Rudolf Perak

Rudolf Perak (born March 29, 1891 in Vienna , † December 3, 1972 in Munich ) was an Austrian composer and film composer .

Life

Perak received his artistic training at the Salzburg Mozarteum . He then worked as a conductor in the Austro-Hungarian province (e.g. in Merano in South Tyrol ) but also at the Hamburg Operettenhaus and the Berlin Metropol Theater . In addition, the actor's son worked as a freelance composer and wrote operettas such as Frau im Frack , The Duke's Page and A Girl Like You .

With the dawn of the sound film age, Perak also became active for this medium; He wrote most of his musical contributions to the full-length German feature film in collaboration with colleagues such as Robert Stolz , Nikolaus Brodszky and Michael Jary . By 1942, numerous of his scores were also written for productions by Belgian director Jan Vanderheyden , and after the war various pieces of music for Vanderheyden's film editor Edith Kiel , who had meanwhile switched to directing.

While his work for the feature film makes up only a subordinate share, the composition for documentary and cultural films (around 300 pieces) was Perak's main occupation for the film medium. Perak also wrote the sheet music for a number of television plays.

Films (selection)

Feature films, unless otherwise stated

• 1932: The Prince of Arcadia
• 1933: Wedding at Wolfgangsee
• 1933: Fruits ( Csibi, the Fratz )
• 1934: Adventure in the south express
• 1934: The master boxer
• 1934: visit in the evening
• 1934: I long for you
• 1935: Hilde Petersen in poste restante
• 1936: Stjenka Razin
• 1936: Stronger than paragraphs
• 1936: Our Cameroon (documentary)
• 1937: Signal in the night
• 1938: three nimble kerels
• 1939: Een engel van een man
• 1939: 12 minutes past 12
• 1940: German armory (short documentary film)
• 1941: The English Disease (short documentary film)
• 1941: talkers or guys? (Short documentary film)
• 1942: Antoon, de flierefluiter
• 1943: city ​​melody
• 1944: The Snowman (animated short film)
• 1950: Abbiamo vinto
• 1952: Oh, you dear Fridolin
• 1952: Both sides of the taxiway (documentary film)
• 1953: The Red Line (Documentary)
• 1954: Beautiful Alpine Country (documentary film)
• 1954–56: Gold from glaciers (documentary)
• 1956: Boevenprinses
• 1956: Rendez-vous in het paradijs
• 1957: Africa Without Mercy (documentary)
• 1958: What not to talk about
• 1958: Between luck and crown (documentary film)
• 1958: Rolled up again: The Nuremberg Trial (documentary)
• 1960: a heart needs love
• 1960: De duivel te slim
• 1961: Since 5.45 a.m. the fire has been fired back (documentary)
• 1961: De stille genieter
• 1970: Skiing in the Dolomites (short documentary film)

literature

• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 1274.
• Jürgen Wölfer, Roland Löper: The great lexicon of film composers . Berlin 2003. p. 398

Web links

• Rudolf Perak in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rudolf Perak at filmportal.de