- Alfred Hause was born on August 8, 1920 in Ibbenbüren, Westphalia [now North Rhine-Westphalia], Germany. He was an actor and composer, known for World on a Wire (1973), Verliebtes Abenteuer (1938) and ARD-Fernsehlotterie - Ein Platz an der Sonne (1956). He died on January 14, 2005 in Hamburg, Germany.
- In 1961 he won the first place at the first German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden with his orchestra and the title Bailando a dos.
- Alfred Hause accompanied well-known pop singers of the fifties and sixties such as Freddy Quinn, Rudi Schuricke, René Carol, Detlev Lais, Lonny Kellner, Friedel Hensch and the Cyprys or Peter Beil.
- Immediately after his release as a prisoner of war in October 1945, he went to Hamburg on the basis of a newspaper advertisement "with a borrowed violin" and applied to the N(W)DR (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk).
- Hause composed also film music, for example for the revue film: The Third from the Right (Die Dritte von rechts) (1950) with Evelyn Künneke, directed by Géza von Cziffra and the television film The Ministry is insulted ( Das Ministerium ist beleidigt) (1954) by John Olden.
- From 1941, Alfred Hause, like Helmut Zacharias and Bert Kaempfert (both later employed as radio operators), had to serve as military musician for the Wehrmacht. He was assigned to Hans Teichmann, Staff Music Corps of the Air Force, with public appearances and regular broadcasts of military music as well as classical music on Deutschlandsender.
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