Composer and conductor of waltzes, marches, and other light dance music born in Bad Carlsruhe, Silesia (now Pokój, Poland). Translateur's orchestra played on international tours and even in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II. After the Nazi seizure of power in 1933 Translateur - having been deemed a "half-Jew" (Mischling) by the Nuremberg Laws - was barred from the Reich Music Chamber which meant a professional ban. He sold his publishing house to the London publisher Bosworth in 1938. He died in the concentration camp at Theresienstadt (today Terezín, Czech Republic). Today he is most famous for his "Wiener Praterleben" waltz, which became popular as "Sportpalast-Walzer" in 1920s Berlin.
