Viktor Corzilius

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Viktor Corzilius (also: Victor Corzilius; born December 3, 1895 in Ransbach , † November 1, 1968 in Fulda ) was the artist name of the German composer and writer Walter Maria Espe .

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Corzilius was born Walter Maria Espe on December 3, 1895 in Ransbach in the Westerwald . "Corzilius" is the Latinized form of the name "Espe". This is how he called himself as a composer, while he used his real name as a writer. Corzilius wrote music for the stage, sound film, dance and song hits. Hans Planter composed the lyrics to many of his pieces of music. Rudolf Perak and Rudolf Presber were also among his librettists . He was also active as a crime writer and brought out the "crime comedy in 6 pictures" in 1932, the Grootmann case and in 1933 the crime play The black lily . The Grootmann casewas filmed in America in 1933 by William Beaudine under the title The Crime of the Century as a mystery thriller. After the seizure of power of the Nazis , he was an employee of the Gaupropagandaarchivs Berlin. Under his real name Walter M. Espe he wrote the book of the NSDAP about "Becoming, Struggle and Goal of the NSDAP", which was published in Berlin in 1933 by G. Schönfeld. However, it displeased the party leaders and landed on the "list of harmful and undesirable literature" in 1938.

Together with the actor and author Robert Dorsay he wrote the great revue operetta Today I'm in Love , which premiered in 1937 in the Admiralspalast in Berlin. Dorsay was later denounced for telling political jokes and executed in 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee prison.

In 1940 the film director and screenwriter Karl Georg Külb published the “Comedy in 3 Acts after e. Idea v. Walter Maria Espe “ Love has to be learned .

After the Second World War, the play by Will Kaufmann and Walter Maria Espe was followed by the feature film Egon the Womanizer , in which Theo Lingen played a double role.

Walter Maria Espe died on November 1st, 1968 in Fulda .

Works

Operettas

  • The blue Heinrich. Musical Schwank by Otto Schwartz and Georg Lengbach . [Acting] music by Viktor Corzilius. Berlin, Neuer Theater-Verlag, 1936.
  • The bacchante. Operetta by Hubert Cuypers and Viktor Corzilius. Text by Hans Pflanzer . Berlin, Munich, Vienna: Drei Masken-Verl. 1923.
  • from it:
    • When we both get married. Shimmy
    • Venus, you shining queen. Valse Boston
  • The book fairy. One act by Rudolf Presber , music by Victor Corzilius. Berlin, Verl. D. Association of Berlin Booksellers, edition: Bloch 1925
  • The spring fairy. German Singspiel by Ludwig Spannuth-Bodenstedt . Song texts by Hans Pflanzer. Music: Victor Corzilius. Berlin: Rühle, 1923. Performance: Stadttheater Bamberg on November 10, 1923. Also appeared in Danish as Frøken Foraar .
  • from it:
    • Shake hands, we want to be brothers. march
    • German sailors go home. march
  • The big and the little love. Operetta by Rudolf Perak a . Max Heye . Music by Viktor Corzilius, lyrics by Rudolf Presber. Berlin: sales office u. Verl. Dt. Stage writer u. Stage composer 1935.
  • I'm in love today. Revue operetta by Robert Dorsay a . Walter W. Espe. Music by Viktor Corzilius. Berlin: Ed. Standard, Musikverl., C1937.
  • Prince Don Juan. Operetta by Karl Thiemann. Song texts by Hans Pflanzer. Music: Victor Corzilius. Berlin: Brüll, 1922
  • from it:
    • A little bit of sins the Lord likes to forgive
    • Your fairy tale princes: waltz duet
    • Red-haired maiden
    • When the moon laughs from the sky at night ...! "From the operetta" Prince Don Juan ": the new hit of the Thalia Theater, Berlin."
  • Princess for one night. Operetta by Karl Thiemann. Song texts by Hans Pflanzer. Music: Victor Corzilius. Berlin: Neruda, c 1932.
  • from it:
    • When the orchestra plays: Foxtrot (words by Hans Pflanzer, music by Victor Corzilius, arr.Fred Ralph)
  • How beautiful God made my Treptow! Waltz song ("To tea and dance" Volume 5, No. 10)

Song, dance and sound film hits

  • Adjöh Marie, it was very nice! : Shimmy song (text: Hans Pflanzer) Berlin: Robert Rühle [1924].
  • A hundred thousand little girls. Song from “Blinde Passengers” (text and music: Viktor Corzilius) 1936
  • Night club: Shimmy [1925]
  • Broke, all people are broke today: Shimmy [1924] (Text: Hans Pflanzer)
  • Sweetheart, spring is in my limbs, song (text: Hans Pflanzer)
  • When the forget-me-nots bloom, song from “Schabernack” (Text: Rudolf Perak)
  • What is the sailor thinking about? Song from “Blind Passengers” (Text: Rudolf Perak)

Stage plays

  • Walter Espe: The black lily: a detective piece. Bad Kissingen: Verl. Dt. Stage writer and stage composer. 53 pages.
  • Walter M. Espe: The Grootmann case: A crime comedy in 6 pictures. Berlin: sales office d. Association of German stage writers u. Stage composers, 1932. 88 pages.
  • Karl Georg Külb: Love has to be learned. Comedy in 3 acts according to e. Idea v. Walter Maria Espe. Berlin: Ahn & Simrock 1940, printed as Ms., 134 p. In 8 °.
  • Will Kaufmann and Walter Maria Espe: Egon the womanizer. Confusion fluctuations. Filmed in 1957.

Filmography

  • 1935: end of the line
  • 1936: Blind passengers, also: Pat & Patachon as blind passengers
  • 1936: jokes - who is who?
  • 1937: Gordian, the tyrant [with Weiss Ferdl ]
  • 1939: Longing for Africa [documentary film] (musical director)

Sound documents (examples)

The catalog of the music archive at DNB lists 14 titles by Corzilius / Espe:

  • Odeon 312.322 (mx. XBe 3296-2) Red-haired girl, ad Optte “Prince Don Juan” (Viktor Corzilius) / Odeon 312.323 (mx. XBe 3297-2) A little bit of sin, from dto. Erich Poremski with string orchestra, conductor Carl Woitschach . Up. Berlin, Aug. 8, 1922.
  • Odeon 312.714 (mx. XBe 4283) Adjöh, Marie - it was very nice. Shimmy song (Victor Corzilius, instr. By Herbert Noack) Odeon orchestra with vocals.
  • Vox 03502 (mx. 2100 A) night club (when the stars in the sky at night). Shimmy-Lied (Victor Corzilius) Willy Weiss , tenor, me orchestra. Up. Jan. 1925.
  • Vox 05088 (mx. 1614 A) Red-haired girl, ad Optte “Prince Don Juan” (Viktor Corzilius) Engelbert Milde , with orchestra. Up. Berlin, January 1924
  • Odeon 312.687 (mx. XBe 4210) broke, broke! Shimmy (V. Corzilius) Odeon orchestra with vocals, aufgen. Berlin, Aug. 13, 1924.
  • Odeon AA 50147 (mx. XXBo 8278) Broke, broke! Shimmy (V. Corzilius) artist band Dajos Béla violins-primás.
  • Odeon AA 79 776 (mx. XXBo 7851) When we both get married. Shimmy ad the operetta "The Bacchante" (Victor Corzilius & Hubert Cuypers) / AA 79 777 (mx. XXBo 7852) Venus, you radiant queen. Valse Boston ad the operetta "The Bacchante" (Victor Corzilius & Hubert Cuypers) artist band Dajos Béla Violin-Primás.
  • Beka B.5161-II (mx. 32488) broke, broke! Shimmy (V. Corzilius) bohemian orchestra with vocals, aufgen. Berlin, September 13, 1924.
  • Parlophone P.1502 (mx. 2-6368) When we both get married. Shimmy from "The Bacchantin" (Victor Corzilius) Marek Weber .
  • Record "Grammophon" 19 123 / B 60264 (mx. 1301 as) Venus, you shining queen. Valse Boston from "The Bacchante" (Victor Corzilius) / B 60265 (mx. 1302 as) When we both get married. Shimmy from "Die Bachantin" (Victor Corzilius) dance orchestra “Rolf Richter”.
  • Record "Grammophon" 19 420 / B 60668 (mx. 75 bg) night club. Shimmy (Victor Corzilius) Paul Godwin m. his artist ensemble from the Nelson Theater, Berlin.
  • Polyphon-Record 31189 / 2-27862 (mx. 893 ax) How beautiful God made my Treptow! Waltz song by Victor Corzilius.

Polyphonic orchestra with vocals.

  • Odeon O-11 861 a (mx. Be 10335) Shake hands, we want to be brothers. March to the German Singspiel “Die Frühlingsfee” (Viktor Corzilius, text by Hans Pflanzer) / -b (mx. Be 10336) German sailors drive home. March ad German Singspiel “Die Frühlingsfee” (Viktor Corzilius, text by Hans Pflanzer)

Harald Paulsen m. Choir u. Odeon Dance Orchestra, conducted by Otto Dobrindt . Up. Berlin, April 25, 1933 German sailors go home. March ad German Singspiel “Die Frühlingsfee”

Web links

literature

  • Paul Bourfeind, Paul Joseph Cremers, Ignaz Gentges, Kurt Schroeder: Das Deutsche Theater. Volume 2, Verlag Kurt Schroeder, 1924, OCLC 258334769 , p. 291 u. 355.
  • Elisabeth Büttner, Christian Dewald: The daily burning: a history of Austrian film from its beginnings to 1945. Volume 1, Residenz Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-7017-1261-1 , p. 467 u. 485.
  • Walter M. Espe: The book of the NSDAP: Becoming, fighting and goal of the NSDAP G. Schönfeld, Berlin 1934, DNB 36575529X .
  • Dorothee Klinksiek: The woman in the Nazi state. (= Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History. Volume 44). Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-70336-8 , p. 32 note 77, and 163.
  • Manfred Overesch, Friedrich Wilhelm Saal: Third Reich 1933–1939. (= Chronicle of German Contemporary History. Volume 2). Verlag Droste, 1982, ISBN 3-7700-0615-1 , pp. 214, 298, 302, 350 u. 498
  • Wolfgang Schneidereit: Discography of the vocal interpreters of the light muse from 1925 to 1945 in German-speaking countries: A discography with biographical information in 3 volumes. Volume 2: Kirsten Heiberg to Ethel Reschke. Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2019, ISBN 978-3-7528-2841-2 , pp. 640, 937, 1050 u. 1065.
  • Salomon Siegbert Prawer: Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910–1933. (= Film Europe. Volume 3). Verlag Berghahn Books, 2005, ISBN 1-84545-074-4 , p. 171 u. 220.
  • Emil Vogel, Rudolf Schwartz, Kurt Taut, Eugen Schmitz: Yearbook of the Peters Music Library. (= Music periodicals, 1722–1941: Music almanacs and yearbooks, 1815–1941, from the Leipzig City Music Library) Verlag CF Peters, 1937, p. 182.
  • Christine Wagner: Schlager and politics, they don't say goodbye. Popular music after 1945 in the Federal Republic and the GDR. Part I. In: Neue Musik Zeitung. 49th Volume, No. 10, October 2000, p. 26. (nmz.de)
  • Manfred Weihermüller, Heinz Büttner: German National Discography. Discography of German Cabaret. Volume 6, Verlag B. Lotz, Bonn 2002, ISBN 3-9805808-7-3 , p. 1598.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. IMDb
  2. ↑ with sentences such as "The Aryan takes work as a basis for maintaining the national community ..." (p. 66), cf. Klinksiek p. 32, note 77; In Richard Karl Bernhard Schmidt's volume 24 of the “Zeitschrift für Politik” (Carl Heymanns Verlag, 1934), the work is rated as follows: “The employee of the Gaupropaganda Archive Berlin, Walter M. Espe, gives us with his” book the NSDAP ”(Berlin, Verlag Schönfeld) a very noteworthy representation of the development, struggle and goal of the movement ...“ (page 42).
  3. ↑ As of December 31, 1938. Page 34. See Verbrannte-und-Verbanned.de
  4. ↑ cf. steffi-line.de and jankuhn.de
  5. ↑ cf. Film Lexicon 2001.
  6. ↑ cf. lesgensducinema
  7. ↑ cf. Wagner at nmz: "How times change, it sways back and forth forever / I turn and turn so much / I have my pockets empty" wrote Hans Planter and Victor Corzilius in 1924. "In the past you would have been very embarrassed about it, today it is still renowned, I'm in Dallas, I don't give a damn about everything!" (P. 26) - but the author has misheard with the Texan city of Dallas , because in Planter's text is about the dalles , the Yiddish term for “permanent financial emergency”. See Josef Stern, Hebrew in German, at hagalil.com
  8. ↑ cf. murnau-stiftung.de
  9. ↑ cf. Tailoring p. 1065
  10. ↑ cf. Schneidereit p. 937; listen on youtube
  11. ↑ listen on youtube
  12. ↑ cf. Tailoring p. 1050
personal data
SURNAME Corzilius, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corzilius, Victor (written variant); Espe, Walter M. (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Ransbach
DATE OF DEATH 1st November 1968
Place of death Fulda