Wilhelm Sterk

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Wilhelm Sterk (born June 28, 1880 in Budapest ; † probably October 11, 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ), also Willy, Willi, Vilmos Sterk, was an Austrian playwright of Hungarian origin and operetta librettist.

He also wrote under the stage name Arthur MacKellington.

Live and act

Wilhelm Sterk lived in Vienna since his youth and worked there as a librettist for musical works. Between 1907 and 1937 he wrote numerous libretti and vocal texts for various operettas by composers such as Leo Ascher , Edmund Eysler , Richard Fall , Leon Jessel , Georg Jarno , Karl Loube , Rudolf Nelson , Robert Stolz and Carl Michael Ziehrer .

Sterk also worked with the actor and cabaret artist Fritz Grünbaum and wrote with him, in addition to texts for the cabaret Hölle in Vienna, also some comedies and revues. The comedy Dorine and Chance , which premiered in 1923 at the New Theater am Zoo in Berlin, was filmed by Fritz Freisler for Sascha-Film in Vienna in 1928 with Ernö Verebes and Hans Thimig in the leading roles.

Sterk also worked as a librettist with colleagues such as Friedrich Liebstöckl, Fritz Löhner-Beda , Ernst Steffan , Rudolf Österreicher and Alfred Maria Willner . He wrote the libretto for Ernst Steffan's operetta Agri with Willner ; with Österreicher the libretti to Das stupme Herz and to Yvette and her friends .

Sterk was co-founder and director of the artist games Pan , which opened in 1919 in Vienna 1, Riemergasse.

Sterk also worked as a hit poet. Closer collaboration arose with the composers Willy Engel-Berger and Artur Marcell Werau , with whom he wrote several successful hits. Became known z. B. from the former the gallant slow fox A little silk and in it you , from the latter the frivolous foxtrot song You stole my wife from me, thank you very much! whose text he wrote together with Fritz Löhner-Beda.

Many of the composers Sterk worked for were Jews who were persecuted in Germany after 1933 and there after the annexation of Austria in 1938 . Sterk also fell into isolation because of his Jewish origins, although he had left Judaism in 1912. His last address in Vienna was Schaumburgergasse 10/15. On January 5, 1943, he was deported from Vienna to the Theresienstadt ghetto . Until 1944 he took part in the theater activities organized in Theresienstadt.

On October 9, 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he was probably killed immediately upon arrival on October 11.

Works (selection)

Stage works

Operettas

  • The musician girl, operetta. Libretto: Bernhard Buchbinder. Music: Georg Jarno. Song texts, (with Fritz Grünbaum). First performance in 1910 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.
  • The Prince Charming. Operetta in 3 acts (after E. v. Gatti) / by AM Willner. Text d. Chants by Wilh. Strong. Music by Heinrich Berté . 68 p .; 8 ° - Munich; Berlin: Drei Masken-Verlag 1913
  • The stupid heart. Operetta cycle with three pictures by Rudolf Österreicher and Wilhelm Sterk. Music by Carl Michael Ziehrer. First performance on February 27, 1914 in the Johann Strauss Theater in Vienna.
  • My Annerl. Operetta in 3 acts, libretto: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, music by Georg Jarno. First performance in Vienna in 1916.
  • The favourite. Operetta in 3 acts, libretto: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, music: Robert Stolz, 1916
  • A modern girl. Operetta in 3 acts, libretto: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, music: Leon Jessel, 1918
  • Dorine and chance. Musical comedy. Libretto: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, music: Jean Gilbert, 1922
  • The king's neighbor. Singspiel. Libretto: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, music: Leon Jessel, 1923
  • Agri. Operetta in 3 acts. Libretto: Alfred Maria Willner u. Wilh. Sterk, music: Ernst Steffan. Vienna: Doblinger 1924
  • I love you. Operetta by Wilh. Sterk, music: Leo Ascher, 1926
  • Roses from Shiraz. Operetta in 3 acts / v. Fritz Grünbaum u. Wilhelm Sterk. Music v. Frank Stafford. As Ms. printed 96 p .; 8 ° - Berlin: Brüll 1927
  • Yvette and her friends. Operetta in 3 acts / by Rudolf Österreicher a. Wilhelm Sterk. Music by Michael Krasznay-Krausz. Munich: Drei Masken Verlag 1927
  • Long live love (One week of happiness); Operetta in 6 pictures (based on a novella by Alexander Engel) / v. Wilhelm Sterk. Music v. Max Niederberger . Ms. copied. 148 p .; 8 ° - Berlin: Alrobi-Musikverl. 1930
  • The golden mill. Musical folk piece in three acts. Libretto: (based on Carl Costa) Wilhelm Sterk, with Hugo Wiener , music: Leon Jessel, first performed in Olten / Switzerland in 1936

Comedies

  • Storm idyll. Comedy, 1914 (premiered at the German Volkstheater, Vienna)
  • Love - out of fashion! Comedy, 1931
  • All roads lead to love. Comedy, 1932
  • War on women! no year

Schlager- u. Song lyrics

  • Blonde mouse. Shimmy and Foxtrot, music: Artur Marcel Werau, text: Wilhelm Sterk
  • A piece of music falls from the sky. Wienerlied / music by Willy Engel-Berger
  • The heart is just clockwork. Song from Das stumme Herz / music by Carl Michael Ziehrer, text: Wilhelm Sterk
  • It's the red lipstick. Slow-fox / music: Willy Engel-Berger, text by Willi Sterk.
  • You stole my wife from me, thank you very much! Song u. Foxtrot / Music: Artur Marcel Werau, text [with Fritz Löhner-Beda]
  • You shall be the emperor of my soul. Song from the operetta Der Favorit / Music: Robert Stolz, Text: [with Fritz Grünbaum] (1916)
  • A little silk and you in it . Foxtrot / music v. Willy Engel-Berger
  • A tango with you. Lied u. Tango / Music: Dol Dauber [T: Wilhelm Sterk]
  • Today I want to get a little noise. Wienerlied / Music: Karl Hajos [T: Wilhelm Sterk] Leipzig: Doblinger, 1920.
  • I would have loved to see you again ... song and Tango / music v. Willy Engel-Berger
  • In the blue night. Song u. Slow-Fox / Music: Karl Loubé; Text: [with Hanns Wilstatt], 1933
  • Flirtation. Song from the operetta Die stupme Liebe / Musik v. Willy Engel-Berger, 5 p., Ill. brosch. Vienna: Wiener Bohème Verlag 1920
  • You look lovely again today. Song u. Tango / music by W. Engel-Berger
  • Vienna only becomes beautiful at night. Wiener Lied / music by Robert Stolz

German arrangements of foreign works

  • Tango at midnight  : operetta in 3 acts with e. Prelude / by István Békeffy ; László Vadnay . German Edit and Song texts by Wilhelm Sterk. Music by Karl Komjáti. Leipzig; Berlin; Vienna: Weinberger 1932. Extent / Format 31 p .; kl. 8 °
  • You are mine! (Till we meet again). Boston -Lied / Richard A. Whiting - German text by Wilhelm Sterk. Instr. by Kurt Lubbe. Leipzig [u. a.] Roar [u. a.] 1919

Novels

  • Rifka pearl. A romance novel from Galicia. Vienna, Verlag Frisch & Co., 1920

Audio documents

a) Operetta

  • It's the old song of young people that a mishap happens in spring: from the musical comedy “Dorine and Chance” / Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk - music by Jean Gilbert: Dance Tournier Orchester Fr. Kark. Homokord 8097 (die number M 50 689), format 30 cm.
  • This is the old song of young people [that a mishap happens in spring times]: from the musical comedy "Dorine and Chance" / Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk - music by Jean Gilbert: Marek Weber Orchestra . Parlophone P. 1411-I (mx. Z 6075) - 1922. Format 30 cm.
  • It's given you one for life. March song from: The king's neighbor. Singspiel from the German Rococo (M: Léon Jessel / T: Fritz Grünbaum / Wilhelm Sterk) Vox dance orchestra. Vox 1389-A
  • Madame, Madame, what is she wearing today? Foxtrot from: The king's neighbor. Singspiel from the German Rococo (M: Léon Jessel / T: Fritz Grünbaum / Wilhelm Sterk) Vox dance orchestra. Vox 1389-B, up. June 1923, released 1924 [14] .
  • Sinful and sweet. Tango ad the operetta “Rosen aus Schiras” (Frank Stafford) Saxophone Orchestra Dobbri. Beka B. 6236-II (mx. 34 268). Berlin, October 1928.

b) Schlager

  • A piece of music falls from the sky. Wienerlied / Willy Engel-Berger, text: Wilhelm Sterk. Edith Lorand Orchestra. Beka B. 6454 (die number 34 813)
  • It's the red lipstick. Slow-fox / music: Willy Engel-Berger, text by Willi Sterk. Saxophone orchestra with refrain singing. Kalliope Electro K 1120 * (mx. Zw?)
  • You are mine! (Till we meet again). Boston-Lied / Richard A. Whiting - German text: Wilhelm Sterk. Harry Steier , with orchestra accompaniment. Beka B. 6750 (die number 37 275)
  • A bit of silk and you in it / music: Willy Engel-Berger, text: Wilhelm Sterk. Hermann Leopoldi , piano humorist. Humorous in German with piano. The Gramophone Co., (Czechoslovakia) Limited: Spol.SRO, at Aussig. "Gramola" Record AM 2229 / 9-942.010 (die number V 606-I)
  • A tango with you; Song u. Tango [music: Dolfi Dauber - words: W. Sterk) Orchestra Marek Weber, vocals Austin Egen . Electrola EG 1615 / 60-609 (mx. BN 818-2)
  • I would have loved to see you again ... / Text v. Wilhelm Sterk - Music v. Willy Engel-Berger: Jacques Rotter , tenor in German with orch. The Gramophone Company (Czechoslovakia) Limited. Spol. SRO Aussig "Gramola" Record AM 1256 / 942.886 (die number Bk 3003-I)
  • I would have loved to see you again ... / Text v. Wilhelm Sterk - Music v. Willy Engel-Berger: Dajos Béla dance orchestra with refraing singing. Odeon O-2596 (die number Be 7238)
  • My darling is passing by / Engel-Berger - Wilhelm Sterk. Otto Neuman with orchestra accompaniment. Columbia Graphophone Co., Limited - London, EC 1. Columbia D 30 733 (die number WA 8409)
  • They look lovely again today: Lied u. Tango / W. Engel-Berger, text: Wilhelm Sterk. Dajos Béla dance orchestra, with vocals. Apply Odeon A 45 611 (die number Be 7732-2). December 1928
  • Vienna only becomes beautiful at night / music by Robert Stolz, text by Wilhelm Sterk. Sung by Josef Weisse [Austrian. Ten. w. orch.] Accompaniment: Salon Orchestra D'Geigerbuben, Vienna. Favorite 1-027 278 (die number 15 671)
  • Vienna only becomes beautiful at night: Viennese song / text by Wilhelm Sterk - music by Robert Stolz. Sung by Bernhard Bötel. German. Tenor. Record "Grammophon" 13 542 / 942.780 (die number 18 757 L)

Audio samples

  • This is the old song of young people [that a mishap happens in spring times]: from the musical comedy "Dorine and Chance" / Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk - music by Jean Gilbert: Marek Weber Orchestra. Parlophone P. 1411-I (mx. Z 6075) - up. October 28, 1922 [15] Format 30 cm.
  • Sinful and sweet. Tango ad the operetta “Rosen aus Schiras” (Frank Stafford) Saxophone Orchestra Dobbri. Beka B. 6236-II (mx. 34 268). Berlin, October 1928 [16]
  • You stole my wife from me / music: Artur Marcel Werau, text: Fritz Löhner-Beda and Wilhelm Sterk. Saxophone Orchestra Dobbri with vocals. (Austria) Beka 37 085 [17]
  • You look lovely again today, madam! Song u. Tango (W. Engel-Berger - Wilh. Sterk), Dajos Béla dance orchestra with refraing singing [Alfred Strauss]. Odeon A 45 611 (die number Be 7732-2), inc. Berlin 1929 [18]
  • A bit of silk and you in it / music: Willy Engel-Berger, text: Wilhelm Sterk. Hermann Leopoldi , piano humorist. "Gramola" Record AM 2229 / 9-942.010 (die number BV 606-I), apply. c. 1930 [19]
  • You shall be the emperor of my soul! Song from the operetta: "The Favorite" (music: Robert Stolz, text: F.Grünbaum and W.Sterk). Greta Keller , vocals, with orchestra a. Ltg. From Peter Kreuder . Telefunken A. 1833 (mx. 20 843) [20]
  • Vienna only becomes beautiful at night: Viennese song / text by Wilhelm Sterk - music by Robert Stolz. Sung by Eric Helgar , accompanied by Adalbert Lutter and his orchestra. Telefunken A.2362 / mx. 22 388, up. Berlin 1937. [21]
  • "The heart is just a clockwork" from "The stupid heart" by Carl Michael Ziehrer. Georg Hann , bass with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hanns Steinkopf. [22] before 1950

literature

  • Clemens Drössler: Political cabaret. Effect and interaction between political events and the artistic repertoire of the cabaret artist using the example of Austria. Mag. Work Univ. Vienna, October 2008 ( online ; PDF; 745 kB)
  • Albrecht Dümling: Refused home. Leon Jessel (1871–1942) composer of the »Schwarzwaldmädel« (= studies and documents on everyday life, persecution and resistance under National Socialism. Volume 1). revised edition. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86732-127-3 .
  • Edmund EF Kühn: Guide through the operettas of the older and more recent times, the Singspiele, musical comedies, daring and antics of the present. Globus-Verlag, Berlin undated [1924].
  • Lexica: Frank – Altmann; Kosh; Kosch, Theaterlex., F. Stieger, Opernlex. 3/3, 1981
  • Martin Lichtfuss: Operetta on sale. Stud. To the libretto of the mus. Entertainment theater in Austria. the interwar period. Böhlau, Vienna 1989, ISBN 3-205-05207-2 .
  • Werner Mittenzwei, Henning Rischbieter, Hansjörg Schneider, Frithjof Trapp (eds.): Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933–1945. 2 vol., Munich 1999.
  • Anna Staudacher: "... announces the departure from the Mosaic faith". 18,000 resigned from Judaism in Vienna, 1868–1914. Lang, Frankfurt / Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-631-55832-4 , p. 595 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Viktor Ullmann: 26 reviews of musical events in Theresienstadt (= displaced music, association for the rediscovery of composers persecuted by the Nazis and their works. Musica Reanimata . Volume 3). From Bockel Verlag, Neumünster 1993.
  • Hans Veigl : Laughing in the basement. Cabaret and cabaret in Vienna 1900 to 1945 (= cultural history of Austrian cabaret. Vol. 1). Austrian Cabaret Archive, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-9501427-2-3 .
  • Rud. M. Wlaschek: Biographia Judaica Bohemiae 2 (= published by the Research Center for East Central Europe at the Univ. Dortmund B / 59). Dortmund 1997.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ z. B. Apollo? Only Apollo! Equipment review 18 pictures (Richard Fall, Robert Katscher and various other composers). Libretto: Fritz Grünbaum, Wilhelm Sterk and Fritz Löhner-Beda. Premiere 1925 Vienna, Apollo Theater, cf. LEO program booklet [1] (PDF; 2.4 MB), p. 10; Claude Torres: Personal data R. Case [2]
  2. ↑ cf. Kühn pp. 60-61
  3. ↑ ran under the title Young, Rich and Beautiful , cf. IMDb [3] and film portal [4]
  4. ↑ cf. Drössler p. 47 [5] (PDF; 745 kB)
  5. ↑ cf. Staudacher, p. 595
  6. ↑ cf. Wilhelm Sterk at holocaust.cz Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and DÖW [6] @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 109.123.214.108
  7. ↑ z. B. at the performance of the Hofer Revue Something is happening , cf. Dümling p. 125, on Hans and Lisl Hofer cf. Claude Torres: [7] "… les artistes de Cabaret Lisl Steinitz Hofer (Vienne, 06/12/1912 - Rostock, 11/02/1991) et Hans Hofer (Schulhof) (Prague, 17/03/1907, déporté à T . le 27 Juillet 1942 puis à Auschwitz le 28 September 1944 et ensuite dans d'autres camps - 1973) ... "
  8. ↑ 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. 327.
  9. ↑ cf. Dümling p. 162
  10. ↑ premier: September 15, 1922, Neues Theater am Zoo Berlin, cf. Kühn p. 60 [8] and [9]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Ill. Of the theater slip from the German National Theater Weimar from Tuesday, March 1, 1927 at [10] (Main State Archive Weimar)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.vvb.de  
  11. ↑ cf. Dümling pp. 78 f., 164, list of the stage works by Leon Jessel based on the MGG at Operone
  12. ↑ Fig. Of the sheet music title Today I have a rendez-vous with Glük , song and Foxtrot from the operetta I love you . Text by Wilhelm Sterk. Music by Leo Ascher, Wiener Operetten-Verlag, Vienna I
  13. ↑ cf. Dümling pp. 103–114, List of stage works by Leon Jessel based on the MGG in Operone
  14. ↑ cf. Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part 1 of the Library of Congress. Publisher United States Government Printing Office , 1931, p 163: comedy in three acts by William Sterk; copyr. March 28, 1931. No. 10 432: Theaterverlag Otto Eirich GmbH. Vienna # 3048
  15. ↑ cf. Christian Strasser: Carl Zuckmayer - German artists in exile in Salzburg 1933–1938 [= Volume 5 of the series of publications by the Research Institute for Political-Historical Studies of the Dr. Wilfried Haslauer Library, Volume 16 of writings on folk music], Vienna, Verlag Böhlau, 1996, p. 73
  16. ↑ cf. Discography of Austrian popular music p. 19: Mein Liebling geht über (= My sweetie went away) Col D-30 734 (WA 8431) Charleston Serenaders, Otto Neuman voc., Vienna 1929 [11] (PDF; 1 MB)
  17. ↑ cf. Austrian Publishing history [12]
  18. ↑ cf. ÖBL [13]
personal data
SURNAME Sterk, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sterk, Willy; Sterk, Willi; Sterk, Vilmos; MacKellington, Arthur (pen name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright and operetta librettist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: October 11, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp