Anna Sachse-Hofmeister

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Anna Sachse-Hofmeister

Anna Josepha Caroline Sachse , née Hofmeister , (born July 26, 1850 in Gumpoldskirchen , † November 15, 1904 in Berlin ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Anna Hofmeister was born in 1850. Her father Franz Hofmeister was an elementary school teacher and leader of the church choir, in which she later sang too. He prepared her early for a career as a violinist. The girl was discovered by members of the Vienna Opera and, after her father's long hesitation, sent to Vienna to the Vienna Conservatory . She was also trained in singing by Adele Passy-Cornet . At the same time she continued to take violin lessons from Georg Hellmesberger senior .

After her decision to become a singer, Hofkapellmeister Heinrich Proch took over her further sponsorship until 1871. That year she made her debut in Olomouc as Leonore in the troubadour of Giuseppe Verdi . Subsequently, she was engaged as a member of the Stadttheater zu Würzburg , where she took on leading roles. In 1872 she moved to the Stadttheater in Frankfurt am Main (debut: Amelia in Masked Ball ) and stayed there until 1876. Then she was called to the Berlin Court Opera (debut: Valentine in Huguenots ) and turned down the invitation to Bayreuth, where Richard Wagner took her as Sieglinde (in Die Walküre ) had hoped for. From 1878 to 1880 she was engaged at the Court Opera in Dresden, where she replaced Clotilde Kainz-Prause . From 1880 to 1882 she was engaged by Angelo Neumann in Leipzig and, together with him and Hedwig Reicher-Kindermann, ensured that the opera flourished. From there she returned to Berlin, where she replaced Mathilde Mallinger . She stayed there permanently and worked primarily as a Wagner interpreter, also as the “Sieglinde of his dreams”, as he put it. She made guest appearances in Vienna in 1880 and in London in 1884. Her first resignation from the stage took place in 1889, then finally in 1891. She continued to work as a singing teacher.

Privately, she married Max Sachse (* May 6, 1847; † March 27, 1913), a tenor (in Cologne, Magdeburg and Berlin) and later Prussian Theater Councilor. Her younger sister Helene became an actress, her older sister Henriette was the mother of actor Richard Romanowsky .

Anna Sachse-Hofmeister died in Berlin in 1904 at the age of 54. She was buried in Cemetery III of the Jerusalem and New Churches in front of the Hallesches Tor . The grave has not been preserved.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death Register StA Berlin III, No. 1117/1904
  2. ^ Christian Fastl: Anna Sachse-Hofmeister. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  3. ↑ Marriage Register StA Berlin II, No. 57/1878
  4. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 245.
personal data
SURNAME Sachse-Hofmeister, Anna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sachse, Anna Josepha Caroline; Hofmeister (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Gumpoldskirchen
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1904
Place of death Berlin