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Ludwig
Schmidseder
1904 - 1971 |
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. In spite of the opposition of his partent's home, Ludwig Schmidseder asserted his wish to become a musician andto begin with he took piano lessons secretly. Later he studied music at the Academy of Musical Art in Munich and afterwards he went to South America where he lived from 1926. He got by with casual works before he appeared together with two friends as a trio on luxury liners. At this occasion he also used his own compositions. The adventure South America ended at the end of the 20's and from 1930
he lived in Berlin he he came in touch with the film business.
To his first cinematical works belong the productions "Der Traum vom Rhein" (33), "Heideschulmeister Uwe Karsten" (33), "Hilde Petersen postlagernd" (36) and "Die kluge Schwiegermutter" (39). Beside it he was a regular staff and composer at the Metropol Theater in Berlin where among others his works "Melodie der Nacht" (38), "Die oder Keine!" (39) and "Frauen im Metropol" (40) were staged. In the 40's he composed among others the music for the movies "Der ungetreue Eckehart" (40), "Herzensfreud - Herzensleid" (40), "Der Ochsenkrieg" (43) and "Freitag, der 13." (44). He continued his career after the war and he wrote filmcompositions for "Der himmlische Walzer" (48), "Kleiner Schwindel am Wolfgangsee" (49) and "Ich hab' mich so an Dich gewöhnt" (52). Also in this time he began to act as a bit player in front of the camera, to these appearances belong "Seitensprünge im Schnee" (50), "Czardas der Herzen" (51), "Die Dame in Schwarz" (51), "Die Wirtin von Maria Wörth" (52), "Manöverball" (56) and "Das Schloss in Tirol" (57). He experienced again huge popularity later in his live as a TV chef
for the Bavarian broadcast at the end of the 50's. It followed publications
of several cookery books.
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