Emil Steiniger

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Emil Steiniger (born October 29, 1881 in Mainz , † May 24, 1918 in World War I ) was a German opera choir singer and workers' choir conductor .

Life

Emil Steiniger as an army soldier with his family in 1915

Friedrich Emil Steiniger was born in Mainz . At the age of twenty he lived with his mother W. Steiniger in Balditz near Bad Dürrenberg in the villa "Alma". From 1901 to 1903 he completed a music degree at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Leipzig , which, according to his certificate, he completed with only moderate success. Although he was “not unskilled for the piano” and had a “high tenor voice”, he was attested to be “disinterested” and “irregular”.

From 1905 to 1910 he was under contract as an opera choir singer at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Weimar . In 1910 he had his contract canceled in order to continue his vocal training in Leipzig.

He married the solo dancer Anny and had two children with her: Gudrun and Roland.

During the First World War he was drafted into the army and fell victim to this war as a soldier.

Services

In his Weimar years he found access to the local workers' choir and was able to develop it to considerable maturity since 1907 through skillful and committed choir management. Committed to the ideals of German social democracy - justice, brotherhood, solidarity - the choir “Freunds-Sängerbund”, founded in 1885, has been able to keep up with the bourgeois ensembles in repertoire and singing practice since 1907. His repertoire consisted of progressive and folk songs, opera choirs and choral compositions by great masters. Steiniger was appointed Gau conductor by the Arbeiter-Sängerbund Thuringia and conducted the workers' choirs at their Gau Choir Festival in 1913 with great success.

A personal friendship with the chairman of the “Free Singers” association of Apolda Josef Schmidt and his family led him to lead this workers' choir in the industrial city of Apolda for many years and to make it one of the city's respected cultural institutions with numerous performances.

literature

  • Weimar Lexicon on City History; in it article "Freunds-Sängerbund" by Wolfram Huschke, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0807-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the review in the Apoldaer Tageblatt July 3, 1914
personal data
SURNAME Steiniger, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German choirmaster
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1918