Posts Tagged 'Victor Hollaender'

Are We Finally Rediscovering Victor Hollaender?

No, the orientalist silent film orgy Sumurun, filmed in the Ufa studios in Berlin-Tempelhof in 1920, doesn’t need to be

23/05/2020·1 comment·

I’ve been on a bit of a Truesound Transfers trip these past few days. You know, that small Berlin based

Today, 90 years ago on 1 April 1930, the famous film Der blaue Engel premiered in Berlin’s Gloria Palace. It

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You could be surprised: here’s a brand new Willi Kollo (1904-1988) biography, and the only picture you’ll find anywhere in

How many female operetta composers can you name? Here is one who was also a baroness, no less. Her operetta

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The heat wave is back, in Germany at least. And the only appropriate way to cool off – operetta style!

30/11/2016·1 comment·

America’s popular music tradition is often referred to as the “Great American Songbook,” a national heritage. A focus on its

29/11/2016·1 comment·

Victor Hollaender described his first American sojourn and the German-American scene of Milwaukee in his memoirs, which were published in

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30/07/2016·1 comment·

Alan Lareau, Professor of German at the University of Oshkosh and a scholar specialized in the cabaret culture of the

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There’s a lot of talk, again, these days about „Operetta Made In Berlin”—how it differs from other German language types