Will Meisel

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Berlin memorial plaques for Meisel in Jonasstr. 22, Neukölln

Will Meisel , actually August Wilhelm Meisel (born September 17, 1897 in Rixdorf near Berlin , † April 29, 1967 in Müllheim (Baden) ) was a German dancer , composer and founder of the publishing house .

Life

Meisel's parents were the ballet master Emil Meisel and his wife Olga Meisel geb. Loepke . The family lived in Rixdorf near Berlin , Steinmetzstrasse 20 (today Kienitzer Strasse). Meisel later shortened the first names August Wilhelm to Will.

He attended the Albrecht Dürer secondary school in Berlin-Neukölln . From the age of 5 he learned music and dance and from the age of 10 he was a member of the former Royal Court Opera in Berlin, Unter den Linden. From March 1915 to November 1918 Will Meisel was a soldier in the First World War , was wounded near Ypres in 1917 and had to cure gas poisoning in the hospital. After the war he was again a dancer at the Berlin State Opera from 1918 to 1923.

On May 15, 1926, he founded Edition Meisel & Co. GmbH and thus became a publisher. His first publishing title was "Ilona" with the text of his then wife Ilona von Fövenyessy von Hewi. That marriage broke up and was divorced in 1932. In March 1935, Will Meisel married the chamber singer Eliza Illiard , with whom he had two sons, Peter (* June 22, 1935 - October 5, 2010) and Thomas (* January 18, 1940 - May 26, 2014).

Meisel's grave in the Wilmersdorf cemetery

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 ( party number 2,849,490). As a result he worked as a composer of film music and operettas, but also of Nazi propaganda pieces such as the March for a voice and piano or the Salon Orchestra Germany the Germans (1934). In 1937 he “took over” the fully furnished summer house of the Jewish doctor Alfred Alexander, who had been expelled from Germany, in Groß Glienicke . On November 23, 1938, a few days after the November pogroms , he wrote to Hans Hinkel expressing his interest in taking over an " Aryanized " publishing house, preferably Edition Peters . During the Second World War Meisel was placed as a publisher and composer "indispensable" (uk).

In autumn 1944 the family moved to their holiday home in Austria and did not return to Berlin until late summer 1946. After returning, Meisel also worked as a film producer. He ran a dance school where he lived at Jonasstrasse 22 in Berlin-Neukölln . He wrote the music for 44 sound films , 8 operettas as well as countless evergreens and songs (“Berlin stays Berlin”, “We want to be friends for life”, “Fräulein Pardon”, “Weekend” and others). Meisel's operettas Queen of a Night and “The Woman in the Mirror” were filmed.

Will Meisel and Eliza Illiard were buried in the Wilmersdorf cemetery.

Honors

Filmography

As a composer

  • 1930: Queen of One Night
  • 1930: love in the ring
  • 1930: A friend as cute as you
  • 1930: The other
  • 1930: In the fight with the underworld
  • 1931: Dancers wanted for South America
  • 1931: The mountain guide of Zakopane
  • 1931: a boiled boy
  • 1931: The stork goes on strike
  • 1931: By a nose's length
  • 1931: Checkmate
  • 1931: When the soldiers ...
  • 1931: The Unknown Guest
  • 1932: The four from Bob 13
  • 1933: The tank girl
  • 1933: Once upon a time there was a musician
  • 1933: M 17 tow tractor
  • 1934: The great opportunity
  • 1934: Gypsy blood
  • 1934: Annette in paradise
  • 1934: Every day you give me is beautiful, Marie Luise
  • 1934: I sing myself into your heart
  • 1934: a waltz for you
  • 1934: The jumper from Pontresina
  • 1934: Every woman has a secret
  • 1934: La Paloma. A song of companionship
  • 1934: What am I without you
  • 1935: The sleeping car controller
  • 1935: Every day is not a Sunday
  • 1935: A row in the Secret Annex
  • 1936: family parade
  • 1936: angels with small flaws
  • 1936: The tired Theodor
  • 1936: A row in the Secret Annex
  • 1936: Hummel - Hummel
  • 1936: Miss Veronika
  • 1936: The misunderstood bon vivant
  • 1937: carousel
  • 1938: Small district court
  • 1939: canned marriage
  • 1940: hen party
  • 1940: World record in fling
  • 1941: Before becoming a husband
  • 1951: Queen of one night
  • 1953: On the green field
  • 1955: The landlady on the Lahn
  • 1969: Queen of One Night

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 4.529.
  2. ^ A b Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , p. 4.530
  3. ^ Thomas Harding : Summer house on the lake. Five families and 100 years of German history . Translated from the English by Daniel Bussenius. dtv, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-423-28069-3
  4. ↑ Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , pp. 4.531–4.532.
  5. ↑ Office of the Federal President
personal data
SURNAME Meisel, Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dancer, composer and founder of the publishing house
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Rixdorf near Berlin , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1967
Place of death Muellheim , Baden-Württemberg , Germany