- He wrote the words for songs in movies like "Allotria" (1936), "Gasparone" (1937), "Bel Ami" (1939), "Hallo Janine!" (1939) and "Es war eine rauschende Ballnacht" (1939).
- The lyricist Hans Fritz Beckmann belonged to the most successful film song lyricists of the German film and he wrote the words for numerous popular songs.
- He wrote numerous lyrics for catchy songs during World War II.
- Besides his activity as a lyricist Hans Fritz Beckmann also wrote the music for few movies and furthermore he wrote numerous screenplays.
- Hans Fritz Beckmann was able to continue his film career in the 50s but he was no longer as successful as before the end of war.
- To his last cinematical works as a lyricist belong "Heidelberger Romanze" (1951), "Es geschehen noch Wunder" (51), "Arlette erobert Paris" (1953), "Charleys Tante" (1956), "Der eiserne Gustav" (1958) and "Bankraub in der Rue Latour" (1961).
- He was successful straightaway from 1934, and he became a demanded lyricist in the next years.
- The film composer Theo Mackeben also worked for the cabaret "Musenschaukel". When they met there Hans Fritz Beckmann wrote the lyrics for Mackebens film songs in "Liebe, Tod und Teufel" (1934).
- His family emigrated to Argentina in 1920 where Hans Fritz Beckmann grew up in Buenos Aires. When he was force to enter a commercial education he run way and went back to Germany in 1928 as a ship's boy. There he was able to start his artistic career in Berlin at the varieté. It followed an engagement at the "Kabarett der Namenlosen".
- In 1934 he was engaged by Trude Hesterberg for the cabaret "Musenschaukel".
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