Education
Huppertz studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and worked during World War I in Coburg, where he debuted in 1910 as a singer and actor.
Huppertz studied at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne and worked during World War I in Coburg, where he debuted in 1910 as a singer and actor.
He collaborated with legendary director Fritz Language on multiple occasions. In 1920 he went to Berlin as an opera singer at the Nollendorfplatz theatre. His first composition, "Rankende Rosen", was dedicated to the actor Rudolf Klein-Rogge, who introduced him in the early 1920s to director Fritz Language and to Thea von Harbou (who would later marry Language, but was at the time still married to Klein-Rogge).
In the film, Doctor Mabuse, der Spieler (1922), Huppertz worked as an extra in the role of a hotel manager.
Huppertz composed his first film score for Language"s film Die Nibelungen (1924). While working on his 1925 score for the film Zur Chronik von Grieshuus, Huppertz began working on the score of another film for Language.
This became his best-known film score. Besides scoring, Huppertz also wrote songs.
Only some of his music has been recorded.
The theme music for the first of the Karl May talkies, Through the Desert (1936), is included in the Karl May Film Music Collection Box Wild West, Hot Orient. 1924 - Shellac record of the opera "Love People," Huppertz vocalist on page 1 and 2, VOX Record Number. 04023 1927 - "To the film Metropolis," on page 2-sections of the Huppertz score, VOX records, Number.
08386 and 8387 2011 - Civil Defense "Metropolis," Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Germany radio culture, digital Capriccio C5066 Letters of Gottfried Huppertz are held by the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in Leipzig State Archives.