Old Schlager from Berlin - Pauline geht tanzen!, 1911

Описание: Pauline geht tanzen (Pauline Goes Dancing) -- Duett aus Operette "Grosse Rosinen" (W.Kollo /Bernauer & Schanzer) -- Hermann Wehling, Maria Forescu mit Orchester unter persönlicher Leitung der Komponisten Willy Bredschneider, Beka Grand Record 1911 (Germany, Accoustic recording)

NOTE: Maria FORESCU née Maria Füllenbaum in 1875, in a Moldovian-Polish-Austro-Hungarian town of Czerniowce (now, in Ukraine). It's worth mentioning, that in the turn of the XIX/XXth centuries, Czerniowce was simply a kind of a hatchery for the renowned European artists, just to mention Vienna- and Berlin-Opera singers Joseph Schmidt and Maria Cebotari, poets Rose Ausländer and Paul Celan or the world famous Polish diva Helena Modrzejewska known in USA under abbreviated name of Helena Modjeska - however born in Cracow, she had in Czerniowce in years 1860. her stage debut in a serious theatre repertoire (plays of Polish romantic poet, Juliusz Słowacki).
Maria Forescu started her education in Paris, to continue it in the Conservatory of Prague, where she studied singing and acting. She debuted as Operetta singer in Carltheater in Vienna to enjoy very soon international recognition. She continued her career in Theater des Westens in Berlin also giving guest performances on the stages of European capital cities and recording in Berlin for Beka and Parlophon. In 1911 she also started her career as one of Europe's earliest stars of the silent movie, acting in over one hundred and sixty films to 1933, a thread which was abruptly severed by Nazi censorship which resulted in her arrest and deportation to the Buchenwald cocentration camp where she was killed ten years later, in 1943. Her most remembered silent film appearances are in „Peer Gynt" by Richard Oswald (1919) „Marizza" by famous director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (1922) or in „Die freudlose Gasse" (A Joyless Row) by Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1925).

Hermann WEHLING: unfortunately, I did not succeed in finding any details about that German Operetta singer from time of the accoustic recordings, who recorded numerous sides solo and in duetts for record companies in Berlin: Beka, DaCapo, Kalliope and Parlophon.

Walter KOLLO was a German Operetta-Composer, who was born in a town of Niedzica (Niedenburg) in Mazury, now Poland, in 1878. He studied music in Królewiec (Konigsberg) in East Prussia and in Szczecin (Stettin) in Pomerania to continue in Berlin, where he became a composer of the most beloved Operettas in Golden Years of German Operetta, e.g. Große Rosinen (1911), Filmzauber (1912), Drei alte Schachteln (1917), Lady Chic (1922) or Marietta (1923). His best known Operetta Wie einst in Mai (1913), was the basis of a 1917 Sigmund Romberg operetta in America entitled Maytime. Walter Kollo's son Willi was also a composer of light music and his grandson is the celebrated Wagnerian tenor René Kollo. Walter Kollo died in Berlin, in 1940.