Hans-Otto Borgmann
Hans -Otto Borgmann Paul Friedrich ( born October 20, 1901 in Linden, † July 26, 1977 in Berlin) was a German film composer.
Life
The son of a top government council learned in his childhood piano, violin and organ. Sixteen -year old he was already working as an organist at the Castle Church of Gottorp Castle in Schleswig. 1910 to 1919 he attended the Humanist Domgymnasium Schleswig and studied from 1920 to 1922 at the National Academy for Church and School Music in Berlin. Here he settled for a music teacher, organist, choir director and conductor form.
From 1924 to 1927 Borgmann worked as a theater and opera conductor. Later he composed incidental music, especially for the German Theatre in Berlin. His film work began when he attended as a conductor for the musical accompaniment of silent films from 1928. After that, he was music assistant and from 1931 was musical director of the UFA and film composer.
In 1933 he composed the soundtrack to the Nazi propaganda film Hitler Youth Quex. Composed of Borgmann HJ Song Our flag flutters us forward to a new text of " Reich Youth Leader" of the NSDAP Baldur von Schirach retired as a leitmotif throughout the film and was the anthem of the Hitler Youth.
From 1937 Borgmann worked frequently for Veit Harlan. He used intensively the technique of leitmotif, which he then assigned certain movie characters and abwandelte depending on the situation. His catchy pop -art film Tango Notturno 1937 from the film with Pola Negri.
After Borgmann had set to music in 1938 a major German hymn to a text by Baldur von Schirach, he became head of the Music Department at the newly opened German Film Academy, and received the title of professor.
After the end of World War II, he conducted in August 1945 at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin Brecht / Weill's Threepenny Opera. In addition, Borgmann initially composed more film scores in 1946 for a documentary about the Nuremberg war crimes trials (Nuremberg and his teachings ), in the 1950s for various strip mainly sentimental content. Later Borgmann turned increasingly to the atonal music. From 1953 he was head of the National Group of Berlin of the German Composers' Union. From 1959 to 1971 he taught as a lecturer, since 1970 honorary professor for stage song and literary Chanson at the State University of Music and Performing Arts in Berlin. In this time he composed about seventy stage songs and songs based on texts by Bertolt Brecht, Erich Kästner, Ringelnatz and Kurt Tucholsky.
Works
Filmography
Other compositions
- Little Caprice (1962 ) for orchestra
- Petite Promenade ( 1962) for orchestra