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Friedrich Hollaender

Friedrich Hollaender

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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.

Born: October 18, 1896 in London, UK

Died: January 18, 1976 (Age 79)

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Friedrich Hollaender  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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6.4
ActorVorsitzender der „Weißen Weste“1931
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8
ActorConductor at Grand Hotel (uncredited)1961
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7.6
ActorPianist (uncredited)1930
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6.4
ActorAccompanist (uncredited)1941
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7.4
ActorPiano Player at The Lorelei (uncredited)1948
TV Show
ActorSelf
1 Episode
1951
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5.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
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7.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1948
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5.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
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5.9
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
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5.8
SoundMusic1952
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7.1
SoundMusic1937
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6
SoundSongs1936
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5.8
SoundSongs1937
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6.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1943
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6.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1948
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7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1938
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7.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1950
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6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1950
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6.1
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
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7.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1945
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5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1946
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7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1945
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6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1951
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6.4
SoundMusic1931
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7
SoundMusic1936
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7.7
SoundSongs1939
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7.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1937
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6.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1941
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6.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1935
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7.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1941
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6.1
SoundOriginal Music Composer1939
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6.9
SoundMusic1933
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6.4
DirectingDirector1933
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6.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1937
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6.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1939
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7.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1954
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5.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1946
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6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1945
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6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1939
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7.9
SoundOriginal Music Composer1939
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6.2
SoundMusic1941
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6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1930
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5.9
SoundOriginal Music Composer1951
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6.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1946
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5.4
SoundMusic1950
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5.9
SoundOriginal Music Composer1944
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6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1954
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6.5
SoundMusic1943
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7.7
SoundMusic1940
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7.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1954
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6.3
SoundSongs1940
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5.9
SoundOriginal Music Composer1935
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6.1
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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5.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1947
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6.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
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6.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer, Songs1953
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6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1945
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7.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1930
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5.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1946
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5.9
CrewAdditional Music1943
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5.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1952
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7.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1960
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6.3
SoundMusic1936
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7.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1941
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6
CrewAdditional Music1944
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5.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1947
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7.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1942
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7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1946
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6.3
SoundMusic1940
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6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1937
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6.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1932
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5.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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6.1
SoundMusic1936
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6.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1950
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5.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1948
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7.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1955
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6.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1949
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5.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1942
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5.7
SoundOriginal Music Composer1941
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6.2
SoundMusic1938
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6.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1937
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6.3
SoundOriginal Music Composer1936
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6.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1939
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6.4
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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5.8
SoundOriginal Music Composer1935
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6.2
SoundOriginal Music Composer1941
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6.9
SoundOriginal Music Composer1936
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7.6
SoundMusic1930
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5.5
SoundMusic1930
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7.6
SoundMusic1932
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6.6
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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6.5
SoundOriginal Music Composer1940
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SoundSongs1931
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7.1
SoundMusic1939
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SoundMusic1919
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8.4
SoundMusic1998
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DirectingDirector, Music Arranger1933
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6.9
SoundSongs1982
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