Stern Conservatory
He was born in London, where his father, operetta composer Victor Hollaender, worked as a musical director at the Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus. Young Hollaender had a solid music and theatre family background: his uncle Gustav was director of the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and his uncle Felix Hollaender was a well-known novelist and drama critic, who later worked with Max Reinhardt at the Deutsches Theater.