- In 1918, Löhner-Beda was called up for military service in World War I, which he left as an officer and a convinced anti-militarist.
- Although aware of his collaborator's fate, Lehár remained silent. (Despite his enormous popularity with Hitler, Lehár himself was in a precarious situation, as he was married to a Jewish woman. Nonetheless, his abandonment of his former friend is particularly tragic; the Viennese cultural counselor Viktor Matejka, who had known both men, believed that 'Löhner had to die because Lehár had forgotten about him'.).
- Having passed his Matura exams, he began the study of law at the University of Vienna, where he became a member of the Jewish Kadimah student association. After he had obtained his doctorate, he worked as a lawyer from 1908 onwards. A dedicated football player, he was among the founders of the Hakoah Vienna sports club in 1909.
- Murdered in Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp and nearly forgotten, many of his songs and tunes remained popular up to today.
- The circumstances surrounding Franz Lehár possibly attempting to intercede with the Nazis on Löhner-Beda's behalf are clouded. Supposedly after World War II Lehár denied any cognizance of Löhner-Beda's concentration-camp imprisonment, but one source states that Lehár may have tried personally to secure Hitler's guarantee of Löhner-Beda's safety.
- His wife and their two daughters did not survive the persecution too.
- On October 17, 1942, he was deported to the Monowitz concentration camp, near Auschwitz.
- Fritz Löhner-Beda hoped for the intercession of his fellow Franz Lehar during his imprisonment, but this failed to come.
- The circumstances of his death are described in Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews: during an inspection by several directors of the IG Farben syndicate around Otto Ambros, Fritz ter Meer, Carl Krauch, and Heinrich Bütefisch, the already diseased Löhner-Beda was denounced as working not hard enough, for which he was beaten and kicked to death on December 4, 1942. A Kapo accused of the murder in the 1968 Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial was acquitted of the charge due to lack of evidence.
- In 1910, Löhner-Beda decided upon a career as an author. He wrote numerous light satires, sketches, poems, and lyrics but also contributed to several newspapers, often under the pen name "Beda", a shortened version of his Czech first name, Bedrich (Frederick). In 1913, he met Franz Lehár, for whom he wrote the libretto of the 1916 operetta Der Sterngucker (The Stargazer).
- Beaten to death because he was no longer able to comply with the demanded efficiency.
- Léhar did nothing to help Löhner-Beda, who was arrested in Vienna on March 13, 1938, and deported to the Dachau concentration camp on April 1, 1938; indeed, he curried favor with the Nazi powers-that-be in the following years.
- He co-wrote the 'Buchenwaldlied' (Buchenwald song). Not long after he arrived, the camp commander declared a contest among the prisoners to compose a camp song. There were many submissions, but it was Löhner-Beda's text, set to music by Hermann Leopoldi, that won. (Because both prisoners were Jewish, and thus not allowed to enter, they gave the song to a block leader, who submitted it under his own name. In any event, the prize was never awarded). The song was popular amongst both prisoners and SS guards.
- Even though Löhner-Beda's name appeared in the Nazi Encyclopedia of Jews in Music in 1940, his songs and the Lehár operettas were still performed (but with no mention of their librettist).
- In 1888, his family moved to Vienna, and in 1896 changed their surname to the less Jewish surname Löhner.
- In 1919, his son Bruno was born, the product of a relationship with Anni Strassmann; Bruno was able to immigrate to the United States in the 1930s. In 1925, Fritz Löhner-Beda married Helene Jellinek, and Liselotte was born in 1927, Evamaria, in 1929.
- In the 1920s, Löhner-Beda became one of the most sought-after librettists and lyricists in Vienna. Together with Lehár as composer, Ludwig Herzer as co-author, and Richard Tauber as singer, Löhner-Beda produced the operettas Friederike (Frederica, 1928), Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles, 1929), and, with Paul Knepler as co-author, Giuditta (1934). Together with his friend Alfred Grünwald as co-author and Paul Abraham as composer, Löhner-Beda produced Viktoria und ihr Husar (Victoria and Her Hussar, 1930), Die Blume von Hawaii (The Flower of Hawaii, 1931), and Ball im Savoy (Ball at the Savoy, 1932).
- On August 31, 1942, his wife, Helene, and daughters, Liselotte and Evamaria, now 13 and 14 years old, were deported from Vienna to Minsk, where they were murdered in specially altered gas vans.
- An other good fried in the KZ was the actor Fritz Grünbaum. Fritz Löhner-Beda had to witness his death in January 1941.
- On April 1, 1938, almost immediately after the Anschluss (the Austrian annexation to Nazi Germany, in mid-March 1938), Fritz Löhner-Beda was arrested and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. On September 23, 1938, he was transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp. There, together with his fellow prisoner Hermann Leopoldi at the end of 1938, he composed the famous anthem of the concentration camp, Das Buchenwaldlied ("The Buchenwald Song". The line wir wollen trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen was adopted by the Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl for the German title of his 1946 book Man's Search for Meaning.
- First he learnt the profession of jurisprudence and was also busy for a lawyer office for a certain time. But his attention was soon dominated by his literary abilities and he launched an impressive career as a writer of humorous and catchy poems and lyrics. At this time he has created the pseudonym Beda which later became Fritz Löhner-Beda.
- His artistic way up came to an abrupt end with the seizure of power by the National Socialists. As a Jew he was in the focus of the politic which he himself didn't see at the beginning because his music was very popular among the rulers.
- A kapo or prisoner functionary (a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks in the camp), accused of the murder in the 1968 Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial was acquitted of the charge due to lack of evidence.
- Fritz Löhner-Beda misjudged the situation and was arrested in 1938 because of his Jewish extraction. He was deported via KZ Dachau to the KZ Buchenwald. In spite of inhuman circumstances he found there he did not loose his artistic energy and wrote the text for the song "Das Buchenwaldlied", composed by Hermann Leopoldi who was also arrested in Buchenwald. The song became a camp hymn and gave strength to the prisoners.
- He already published his first book of poems called "Getaufte oder Baldgetaufte" in 1908. It followed settings of his plays, among others "Die Dollarprinzessin" by Leo Fall.
- He was regarded as the most successful artistic union of that time together with Ludwig Herzer, Franz Lehar and Richard Tauber. This group realised among others the operettas "Friederike" (28), "Das Land des Lächelns" (1929) and "Giuditta" (1934). Other operettas are "Viktoria und ihr Husar" (1930) and "Die Blume von Hawaii" (1931).
- His words live on after his tragic death in numerous songs, among others "Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren", "Ausgerechnet Bananen", which was also interpreted by Josephine Baker, "Was machst du mit dem Knie, lieber Hans?" and especially "Dein ist mein ganzes Herz" sung by Richard Tauber.
- He experienced the height of his career in the 20's and managed his breakthrough in 1922 with his songtext to Hermann Leopoldi's song "Das Lied von der sterbenden Märchenstadt Wien" and became one of the most popular librettists.
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