Georg Schmieter

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Georg Schmieter (born February 23, 1887 in Germany , † after 1939) was a German opera and operetta singer ( baritone , later hero tenor ) at the theater and actor in the stage and film.

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Georg Schmieter's stage career began in the years 1904–1905 as a choir player at the Detmold court theater . He started out as a soloist as a baritone in the 1905/06 season at the Lübeck City Theater . When he was just under twenty, Schmieter, whose stage work initially focused primarily on the work of a singer in the operetta, received an engagement at the Rostock City Theater , to which he belonged from 1906 to 1908. Another engagement followed, still as a baritone, in the 1908/09 season at the Stadttheater Kiel .

Schmieter then took singing lessons in Munich and had his voice converted into a tenor. He made his debut as a tenor in the 1911/12 season at the Mülhausen Municipal Theater (Mulhouse, Alsace). From there he went to the Freiburg City Theater for the 1912/13 season . He specialized in the youthful-dramatic hero tenor subject, especially in Wagner roles. In the following years he held numerous guest and permanent engagements. Other stage stations included the Breslau Opera House (1913–1914), the Kassel Court Theater (1914–1916), the Vienna Court Opera (1916–1918), the German Opera House Berlin (1918–1919), the German Theater Prague (1919–1921) ) and at the Landestheater Hannover (1921–1922).

From 1922 to 1924 he was a freelance guest. His last demonstrable permanent engagements were at the Landestheater Darmstadt (season 1924/25) and at the Stadttheater Königsberg (season 1926/27). Schmieter performed as an opera and operetta singer until the early thirties.

Schmieter, who made his debut in 1922 with the Cheruscan prince Arminius in the historical picture arc Die Hermannschlacht, which was rather poorly received by the critics , appeared sporadically in front of the camera as early as the silent film era . From 1930 Schmieter, who by then had long since ceased to be a permanent member of the theater, turned completely to film and was particularly active in the sound film of the 1930s. Here he played - in 1935/36 also in some films in Austria - almost only batches : sometimes a lighting technician and a head waiter , then a colonel and finally a bailiff and a butcher in Liberated Hands , his last film from 1939. Then disappeared Georg Schmieter completely out of the public eye. He may have died during World War II .

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As an opera singer Schmieter stood out especially in Wagner roles: Siegmund and Siegfried in The Ring of the Nibelung , Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , and Parsifal . In the youth-dramatic subject he appeared on stage as Pedro ( lowlands ) and Bacchus ( Ariadne auf Naxos ), among others .

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SURNAME Schmieter, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German operetta singer (hero tenor) in the theater and actor in stage and film
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany
DATE OF DEATH after 1939