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Weintraubs Syncopators

Band, DE
Pop and Jazz

German hot jazz dance orchestra active in 1920s/30s Weimar Republic Berlin. Founded by Stefan Weintraub and Horst Graff in 1924 as "Tanzkapelle Stefan Weintraub", they became very popular in cabarets and theaters. Stefan Weintraub moved from piano to drums when Friedrich Hollaender joined them as pianist in 1926. All the members were multi-instrumentalists. They started to work with Franz Wachsmann, who often substituted for Friedrich Hollaender. They worked in early sound movies ("Der Blaue Engel" with Marlene Dietrich) and with many popular singers of the period. After the Nazi takeover in 1933, this band of mainly Jewish musicians decided to move away from Germany and continued touring in Western and Eastern Europe and farther East to Japan and China. They arrived in Sydney, Australia, in 1937. The decision of some of them to stay brought them into conflict with the aggressively protectionist Musicians' Union of Australia. They disbanded in 1940 when three members were interned as "enemy aliens".

Members

	Franz Waxman p 1906-1967 DE
	Friedrich Hollaender p 1896-1976 DE
	Eddie Rosner tr 1910-1976 DE
	Stefan Weintraub dr, vib, xyl 1897-1981 DE
	John Kaiser tb, sax, acc
	Freddy Wise cl, ts DE
	Ansco Bruinier b, tu
	Horst Graff cl *1905 DE
	Paul Aronovici tr, vn CA
	Baby Schulvater g, bj, vc *1907 AU
	Marcel de Ridder p
	Arno Olewsky tr DE
	Leo Weiss p *1908 AU
	Manny Fischer tr, vn DE