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- Birth nameHans Otto Paul Friedrich Borgmann
- Hans-Otto Borgmann was born on October 20, 1901 in Hannover, Germany. He was a composer, known for A Certain Mr. Gran (1933), I.F.1 ne répond plus (1933) and F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932). He died on July 26, 1977 in Berlin, Germany.
- When he finished his study at the Staatliche Akademie für Kirchen- und Schulmusik in Berlin he worked as a bandmaster from 1924.
- When he retired from the film business he worked as a lecturer at different universities and he set words of famous writers like Erich Kästner und Bertold Brecht to music.
- He continued his career as a filmcomposer after World War II.
- From 1959 to 1971 he withdrew from film popular music to lecture at the Max Reinhardt Theatre and privately compose difficult atonal music.
- He joined UFA as a silent film music conductor in 1928, and became head composer by 1931.
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