Emil Gerhauser

Emil Gerhäuser, 1894

Emil Gerhäuser (born April 29, 1868 in Krumbach , Bavaria; † January 5, 1917 in Stuttgart ) was a German opera singer (tenor) and director.

life and work

Gerhäuser was born the son of a pharmacist. He first began to study law at the University of Munich before he received training as a tenor. In 1890 he made his debut at the Munich Court Opera .

In 1909 Gerhäuser moved to Stuttgart, where he worked as a director at the Court Opera . In 1912 he took over the direction of the premiere of the first version of Richard Strauss ' Ariadne auf Naxos .

Emil Gerhäuser was married to the actress Ottilie Gerhäuser-Saint-Georges .

Gerhäuser also worked as a playwright. There are some a. Preparatory work on Mittgart , a human breeding utopia of the time, which he wanted to give a different direction.

libretto

Moloch . Musical tragedy (opera). Music: Max von Schillings . WP 1906

Web links

Literature by and about Emil Gerhäuser in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by Emil Gerhäuser at Zeno.org .

notes

↑ The preparatory work includes: people and characters; Conflict and action; Material for dialogue. Dated Munich, September 1905. 116 sheets, 10 plates. Named: 'reform drama', the focus of which is on different views of marriage and the much-discussed 'renewal of the Germanic blood and the cultivation of the German noble race'. Gerhäuser: "Mittgart represents a communist community with the abolition of the form of the family and the classes"; the pure race in itself is incapable of culture, "the goal of development is not in the breeding of the 'pure Germanic peoples', but in the emergence of the high civilized man"; Among the characters in the drama there is a professor of the "doctrine of regeneration", in a hairy garb à la Anton Dieffenbach ; G. later continued this preparatory work under the title Sonnengart . Scenario. Play in five acts. 54 sheets; started in Berlin on December 20, 1906.

personal data
SURNAME	Gerhauser, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German opera singer (tenor) and director
DATE OF BIRTH	April 29, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krumbach , Bavaria
DATE OF DEATH	January 5, 1917
Place of death	Stuttgart

[1] The preparatory work includes: people and characters; Conflict and action; Material for dialogue. Dated Munich, September 1905. 116 sheets, 10 plates. Named: 'reform drama', the focus of which is on different views of marriage and the much-discussed 'renewal of the Germanic blood and the cultivation of the German noble race'. Gerhäuser: "Mittgart represents a communist community with the abolition of the form of the family and the classes"; the pure race in itself is incapable of culture, "the goal of development is not in the breeding of the 'pure Germanic peoples', but in the emergence of the high civilized man"; Among the characters in the drama there is a professor of the "doctrine of regeneration", in a hairy garb à la Anton Dieffenbach ; G. later continued this preparatory work under the title Sonnengart . Scenario. Play in five acts. 54 sheets; started in Berlin on December 20, 1906.