Hanna Fuchs-Robettin

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Hanna von Fuchs-Robettin (also Robetin, born Hanna Werfel in 1896 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died May 30, 1964 in Pomona , New York ) was a muse of the composer Alban Berg .

Life

Hanna Werfel was the second child of the Prague glove manufacturer Rudolf Werfel and Albine Kussi. Her older brother was the writer Franz Werfel . Her sister Marianne Rieser (1899–1965) became an actress.

Hanna Werfel married the Prague industrialist Herbert von Fuchs-Robettin (also Robetin, 1886–1949). Herbert Fuchs-Robetin was a Zionist ; in 1920 he published the text A Social Program for Palestine . They had the son Franz Munzo Fuchs-Robetin (* 1917) and the daughter Dorothea Fuchs-Robetin (* 1921).

In May 1925, the composer Alban Berg stayed in Prague for a week on business and during that time lived with the Fuchs-Robettin family through Alma Mahler's agency . An affair began between Hanna Fuchs-Robettin and Alban Berg, who had been married to Helene Nahowski since 1911 . In the years that followed, Alma Mahler-Werfel and Theodor W. Adorno acted as messengers for Berg's love letters. In Adorno's view, "the affair [...] was hopeless from the start, as it was burdened with tremendous pathos on the one hand, and neither Berg wanted to leave his wife nor Hanna her husband and their two children on the other." Thirteen letters from the next ten years until Berg's death have been received. Helene Berg noticed the effect of the charm “Mopinkas” (Hanna Fuchs-Robettin) already after Alban Berg's first stay with the Fuchs-Robettin family. Adorno later tried to downplay the whole thing to the widow Helene Berg as a romantic error.

Alban Berg died in 1935. The Fuchs-Robettin couple fled from the National Socialists to the USA in 1938, where Herbert Fuchs-Robettin died in 1949, Hanna Fuchs-Robettin died in 1964.

Hanna Fuchs-Robettin in art

In the Lyric Suite by Alban Berg

Berg composed the chamber music Lyrische Suite from November 1925 and coded the notes B and F (for Hanna Fuchs) and A and B (for Alban Berg). Berg explained the compositional principle in detailed handwritten marginal notes in a pocket edition of the score introduced by Erwin Stein , which he entrusted exclusively to his beloved, the musicians and musicology were left in the dark, only Adorno was initiated, but remained silent and, on the contrary, left false traces. The Lyric Suite was premiered on January 8, 1928 by the Kolisch Quartet in Vienna and was praised by music critics for its expressiveness.

Musicologist George Perle came in 1967 to track down the Tonsymbole B and F in Berg's opera Wozzeck , "read over but at that time the traces Fox Robettin pointed to Hanna." Constantin Floros opened up the musical text in its analysis that it is program music handle . The score annotated by Berg was in the estate of Hanna Fuchs-Robettin, but the information given by the daughter and estate administrator Dorothea Fuchs-Robetin was initially overheard by the musicologists. Perle did not inspect the score until early 1977 and published an article on it in the newsletter of the Alban Berg Society. This essay was reprinted in a 1979 booklet of the Music Concepts , alongside an essay by Constantin Floros on his analysis of the composition. Berg's love letters were later found in the Fuchs-Robettin's estate; they were published in 1995 by Floros.

In the novel by Urs Faes

In 2005 Urs Faes wrote a freely designed novel about the love affair between Hanna Fuchs-Robettin and Alban Berg.

literature

Fiction

  • Urs Faes : As if silence had doors. Novel. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-518-41666-9 .
    • Urs Faes: As if silence had doors: Alban Berg and Hanna Fuchs, David and Simone: 2 love stories. With music by Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky and Arnold Schönberg . Word & Music audio book series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Exinger: Marianne Rieser . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1496.
  2. ↑ Marianne Werfel married the theater manager Ferdinand Rieser .
  3. ↑ Herbert Fuchs-Robetin: A social program for Palestine. Welt-Verlag, Berlin 1920.
  4. ↑ a b T. W. Adorno quoted in Metzger / Riehn, 1979, p. 9.
  5. ^ Letter from Alban Berg to Helene Berg, November 11, 1925.
  6. ↑ George Perle: The right notes: twenty-three selected essays by George Perle on twentieth-century music. Pendragon Press, Stuyvesant, NY 1995, p. 99.
  7. ↑ Stefan Schmöe: Urs Faes: As if the silent doors had transitions. Review. In: Online Music Magazine (OMM). August 19, 2005. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Lutz Lesle : Constantin Floros The story of a love in letters . Review. In: New magazine for music . 2002, p. 74.
personal data
SURNAME Fuchs Robettin, Hanna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs-Robetin, Hanna; Werfel, Hanna (maiden name); Fuchs, Hanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak-American muse Alban Bergs
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1964
Place of death Pomona (New York)