!!!Beda-Löhner, Fritz auch Löhner-Beda, eigentlich Löhner

b. Ustí nad Orličí, Czech Republic (then Wildenschwert), June 24, 1883, 
d. Auschwitz concentration camp (Poland), Dec. 4, 1942, writer, 
journalist. A relatively unknown playwright, it was chiefly as a 
librettist (librettos for operettas by F.  Lehár and P.  
Abraham) and pop lyricist in the 1920s that he built up his 
extraordinary reputation in Austria.

!Works
Poems, chansons. - Librettos: Friederike, 1928; Das Land des 
Laechelns, 1929 (The Land of Smiles); Schoen ist die Welt, 1930; 
Viktoria und ihr Husar, 1930; Blume von Hawaii, 1931; Ball im Savoy, 
1933; Giuditta, 1933; Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren, 1934.

!Literature
G. Schwarberg, Dein ist mein ganzes Herz. Die Geschichte 
von F. L.-B., 2000.



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