Elisabeth Kohut-Mannstein

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Elisabeth Kohut-Mannstein , also Elisabeth Kohut-Manstein , actually Elisabeth Amalie Steinmann (born May 3, 1844 in Dresden , † November 29, 1926 in Berlin-Grunewald ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Elisabeth Steinmann was born in Dresden and had a sister named Grete. She was trained by her father, the singing teacher Heinrich Ferdinand Steinmann , who is known under the pseudonym Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein. She took the stage name Elisabeth Mannstein. From 1877 she was married to the writer Adolph Kohut . She died on November 29, 1926 and was buried in the Grunewald cemetery.

In her career as a singer, she has appeared at the St. Petersburg Court Opera , the Düsseldorf Opera House and the Berlin Kroll Opera . In 1870 she appeared as a guest singer at the “ Deutsches Theater ” in Amsterdam and Wiesbaden . Her appearances were known as "Donna Anna" in Don Giovanni , as "Leonore" in Fidelio , in the title role in Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber or as "Frau Fluth" in Lustige Frauen von Windsor by Otto Nicolai . In 1872 she was engaged at the Stadttheater Aachen . After completing her active stage career, she worked as a singing teacher in Berlin.

"At the same time, Miss Mannstein is beautiful, enchantingly beautiful, even outside of the stage, she is reminiscent of Heine's poem: The woman's body is a poem written by God the Lord."

- The Deutsche Schaubühne. Organ for theater, music, art, literature and social life . 1868, p. 68.

She had a son, Oswald Kohut (1877-1951). One of her grandchildren was Oswald Adolph Kohut .

Works

  • The great old Italian singing school . Introduction by Ludwig Richard Bernscht. Energetos-Ritte-Verlag, Berlin 1922. Table of contents

Playbill

  • Performance: Wiesbaden, March 23, 1870. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Don Giovanni. Great opera in 2 acts. Freely edited according to Italian . Performers: Hermann Philippi: Don Juan . David Klein: Governor Don Petro . Elisabeth Mannstein: Donna Anna . Elisabeth Löffler : Donna Elvira . Bodo Borchers : Don Octavio . F. Lipp: Don Juan's servant Leporello . Franz Fischer: a farm boy Masetto . Ella Guilleaume: his bride Zerlina . Printer: Rudolph Bechthold. "Miss. Mannstein from the German Theater in Amsterdam as a guest "
  • Performance: Wiesbaden, March 30, 1870. Gaetano Donizetti : Lucrezia Borgia . Great opera in 3 acts . Performers: Hermann Philippi: Duke of Ferrara Don Alfonso . Elisabeth Mannstein: his wife Lucrezia Borgia . Bodo Borchers: young nobleman in the retinue of the Venetian ambassador in Ferrara Gennaro . Hermine Otto: young nobleman in the retinue of the Venetian ambassador in Ferrara Orsino . Carl Stengel: young nobleman in the retinue of the Venetian ambassador in Ferrara Liveretto . Otto Dornewaß: young nobleman in the retinue of the Venetian ambassador in Ferrara Gazella . Franz Fischer: young nobleman in the retinue of the Venetian ambassador in Ferrara Petrucci . R. Kuhl: young nobleman in the retinue of the Venetian ambassador in Ferrara Bitelozzo . David Klein: confidante of the Duchess Gubetta . Josef Peter Peretti: Officer of the Duke Rustighello . Printer: Rudolph Bechthold. "Miss. Mannstein from the Deutsches Theater in Amsterdam as a guest ”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden 1868 "Steinmann"
  2. ↑ City archives of the state capital Dresden, Church weekly papers 1685 / 1703-1902, here: 1844, baptized persons at the church in Neustadt, from 4th to 10th May 1844.
  3. ↑ "There were two stately, blonde Germanic girls, the two Manstein's (sic!), Elisabeth 'and Grete." ( Fritz Friedmann : What I experienced! Memoirs. Volume 1. Alfred Pulvermacher, Berlin 1908, p. 173.)
  4. ^ Hugo Riemann : Music Lexicon . Paderborn 2015, ISBN 978-3-84608-632-2 , S, 567. Digitized
  5. ↑ "Steinmann, Heinrich Ferdinand [...] Ps. Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein." (Wilfrid Eymer: Eymers Pseudonym-Lexikon. Real names and pseudonyms in German literature . Kirschbaum, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-7812-1399-4 , p. 347 .)
  6. ↑ "He is married [meaning Adolph Kohut] with the well-known concert singer and singing teacher Elisabeth Mannstein (since 1877)". ( Richard Wrede , Hans von Reinfels (ed.): Das Geistige Berlin . Volume 1. Life and work of architects, sculptors, stage artists, journalists, painters, musicians, writers, draftsmen . Photomechanical reprint of the original edition from 1897. Zentralantiquariat der DDR, Leipzig 1975, p. 256).
  7. ↑ See the playlist.
  8. ^ German stage almanac . 36th year Berlin 1872, p. 4. Digitized
  9. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 6, pp. 7–8.
  10. ^ Oswald A. Kohut (Munzinger biography)
  11. ↑ Note: 3rd simplified and clarified edition of the work: The system of the great singing school of Bernacchi of Bologna, […] together with classical, previously unprinted singing exercises by masters from the same school. Systems de la grande methode de chant de Bernacchi de Bologne avec des vocalises classiques jusqu'a present inedites de Maitres de Chant formes dans la meme ecole, redige par HF Mannstein. by Heinrich Ferdinand Mannstein. (1835)
  12. ^ "The old master of the art of singing Elisabeth Kohut-Mannstein, court opera singer a. D., in her home in the villa colony of Grunewald, at the age of 83, was torn from her numerous pupils through her death in the middle of her teaching activity. ” Digitized
personal data
SURNAME Kohut-Mannstein, Elisabeth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kohut-Manstein, Elisabeth; Steinmann, Elisabeth (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1844
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1926
Place of death Berlin-Grunewald