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| Hansheinrich Dransmann
1894 - 1964 |
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. The film composer Hansheinrich Dransmann began his career as a conductor and in this function he got also engagements to conduct different cinema band for cinemas in Berlin. Finally he began to compose film compositions himself and some of them he performed himself. He wrote his first film composition for "Jimmy- ein Schicksal von Mensch und Tier" (23), it followed other silent movies like "Hanseaten" (25), "Die Leuchte Asiens / Prem Sanyas" (25), "Unser täglich Brot" (26), "Unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit" (27), "Die Sünderin" (28), "Ein besserer Herr" (28), "Die tolle Komtess" (28), "Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter" (28), "Waterloo" (29), "Kinder der Strasse" (29) and "Die Regimentstochter" (29). When sound film arised he only wrote few more movie compositions, among them for "Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern" (30). Afterwards he concentrated again to his activity as a conductor and bandmaster, he recorded some records and was the director of the Lessingtheater in Berlin from 1939 to 1943. Besides his film compositions he also wrote the opera "Münchhausens letzte Lüge" (33) and "Einer baut einen Dom" (34) for choir. Hansheinrich Dransmann also used the pen name Jack Drooning.
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