Erna von Hoeßlin

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Erna von Hoeßlin , also Erna von Hoesslin and Erna von Hoeßlin-Liebenthal , née Erna Liebenthal (born November 13, 1889 in Berlin ; † September 25, 1946 in Sète ) was a German actress, opera, lied and concert singer ( mezzo-soprano / Old ). She was a celebrated Wagner and Strauss singer.

Life

Erna von Hoeßlin was the daughter of the authorized signatory Louis Liebenthal and his wife Cilly, nee. Silberstein. After completing the usual schooling for girls of her class, Erna Liebenthal took acting lessons. She received her first engagement in Bromberg . Further appearances followed in Danzig , Vienna and at the National Theater Mannheim , where her singing voice was finally discovered. In Mannheim she met her future husband, the composer and conductor Franz von Hoeßlin , who came from the Hößlin family. The marriage produced a daughter.

With the support of her husband, Erna von Hoeßlin continued her vocal studies in Berlin, where she enjoyed great success as a song and concert singer. This was followed by engagements at the music stages in Dessau , Basel , London , Monte Carlo and Breslau . In the latter city her husband worked as general music director. Liebenthal's repertoire of roles included: Erda, Fricka and Waltraute in Der Ring des Nibelungen , Eboli in Don Carlos , Ulrika in Un Ballo in Mascera , Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana , Carmen in Carmen , Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier , Klytämnestra in Elektra , Herodias in Salome , Nurse in Die Frau ohne Schatten , Third Lady in Die Zauberflöte , Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro , Maddalena in Rigoletto , Suzuki in Madama Butterfly and Idamante in Idomeneo . Her extensive oratorio, song and concert repertoire included works by Johann Sebastian Bach , Johann Christoph Bach , Johannes Brahms , Ludwig van Beethoven , Georg Friedrich Handel , Gustav Mahler , Richard Strauss , Richard Wagner , Franz Schubert and Robert Schumannu . a. m.

Soon after the National Socialists came to power, the singer was banned from performing because of her Jewish descent. The artist was no longer allowed to show herself in public and had to wear the yellow star. This procedure angered her husband so much that he laid down the baton at a state act after the Deutschlandlied and let the orchestra play the Horst Wessel song, the quasi-official second national anthem, alone. In 1936 the artist emigrated to Florence with her daughter. The singer suffered badly from marginalization and was sick a lot. Her husband tried unsuccessfully to allow her to return by applying for an exemption . The von Hoeßlins lived in Geneva from autumn 1943. The singer was the only one of the three siblings in her family to survive the Nazi dictatorship.

Erna von Hoeßlin-Liebenthal was killed together with her husband in a plane crash in southern France.

literature

  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Supplementary Volume II, Bern 1994, Sp 503.
  • Hans-Joachim Koppitz: Franz von Hößlin and his departure from Breslau. His marriage to the Jewish singer Erna Liebenthal brought the conductor outlawed. In: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel , 2010, 45th year, issue 3, July-September, pp. 70–71. [1] (PDF, 1.6 MB).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.geneall.net/D/per_page.php?id=1673834
  2. ↑ Koppitz 2010, p. 71
  3. ↑ Koppitz 2010, p. 71.
  4. ↑ http://www.musik-druener.de , catalog 64, p. 137
personal data
SURNAME Hoeßlin, Erna von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoesslin, Erna von; Hoeßlin-Liebenthal, Erna von; Liebenthal, Erna (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress, opera, lied and concert singer (mezzo-soprano / alto)
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1946
Place of death Sète