Trivia

Because of his popularity as a singer he was engaged as an actor for several movies from 1930.

During World War II he entertained soldiers at the front. During a tour to Norway in died in Oslo in 1945.

The actor, singer and composer Luigi Bernauer began his acting career at cabarets in Vienna where he often sang humorous songs.

He was successful in such a way that his songs were broadcasted in the radio and sold as records. Some of his own composed songs were also very successful like "Die alte Zahnradbahn".

In his career, used many aliases as : Luigi Bernauer, Hans Hellmer, Bert Brand, Fred Lustig, Hans Bauer, Georg Walden and many others.

Bernauer composed one of the most famous Viennese songs of the late 1930s, The Old Rack Railway .

Bernauer ruled the entire former international pop repertoire and left countless recordings. Some recordings with Wiener Schrammel company have also been preserved under his real first name Ludwig .

He performed in Viennese cabaret and became a popular radio and record singer during the 1920s and 1930s.

Some of Bernauer's recordings were placed under film actors' singing roles.

After the First World War , Bernauer, who actually wanted to take up a commercial profession, turned to music.

At that time, many record producers had recordings made by different singers, often using the same, fixed pseudonyms .

Bernauer also recorded for the then largest European record company, the German Carl Lindström AG, as Fred Lustig Schlager, which were marketed by the then very well-known record brand Odeon .