Max Kuttner born 1883 in Baden, Austro-Hungarian Empire, died 1953 in Bavaria, West-Germany. Max Kuttner was 1883 born into a Jewish family in Baden, Austro-Hungarian Empire, today located in Austria. Max Kuttner settled in Germany in early 1900s, where he became a popular operetta singer, and recorded before WW1 several 78rpms and cylinders in Germany. 1920s during the Weimar Era, Max Kuttner continued his career as operetta singer on stage in Berlin, and from 1924 he regulary performed directly on air from the new German LW-broadcaster Berlin - Königs-Wusterhausen. Also in 1920s Max Kuttner began to record popular dance music on 78rpms, as vocalist for the German and European market. After 1933 Max Kuttner was only allowed to perform in small Jewish theaters in Germany and in late 1938 he escaped from Berlin to Shanghai in Japanese occupied China, one of the very last spots in the world that still allowed free Jewish immigration by late 1930s. Ca. 20.000-30.000 Jews from Europe escaped to Shanghai until summer 1941. 1938-45 Max Kuttner performed at the Jewish theater in Shanghai under the pseudonym Alfred Dreyfuss. After the Jewish Theater in Shanghai was dissolved later in 1945, due to Jewish emmigration mainly to Australia and North-America, Max Kuttner returned to Germany in 1947 and settled in Bavaria, the American sector of Germany - future West-Germany, where he died 1953. Here a jazzy recording from 1927 of Black Bottom. The orchestra is probably the Ukranian/Hungarian-Jewish band leader Dajos Bela, who was one of the German Pioneers of Jazz back in 1920s. Black Bottom. Vocal: Max Kuttner. (Singing in German). Odeon-Tanz-Orchester (Odeon Dance Orchestra). Probably the orchestra of Dajos Bela. Recorded 1927 in Berlin, Germany. youtube/watch?v=7cgH7thEO7U
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 16:58:48 +0000
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