Elfride Trötschel

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Elfride Trötschel (born December 22, 1913 in Dresden , † June 20, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German opera and lieder singer ( soprano ).

Life

Elfride Trötschel was the daughter of the former Liszt student Albert Trötschel, who was an organ builder and music teacher.

At the age of nine she became an orphan and was placed in a foster family in which the child was severely neglected. On the occasion of her older sister's wedding, Elfride Trötschel's emotional distress was noticed, and it was only in a second family in Dresden-Cotta that she found a friendly, familiar welcome. At the age of sixteen she attended the Dresden Music School, where she was trained as a choir singer with Sophie Kühnau-Bernhard and Doris Winkler, among others . The hero baritone Paul Schöffler waived his teaching fee. After he left, Helene Jung prepared her for the role of Freischütz- Ännchen, which Trötschel sang for the first time on November 13, 1934.

Grave of Elfride Trötschel in the Cotta cemetery in Dresden.

Karl Böhm committed Trötschel to the Semperoper in 1934 , where she worked until 1950 and sang numerous large parts in the lyric and later also in the youthful-dramatic field. In the same year she was appointed Saxon chamber singer . In 1936 she began her career abroad with guest appearances in London and Florence . Five years later, the Salzburg Festival was on the program for the first time . In 1948 she accepted a comprehensive guest performance contract at Walter Felsenstein's Komischer Oper . Since 1949 she has worked again and again under Otto Klemperer , who praised her: "No soprano creates the Wunderhorn text as intimate, simple and girlish as the Trötschel."

From 1950 to 1951 she was engaged at the Berlin State Opera . From there she moved to the West Berlin City Opera . Her international engagements took her to Edinburgh , Glyndebourne , Vienna , Naples , Lisbon , Marseille and Zurich . Her last guest appearance at the Dresden State Opera was on February 22, 1953 in the Meistersinger von Nürnberg , still in the Kurhaus Bühlau, which was one of the few remaining large event buildings in Dresden in the post-war period. What began in 1933 in what was then the Dresden Lingnerschloss with a recital, ended in December 1956 with her last recital in the Kurhaus Bühlau.

Numerous recordings rounded off the singer's artistic activity. Elfride Trötschel probably died of cancer at the age of only 44 and was buried in the Cotta cemetery. Today the “Elfride-Trötschel-Straße” in Dresden's Nickern district commemorates her.

criticism

In Kutsch / Riemens' lexicon of singers it says about the artist that she is valued "for the delicacy of her performance and the luminosity of her timbre in an extensive stage and concert repertoire".

literature

  • Pl .: "Shocking news for music lovers: Elfride Troetschel is dead" '. In: Berliner Morgenpost , June 21, 1958.
  • KW: "Elfride Trötschel †. The chamber singer died at the age of 44 ”. In: Der Kurier (Berlin), June 21, 1958.
  • rb: "On the death of Elfride Troetschel". In: Der Tag (Berlin), June 21, 1958.
  • EM: “Silent silver. On the death of Elfride Trötschel ”. In: Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin), June 21, 1958.
  • KR: "A voice has faded / On the death of Elfride Troetschel". In: Telegraf (Berlin), June 21, 1958.
  • Werner Bollert: "A great singer resigned / On the death of Elfride Trötschel". In: Die Welt (Berlin), June 21, 1958.
  • Gottfried Schmiedel: "Elfride Trötschel started when she was twenty"; Series "Dresdner Operngeschichten" (21). [Unknown Dresdner Tageszeitung], [?]. March 1977.
  • Hermann Werner Finke: “Memories of the Trötschel. On the 20th anniversary of the lovable singer's death ”. In: Saxon Latest News (Dresden), June 21, 1978.
  • Peter Zacher : “Bright star. Elfride Trötschel died 40 years ago today ”. In: Sächsische Zeitung , June 19, 1998.
  • Kerstin Leisse: "A life for the opera - Elfride Trötschel". In: Dresdner Latest News , November 29, 1999.
  • Dr. Andreas Trötschel, son of Elfride Trötschel and Hermann Wedekind , additions to biography, November 9, 2007.

Web links

The great singer in Tatiana’s letter scene in Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" (record from 1951):

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So the spelling in Hesse's musicians' calendar 1934. Kutsch / Riemens uses the form of the name Kuhnau-Bernard, although no newspaper article from the period in question uses it. B. in it Elfride is written with "ie". The oldest spelling, "Kühnau-Bernhard", can be found, for example, in the Sächsisches Tageblatt of June 25, 1958 (-el .: "A voice faded away ... To the death of Elfride Trötschel"; identical in the Liberal-Demokratie Zeitung published in Halle ) and in the Dresden daily Die Union of June 27, 1958 (Hermann Werner Finke: "Nekrolog auf an Unforgotten. Personal memories of Elfride Trötschel"), but the same organs wrote "Kühne-Bernhard" on June 22 and 21, 1978 ( Gottfried Schmiedel: "Elfride Trötschel unforgotten" or "In memory of Elfride Trötschel"). The spelling without umlaut dots and expansion h is mainly used by English-language databases. Without the reference from Kutsch / Riemens, this would have been easy to explain using the Anglo-American language and would therefore have been dismissed.
  2. ↑ Gottfried Schmiedel: "In memory of Elfride Trötschel". In: Die Union , June 21, 1978.
  3. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . 4th, enlarged and updated edition. Volume 7: Suvanny - Zysset, Appendix. Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 4768.
personal data
SURNAME Trötschel, Elfride
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and lieder singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1958
Place of death Berlin