Carl Braun (singer)
Carl Braun (also: Braun-Grosser , born June 2, 1886 in Meisenheim ; † April 24, 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer ( bass ) and opera director .
Life
Braun began his career in 1906 in Wiesbaden , then from 1911 he appeared in the Vienna State Opera and in Berlin. At the Bayreuth Festival he interpreted bass and baritone roles from 1906 to 1931. The high point of his career were the years 1912 to 1917, when he was a member of the New York Metropolitan Opera and performed with Enrico Caruso and Pasquale Amato, among others . From 1920 to 1927 he appeared in the Berlin State Opera . In the years 1927 to 1933 he was the soloist in the Richard-Wagner -Festspielen in Sopot Forest Opera .
Braun was an early sympathizer of Hitler and a member of the ethnically -minded, anti-Semitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur Groß-Berlin, in which he was an assessor in the opera group. Since August 1, 1932, he was a member of the NSDAP with the party number 1,282,767. Until 1933/1934 he worked at the German Opera House in Berlin . Braun, who was a member of the administrative advisory board of the Reichsmusikkammer , was briefly director of the opera at the Volksoper in the Theater des Westens in 1935 after finishing his career as a singer . From 1937 to 1945 he worked as a stage agent in Berlin, from 1945 in Oberhausen and from 1949 in Hamburg. Most recently he lived in retirement in Hamburg.
His son was the actor Hermann Braun .
literature
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 361, ISBN 3-907820-70-3
- Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , pp. 73-74.
- Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 687.
Web links
- Carl Braun in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Carl Braun at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ernst Klee: The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 74.
- ↑ a b c d Fred K. Prieberg: Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , Kiel 2004, p. 687.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Braun, Carl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Braun-Grosser, Carl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (bass) and opera director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 2, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meisenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1960 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |