Biography

He earned his living with risky bank businesses which led to an imprisonment. After his release he worked as an employee, beside it he conducted at smaller establishments.

The music was spotted again in Germany in the 50s (he became forgotten during his banishment) and it followed several film versions of his operettas like "Die Privatsekretärin" (1953), "Die Blume von Hawaii" (1953), "Viktoria und ihr Husar" (1954) and "Ball im Savoy" (1955).

He emigrated to Paris and in 1940 he went via Cuba to the USA. There he was not able to continue his artistic career and finally he attracted attention by strange behaviors. They diagnosed him with insanity and he came to different centres before he returned to Germany where he was treated at the psychiatry of the Universitätsklinik Hamburg-Eppendorf. Paul Abraham never recovered and he died in 1960 of cancer.

From 1930 Paul Abraham was also active as a filmcomposer, partly with original compositions, partly with compositions from his operettas.

The operetta and film composer Paul Abraham studied composition from 1913 to 1917 and during this time he already composed his first own pieces.