Will Meisel
Will Meisel | |
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.jpg) Grave of Will Meisel, Berlin-Wilmersdorf | |
| Born | 17 September 1897 |
| Died | 29 April 1967 (aged 69) |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Years active | 1930-1955 (film) |
Will Meisel (17 September 1897 – 29 April 1967) was a German composer, who wrote more than fifty film scores during his career. He also wrote several operettas including A Friend So Lovely as You (1930) (Eine Freundin so goldig wie du).[1] In 1926, he founded German music publisher Edition Meisel & Co..[2]
He was a member of the Nazi Party from 1933.[3] He benefitted from the Nazi policy of aryanisation, buying the Alexander Haus for a quarter of its value, after its owners, the Alexander family, had fled the country.[3] After the Second World War, his application for denazification was rejected, and he was barred from running his business until 1951.[3] His life is described in The House by the Lake (2015) by Thomas Harding, a non-fiction book about the Alexander House and the families who lived there.[4]
Selected filmography
[edit]- The Other (1930)
- The Prosecutor Hallers (1930)
- Love in the Ring (1930)
- A Storm Over Zakopane (1931)
- When the Soldiers (1931)
- The Unknown Guest (1931)
- Checkmate (1931)
- A Crafty Youth (1931)
- Queen of the Night (1931)
- At Your Orders, Sergeant (1932)
- Tugboat M 17 (1933)
- What Am I Without You (1934)
- The Sun Rises (1934)
- The Champion of Pontresina (1934)
- Gypsy Blood (1934)
- Every Day Isn't Sunday (1935)
- Trouble Backstairs (1935)
- Fräulein Veronika (1936)
- Family Parade (1936)
- Carousel (1937)
- Little County Court (1938)
- Marriage in Small Doses (1939)
- Queen of the Night (1951)
- The Inn on the Lahn (1955)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Grange p.343
- ^ Kersten, Peter (22 January 1977). "50 Years And Still No. One". Billboard. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
- ^ a b c Harding, Thomas (24 September 2015). The House by the Lake. Random House. ISBN 978-1-4735-0655-8. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
- ^ Morrison, Rebecca K (16 January 2016). "The House by the Lake by Thomas Harding review – the German 20th century story told through a single building". the Guardian. Retrieved 27 March 2025.
Bibliography
[edit]- Grange, William. Cultural Chronicle of the Weimar Republic. Scarecrow Press, 2008.
External links
[edit]- Will Meisel at IMDb
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