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MRF Vol 23 Final.Indd When Opportunism Knocks: Evaluating the Career of German Popular Entertainment Musician Peter Kreuder in the Third Reich* Andrew J. Mills The manner in which historians approach the relationship between National Socialist Germany and its resident composers, conductors, and musicians oft en is shaped by their notions of what constitutes proper behavior for artists living under totalitarianism. To take a particularly interesting example, the quality of being “opportunistic”—normally valued in modern, performance-driven, capitalistic democracies1—is viewed as overwhelmingly negative in artists who lived under National Socialism. Indeed, the term “opportunist” is a particularly under-scrutinized, yet highly damn- ing description applied to Third Reich artists. The examination of Unterhaltungsmusiker2 Peter Kreuder (1905– 1981) by the Aachen historian Dietmar Kott mann provides a case in point. Commissioned by the city of Aachen in late 2004 to shed light upon Kreuder’s career under Nazism, the investigation initiated a public discussion in which litt le enthusiasm could be mustered for a nuanced portrayal. The irksome, notoriously self-absorbed Kreuder, aside from being considered personally disreputable,3 was repeatedly deemed unworthy of more subtle treatment due to the general consensus that he was a self-serving opportunist. The ease of moral certitude trumped the much more complex consideration of Kreuder’s career decisions. This essay examines Peter Kreuder’s commercially successful Third Reich career and off ers a response to the prevailing manner in which many modern historians and musicologists invoke the no- tion of opportunism. The latt er approach frequently fails to address * I would like to thank Marc Weiner, whose graduate seminar at Indiana University gave rise to this project. I would also like to thank William Rasch and Mark Roseman for reading earlier versions of this paper. All translations are my own unless otherwise specifi ed. 2 Music Research Forum When Opportunism Knocks 3 exactly who qualifi es for membership amongst the ranks of the entitled “Music, Economics, and Political Opportunism,” also fails opportunists, who eludes such an unseemly designation, and who to provide a basis for how the application of the “opportunist” label presides over the matt er. The aim of this essay is not to rehabilitate should be governed.9 the damaged reputation of Peter Kreuder by rescuing him from If Kater did not feel compelled to explicate the term beyond the label “opportunist.” Rather, it addresses the remarkably loose its standard defi nition, perhaps the meaning should be rather manner in which the term opportunism is oft en applied and what apparent. A layman’s understanding of the moral negativity and is lost as a result: the thorough and dispassionate evaluation of unprincipled behavior implied by “professional” or “political” an historical biography that can unlock potentially meaningful opportunism may in fact perfectly suffi ce to describe many artists insight. The present employment of opportunism at times hinders lives under National Socialism. The problem is that a great deal of recognition of the value of studying the lives of musicians who have ambiguity characterizes the manner in which this morally weighty apparent moral shortcomings. label is assigned. There appears to be no discernable standard with which scholars judge historical subjects and affi x the designation The Term “Opportunism” in Postwar Biographies and Third “opportunist.” Reich Historiography The “gallant” jazz pianist Fritz Schulze, for instance, was a fi ve- year member of the Nazi SS (Schutzstaff el) and enjoyed frequenting In postwar biographies that address musicians and their work “Berlin’s swankiest, smoothest, snootiest night spot” at a time when, in the Third Reich, the usage of “opportunist” relies upon the for political reasons, he replaced the Jewish pianist who played at term’s conventional dictionary defi nition; Random House defi nes op- the Sherbini-Bar.10 Schulze, however, receives remarkably favorable portunism as “the practice of adapting one’s actions or decisions to treatment at the hands of Kater, who interviewed him for Diff erent expediency or eff ectiveness, without regard to principles or con- Drummers. The same is true for Hans Korseck, who performed sequences.”4 This standard usage, adopted by the present study jazz-inspired background music at offi cial functions att ended by as well, is overwhelmingly negative in its application to a subject’s Goebbels and Hitler.11 Kater reports that Korseck nevertheless har- biography, suggesting that career accomplishments achieved un- bored a secret hatred of the Nazis due in part to losing his Jewish der the rubric of “opportunism” are morally stained due to their girlfriend to emigration, and that he later married a woman who unscrupulous origin. Despite the gravity of such insinuations, his- had been interrogated by the Gestapo and “declared enemy” of the torical biographies rarely explicate what exactly is meant by the regime.12 Clearly though, scholars have the wherewithal to ease any term. strain on a musician’s Third Reich legacy by kindly formulating The four works social historian Michael Kater described as that individual’s biography. How, for example, does Korseck’s se- defi ning the fi eld before the arrival of his well-received The Twisted cret hatred of the Nazis or his connection with a Jewish émigré Muse in 1997 generally avoided the term “opportunist”; Joseph disqualify him from inclusion in the unsavory club of opportunists, Wulf’s annotated collection and Erik Levi’s book omit reference if his professional behavior appears to warrant membership? to it, while Michael Meyer utilizes the word, but does not explain Two issues arise from the manner in which the prevailing notion it.5 Furthermore, Fred Prieberg does not make use of the term in of opportunism is employed. The fi rst involves the ill-defi ned de- Musik im NS-Staat even though the book launches a spirited assault marcation line between musicians such as Schulze and Korseck, on musicians who, in post-war years, att empted to conceal their who achieved Third Reich success, yet were apparently deemed successful careers under the Nazi regime.6 In Diff erent Drummers: worthy of favorable scholarly treatment, and a musician such as Jazz in the Culture of Nazi Germany Kater entertains the terminology Kreuder, who is introduced as “the opportunist” and critiqued of opportunism in discussing the careers of various Third Reich jazz for his moral bankruptcy. Kater notes, for example, that “At least artists, but refrains from explaining what is meant by this designa- [Fritz] Schulze admits that the idea of SS-organized concentration tion or how its usage was derived.7 The same is true of Kater’s other- camps was beginning to bother him…. He also concedes his oppor- wise highly nuanced chapter on Werner Egk in Composers of the Nazi tunism.”13 Perhaps this postwar admission of guilt provides some Era: Eight Portraits.8 A chapter subsection of Kater’s The Twisted Muse, sense of clarity: the historical subject, now living under democracy, 4 Music Research Forum When Opportunism Knocks 5 can obtain clemency in his historiographic depiction by confessing and pianist at Munich’s Staatliche Akademie der Tonkunst in 1924.15 to the sin of opportunism. The problem of selectively applying the However, Kreuder much preferred the so-called leichte Muse (“the terminology to certain individuals and not to others persists, how- light muse”), and it is in the genre of light entertainment music that ever, for while the conventional usage of opportunism may be self- the young artist fi rst experienced success during the Weimar period evident, the scholarly criteria for duly assigning the label remain as musical assistant to the likes of Friedrich Hollaender.16 Not long obscure. aft er the onset of the Third Reich, Kreuder’s career skyrocketed to This question of selectivity would not be of such import were a remarkable level of commercial success that lasted the duration it not seconded by a palpable sense of moral disproval. There can of the regime, making him a household name for many Germans. be litt le doubt that att aching the distasteful label “opportunist” Aside from writing the scores to thirty feature fi lms, which resulted to a Third Reich musician’s name is equal to a durable moral dis- in forty-one hit songs and a reputation as “King of the Evergreens,”17 crediting. Aft er all, it is the opportunist who behaves “without Kreuder was also prolifi c in the studio and on tour, producing over regard to principles.”14 Those who lived and worked under similar ninety-one gramophone records from July 1933 to January 1944 circumstances but avoided such a distinction are thus presumed to and performing an indeterminable number of concerts throughout have conducted themselves in a more principled manner. Therefore, Germany, Scandinavia, and occupied Europe.18 Kreuder became the scholar enjoys the capacity to cast favorable light upon some an Austrian citizen in 1959 aft er moving to Alt-Aussee during the artists of the Third Reich, while bestowing the enduring stigma of Second World War. Thereaft er his Third Reich biography remained opportunism upon others as he sees fi t. “nontransparent and disputed.”19 Kreuder nevertheless enjoyed The case study of Peter Kreuder demonstrates how uncritical substantial postwar success by writing musicals for Zarah Leander usage of the “opportunist” label unnecessarily simplifi es the bio- and Johannes Heesters,
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