Anny Konetzni

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Anny Konetzni , actually Anny Koneczny , also Anni Konetzni , (born February 12, 1902 in Hungarian-Weißkirchen , Austria-Hungary ; † September 6, 1968 in Vienna ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Anny Konetzni was trained by Erik Schmedes at the New Vienna Conservatory and then studied with Jacques Stückgold in Berlin . In 1923 she began as a choir player at the Vienna Volksoper , but was dismissed as "voiceless".

Her actual debut as contralto took place in 1926 at the Vienna Volksoper in the role of Adriano in Rienzi by Richard Wagner . After engagements at the city theaters of Augsburg and Elberfeld ( Stadttheater am Brausenwerth ), she came to the Chemnitz City Theater as a soprano in 1929 and sang at the Unter den Linden State Opera from 1931 to 1934 .

She introduced herself to the Viennese public in 1933 as Brünnhilde in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre and then from 1933 until she was dismissed by the opera director Karl Böhm in 1955 in the ensemble of the Vienna State Opera . This discharge resulted in a stroke from which she was never to recover.

Together with her sister Hilde Konetzni , she was one of the top singers at the State Opera. In addition, she was also employed at the Salzburg Festival from 1935 ( Isolde , Marschallin ) and sang in guest performances on all the important stages in Europe, but also in the USA and South America. Between 1934 and 1954 the artist also worked as a lecturer at the Vienna Music Academy . Her repertoire focused on the dramatic soprano parts in the works of Wagner and Strauss .

Like many others, Konetzni made himself available to National Socialist propaganda after the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938 for the Viennese artists' appeal for a “ referendum ”: “For Greater Germany, for the Führer, for German art, 'Yes!'

Anny Konetzni, who with the doctor Dr. Albert Wiedmann was married, rests in the Evangelical Cemetery Vienna-Simmering (crypt 63) next to her husband.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Viennese artists on April 10th. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , April 7, 1938, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
personal data
SURNAME Konetzni, Anny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Koneczny, Anny (real name); Konetzni, Anni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Hungarian-Weißkirchen , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1968
Place of death Vienna