Ernst Busch
Singer, Musical Artist
1900 – 1980
Who was Ernst Busch?
Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch was a German singer and actor.
Busch first rose to prominence as an interpreter of political songs, particularly those of Kurt Tucholsky, in the Berlin Kabarett scene of the 1920s. He starred in the original 1928 production of Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, as well as the subsequent 1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. He also appeared in the movie, Kuhle Wampe.
A lifelong communist, Busch fled Nazi Germany in 1933 with the Gestapo on his heels, eventually settling in the Soviet Union. In 1937 he joined the International Brigades to fight against the Nationalists in Spain. His wartime songs were then recorded and broadcast by Radio Barcelona and Radio Madrid. After the Spanish Republic fell to General Franco, Busch migrated to Belgium where he was interned during the German occupation and later imprisoned in Camp Gurs, France and Berlin. Freed by the Red Army in 1945, he settled in East Berlin where he started his own record label and worked with Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator at the "Berliner Ensemble".
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- Born
- Jan 22, 1900
Kiel - Also known as
- Busch, Ernst
- Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Busch
- Parents
- Spouses
- Eva Busch
( - 1934)
- Eva Busch
- Nationality
- Germany
- German Empire
- East Germany
- Profession
- Lived in
- Kiel
- Died
- Jun 8, 1980
Bernburg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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