Emmy Kreiten-Barido

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Emmy Kreiten-Barido , actually Emmy Kreiten (born March 26, 1894 in Mayen as Emmy Liebergesell ; † January 24, 1985 in Düsseldorf ) was a German singer ( mezzo-soprano ) and chamber singer .

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Emmy Liebergesell was a singing student at the Saarbrücken Conservatory in her youth . In 1913 she married the Dutch music professor, concert pianist and composer Theo Kreiten (* 1887) and the couple had three children, but the first daughter Marie-Therese died in 1914 after a few days. The son Karlrobert Kreiten was born in Bonn in 1916 . In 1917 the family moved to Düsseldorf after Theo Kreiten had accepted a teaching position at the Buths-Neitzel Conservatory there. The daughter Rosemarie Sofie Kreiten was born in Düsseldorf in 1918.

The son Karlrobert, who made a very successful career as a pianist at an early age , was arrested during the National Socialist era after a denunciation in May 1943 and then sentenced to death for undermining military strength . Despite desperate efforts by his parents, especially his mother Emmy Kreiten, and his sister and despite several requests for clemency, Karlrobert Kreiten was hanged by the National Socialists on September 7, 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee .

Emmy Kreiten appeared as a singer at numerous concerts since the late 1910s and took the stage name Emmy Kreiten-Barido ( Barido was the family name of her Alsatian mother). The musical couple, Theo and Emmy Kreiten, often invited them to music evenings in their Düsseldorf apartment, where Emmy sang classical roles. Their house concerts were considered a focal point of the musical society in Düsseldorf. Even after the Second World War , the couple again invited Emmy to music and singing evenings, both of which were also active in memory of their son Karlrobert.

Among the followers of her singing skills as a mezzo-soprano were u. a. the sculptor Rudolf Christian Baisch , the painter and art collector Carl Lauterbach , the painter and art professor Peter Janssen , the Düsseldorf artists Arvid Mather , Karl-Heinz Heuner and Paul Bedra as well as the Hohenzollern heir and composer Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia . The sculptor friend Rudolf Christian Baisch created a bust in memory of Karlrobert Kreiten, which is now in the Düsseldorf City Museum .

Emmy's husband Theo Kreiten died in Düsseldorf in 1960. Her daughter Rosemarie Sofie, who remarried from Studnitz after her divorce, emigrated to the USA in 1954 after her divorce . a. founded a publishing house. Rosemarie Sofie died after a serious illness in 1975 in Los Angeles.

Emmy Kreiten-Barido occasionally appeared at public concerts well into old age and died at the age of 90 in her adopted home, Düsseldorf.

Awards

Emmy Kreiten has received several awards as a concert singer; u. a. she was given the honorary title of chamber singer .

literature

  • Theo Kreiten: Who the gods love ... - memories of Karlrobert Kreiten . Renaissance-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1947. 2., exp. Edition by Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1950.
  • Friedrich Lambart (ed.): Death of a pianist. Karlrobert Kreiten and the Werner Höfer case . Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-926175-48-6 .
  • Helga Schubert : Judas women. Ten case histories of female denunciation in the “Third Reich” . 4th edition. Luchterhand, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-630-86725-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karsten Laske: The virtuoso . In: Friday , August 29, 2003; Retrieved April 16, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b Estates / collections directory 4-121 (PDF; 262 kB) of the City Archives State Capital Düsseldorf ; Heinrich Riemenschneider: "Kreiten Documentation", p. 22; Retrieved April 18, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b c d web project: In memory of Karlrobert Kreiten, accessed on April 18, 2009.
  4. ^ Collection 1902–1945 → Karlrobert Kreiten , information and illustration of the memorial bust on the website of the city of Düsseldorf ; Retrieved May 2, 2009.
  5. ^ Estates / collections directory 4-121 (PDF; 262 kB) of the City Archives of the State Capital Düsseldorf ; Heinrich Riemenschneider: "Kreiten Documentation", p. 20; Retrieved April 18, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Kreiten-Barido, Emmy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreiten, Emmy (real name); Liebergesell, Emmy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (mezzo-soprano) and chamber singer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Mayen
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1985
Place of death Dusseldorf