#harry frommermann

[thetisming]

Broadway has turned into something commercialised and all about money, rather than stages for stories to be shared. people only care about how much money shows make, but people never give new shows a try so amazing new shows that tell important stories and production and soundtrack and actors close. if there's not a big tv (specifically tv, people don't care about actual BROADWAY legends anymore) name for the media or it's not a revival people don't care. new musicals that tell historical stories that shouldn't be forgotten close after a few months, no matter how amazing the story or score or set or actors are. Broadway isn't about the heart anymore, it's about money and big names. it's barely even for theatre people.

Lempicka is closing and i am devastated for so many reasons. Harmony already closed earlier this year.

Tamara de Lempicka was a famous painter. she was married to a rich man, and originally painted their daughter or landscapes and things like that, but she eventually painted Rafaela -- her girlfriend. she painted her mainly naked and they loved each other. she was a bisexual painter, and more than that a brilliant painter, and she is being forgotten. she was part Jewish, too. she fled to Paris with her husband, which is where she met Rafaela.

there's a musical about her. it's closing on May 19th. it opened officially on Broadway on April 14th. both this year.

The Comedian Harmonists were a band. they were an internationally popular German band between 1928 and 1934. 3 of the 6 of them were Jewish. Nazi Germany started in 1933. you can probably piece together what happened, but i'll tell you anyway. they were separated and erased. they were not forgotten, they were erased. Nazis destroyed almost all of their recordings. the Harmonists never saw each other again. their names were Ari Leschnikoff, Harry Frommermann, Robert Biberti, Roman Cycowski, Erwin "Chopin" Bootz and Erich A. Collin.

there was a musical about them. it closed on February 4th, and opened officially on Broadway on November 13th (2023).

do not let Tamara or the Harmonists go forgotten. listen to Lempicka and Harmony. research the people. find bootlegs of the musicals if you can. learn about them. teach about them. please, don't let people forget about them.

this isn't about the musicals closing, these are about important people being forgotten and erased from history. please, don't let this happen.

[noys-boise]

hey people of tumblr. yes everyone. this isn't fandom specific.

you've probably never heard of it but there was a german singing group called the comedian harmonists. they were as popular as the beatles at their time. yet you haven't heard of them. it's because three of them were jewish and active around the ride of hitler and the nazis intentionally destroyed nearly every recording they ever released.

they made a Broadway musical about them called Harmony. you probably haven't heard of that either even though it wanted to keep their legacy alive. Not enough people cared and so it closed early and while until now we had the hope that it will be nominated at the tony awards, it unfortunately wasn't.

I want all of you to look up the comedian harmonists. And listen to Harmony. and the podcast the creators of Harmony made called Who were the comedian harmonists.

Harry Frommermann. Robert Biberti. Ari Leschnikoff. Roman Cycowski. Erich Collin. Erwin Bootz.

Please please please do not forget them.

[newyorktheater]

Happy Hanukkah via Harmony

Watch the video below of the cast of the Broadway musical Harmony celebrating the first night of Hanukkah with a special post-matinee menorah lighting outside the Barrymore Theater.  Zal Owen, who plays Harry Frommermann, one of the Comedian Harmonists, welcomed the crowd and lit the first candle and sang the first two blessings for the holiday.  Julie Benko, who plays Ruth, concluded with the…

[memestarsblog]

Ralf Wolter Vermögen

Ralf Wolter Vermögen Wolter, Sohn eines Zirkusartisten und einer Pianistin, wurde 1926 in Berlin geboren. Von 1946 bis 1948 besuchte er die Schauspielschule "Der Kreis". Berühmtheit erlangte er im Mai 2002, als er auf der A 24 bei einem riskanten Wendemanöver einen Unfall mit drei Toten verursachte, bevor er vom Unfallort flüchtete. Wolter, der damals 75 Jahre alt war, sagte, er habe von dem Zusammenstoß nichts gewusst. Er wurde wegen fahrlässiger Tötung und Gefährdung des Straßenverkehrs zu einer zehnmonatigen Bewährungsstrafe und einer Geldstrafe von 7.000 Euro verurteilt.

Ralf Wolter Vermögen Ralf Wolter wohnte mit seiner Frau Edith, mit der er seit 1959 verheiratet war und die die Mutter seiner beiden Kinder ist, in München. Im Alter von 95 Jahren ist er dort im Oktober 2022 verstorben. Karriere: Nach Abschluss der Schauspielschule spielte Wolter an verschiedenen Theatern in Berlin und Potsdam, unter anderem am Rheinischen Landestheater Neuss, am Hebbel Theater und am Theater am Kurfürstendamm. Ab 1971 spielte er vor allem in Boulevardstücken, am liebsten an der Kleinen Komödie am Max II in München. Bei den Karl-May-Festspielen in Bad Segeberg stand Wolter 1991 zum letzten Mal als Sam Hawkens an der Seite von Pierre Brice auf der Bühne, mit dem er zuvor mehrfach zusammengearbeitet hatte.

Ralf Wolter Vermögen In dem Stück Jetzt oder nie - Die Comedian Harmonists bei den Freilichtspielen Schwäbisch Hall in den Jahren 2007 und 2008 spielte Wolter die Rolle des alten Harry Frommermann, der über seine Zeit bei der "ersten Boyband der Welt" nachdenkt. Seine Liebe zu witzigen Texten und Musik führte ihn auch zum Kabarett. Von 1954 bis 1958 spielte er in den Berliner Ensembles Dachluke, Mausefalle und Rauchfang, bevor er sich dem Kabarett Rendezvous in Hamburg anschloss.

Ralf Wolter Vermögen Vermögen: Ressourcen von Ralf Wolter Geschätzter Wert: 3,2 Millionen Euro https://youtu.be/avfFZRAupiM Ralf Wolter Vermögen Read the full article

[frauhupfner]

1. Harry Frommermann 2. Ari Leschnikoff 3. Erich Collin 4. Erwin Bootz 5. Robert Biberti 5. Roman Cycowski (It’s really not easy to create Sims after real people and I have such a huge respect for all Simmer who can create such Sims and make them look like the real person.)

[savageandwise]

Comedian Harmonists.

I kinda ship Bob Biberti and Harry Frommermann.

I dunno. I think this sort of fits for @stonedlennon ’s AU How We Won the War

http://archiveofourown.org/series/646694

They were a German harmony group who broke up because of the racial laws during the second world war.

[informer82]

Titel: DIE COMEDIAN HARMONISTS – JETZT ODER NIE - Theater Osnabrück Text: DIE COMEDIAN HARMONISTS - JETZT ODER NIE Musical von Gottfried Greiffenhagen Musikalische Einrichtung und Arrangements von Jörg Daniel Heinzmann -Inhalt- Sie waren die erste Boygroup der Welt: die Comedian Harmonists! Die Gruppe, bestehend aus fünf Sängern und einem Pianisten, trennte sich 1935 nach vielen Jahren des Erfolgs. Drei von ihnen waren Juden, durften nicht mehr auftreten und haben Deutschland verlassen. Gottfried Greiffenhagens DIE COMEDIAN HARMONISTS behandelt diese Erfolgsgeschichte der Gruppe bis zu der durch den Nationalsozialismus bedingten Trennung. Der zweite Teil JETZT ODER NIE erzählt die Geschichte weiter: Die drei in Deutschland verbleibenden Sänger gründen das „Meistersextett“, welches aber erhebliche Schwierigkeiten hat, an den Erfolg der ursprünglichen Besetzung anzuknüpfen. Die anderen drei Sänger gehen zunächst nach Wien, emigrieren später in die USA und nennen sich „Comedy Harmonists“. Die Wege der beiden Gruppen verlaufen sehr unterschiedlich, obwohl es durch die Suche nach neuen Sängern und die Auflösung der Gruppen auch wieder erstaunliche Parallelen gibt. So werden aus der einst erfolgreichen Gruppe letztendlich Einzelschicksale. Mit dem zweiten Teil – JETZT ODER NIE schließt das Theater Osnabrück an die erfolgreiche Produktion des ersten Teils von Gottfried Greiffenhagen an, die seit der Premiere 2013/14 über drei Spielzeiten auf dem Spielplan stand. Natürlich dürfen hierbei auch im zweiten Teil die berühmten Songs nicht fehlen. Die Musikalische Leitung liegt bei dem in der Rolle des Erwin Bootz bereits erprobten Florian Appel, der 2013/14 in DIE COMEDIAN HARMONISTS und 2017/18 als Pianist in der Tanzproduktion DIE SCHÖNE MÜLLERIN Osnabrück zu erleben war. Regie führt der junge Regisseur Felix Seiler, der in Osnabrück bereits ALICE IM WUNDERLAND und THE ADDAMS FAMILY inszenierte. Zuletzt arbeitete er in Bremerhaven und Hildesheim sowie gemeinsam mit Ausstatterin Linda Schnabel an der Komischen Oper Berlin. -Besetzung- Musikalische Leitung: Florian Appel Inszenierung: Felix Seiler Bühne, Kostüme: Linda Schnabel Choreografie: Danny Costello Video: Margrit Flagner Dramaturgie: Alexander Wunderlich Ari Leschnikoff: Dan Martin Erich Collin: Kim Schrader Harry Frommermann: Wolfgang Mirlach Roman Cycowski: Marco Vassalli Robert Biberti: Alexandre Pierre Erwin Bootz: Florian Appel ℗ Filmproduktion Siegersbusch, Wuppertal, Hochgeladen von: Theater Osnabrueck, https://ift.tt/2bg6CEt

[noys-boise]

Roman Joseph Cycowski

Erwin Bootz

Harry Frommermann

Robert Biberti

Ari Leschnikoff

Erich Collin

You haven't heard these names because the nazis made sure to erase every trace of them. But they were there. Three of them were jewish. Three of them were not. They were the comedian harmonists. At one point the most popular singers in europe. They were together between 1928 and 1935 when they were forced to disband.

Harmony closes on Broadway today. It was telling their story. It never found the right audience despite having music written by Barry Manilow, despite theatre legend Chip Zien being perhaps the most central character (despite the role not being in the original script at all), despite Sierra Boggess of Phantom of the opera fame, Julie Benko of Funny girl fame, Blake Roman of Hazbin hotel and the rest of these talented actors who aren't known yet (they will he, i trust it). Danny Kornfeld. Eric Peters. Zal Owen. Sean Bell. Steven Telsey. Allison Semmes. Stuart Zagnit (original english voice actor of Professor Oak in Pokemon fun fact) and everyone else who worked on this wonderful show. They deserved more. Harmony deserved more. This musical that makes me cry everytime deserved so much better. I hope it will find an audience one day.

Happy trails Harmony. May the comedian harmonists' memory live on in one way or another.

[noys-boise]

Hi no rush but you said yesterday to remind you today to say some stuff about Harmony so this is me reminding you lol

HI!

so Harmony! It's a musical about this real life german singing group called the comedian harmonists and were active between 1928 and 1934. They were the most popular performers in europe at one point but unfortunately they were forced to disband by the nazis because three of them were jewish. it's one of those musicals that makes you cry a lot basically. The comedian harmonists consist of Roman Cycowski, referred to as Rabbi in the musical (played by Danny Kornfeld and an older version of him played by my favorite old man Chip Zien), Harry Frommermann (played by Zal Owen) Robert 'Bobby' Biberti (played by Sean Bell), Erwin 'Chopin' Bootz (he's the one Blake Roman plays), Erich Collin (played by Eric Peters) and Ari Leschnikoff 'Lesh' (played by Steven Telsey)

plus there's Rabbi's wife Mary (played by Sierra Boggess) and Chopin's wife Ruth (played by Julie Benko)

i know you're here for Blake Roman so more info on his character: Chopin is the pianist of the group, he originally played at a whorehouse before joining the comedian harmonists (it's where he got his nickname after someone told him he plays like Chopin) he actually hates his real name, the song he leads is In this world, his relationship with Ruth has a lot more conflict than Rabbi and Mary's relationship (the two are often put in contrast in the show) and he has a line about wanting to live in a very fancy bathroom which cracks me up a lot

overall Harmony is currently my favorite musical atm, I saw it on Broadway during previews, I cried when I found out it's closing, it deserved a longer run, I'm kind of mad Hazbin hotel didn't come out earlier because i live in the belief Blake Roman's newfound fame could've at least extended it a little bit, i love this whole cast so incredibly much and I can't wait to see what they do next