Carl Strätz

Carl Strätz , also Carl Straetz ( March 21, 1873 in Dessau - May 29, 1955 in Eberswalde ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).

Life

Carl Strätz received his vocal training at the Dessau Court Theater, where he began his stage career as a choir player in 1895 and remained there until 1897. Discovered by the chamber singer Wilhelmine Niehr-Bingenheimer, he decided to pursue a career as a soloist. He received his first engagement in the season 1897/98 at the Lübeck City Theater . Further stations with one-year engagements were in Olmütz in 1898, Regensburg in 1899 and finally Würzburg in 1900. In 1901 he joined the Association of the Mainz City Theater , where he made his debut as " Wilhelm Meister " and stayed until 1903. From 1903 to 1909 he sang at the Stadttheater (opera house) in Hamburg , where he had been appointed, and took part in the Hamburg premieres of “Brother Lustig” (October 1905), “Tragaldabas” (December 1907) and “Sternengebot” (January 1908) part.

From 1909 to 1911 he was engaged at the Stadttheater Chemnitz, where he received the title of chamber singer from the Duke of Saxe-Coburg in 1910 .

Strätz had further engagements from 1911 to 1912 at the Cologne Opera , 1912 to 1913 at the Municipal Theater of Mülhausen ( Alsace ), 1913 to 1914 at the Riga Opera House, 1914 to 1916 at the Bremen City Theater , 1916 to 1919 at the City Theater of Halle (Saale) and, to conclude his stage career, from 1919 to 1920 at the Regensburg City Theater .

Between his engagements he made guest appearances at the Stadttheater Nürnberg (1900), the court theaters of Karlsruhe and Wiesbaden (both 1901), the Hoftheater Schwerin (1904), the Hoftheater Hannover (1905), the Hofoper Berlin (1907, 1909/10) and at the Dresden Court Opera (1910). At the Covent Garden Opera in London he appeared in 1910 as Loge (“ Das Rheingold ”) and as Siegfried (“ Götterdämmerung ”).

Starting as a lyrical tenor, he turned more and more to the heroic tenor subject and the roles of Richard Wagner . His stage roles included “Tamino” in “The Magic Flute ”, “Max” in “ Freischütz ”, “Erik” in “The Flying Dutchman ”, “Tannhäuser”, “Walther von Stolzing” in the “ Meistersinger ”, “Loge”, “ Siegmund ”and“ Siegfried ”in the“ Nibelungenring ”,“ Tristan ”,“ Parsifal ”,“ Pedro ”in“ Tiefland ”,“ José ”in“ Carmen ”,“ Eleazar ”in“ La Juive ”by Halévy,“ Herzog ”in the " Rigoletto ", "Radames" in " Aida ", "Vasco" in Meyerbeer's " Africaine " etc.

In 1921 he appeared again at the Dresden State Opera. Until the mid-1920s he still appeared in opera productions and at song recitals.

From the beginning of the thirties until shortly before the end of the war, he then worked as a music director and broadcast manager at various North German radio stations. At NORAG he was the head of the music department.

From the twenties, Strätz was based in Eberswalde . He was married to the soprano Martha Fritz (* 1878). Their daughter Leonore was a trained soprano and sang in the twenties for live radio broadcasts at the newly founded Eberswalde broadcaster.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1006, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theater Lexikon. Volume IV. Singer - Tzschoppe. Page 2377. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] 1993, ISBN 978-3-907820-30-8 . (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
• * Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 6: Rasa – Sutton, p. 4563. Fourth, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .

Web links

• Carl Strätz in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Carl Strätz at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): Deutsches Theater Lexikon. Volume IV. Singer - Tzschoppe. Page 2377. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.] 1993, ISBN 978-3-907820-30-8 . (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
2. ^ ^{A b} Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. Page 1835. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9
3. ↑ Kutsch / Riemens give 1875 as the year of birth.
4. ↑ Death register of the registry office Eberswalde No. 300/1955.
5. ↑ The composers were Siegfried Wagner ("Brother Lustig", "Star Law") and Eugen d'Albert ("Tragaldabas").
6. ↑ Musikalisches Wochenblatt, Volume 41, Part 1 (excerpts from Google Books). Retrieved February 14, 2019.
7. ^ Hans W. Priwin: Visits to German broadcasters. III. Nordic Broadcasting Hamburg . In: The broadcasting system . Issue 12 / VII from March 20, 1931.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Ingrid Fischer: ÄTHERWELLEN. The first German radio station in Eberswalde . In: Culture & Technology . Issue 2/1994. Page 12/13.