Editing Paul Lincke (section)

==Career==
===Performance and early compositions===
Instead of pursuing a career as a military musician, Lincke secured employment as a bassoonist at Berlin's Central Theatre, under Adolf Ernst. After one year, he joined the orchestra of the Ostend Theatre.

In entertainment and dance music Lincke gained valuable experience at the Königsstädtischen Theater, the Belle-Alliance-Theater and the Parodie-Theater. He accompanied the musical vaudeville programs and provided his own compositions for popular singers. His ''{{Lang|de|Venus auf Erden}}'' (''Venus on Earth''), a revue-like one-act play was created in 1897 at the Apollo Theater in [[Friedrichstraße]].

===Success with ''{{Lang|de|Frau Luna}}''===
For two years, Paul Lincke worked at the most famous European vaudeville house, the [[Folies Bergère]] in Paris. He then returned with new compositions to the Apollo-Theater where, with huge success in 1899 ''{{Lang|de|{{ill|Frau Luna|de}}}}'' (Mrs Moon) was premiered. That same year, followed ''{{Lang|de|Im Reiche des Indra}}'' (In the Realm of [[Indra]]), and in 1902 the operetta ''Lysistrata''. The librettos of these were by [[Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers]].

In 1908 Paul Lincke became principal [[Conducting|conductor]] and composer for the {{ill|Metropol-Theater (Berlin-Mitte)|de|lt=Metropol-Theater}}, whose spectacular revues were the capital's biggest attraction.

===During the Nazi regime and World War II===
[[File:Gedenktafel Oranienstr 64 Paul Lincke.JPG|thumb|Memorial at Oranienstrasse 64, Berlin. "In the house on this site, which was destroyed as a result of war, lived and worked for many years the composer Paul Lincke. Paul Lincke was born on 7 November 1866 in Berlin at Holzgarten St. #5; he died on 3 September 1946 in [[Hahnenklee]]-Bockswiese in the Harz mountains."]]

With the Nazi rise to power in 1933, Lincke maintained his position and was feted by the Nazi regime. In 1937 he was awarded the Silver Medal of Honour of his native city, on his 75th birthday he was made an honorary citizen of Berlin.

His operetta ''Frau Luna'' (Mrs. Moon) was turned into {{Interlanguage link|Frau Luna (film)|de|3=Frau Luna (Film)|lt=a film}} starring [[Lizzi Waldmüller]], [[Irene von Meyendorff]] and [[Georg Alexander]] and directed by [[Theo Lingen]] in 1941.

In 1943 Lincke toured [[Marienbad]], Bohemia, to conduct ''{{Lang|de|Frau Luna}}'', whose first performance in 1899 is now regarded as the birth of the Berlin operetta. During his absence, his house and his music publisher in Berlin were bombed.

After the war ended, Lincke wanted to return to Berlin. He strove in vain to obtain the approval of the Allies, which, as a native Berliner, he was required to have at that time. With the help of one American General Pierce, he moved first to [[Arzberg, Bavaria]], with his housekeeper Johanna Hildebrandt, who had worked for him for 35 years.

Lincke's ailing health was worsened by the climate there, and he moved again to [[Hahnenklee]]. He died there shortly before his 80th birthday. His funeral was held in Hahnenklee, where his grave is still maintained today.