Felix Loeffel

Felix Loeffel (born July 25, 1892 in Niederwangen ; † May 31, 1981 in Münsingen , resident in Müntschemier ) was a Swiss song, concert and opera singer ( bass baritone ).

Life

Felix Loeffel was born on July 25, 1892 as the son of the carpenter Johann Friedrich Loeffel and Anna Maria, born Läderach in Niederwangen in the municipality of Köniz . After Loeffel had attended the Hofwil teacher training college from 1908 to 1912 and worked as a teacher in Sumiswald from 1912 to 1918 , he studied with Wilhelm Lehnert and Heinrich Nahm in Bern from 1918 to 1921 , Prague with Otto Freund and Munich with Felix von Kraus , Singing.

In 1921 Loeffel was hired as bass baritone at the Bern City Theater and also made guest appearances as an opera singer in Germany. From 1945 he taught at the Bern Conservatory . In 1962 he was awarded the Bern Music Prize and the Othmar Schoeck Medal.

Felix Loeffel, who married Olga, the daughter of the politician Carl Moser , in 1926 , died on May 31, 1981, just before the age of 89 in Münsingen.

Act

Felix Loeffel concentrated in his artistic work primarily on the field of lieder and concert singing. Loeffel had a congenial friendship with Othmar Schoeck , whose songs he interpreted and whose vocal works he campaigned at home and abroad. Also Hermann Hesse valued him as an interpreter of his composed by Schoeck poems and dedicated to him in 1944 the poem in the castle Bremgarten , and in 1962 a birthday writing. Loeffel also sang in world premieres by other Swiss composers such as Willy Burkhard , Wladimir Vogel , Walther Geiser , Hans Haug and Ernst Kunz. The concert promoter mixed choir in Zurich frequently engaged him as a soloist in oratorio performances.

literature

Hans Würgler, Arthur Loosli (Ed.): Felix Loeffel. A gift for friends for their 70th birthday. Francke, Bern 1962.
Paul Suter: Felix Loeffel . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1121 f.
Hermann Hesse and Othmar Schoeck, the correspondence ; ed. by Chris Walton and Martin Germann. - Culture Commission Canton Schwyz, Schwyz 2016. - ( Schwyzer Hefte ; Volume 105); ISBN 978-3-909102-67-9 .

Web links

Literature by and about Felix Loeffel in the catalog of the German National Library
Regula Puskás: Loeffel, Felix. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Individual evidence

^ Hermann Hesse: Im Schloss Bremgarten (poem by Gottfried Keller, composed by Othmar Schoeck in 1944), for Felix Loeffel to commemorate the evening in Bremgarten on August 17, 1944 on the occasion of the performance of Schoeck's songs Unter Sternen . - Printed in: Hermann Hesse and Othmar Schoeck, the correspondence ; ed. by Chris Walton and Martin Germann. - Culture Commission Canton Schwyz, Schwyz 2016. - ( Schwyzer Hefte ; Volume 105); ISBN 978-3-909102-67-9 , esp.p. 102.
^ Hermann Hesse: Dear Felix Loeffel (1962) . - In: Felix Loeffel: A friend's gift for the seventieth birthday , ed. by Hans Würgler and Arthur Loosli. - Francke Verlag, Bern 1962, pp. 64-65.

personal data
SURNAME	Loeffel, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss song, concert and opera singer (bass baritone)
DATE OF BIRTH	July 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Niederwangen
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1981
Place of death	Münsingen

[1] Hermann Hesse: Im Schloss Bremgarten (poem by Gottfried Keller, composed by Othmar Schoeck in 1944), for Felix Loeffel to commemorate the evening in Bremgarten on August 17, 1944 on the occasion of the performance of Schoeck's songs Unter Sternen . - Printed in: Hermann Hesse and Othmar Schoeck, the correspondence ; ed. by Chris Walton and Martin Germann. - Culture Commission Canton Schwyz, Schwyz 2016. - ( Schwyzer Hefte ; Volume 105); ISBN 978-3-909102-67-9 , esp.p. 102.

[2] Hermann Hesse: Dear Felix Loeffel (1962) . - In: Felix Loeffel: A friend's gift for the seventieth birthday , ed. by Hans Würgler and Arthur Loosli. - Francke Verlag, Bern 1962, pp. 64-65.