Betty Fischer
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Barbara ( Betty / Betti ) Fischer (born October 12, 1887 in Vienna ; † January 12, 1969 ibid), also Wetty , nickname: "Lercherl von Hernals ", was an Austrian operetta singer ( soprano ).
Life
After completing elementary and community school, Fischer did an apprenticeship as a tailor with a journeyman's and master craftsman's certificate. However, she had more ambitions to be a singer than a seamstress. So she took lessons and developed a soprano with over three and a half octaves. She came to the Theater an der Wien via the Raimundtheater and Ronacher . As a debut, she sang Valencienne in The Merry Widow . Her partner was often Hubert Marischka . The operetta diva made tours all over Europe, emigrated as a Jew in 1933 and returned to Vienna in 1947, but was rarely on stage. After her active stage career, she was a professor at the Vienna Conservatory .
She died forgotten in old age. 23 suitcases with 900 exquisite clothes that she had carried were found in her estate. As a tailor, she was very much in line with the latest fashions and set the tone there too.
It rests in an honorary grave in the Hernalser Friedhof (group 48, number 11) in Vienna. In 1999 the Betty-Fischer-Weg in Vienna- Hernals was named after her.
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 939 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
- Uwe Harten : Fischer, Betty. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
Web links
- Entry on Betty Fischer in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fischer, Betty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fischer, Barbara; Fischer, Wetty |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian operetta singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1969 |
| Place of death | Vienna |