Elsa Jülich

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Memorial plaque for Elsa Jülich in Bayreuth, 2016

Elsa Jülich ( September 19, 1886 in Deutz near Cologne - June 23, 1964 in Ramat Gan , Israel ) was a German opera singer with a soprano voice who was no longer allowed to perform after the establishment of the Nazi regime and who emigrated to Palestine because of the Nazi race legislation .

life and work

No information is available about Elsa Jülich's family of origin or her musical education as a child. She studied singing at the Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln , today's Cologne University of Music and Dance, and made her debut in 1907 at the Krefeld City Theater . There she was engaged for a season. This was followed by engagements - for one season each - at the Cologne Opera House and at the Dortmund City Theater and - for two seasons each - again at the Krefeld City Theater and the Freiburg im Breisgau City Theater . In 1919 she was engaged at the Bremen City Theater , where she appeared in the world premiere of Manfred Gurlitt's opera Die Heilige , a musical legend in 3 events after Carl Hauptmann , in January 1920 . The composer conducted it. According to Operissimo , she is said to have been committed to the Hamburg City Theater , today's Hamburg State Opera, before the First World War and between her engagements in Bremen and Berlin in the ensemble of the Basel City Theater . In the 1921/22 season she appeared at the Frankfurt Opera House in two central roles: as Agathe in Carl Maria von Weber's Freischütz in a festival performance on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the premiere of this opera and as Eva in Richard Wagner's Meistersingern von Nürnberg . From 1924 to 1929 she was engaged at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

In addition to her permanent engagements, the singer has made a number of guest appearances. At the Bayreuth Festival in 1911 and 1912 she sang two smaller roles in Parsifal and in 1930 Ortlinde in Die Walküre . In 1913 she made guest appearances as a maid masterpiece in the Rosenkavalier at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London . She also performed at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin as well as in Vienna, Paris and Amsterdam . Her roles were quite broad, ranging from soubrette roles to the lower-lying trouser roles Cherubino and Octavian to the subjects of youthful-dramatic soprano and lyrical soprano .

The singer was also able to achieve success in the concert hall. She performed with the New Chamber Orchestra founded by her second husband and gave a number of recitals, including a Wagner program in 1931 in Lyon . She also appeared under the names Jülich-de Vogt and Jülich-Taube .

Elsa Jülich was married to the actor and singer Carl de Vogt (1885–1970), the couple had two children: Ruth de Vogt, later married. Bruck (born around 1913), who became known as a chanson singer after the end of the Second World War , and Karl Franz de Vogt (1917–1999), who later worked as a film producer. Jülich gave her daughter singing lessons and thus established her later career. Presumably during an engagement at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, she met Michael Taube (1890–1972), a répétiteur and conductor who was employed at this house. After divorcing her first husband, she married him.

After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, Elsa Jülich and her second husband were no longer able to perform on state and municipal theaters because of their Jewish origins. However, the singer took on the role of Rosaura in the opera Die curious women by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari in the 1933/1934 season - as part of the Jewish Cultural Association . In 1934 she accompanied her husband and the tenor Joseph Schmidt on a tour of Palestine . In May 1935 the couple returned to Berlin once more to arrange their emigration and to close their apartment on Kaiserallee. At her last appearance in the Jüdischer Kulturbund in September 1935, Elsa Jülich sang Beethoven's aria “Ah, perfido!”, Op. 65.

Jülich and her husband had anticipated their exclusion from the Reich Music Chamber in accordance with Section 10 of the “First Implementation Ordinance of the Reich Chamber of Culture Act” of August 22, 1935 and the associated professional ban through their emigration. The couple initially settled in Tel Aviv , where Taube founded the conservatory on Jehoasch Street in 1937. Jülich mainly worked as a singing teacher in Palestine , but also took part in concerts by the Conservatory and the Palestine Orchestra . With this ensemble and with fellow singers Marcel Noë and Leo Ryazantsev , she gave an opera concert in 1937 with excerpts from Bizet's Carmen and Verdi's masked ball . Noë was already her stage partner in the Berlin Wolf-Ferrari production, where he sang Leandro. Her participation in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Dela Gotthelft , Marcel Noë, Vittorio Weinberg and the Chor des Palestine Oratorios , conducted by Fordhaus Ben Tsissy, is also guaranteed. In the 1940s, Jülich and Taube settled in Ramat Gan ( Hebrew רמת גן"Garden height"). From 1939 to 1945 her daughter also found refuge in Palestine.

After the unconditional surrender , the artist couple returned to Germany for a concert tour in Camps for Displaced Persons . At the beginning of 1948 they gave a concert with the cellist Lev Aronson , a concentration camp survivor, at the Bergen-Belsen DP camp . In 1956/57 Elsa Jülich returned alone to Germany, where her children lived. She lived in West Berlin , but then returned to Israel.

Elsa Jülich died on June 23, 1964 in Ramat Gan. There are no published recordings, but her voice has been preserved on unpublished recordings on the Polyphon label .

Essential roles

Beethoven :

Bizet :

d'Albert :

Montemezzi :

Mozart :

Puccini :

 

Richard Strauss :

Verdi :

Wagner :

Weber :

Wolf-Ferrari :

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ January 27, 1920: "The Holy One". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ..
  2. ↑ Elsa Jülich at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
  3. ^ Sophie Fetthauer: Biography Elsa Jülich , Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg 2010, updated on July 16, 2013, accessed on August 21, 2016.
  4. ↑ Operissimo states that the engagement at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin would have lasted from 1925 to 1933, which seems plausible, since the artist played a flower girl in Parsifal during a guest performance in Amsterdam in 1933 . However, all other sources write of an engagement period from 1924 to 1929.
  5. ↑ grammophon-platten.de: The jazz singer Ruth Bruck , accessed on August 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg: Elsa Jülich - Personal data , accessed on August 21, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rock'n Roll Records: Ruth Bruck , accessed on August 22, 2016.
  8. ↑ Barbara von der Lühe: Music was our salvation! , The German-speaking founding members of the Palestine Orchestra, Mohr Siebeck 1998, p. 58f.
  9. ↑ The Italian adjective stands for: devious, insidious, mean (evil), insidious (perfidious), underhanded [coll.]. The word is also used as a noun.
  10. ^ Sophie Fetthauer: Biography Marcel Noë , Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg 2006, updated on March 4, 2014, accessed on August 21, 2016.
  11. ^ Classical Iconoclast: Music in Palestine, Musical Times 1939 , quoted there. from The Musical Times , Vol. 80, No. 1153 (Mar. 1939), p. 225, accessed August 22, 2016.
  12. ↑ Hannes Heer ; Jürgen Kesting ; Peter Schmidt : Silent voices: the Bayreuth Festival and the "Jews" from 1876 to 1945; an exhibition . Bayreuth Festival Park and Exhibition Hall New Town Hall Bayreuth, July 22 to October 14, 2012. Berlin: Metropol, 2012 ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5 , p. 328.
  13. ↑ see Kutsch / Riemens, p. 2.281.
  14. ↑ See: "TRUESOUND TRANSFERS" 78RPM MATRIX DATABASE , accessed August 22, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Jülich, Elsa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jülich-de Vogt, Elsa; Jülich-Taube, Elsa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer with a soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne-Deutz
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1964
Place of death Ramat Gan , Israel