Edmund Nick
Edmund Nick ( born September 22, 1891 in Reichenberg / Bohemia, Austria - Hungary, † April 11, 1974 in Geretsried ) was a composer, conductor and writer on music. He wrote songs, chansons, stage and film music, operettas, musical comedies for the little court concert, music reviews, inter alia, for the Neue Zeitung, Die Welt and 1963-1973 for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Life
The merchant's son studied from 1910 to 1915 in Vienna and Graz law, graduated at the same time a musical education at the Vienna Music Academy and at the Dresden Conservatory and in 1918 at the University of Graz as Dr. jur. doctorate. Nick was in 1920 with the concert singer Kate Jaenicke ( 1889-1967 ), daughter of Charles Jaenicke, married, born in 1926, had the daughter Dagmar Nick. Kate Nick Jaenicke was in the time of National Socialism as a half-Jewish and all three were subjected to repression.
In 1921, Nick bandmaster of the Schauspielbühnen in Wroclaw, 1924 artistic together with Fritz Ernst Bettauers Head of Silesian radio hour. In 1928, he took the young conductor Franz Marszalek at that station. 1929 was created in collaboration with Erich Kästner, the radio play "Living in this time." In 1933 he was released as part of the DC circuit in the transmitter. He moved to Berlin, where he worked until 1935 as the musical director of the cabaret The Catacomb and worked from 1936 to 1940 was musical director at the theater of the people. Nick received orders for the composition of a variety of DEFA films, most recently in 1944 for a woman for three days. From 1942 to 1952 he was a professor at the Munich Academy of Music.
From the autumn of 1945 took over Nick together with Rudolf Kastner and Schündler development and management of the cabaret, the show booth in Munich. 1947 Nick chief conductor of the Bavarian National Opera in Munich. He was from 1952 to 1956 head of the music department at West German Radio in Cologne, then music critic of "The World ", since 1962 the "Sueddeutsche Zeitung".
Nick composed the musical comedy "The Little Court Concert " (1935 ), operetta (including " Over all love triumphs ", 1940) as well as entertainment, stage and film music. He wrote " Paul Lincke " (1953) and "From the Viennese waltz to the Viennese operetta " (1954). At the end of cooperation with Kästner 1969, he composed the music for the poem cycle resulting 1955 " The 13 months ".
His tomb is located at the Munich West Cemetery.
Awards
Works (selection)
- The little court concert (1935 )
- Over all love triumphs, operetta
- Life during this period, radio play
Recordings
2010 was released by the label CPO Edmund Nicks ' life during this time. Lyric Suite in Three Movements ( 1929). Text by Erich Kästner " with ao Elke Kottmair, Marcus Günzel, Christian Grygas, Walter Niklaus Peter Ensikat, Ralf Simon, Gerd Wiemer. Ernst Theis directs Choir & Orchestra of the Dresden State Operetta. The recording offers both the reconstruction of the radio play version as well as the music of the Konzerfassung.
The end of 2010 the CD The 13 months appeared - Erich Kästner in songs and songs by Edmund Nick (Ulrich Schütte singing; Gerold Huber piano).
Literature and sources
- Robert Münster: Nick, Edmund. In: New German Biography ( NDB ). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8, p.198 ( digitized ).
- Gwendolyn of Ambesser: Schaubude Spell - history and stories of a legendary cabarets, Publisher Edition AV, Lich Hessen 2006, ISBN 978-3-936049-68-8
- Dagmar Nick (ed.): Edmund Nick, The Literary Cabaret The Schaubude 1945-1948. His story in letters and songs. Edited and annotated by Dagmar Nick. edition Monacensia in Allitera Verlag. 212 pages. Munich in 2004. ISBN 3-86520-026-5
- Susanne Brantl (vocals ) / Gerold Huber ( piano ): Life without wasting time - Chansons zero hour. Songs by Erich Kästner in the processing of Edmund Nick. CD ( Russki Records)