- In 1961 he won the first place at the first German Schlager Festival in Baden-Baden with his orchestra and the title Bailando a dos.
- Alfred Hause accompanied well-known pop singers of the fifties and sixties such as Freddy Quinn, Rudi Schuricke, René Carol, Detlev Lais, Lonny Kellner, Friedel Hensch and the Cyprys or Peter Beil.
- Immediately after his release as a prisoner of war in October 1945, he went to Hamburg on the basis of a newspaper advertisement "with a borrowed violin" and applied to the N(W)DR (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk).
- Hause composed also film music, for example for the revue film: The Third from the Right (Die Dritte von rechts) (1950) with Evelyn Künneke, directed by Géza von Cziffra and the television film The Ministry is insulted ( Das Ministerium ist beleidigt) (1954) by John Olden.
- From 1941, Alfred Hause, like Helmut Zacharias and Bert Kaempfert (both later employed as radio operators), had to serve as military musician for the Wehrmacht. He was assigned to Hans Teichmann, Staff Music Corps of the Air Force, with public appearances and regular broadcasts of military music as well as classical music on Deutschlandsender.
- Alfred Hause - who had what is known as perfect pitch - developed his musicality while he was still at school, and he showed a special talent for playing the violin.
- He was also successful with his music in many countries, especially in South Africa, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia and Argentina.
- In 1944, Hause was assigned to the western front and in the spring of 1945 he was taken prisoner by the British (in the meantime his apartment in his last place of residence, Berlin, had been bombed and looted).
- In addition to his musical talent, his technical interest also found expression, for example in his enthusiasm for sleekly designed cars, and he drew up the floor plan for the single-family house in Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel according to his own ideas.
- Haus became known through numerous radio and disc recordings and through appearances in the television programs by Peter Frankenfeld (Toi, toi, toi) and Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff (Einer wird Gewinnen), as well as in numerous radio programs by Hans Rosenthal.
- From 1965 to 1989 he gave more than 100 concerts in Japan with his orchestra, organized by Polydor in cooperation with the Nippon Grammophon Co.
- Working with Arne Domnérus, Joe Heider (aka Alfie Khan) and Yusef Lateef, Alfred Hause experimented towards a synthesis of symphonic and jazz elements.
- As the son of a naval architect, he should have pursued a technical career after attending the Oberrealschule in Dortmund, but Alfred Hause decided to study classical music at the Weimar Conservatory (later integrated into the Franz Liszt Weimar Academy of Music).
- On the 29th of December 1995 he received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- As a music student he added the saxophone, clarinet and piano to the violin and earned the tuition fees through student jobs, for example as a member of a dance orchestra, which ultimately developed and manifested a preference for light music.
- He also composed pop music himself (e.g. Tango Evita) and Mein Schiff hab Gute Reise (Polydor 1952) for Liselotte Malkowsky.
- After graduating, Alfred Hause played in Berlin with dance orchestras that were popular at the time: saxophone with Peter Kreuder, Franz Grothe and Georges Boulanger, violin and saxophone with Willi Stech, Otto Dobrindt, Hans Bund, Juan Llossas and Kurt Widmann, with appearances at the Delphi and Moka Efti , Imperator(-hall), conservatory and in the Berolina.
- The "German tango king" played a major role in shaping light music in Germany after the Second World War.
- He was a German violinist ad conductor.
- Hause starred also in the Sunday morning show 'Hamburger Hafenkonzert' as successor to Hans Freese and predecessor of Günter Fuhlisch.
- In 1949, Hause replaced Kurt Wege and took over the direction of the dance and entertainment orchestra of the NWDR, which was taken over by the NDR in 1955. He stayed at the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk/Northern German Broadcasting), until his retirement. Popular soloists were e.g. Guitarist Martin Böttcher and bassist Hans "James" Last.
- Every year, 30 musicians from Hamburg take time off and tour in Japan as the Alfred-Hause-Orchestra - with undiminished success.
- In his articles in the Hamburger Abendblatt, the journalist Horst Lietzberg characterized Hause as a sensitive, reserved person and an enthusiastic family man - in 1972 he even took his wife and children on tour to Japan.
- His concept of a mix between the classic Argentine tango and the so-called Continental tango, which he developed, was well received by the audience and brought/gave him the title of "Tango King".
- In 1946, Hause became concert master and short time later he led his own string section within the orchestra, in 1948 under orchestra leader Harry Hermann.
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