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Fritz Löhner-Beda (24 June 1883 – 4 December 1942), born Bedřich Löwy, was an Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer. Once nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remain popular today. He was murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp.
Fritz Löhner, geboren als Bedřich Löwy; auch Fritz Lohner, Pseudonym Beda, nannte sich mitunter Löhner-Beda, war ein österreichischer Librettist, Schlagertexter und Schriftsteller. Viele seiner Werke sind noch heute ungleich bekannter als Löhner-Beda selbst.
In the 1910s and 1920s, Fritz Löhner-Beda developed into one of Vienna’s best-known writers of popular song lyrics (for example, “Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren”) and operetta librettists.
Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883–1942) achieved world fame in 1928 as the librettist of Franz Lehár’s operetta “Land of Smiles”. In 1938 he composed the text of the “Buchenwald Song”, which Hermann Leopoldi set to music.
Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883-1943) was a famous lyricist and librettist of operettas and songs, such as Das Land des Lächelns and Dein ist mein ganzes Herz. He was deported to Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, and died in Auschwitz III-Monowitz after being beaten by the SS.
Fritz Löhner-Beda (1883-1942) co-wrote the libretto for Franz Lehár’s Land des Laechelns (Land of Smiles), still one of the most performed operettas, and was one of most popular songwriters of his time.
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The lyrics were written by Fritz Löhner-Beda and the music by Anton Geppert. Löhner-Beda was 60 years old when he arrived at Auschwitz, deeply affected by four years of very harsh imprisonment and the destruction of his family, and he had little time to write this song before his brutal murder on 4 December 1942. A prisoner Raymond van den ...
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