Emanuel Voss

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Emanuel Voss (born March 24, 1873 in Lüneburg , † February 23, 1963 in Greifswald ) was a German opera singer (tenor), artistic director and theater director.

Life

Emanuel Voss was the son of a Hamburg school principal. After graduating from high school, he started an apprenticeship with an import-export company. After studying at the Sondershausen Conservatory , he began his stage career as Kapellmeister at the local theater. He then worked as a lyric tenor in Strasbourg. Engagements as a hero tenor in Aachen, Rostock, Magdeburg, Regensburg and Stettin followed, where he was a member of the city theater from 1906 to 1911. In Rostock he was a member of the Masonic lodge To the three stars .

Voss was particularly successful as a Wagner singer and not only made guest appearances on numerous large stages, but also organized, for example, opera guest performances in Greifswald with his own staff from Stettin from 1907. Thanks to his initiative and financial support, the new building of the city ​​theater in Greifswald , which was inaugurated on October 10, 1915 and from then on was headed by him as director (appointed director in 1923). Almost the entire opera repertoire was performed here, such as B. Works by Wagner , Puccini , Janáček and Bartók . According to his testimony and according to reviews, Kapellmeister Erich Peter played a key role in the success of the Greifswald opera and concert performances from 1923 to 1929 .

From 1936 to 1942, Voss took early retirement for political reasons and moved to Hamburg. He ran the theater again from 1943 to 1949.

Emanuel Voss was married to the opera singer Maria Sorelli-Voss, b. Sobotka (born January 31, 1879).

Fonts

  • The theater in the university town of Greifswald in old and new times. From the memories of the first director of the New Theater, Emanuel Voss. Typewritten, Greifswald University Library, shelfmark: 558 / Eb 358: 35n 4 °, 1956. In it p. 38–61: My life and my work at the Greifswald City Theater ; Excerpt also printed in: Monika Meyer-Klette: From the theater history of the Hanseatic and university town of Greifswald . 1994

literature

  • Hans Engel: Music and musical life in Greifswald's past. Publishing house of the Ratsbuchhandlung, Bamberg 1929.
  • Gerda Diedrich: 75 years of Greifswald Theater . Theater Greifswald, season booklet 1990/91.
  • Manfred Thies: The old cemetery - cultural and historical site with tombs of important Greifswald personalities . University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald, Greifswald 2004, ISBN 3-00-014790-X , p. 57
  • Lutz Winkler: Emanuel Voss - a life for the Greifswald theater and opera . In: Geschichtswerkstatt Rostock e. V. (Hrsg.): Contemporary history regional - messages from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania issue 1 (16th year) July 2012

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1937, p. 91.
  2. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1937, p. 91.
  3. ↑ Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 1937, p. 846.
  4. ↑ German Stage Yearbook 1943ff.
  5. ^ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical directory for theater, dance and music. Berlin Verlag Arno Spitz 1997, pp. 1780, 1772. ISBN 3-87061-479-x .
  6. ↑ according to GVK-OPAC "Missed July 18, 2012", as of March 2013
personal data
SURNAME Voss, Emanuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor), artistic director and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Luneburg
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 1963
Place of death Greifswald