Ein Stern faellt von Himmel, Joseph Schmidt

[ekksmann]

Warum warum? Die antwort ist: "Es gibt kein antwort also besser nicht die frage stellen" The tragic end to this beautiful singers life is just one story out of 6 million of that dark era of Nazism.

[0418171]

Der Sänger in diesem Ausschnitt ist nicht Josef Schmidt, sondern ein Double, weil Schmidt in dieser Rolle seine Stimme verlor.

[Weebersburgt]

My Mum loved this song so much and I miss her so when I here it,because she passed away in 1964 and Is 12 years of age.My daughter got me the dubbel CD in the UK but every time I listen to it I cry so mutch that my husband stop the CD

[FamilyCompact294]

Actually, this was filmed in Austria and released on 28th December 1934. In the latter half of 1933 Joseph Schmidt began to spend more and more time in Vienna, although he kept his flat in Berlin until the end of December 1933. By the beginning of 1934, he made Vienna his home.

[aristopus]

This movie had to be made around 1936. Germany had a brief prosperity as Nazi austerity plans reaped some benefit. Germans temporarily forgot the ominous premonitions in Mein Kampf.

Look how Schmidt digs himself, confident, waving his arm on benign hedonism. He obviously had no idea of what was in store from him and his people.

[TristanDresden]

Ein Volk der Literatur und Musik hat auch gegenüber seinen größten Vertretern versagt. Für mich immer noch unfassbar und unerklärlich.

[Fruehlingszauber]

Joseph Schmidt - ein Stern hell am Himmel,

denn seit dem 22. Januar 2008 erinnert der namentliche Asteroid 168321 "Josephschmidt", der zwischen Mars und Jupiter die Sonne umkreist, an die unsterbliche, wunderbar begnadete Stimme, welche bis heute die Herzen so vieler Menschen berührt.... Dankeschööön

[joeocho88]

FACT. The Nazis banned his performances to he had to sing in the Netherlands and Belgium and France.

He did manage to get away from them but to no avail. He was NOT a Dwarf! His mother's people were probably short..I never met them or seen them but I do know that the Nazis were responsible for his death!

[joeocho88]

My grandfather was a COUSIN NOT a brother.

I did not know him and I never met him. . I was told that he had diabetes and that he MAY have been married in Belgium and had a wife and daughter. And that is ALL I KNOW. The Holocaust eliminated me being able to find any relatives or better information, Sadly. My father looked like him in the face but all of us are much taller, We ALL sing rather well.

[mayflash67]

Are You really a relative from Joseph Schmidt? I'm just fan of him. He was just GREAT!!!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!! I would be happy to know more about him. Can You wright me? Best wishes!

[Schlaepp]

Leider musste ein so wunderbarer Sänger auf so tragische Weise sein Leben lassen. Das beklemmende für mich ist das er das Land in dem er so viel seiner Jugendzeit verbracht hat und das er so liebte aufgrund seiner jüdischen Abstammung verlassen musste. Beschämend für mich als Deutscher ist, dass wir als Kulturnation einen so begnadeten Künstler vertrieben haben. Jammerschade dass er so bald sterben musste und uns nicht noch mehr mit seiner wunderschönen Stimme beglücken konnte (Ich bin JG 1959)

[inreanre]

Also, ich schäm mich ausschliesslich nur für den Mist, den ich selbst verbockt habe. Und das reicht schon.

Die Gegenwart ist der Zustand, an dem man sich messen lassen muss.

[IustitiaPax]

@Schlaepp Er starb in der Schweiz. Nicht in Deutschland. 

[Fenestri]

@IustitiaPax stimmt schon nur warum eigentlich ? Wieviel wurde für seinen Tod eigentlich gezahlt ? Heutzutage noch ?

[theo18o444]

@Fenestri

[Spreeathener]

Wut, Trauer und Scham erfüllen mich noch heute in Anbetracht der barbarischen und menschenverachtenden Taten dieser satanischen Nazis. Josef Schmidt steht als tragisches Beispiel dafür, wie unsere europäischen Nachbarn unseren jüdischen Mitbürgern die dringende und überlebenswichtige Solidarität und Unterstützung versagten. Das macht sie in meinen Augen zu Mittätern und Mitschuldigen.

[IustitiaPax]

@Spreeathener Die Schweiz hat ihn aufgenommen. Joseph Schmidt starb wegen einer medizinischen Fehleinschätzung. Nicht weil man ihn töten wollte. Bitte aufhören mit Deiner antischweizerischen Lügentirade.

[Fenestri]

@IustitiaPax leider entspricht aber die Tatsache das die Schweiz ihn sterben ließ !!

[theo18o444]

@Fenestri die Schweiz hat ihn verrecken lassen

[0418171]

@Spreeathener

Wie wäre es damit, sich einfach nur den Titel anzuhören und keine politischen Haßtiraden einzubauen.

Diese sind überflüssig und fehl am Platze.

Diesen Leuten geht es nicht um die Musik, sondern nur um Hetze.

[vulcanswork]

Meraviglia.

[sebreathnach]

Despite the ridiculous propts, his voice (and I suspect his personality) was beautiful. One feels one somehow knew him. I only wish he had recorded other songs, like The Floral Dance, which would have suited him to the ground. Thanks for the recording and those bits of information that describe his unthinkable death.

[joeocho88]

The "Second heart attack" was supposed to have been caused by an injection of cyanide. Same stuff that Goering took. It was murder by Nazis.

I know he had illegal papers. My grandfather was a printer, forged a lot of them before he had to leave for Mexico on those same forged papers.

[joeocho88]

He got that from his mother's side of the family. Most of our Schmidt male relatives are taller.

Joseph had the papers to leave Germany but he felt he was such a beloved film star that the Nazis wouldn't kill him.He went to Roumania. Nazis were coming for him.He made it to the Swiss border;German border guard knew his papers were fake but he was a fan and let him out.Nazi sympathizers killed him in Swiss internment camp.

[joeocho88]

A Star Fell From Heaven is supposed to been written on Joseph's tombstone but whether or not in Hebrew or German, I have no idea. Someday, I want to go to Switzerland and see it for myself.I hope the guy who murdered him rots in hell!

[megan6168]

It wasn't just "one guy" read on

"Schmidt wound up crossing over the Swiss border illegally. He was arrested and sent to a work camp near Zurich called Gyrenbad. In November of 1942, he suffered a heart attack and did not receive proper medical attention. "The camp officials accused him of trying to evade work," said Orner.

Shortly after returning to the camp from the infirmary, he had another heart attack and died a few days later. He was 38.

[sebreathnach]

No; he probably was a good Christian and, as you know, they and the Pope always go to heaven: they gave so much for the Christian conquest.....

[saltburner2]

A photograph of his tombstone was included in the notes to a double LP issue of his recordings from Electrola in the 1960s.

At the top are the words, 'Ein Stern Fallt'.

Below is a Star of David, and then four words in Hebrew script.

Below that, JOSEPH SCHMIDT, Kammersanger, and his dates: 1904-1942.

[saltburner2]

All his recordings have been re-issued on CD - four from EMI, including all his HMV and Parlophone records,

2cdS from Atrium [and on other labels] of his complete Ultraphon/Telefunken recordings,

and there are others of film soundtracks, broadcasts, and some from the Great Synagogue in Berlin, made in 1928 and thus his earliest extant recordings.

[ekksmann]

Its written in German " Ein Stern Fallt " "A Star Fell" but doesnt say from heaven- I guess it means that Josef was the "star" who fell with his un-timely and tragic demise

[joeocho88]

Looks like this film was short on plot but the singing was in the style of its day..and Joseph Schmidt was my father's second cousin. I just can't see him in any uniform. Our family worked for peace...All the Schmidts could sing. I wish I had knwon him.

[dalferr]

Great!

[blakemooney]

It was the movie format back then. There's nothing comedic about Schmidt's heroic voice--a operatic singer who would have dominated opera for 25 years with this sound.

[xralph1968x]

sounds like comedian harmonists in the beginning?

[uniona2]

@ xralph1968 yes i agree

[Stelzhammer]

No that was Austrian vocal Group "Bohemian Quartet".

Not only in this Austrian movie from 1934 they could be heard.

[EinLiedgehtumdieWelt]

No, the voice is from Joseph Schmidt.

The movie is about him and this "singer" with a voice problem.

[Stelzhammer]

The "singer" with the voice problem was acted

by Austrian Egon von Jordan.

[mKczK]

Does he stand on stilts?

[mrrk]

That is not Schmidt on the film.