Trivia

After his activity as a movie actor he wrote lyrics for several movies.

The actor Franz Baumann normally worked at the theater during his long-standing career.

The increasing spread of radio gave Baumann a further boost in his career as a singer. His voice was well suited to the new medium, and when he was in New York for a long time, he also stood in front of the microphone for several broadcasters.

Baumann also took on feature film roles several times up to 1933.

There are no longer any traces of Baumann's songs from the time after the Second World War.

Franz Baumann first studied Germanistic in Berlin, Jena and Heidelberg. He then completed vocal training in Wiesbaden, Milan and Naples.

Many recordings underlined his success, which eventually also occurred in an international context. He also gave many concerts in Holland and Switzerland.

As early as 1931 he had written the song Far is the Way Back to Home (Weit ist der Weg zurück ins Heimatland ) and also sung it himself on a shellac record. This marching song was used in the xenophobic film Refugees (1933) and became (with modified and expanded text) the battle song of the Hitler Youth.

He died in 1965 at the age of 75 as a result of two traffic accidents in Berlin.

Baumann began his artistic career as a concert singer, mainly devoting himself to songs by Franz Schubert. But also folk songs, operetta tunes and high-quality hits were in his repertoire.