- After his move to Berlin in 1929 he continued his studying at he university of music.
- When he lost his whole money due to the world economic crisis he dismissed his plan to become a church musician and he worked as a sheet music copyist and finally as an arranger of the well-known film composer Peter Kreuder.
- In 1957 he became the musical director of the Bertelsmann Schallplattenring and finally he was a co-founder of the well-known record company "Ariola".
- Friedrich Schröder became the first director of the new radio RIAS in Berlin,.
- The film composer Friedrich Schröder first studied musical history and church music in Münster.
- Despite his huge success as a composer he had to serve as a soldier in 1941, but one year later he was released again after his great success with the operetta "Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies" (1942).
- His last cinematical works came in the 60s.
- He continued his activities for the film business in the 40s and he wrote among others the music for movies like "Ihr Privatsekretär" (40), "Der Kleinstadtpoet" (40), "Immer nur Du!" (41) with the songs "Die ganze Welt dreht sich um Dich" and "Man müsste Klavier spielen können".
- He became acquainted with the word of film and film music and from 1936 he started to compose his first own songs. Only one year later he wrote his first independent film composition for "Sieben Ohrfeigen" (37) with the hit "Ich tanze mir dir in den Himmel hinein", it followed the movies "Weisse Sklaven" (37), "Kleiner Mann - ganz gross!" (38), "Mann für Mann" (39) and "Onkel Fridolin" (39).
- In 1916 he got violin lessons and played in different string quartets.
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