Europa (record label)

Europa (styled as EUROPA) is a German

• 1956: The Miller International Record Company is formed by
  fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, narrated by Hans Paetsch
  . This would become the foundation-stone of Europa's success as a record label.
• 1958: Miller International inaugurates a stereo label, called Stereo-Fidelity.[1]
• 1966: Europa-Kinderserie is born and the first radio plays are produced, featuring fairy tales and adventure stories. Such radio plays are rare at the time, and the label only has moderate success.
• 1980s: Europa produce H. G. Francis's films. Douglas Welbat is responsible for the film scripts of the series Macabros and Larry Brent.

Directors

There have been four directors of the label:

1. 1966-1968 - the era of Sieglinde Dziallas. Dziallas, was the friend of Berumann, the joint founder. He used the alias Claudius Brac during the first years. During Dziallas' tenure, Beurmann attracted many more Hamburg stage actors to record the radio plays, including Hans Paetsch, Benno Gellenbeck, Peter Folken, Horst Fleck and Marga Massberg.
2. 1968-1972 - the era of
   films and produced radio plays of Karl May's Winnetou
   novels. Altogether Halver produced about 75 radio plays.
3. 1972-1973 - the era of Dagmar von Kurmin. In 1972, Halver left Europa, and for a short time von Kurmin oversaw the production of some 15 radio plays, including some by Karl May and Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
4. 1973–present - the era of
   gold and platinum discs
   .

Carsten Bohn controversy

A further success guarantor was the music of Carsten Bohn. Bohn felt that he was not sufficiently paid for his compositions and a legal dispute ensued. As a consequence, the Europa label has been unable to use his compositions since the mid-1980s.

Decline and renaissance

At the end of the 1980s, bad sales figures caused radio play production to slow down. The main reason cited for the declining sales was that children and young people were no longer interested in radio plays, preferring instead to play

See also

• List of record labels

References