Amalia Carneri

Amalia Carneri, photographed by Ludwig Gutmann (1908)

Amalia Carneri (also Amalie Carneri , actually Amalie Malka Pollak , née Malka Kanarvogel ; born September 12, 1875 in Rzeszów , Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died 1942) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ). She was deported to the Treblinka extermination camp on September 29, 1942 and did not survive the Holocaust . Carneri has appeared in important concert halls and theaters in the Danube Monarchy and Germany, and a number of audio recordings have been preserved.

life and work

Kanarvogel studied at the Vienna Conservatory and adopted the operatic-sounding stage name Amalia Carneri . In private life she is said to have preferred the first name Amalie . She married - in the city ​​temple - the civil servant mine inspector Heinrich Pollak , also: Henryk (June 7, 1877 in Krakow - October 7, 1938 in Vienna). The couple had two sons: Fritz, born on February 28, 1909, and Karl, born on January 15, 1920.

Carneri achieved an international singing career and made guest appearances in numerous cities of the Danube Monarchy and Germany. An early review by the Neue Freie Presse in 1898 praised her singing skills in the highest tones and also mentioned the enthusiastic response from the audience. There is evidence of Carneri appearances in the Deutsches Theater in Pilsen , in the Eden Theater in Strasbourg as well as in the Vienna City Theater , in the Carl Theater and in the Deutsches Volkstheater in Vienna. Between 1905 and 1907 a number of recordings were made for Edison Records , Odeon and Zonophone Records . Two roles in the Carl Theater are guaranteed because audio documents are available:

• the Irene in the operetta The blessed Vinzenz with a libretto by Alexander Landesberg and Leo Stein , music by Raoul Mader , premiere on January 31, 1907, recorded on February 26, 1907 and
• the Chamberlain Friederike von Insterburg in A Waltz Dream , libretto by Felix Dörmann and Leopold Jacobson , music by Oscar Straus , recorded on September 30, 1908.

However, Carneri was not part of the first cast of the waltz dream on March 2, 1907; Therese Löwe sang the role of Chamberlain Friederike von Insterburg in the world premiere . In any case, this operetta was so successful that it had more than 500 performances in Vienna alone in the first two years of its performance history.

The choice of partners and composers for their sound recordings proves that the Carneri must have moved in a prominent setting of their time: Ludwig Gruber , Mizzi Jezel , Rudolf Kronegger , Helene Merviola , Max Rohr and Willy Strehl were all well-known and popular artists in Vienna between the turn of the century and the First World War.

The list of audio documents gives an indication of their repertoire: It apparently ranged from classic Viennese songs to hits from the Silver Operetta to highly popular opera arias and ensembles and dramatic Wagner roles. For example, on November 3, 1922, she sang the role of Ortrud in Lohengrin in the great ballroom of the Association of Engineers and Architects in Vienna .

Your last address in Vienna was Untere Donaustraße 33 , directly on the Danube Canal . She was deported from Vienna by the Nazi regime on September 10, 1942 and taken to the Theresienstadt ghetto . From there she was deported to the Treblinka extermination camp on September 29, 1942 - at the age of 67 - together with 2,001 other Jews . None survived. Her transport number was 973.

Carneri's son Karl, who later called himself Charles , survived the Nazi era by apparently fleeing in time and became a professor at the University of Rhode Island . The fate of her son Fritz is unclear.

Recordings (selection)

• 1905: "You sweetie, sweetie", from Schützenliesl . Amalie Carneri, Max Rohr (tenor)
• 1907: Rudolf Kronegger : "D 'funny Weanaleut'". Amalie Carneri, Edison Records
• 1907: Oscar Straus : "I am a Weaner Madl, I am a chambermaid" from A Waltz Dream . Amalie Carneri, Mizzi Jezel (soprano). Odéon
• 1907: Oscar Straus: "I have a man" from A Waltz Dream . Amalie Carneri, Helene Merviola (soprano)
• 1907: Ludwig Gruber : "Mei Muatterl was a Weaner". Amalie Carneri, Edison Records
• 1907: Oscar Straus: "O du dear, o du G'scheiter" from A waltz dream . Amalie Carneri, Max Rohr.
• 1910: Jacques Offenbach : “Barcarolle: Schöne Nacht, du Liebesnacht” from Hoffmann's stories . Amalie Carneri, Willy Strehl (tenor), Odéon

There is also a Zonophone recording by Carneri in which she sings a spring song by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the National Theater in Lemberg .

Reviews (selection)

• Foreign sheet (Vienna), August 1, 1897, November 8, 1899, April 17, 1906
• Neue Freie Presse (Vienna), February 9, 1898, July 11, 1898, September 2, 1898, December 12, 1903, October 14, 1905
• Marienbader Tagblatt , June 10, 1898
• Egerer Zeitung , June 25, 1898, March 11, 1905, 1907
• Orsovaer Wochenblatt , July 3, 1898
• West Hungarian border messenger , July 17, 1898
• Oftauer Zeitung , January 12, 1899
• Pilsner Tagblatt , October 3, 1903, January 20, 1905, February 3, 1905, March 2, 1904
• Saar Zeitung , April 9, 1904
• Deutsches Volksblatt , April 9, 1907
• Radio Day , 1928
• Badener Zeitung , December 9, 1931, January 10, 1932
• Das kleine Blatt , July 2, 1932

Other sources

• CHARM , list of Carneris sound recordings
• Discovering Musical Archives , sound recording Carneris

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Theatre- and Art News . In: Neue Freie Presse , February 8, 1898, p. 9. 
2. ^ New theater almanac . tape 14 , 1903, pp. 480 ( books.google.com ).
3. ^ New theater almanac . tape 16 , 1905, pp. 525 ( books.google.com ).
4. ↑ ^{a b} New Theater Almanac . tape 18 , 1907, pp. 585, 621 ( google.com ).
5. ^ New theater almanac . tape 19 , 1908, pp. 593 ( books.google.com ).
6. ^ New theater almanac . tape 20 , 1909, pp. 648 ( books.google.com ).
7. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 7: Suvanny – Zysset. Appendix: operas and operettas and their world premieres. P. 5353. Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
8. ↑ Musiklexikon: Jezel (married Moschigg), Mizzi (own Maria) , accessed on February 16, 2016.
9. ^ Rudolf Kronegger in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
10. ↑ The music titles of 'Merviola, Helene'. © December 19, 2015 by Henry König , accessed on February 16, 2016.
11. ^ Max Rohr in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
12. ↑ Amalie Malka Pollak . Holocaust.cz. Retrieved February 19, 2016.
13. ↑ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : Victims database ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Search for Amalie Pollak, accessed on January 29, 2016.  
14. ↑ A Letter To The Stars : Amalie Pollak ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on January 29, 2016.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Susanna Grossmann-Vendrey: Edison cylinder . German Broadcasting Archive, 1985, p. 191, 198 ( books.google.com ).
16. ↑ ^{a b} Henry König: The music titles of 'Carneri, Amalie' . Music track record Retrieved February 18, 2016.
17. ↑ Composer: STRAUS, Work: I am a Weaner Madl, I am a chambermaid, Performer: Amalie Carneri, soprano, Mizzi Jezel, soprano . AHRC Research Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. March 1, 1907. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
18. ↑ Composer: STRAUS, Work: A waltz dream - I have a husband, Performer: Amalie Carneri, soprano, Helene Merviola, soprano . AHRC Research Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
19. ↑ Composer: OFFENBACH, Work: Les contes d'Hoffmann - Barcarolle Schöne Nacht, du Liebesnacht, Performer: Amalie Carneri, soprano, Willy Strehl, tenor . AHRC Research Center for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
20. ↑ Barcarole . Europeana. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
21. ↑ Michael Kinnear (Ed.): The Zon-o-phone record: a discography of recordings produced by the International Zonophone Company and associated companies in Europe and the Americas, 1901-1903 . 2001, ISBN 0-9577355-2-9 , pp. 244 ( books.google.com ).