Christl Schönfeldt

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Christl Schönfeldt , actually Christine Elisabeth Schönfeldt, née Arnold (born April 29, 1916 in Vienna ; † December 30, 2013 there ), was an Austrian music consultant and writer. She is best known in public as the organizer of the Vienna Opera Ball for many years .

Life

Schoenfeld graduated from the University of Vienna to study English literature, classical philology and musicology, she in 1940 with the promotion of Dr. phil. completed. Then she was secretary to the professor of musicology Erich Schenk and later to the ethnologist Hugo Bernatzik . After the end of the war, she became a freelancer for RAVAG . From 1946 to 1948 she was music advisor for the Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcasting group and then a freelancer for the aforementioned broadcasting group and at SWR in Baden-Baden . In 1955 she became the personal assistant to Karl Böhm , director of the Vienna State Opera , and organized the Vienna Opera Ball from 1956 to 1980. Lotte Tobisch followed her in it .

In 1947 she married Carl Schönfeldt (1898–1984), born Carl Reichsgraf von Schönfeldt, who was also employed at the Rot-Weiß-Rot broadcaster at the time and acted as a newscaster under the pseudonym Rudolf Hornegg . She was buried on January 7, 2014 in the Grinzinger Friedhof (group 29, row 3, number 4).

Honors

Publications

  • The Vienna Philharmonic . Austria series, Volume 25/26, ZDB -ID 184638-3 . Bergland-Verlag, Vienna 1956, OBV .
  • - (Red.): W (olfgang) A (madeus) Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro. Gala performance, May 27, 1959, 15th congress of the International Publishers Union in Vienna . Association of Austrian paper, cellulose, wood pulp and cardboard manufacturers, Vienna 1959, OBV .
  • - (text), Barbara Pflaum (photo): Viennese waltz . Belvedere-Verlag / Meissel, Vienna 1970, OBV .
  • The Vienna Opera Ball . First edition. Koska, Vienna / Berlin 1975, OBV .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Austrian Music Lexicon : Schönfeldt (née Arnold), Christl (Online: [1] )
  2. ^ ORF-Online: “Opera Ball Mother” died ; accessed on 7 Jan. 2014
  3. ^ Christine Elisabeth Arnold: Music as an object of representation in English poetry. (About the art of representing one art through the other). Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1940, OBV .
  4. ^ A b Upper Austrian news : Opera ball mother Christl Schönfeldt dies ; accessed on 7 Jan. 2014
  5. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten : Opera ball mother Christl Schönfeldt dies ; accessed on 7 Jan. 2014
  6. ↑ Progs.wiennet.at: Funeral calendar ; accessed on 7 Jan. 2013
  7. ↑ Wirtschaftsblatt: People in Motion ( Memento from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on 7 Jan. 2014
  8. ^ Wien.gv.at: Goldener Rathausmann for Dr. Christl Schönfeldt ; accessed on 7 Jan. 2014
personal data
SURNAME Schönfeldt, Christl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Christl (maiden name); Schönfeld, Christine Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music consultant and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2013
Place of death Vienna