- Hans Carste was enlisted in 1942 and had to go to the east front. There he became seriously wounded and came into Russian imprisonment where he continued to compose music.
- In 1957 he became president of BIEM in Paris.
- He first worked at the Vienna Opera, it followed an engagement an the Opera of Breslau before he went to Berlin to start his great career.
- In 1937 when Ludwig Rüth, the Jewish Band Leader emigrated to South Africa, Hans Carste took up the baton. For some time the Orchestra was still known as the Ludwig (Lewis) Rüth Orchester but acknowledged that Carste was the conductor. Within a short time it became known as the Hans Carste Orchester.
- The film composer Hans Carste first studied political and economic science from 1927 before he turned towards the music and went to the Vienna Music Academy.
- During World War II he only wrote one more film composition. Beside it he released many records via Elektrola with his dance band.
- Only in 1948 he was released from prison and was able to return to Germany. One year later he took over the lead of the entertainment and dance music by RIAS Berlin. Three years later his opera "Lump mit Herz" received its world premiere.
- He withdrew from all activities in 1967 due to illness.
- Hans Carste joined the NSDAP in 1933.
- His theme song for the TV news (Tagesschau) in 1952 became familiar to a huge public and is till today one of his best-known compositions.
- He was a German composer and conductor.
- He arrived in Berlin in 1931 after working in Vienna and Breslau.
- He also composed the music for the song "Du spielst 'ne tolle Rolle", which was recorded by the Andrews Sisters and Nat King Cole, with English lyrics by Charles Tobias, as "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer".
- He composed film music and as well as songs for the stage.
- John Serry Sr. recorded Carste's song Hawaiian Night on accordion with his ensemble for Dot Records.
- The six-note long signature tune of the Tagesschau comes from the final bars of the Hammond Fantasy, which Carste composed while he was a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union. It was arranged by Rudolf Kühn in 1956 for a 90-piece radio orchestra. Für ein Fanfarenfragment der Hammond-Fantasie erhielt die Witwe Grit-Sieglinde Carste noch in den 2010er Jahren eine monatlich vierstellige GEMA-Ausschüttung.
- He was badly wounded on the Eastern Front and was taken prisoner by the Soviets in November 1942, from which he was released in 1948. During this time, a large part of his operetta Lump mit Herz, which premiered in 1952 at the Nuremberg Opera House, was written.
- In 1961 he received The Paul-Lincke-Ring. It is awarded to musicians who have made special contributions to German-speaking light music.
- He gained his first practical experience at the Vienna Volksoper before going to the Breslau Opera as a répétiteur in 1929.
- In addition to his radio work, he continued to compose film music, hits, dance and light music.
- In 1961 he was awarded the title of professor.
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