheimer and Mia Ewers. Premiere 1909 Vienna
The women's paradise . Operetta in one act. Libretto: Julius Brammer and Alfred Grünwald . Premiere 1911 Vienna
Wiener Fratz . Operetta in one act. Libretto: Ernst Klein and MA Weikone . Premiere 1912 Vienna
Arms and the Girl . Operetta in 2 scenes Libretto: Austen Hurgon. Premiere 1912 London
Stand people . Operetta in one act. Libretto: Robert Bodanzky and Fritz Grünbaum . Premiere 1913 Vienna
The globetrotter . Operetta in a prelude and 2 acts. Libretto: Fritz Löhner-Beda and Karl Lindau . Premiere 1915 Berlin
The lady of the world . Operetta in 3 acts. Libretto: Fritz Löhner-Beda and Hans Kottow. Premiere 1917 Vienna
The doll baroness . Singspiel in 2 acts. Libretto: Alexander Engel and Fritz Grünbaum. Premiere 1917 Vienna
Big city fairy tale . Operetta in 3 acts. Libretto: Bruno Hardt-Warden and Erwin Weill . WP 1920 Vienna
In the Alpenhotel . Operetta in one act. Libretto: Julius Horst and Ernst Wengraf . Premiere 1921 Vienna
The stingy spendthrift . Operetta fluctuations in 3 acts. Libretto: Richard Kessler and Arthur Rebner . Premiere 1922 Berlin
Apollo? Only Apollo! Equipment review 18 pictures (together with other composers). Libretto: Fritz Grünbaum, Wilhelm Sterk and Fritz Löhner-Beda. Premiere 1925 Vienna
Hello! Here Grünbaum! Revue. Text: Fritz Grünbaum. Premiere 1927 Vienna

Songs

Young man. Text: Arthur Rebner . 1923. Gabor Steiner Publishing, NY
Dear Katharina, come to me in China! Song and Foxtrot. Text: Fritz Löhner-Beda . 1927. Wiener Bohême Verlag
My aunt, your aunt . One-step, text: Fritz Löhner-Beda. 1925. Wiener Bohême Verlag
What are you doing with your knee, dear Hans . Pasodoble. Text: Fritz Löhner-Beda. 1925. Wiener Bohême Verlag
If you've never done it before . Foxtrot. Text: Arthur Rebner. 1923. Gabor Steiner Publishing, NY
Where is your hair, august? Foxtrot. Text: Fritz Löhner-Beda

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 , p. 387.

Web links

Richard Fall in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Richard Fall in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)

Literature by and about Richard Fall in the catalog of the German National Library

Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial

Individual evidence

^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 146.

personal data
SURNAME	Case, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer and conductor of Jewish descent
DATE OF BIRTH	April 3, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Gewitsch , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH	1945
Place of death	Auschwitz concentration camp

[1] Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 146.