Anna Sutter
Anna Sutter , also Anna Suter (born November 26, 1871 in Wil , Switzerland ; † June 29, 1910 in Stuttgart ), was a German-Swiss opera singer (soprano).
Life
After studying piano and singing in Bern and Munich , she had a permanent engagement at the Stuttgart court theater from 1893 . Anna Sutter became a crowd favorite and Artistic Director Baron Putlitz succeeded in keeping her permanently in Stuttgart. Her realistic-naturalistic style of representation and "her fresh, bell-clean voice" (Bühne und Welt 1901) made her the ideal interpreter of the following roles: Hanna Glawari in Franz Lehár's The Merry Widow and the title characters of Georges Bizet's Carmen and Richard Strauss ' Salome, whose dance of the seven veils she performed herself as one of the first singers of her time.
It enjoyed great popularity, which is documented in an exceptionally large number of photographs. In 1906 she was appointed chamber singer . In addition to her singing skills, various love affairs made headlines. Two of these liaisons came from two illegitimate children of different men: their daughter Mathilde was born in 1900 (she was not recognized as a daughter until 1925 by her biological father Hans Freiherr von Entress-Fürsteneck and also took up the profession of opera singer), in 1902 her son Felix von Hofkapellmeister Hugo Reichenberger (whose paternity could only be clearly attributed in 2001).
Relationship drama
Her brief affair with the royal Württemberg court conductor Aloys Obrist , brother of the well-known Art Nouveau artist Hermann Obrist , turned out to be fatal. After Anna Sutter had ended the relationship after two years in 1909, Obrist broke into her apartment on June 29, 1910 and - after his love was again rejected - killed Anna Sutter with two pistol shots before he committed suicide.
Commemoration
In 1914, the Stuttgart professor Karl Donndorf created the so-called fountain of fate in Art Nouveau to commemorate Anna Sutter . It was located in front of the artists' entrance to the Stuttgart State Theater until 1963 and was later moved in front of the building. Anna Sutter's grave in Stuttgart's Prague cemetery was adorned with fresh flowers every day by an unknown admirer until the end of the 1960s. It was probably Anna Sutter's last lover, the opera singer Albin Swoboda Junior (1883–1970), who was also in the apartment at the time of the murder, but could not prevent the act. 10,000 people attended the funeral.
In 2001 there was an exhibition with the title Carmen - last act. The artist tragedy Sutter-Obrist from 1910 and the Stuttgart Opera around 1900 took place in the Stuttgart Main State Archives. It was curated by Georg Günther. A similar cabinet exhibition took place there in autumn 2010. The Swiss writer Alain Claude Sulzer processed the murder of Anna Sutter in his novella Anna's Mask , which is also the template for his libretto for the opera of the same name. In May 2017 the opera Anna's Mask, a commissioned work, with music by David Philip Hefti, premiered at the St. Gallen Theater.
literature
- Georg Günther: Carmen - last act. The artists' tragedy Sutter - Obrist from 1910 and the Stuttgart Opera around 1900 . Accompanying volume and catalog for the exhibition of the Ludwigsburg State Archives and the Stuttgart City Archives. Ludwigsburg 2003.
- Jörg Kurz: Northern history (s). About the dwelling and life of the people in the north of Stuttgart. 2nd edition, Stuttgart 2005, page 160.
- Alain Claude Sulzer: Anna's mask. Novella. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2006.
- Paul Suter: Anna Sutter . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1782 f.
- Dorothea Keuler: Lost Daughters. Historical scandals from Baden and Württemberg. Silberburg, Tübingen 2009.
- Teresa Hrdlicka: Hugo Reichenberger. Kapellmeister of the Vienna Opera. Steinbauer, Vienna 2016.
Recordings
- Anna Sutter. All recordings (Stuttgart 1908), CD. Truesound Transfers, No. TT-7021.
Web links
- Works by and about Anna Sutter in the German Digital Library
- German Broadcasting Archive report and audio files (to listen to)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sutter, Anna |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Suter, Anna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swiss opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wil , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 29, 1910 |
| Place of death | Stuttgart |