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by and with Andreas Beck and Jens-Karsten Stoll | An evening with music about Fritz Löhner-Beda

Who was Fritz Löhner-Beda? Born in Bohemia in 1883, he achieved fame and attention in Vienna as the librettist of works such as "The Land of Smiles" (Franz Lehár, 1929) and "The Flower of Hawaii" (Paul Abraham, 1931), murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 as a forced laborer at the Buna works of I.G. Farben - and unjustly forgotten today. "He was one of the most brilliant minds in the entertainment industry, simply incredibly intelligent. He could do everything - from soulful operetta to funny nonsense hits to charmingly wicked songs," wrote his biographer Marie-Theres Arnbom about Löhner-Beda. He also penned the "Buna Song" and the famous "Buchenwälder March". Andreas Beck and Jens-Karsten Stoll use songs with lyrics by the artist to navigate through a biography that is both highly individual and yet stands for an enduring phenomenon. What role does Jewish identity play in the collective forgetting of his person? Why is the work often more enduring than its creator? And: Is pop music pop?