Benno Ziegler (singer)

Benno Ziegler (born January 8, 1887 in Munich ; † April 18, 1963 there ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

The son of the opera singer Wilhelm Ziegler (1857–1931) studied at the Munich Academy of Music , one teacher there was the chamber singer Paul Bender . He made his debut in 1909 as Silvio in Pagliacci at the Augsburg Theater . Further engagements took him to Dortmund, Stuttgart, Karlsruhe and Berlin and in 1925 he was hired as a lyric and play baritone at the Frankfurt Opera . With the soprano Else Gentner-Fischer , who was married to him for the second time, he appeared there on February 1, 1930 in the role of the spouse in the world premiere of Arnold Schönberg's From Today to Tomorrow , directed by Herbert Graf and conducted by William Steinberg up. Ziegler was dismissed from the municipal stage for racist reasons in 1933 after the handover of power to the National Socialists . Else Ziegler's involvement in Frankfurt was also ended because of her marriage to a non-Aryan in 1935, so that she last lived in seclusion in Prien am Chiemsee and died there in 1943. Ziegler brought himself to safety in Great Britain in 1939, where he had to make ends meet as a laborer.

Benno Ziegler owned a piece of land in Karlsruhe that his brother Edmund (1879–1943) had managed until the Aryanization . Edmund was deported to Gurs in 1940 and killed in Majdanek concentration camp in 1943 . The nephew Paul-Alexander (1922-) was rescued in 1938 with a children's transport to England.

After the war, Ziegler returned to Germany in 1947 and lived in Prien and Munich.

Today Ziegler is represented in editions of historical recordings by Lotte Lehmann , Richard Tauber , Elisabeth Rethberg , Sabine Kalter , Emmy Bettendorf and Karin Branzell .

literature

• Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . Second volume. M – Z (=  publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 2 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-7829-0459-1 . P. 579
• Rudolf Vierhaus : German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE), Munich: Sauer 2008, Volume 10, p. 838

Web links

• Benno Ziegler (singer) in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM) (This article is in progress 2009, updated on October 7, 2010)
• Benno Ziegler in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Bender (1875–1947)
2. ↑ Oper Frankfurt ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2011 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. 
3. ↑ Memorial book for the Karlsruhe Jews . The property is listed there as Karlstrasse 8.