Friedrich Hollaender
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- October 18, 1896
- Died
- January 18, 1976 (aged 79)
- Birthplace
- London, UK
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hollaender (in exile also Frederick Hollander; 18 October 1896 – 18 January 1976) was a German film composer and author. He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum & Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater. In 1899 Hollaender's family returned to Berlin, his father began teaching at the Stern Conservatory, where his son became a student in Engelbert Humperdinck's master class. In the evening he played the piano at silent film performances in local cinemas, developing the art of musical improvisation. By the age of 18 he was employed as a répétiteur at the New German Theatre in Prague and also was put in charge of troop entertainment at the Western Front of World War I. Having finished his studies, he composed music for productions by Max Reinhardt and became involved in Berlin's Kabarett scene. Together with Kurt Tucholsky, Klabund, Walter Mehring, Mischa Spoliansky and Joachim Ringelnatz he worked in venues like Reinhardt's Schall und Rauch ensemble at the Großes Schauspielhaus or the Wilde Bühne led by Trude Hesterberg at the Theater des Westens in Charlottenburg, where he established the Tingel-Tangel-Theater cabaret in 1931. In 1919 he married the actress Blandine Ebinger, the couple divorced in 1926. Their daughter Philine later became the wife of the cabarettist Georg Kreisler. Hollaender had his final breakthrough, when he wrote the film score for The Blue Angel (1930), including the most popular song "Falling in Love Again (Can't Help It)", performed by Marlene Dietrich. He had to leave Nazi Germany in 1933 because of his Jewish descent[1] and first moved to Paris. He emigrated to the United States the next year, where he wrote the music for over a hundred films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), A Foreign Affair (1948), The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953 Academy Award nomination) and Sabrina (1954). Many of his songs were again made famous by Marlene Dietrich. He can be seen as the piano accompanist in A Foreign Affair (on the songs, "Black Market", "Illusions" and "Ruins of Berlin"). He received four Academy Award nominations for composition. As "Frederick Hollander", he also wrote the semi-autobiographical novel Those Torn From Earth, released in 1941, which details the flight from Germany that many Jewish members of the film industry embarked on after the Nazis came to power and instituted the Nuremberg Laws. In 1956 he returned to Germany and again worked for several years as a revue composer at the Theater Die Kleine Freiheit in Munich. He made a cameo appearance in Billy Wilder's film comedy One, Two, Three (1960) as a Kapellmeister. Hollaender died 1976 in Munich and is buried in the Obergiesing Ostfriedhof.
Known For
Filmography
The Empty Center
Movie · Music
The Blue Angel
Movie · Music
Perfectly Frank: Frank Loesser Revued
Movie · Songs
The Haunted Castle
Movie · Original Music Composer
We're No Angels
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sabrina
Movie · Original Music Composer
It Should Happen to You
Movie · Original Music Composer
Phffft
Movie · Original Music Composer
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Movie · Original Music Composer, Songs
The First Time
Movie · Original Music Composer
Androcles and the Lion
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Forbidden Past
Movie · Original Music Composer
Darling, How Could You!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Born to Be Bad
Movie · Original Music Composer
Walk Softly, Stranger
Movie · Original Music Composer
Born Yesterday
Movie · Original Music Composer
Never a Dull Moment
Movie · Music
Strange Bargain
Movie · Original Music Composer
Caught
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Dangerous Profession
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Woman's Secret
Movie · Original Music Composer
Adventure in Baltimore
Movie · Original Music Composer
Bride for Sale
Movie · Original Music Composer
Berlin Express
Movie · Original Music Composer
A Foreign Affair
Movie · Original Music Composer
Wallflower
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Perfect Marriage
Movie · Original Music Composer
Stallion Road
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Verdict
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cinderella Jones
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Bride Wore Boots
Movie · Original Music Composer
Never Say Goodbye
Movie · Original Music Composer
Janie Gets Married
Movie · Original Music Composer
Leave It to Blondie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Christmas in Connecticut
Movie · Original Music Composer
Conflict
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Affairs of Susan
Movie · Original Music Composer
Once Upon a Time
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Soul of a Monster
Movie · Music
Background to Danger
Movie · Original Music Composer
Princess O'Rourke
Movie · Music
Wings for the Eagle
Movie · Original Music Composer
Murder in the Big House
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Talk of the Town
Movie · Original Music Composer
Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Movie · Original Music Composer
You Belong to Me
Movie · Original Music Composer
Life with Henry
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Movie · Original Music Composer
Footsteps in the Dark
Movie · Original Music Composer
Million Dollar Baby
Movie · Original Music Composer
Golden Gloves
Movie · Original Music Composer
Seven Sinners
Movie · Songs
The Great McGinty
Movie · Original Music Composer
Typhoon
Movie · Original Music Composer
Safari
Movie · Original Music Composer
South of Suez
Movie · Original Music Composer
Too Many Husbands
Movie · Music
Queen of the Mob
Movie · Original Music Composer
Remember the Night
Movie · Original Music Composer
Victory
Movie · Original Music Composer
Arise, My Love
Movie · Songs
The Farmer's Daughter
Movie · Songs
Invitation to Happiness
Movie · Original Music Composer
Honeymoon in Bali
Movie · Original Music Composer
Destry Rides Again
Movie · Songs
Midnight
Movie · Original Music Composer
Disputed Passage
Movie · Original Music Composer
Night Work
Movie · Music
Zaza
Movie · Songs, Music
Man About Town
Movie · Songs, Original Music Composer
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Movie · Original Music Composer
John Meade's Woman
Movie · Original Music Composer
Angel
Movie · Music
Easy Living
Movie · Original Music Composer
Internes Can't Take Money
Movie · Original Music Composer
Artists & Models
Movie · Songs
True Confession
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Jungle Princess
Movie · Music
Till We Meet Again
Movie · Original Music Composer
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
Movie · Music
A Son Comes Home
Movie · Music
Anything Goes
Movie · Songs
Murder with Pictures
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rose of the Rancho
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hideaway Girl
Movie · Music
Desire
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shanghai
Movie · Original Music Composer
Accent on Youth
Movie · Original Music Composer
Hands Across the Table
Movie · Original Music Composer
I Am Suzanne!
Movie · Music
The Only Girl
Movie · Music Arranger
The Tempest
Movie · Music
Tumultes
Movie · Original Music Composer
In the act
Movie · Songs
Road to Rio
Movie · Music
The Man in Search of His Murderer
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Blue Angel
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Other
Movie · Music
Burglars
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Great Desire
Movie · Music
The Wife's Crusade
Movie · Music Score Producer
Prinz Kuckuck
Movie · Music