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Events:

• Die beiden Husaren (Operetta; Text: Wilhelm Jacoby and Rudolf Schanzer, FP: 6 February 1913, Theater des Westens, Berlin)
• Wer zuletzt lacht (musikalisches Lustspiel, Text: Arthur Lippschitz and A. Bernstein-Sawersky, FP: 31 December 1913, Theater an der Weidendammer Brücke, Berlin)
• Das Schwarzwaldmädel (Operetta, Text: August Neidhart, FP: 25 August 1917, Komischen Oper Berlin)
• Ein modernes Mädel (Operetta, Text: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, FP: 28 June 1918, Volkstheater München)
• Schwalbenhochzeit (Operetta, Text: Pordes-Milo, FP: 28 January 1921, Theater des Westens, Berlin)
• Die Postmeisterin (Operetta, Text: August Neidhart, FP: 3 February 1921, Central-Theater, Berlin)
• Des Königs Nachbarin (Singspiel, Text: Fritz Grünbaum and Wilhelm Sterk, FP: 15 April 1923, Wallner-Theater, Berlin)
• Die goldene Mühle (Singspiel, Text: Wilhelm Sterk, partly after Carl Costa, FP: 1936, Olten in der Schweiz; Jessel was not allowed to be performed in Germany)
• Treffpunkt Tegernsee (Operetta, Text: Aksel Lund and Erik Radolf, FP: 12 April 2009, Stadttheater Neuburg an der Donau by the Neuburger Volkstheater)

The Jewish German composer Leon Jessel mainly composed operetts. His Schwalbenhochzeit was his most popular one. He converted to Christianity to be able to mary his first wife. He found his death after he was arrested and tortured because the Gestapo found a letter in which he wrote about the gruesome threat of the destruction of the Jewish people.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Jessel