Bernd Weikl

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Bernd Weikl (2015)

Bernd Weikl (born July 29, 1942 in Vienna ) is a German-Austrian opera and concert singer ( baritone ), author and opera director. He achieved international fame with the role of Hans Sachs in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg .

Life

Weikl first studied economics , but then switched to singing in Mainz, which he graduated from the Hanover University of Music . In 1968 he made his debut at the Hanover Opera House , and in 1972 he sang for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival . Since 1977 he has appeared regularly at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Weikl's artistic activities also included Italian, German, French and Russian opera. He was a regular guest of the major opera houses and festival venues. For example: Soloist at the Bayreuth Festival every summer for 25 years, weeks or months at the Metropolitan Opera New York for 20 years, 25 years also at the Covent Garden Opera in London, 20 years in this way at the Scala di Milano, 32 years and Approx. 350 evenings at the Vienna State Opera, 30 years guest in Japan, 25 years at the Munich State Opera, 17 years at the Hamburg State Opera, guest performances at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the State Opera Berlin, in Paris, Barcelona, ​​Los Angeles, San Francisco , Lisbon, Luxor, Tel Aviv, Moscow and many other opera and concert halls around the world. With the pianist Cord Garben , Weikl has recorded several sound carriers with songs. With this, as well as with Irwin Gage and Helmut Deutsch , he gave recitals at home and abroad.

In addition to his work as a singer, Bernd Weikl also worked as an author for film and television. His films deal mainly with great composers such as Hugo Wolf : The Italian Song Book and The Spanish Song Book; Gustav Mahler : Des Knaben Wunderhorn ; Richard Wagner : German and French songs; Franz Liszt : songs; among others

Weikl was awarded the honorary title of professor as early as 1988. In 1993 he was appointed Hamburger Kammersänger . He is also a Bavarian and Austrian chamber singer and has been an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera since 1998 .

Bernd Weikl was the initiator and soloist of " Elias for Peace" to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the State of Israel. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's oratorio was performed in 1988 in Hamburg, Munich, Wiesbaden and Israel. The wives of the presidents of both countries Aura Herzog and Marianne von Weizsäcker took over the patronage .

In 1996, Weikl initiated the study singing as a music therapy intervention in depressive patients at the Psychiatric Clinic of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the therapy concept “Voice and singing training for patients with respiratory diseases” in Vienna in cooperation with the General Hospital and the Austrian Lung Union.

Bernd Weikl is an honorary citizen in his father's home in Bodenmais am Arber . A museum is dedicated to him in the old town hall there.

The sculptor Karl-Henning Seemann created a life-size bust of Bernd Weikl in 2012–2014.

Awards

Opera director

Publications

  • Fictitious. From opera, politics and in between. A satire , illustrations by Horst Thom, Edition Va Bene, Vienna and Klosterneuburg 1996, ISBN 3-85167-045-0 .
  • I hope you lied. From opera, politics, culture and everything related to it… A satire , illustrations by Horst Thom, Edition Va Bene, Vienna and Klosterneuburg 1997, ISBN 3-85167-057-4 .
  • Singing and other things. A guide for everyone who wants to be successful professionally or privately with a sonorous voice. Verlag Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1998 ISBN 3-218-00643-0 .
  • On singing and other things, Russian edition , AGRAF publishing house, Moscow 2000, ISBN 5-7784-0154-X .
  • Singing as a Music Therapy Intervention in Depressed Patients , A Pilot Clinical Study. Med. Diss. By Kristine Leopold at the Medical Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, 1999.
  • Art-medicine-therapy, Viennese lectures, conversations and studies. In: Erich Vanecek / Christa Wenninger-Brenn (eds.): Singing as a craft, therapy and prevention, WUV-Univerlag, Vienna 2003.
  • Light & shadow. My world career as an opera singer. A mother-son relationship as a second act , Pro Business, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-939430-85-8 .
  • with Peter Bendixen : Introduction to the culture and art economy. With a foreword by Prince and Princess Georg Yourievsky. VS Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-531-18279-7 .
  • with Peter Bendixen: acquittal for Richard Wagner? A historical reconstruction , Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-669-4 .
  • Why Richard Wagner must be banned in Germany , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86583-850-6 .
  • The singing person as the measure of all things. In: Isolde Schmid-Reiter (ed.): Narrative modes, ConBrio Verlag, Regensburg 2014.
  • The naturalness of classical singing. In: Wolf Gerhard Schmidt (ed.): The nature-culture boundary in art and science, Verlag Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2014.
  • Swastikas on Stage, Trends in the Productions of Richard Wagner's Operas in German Theaters today . ProBusiness, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-86460-305-1 .
  • Art and press freedom in Germany . Review and status quo. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-86583-984-8 .
  • Singing - in opera, as therapy and in post and post-postmodernism. Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-96023-129-5 .
  • Max is to blame or a self-fulfilling prophecy. Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062367-7 .

Web links

Commons : Bernd Weikl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chamber singer Weikl . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from May 4, 1993.
  2. ↑ Bernd Weikl, honorary citizen of Markt Bodenmais. In: buerger.bodenmais.de. Retrieved July 21, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Weikl, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian opera and concert singer (baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna