- 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.
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