Kurt Kaiser was born into a family of German-Peruvian descent in Leipzig, Germany on 3 November 1906. At first he pursued an engineering career in Berlin, but in 1927 he joined the German-Jewish showband Die Weintraub Syncopators, and enjoyed considerable success. Kurt played trombone, clarinet and saxophone, and did the musical arrangements. The group's most memorable assignment was accompanying Marlene Dietrich on screen in Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel, 1930). Owing to the anti-Jewish polit...
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