Hanns Nocker

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Hanns Nocker (born May 23, 1926 in Altenbögge ; † May 2, 1992 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer (tenor).

Life

Nocker was the fifteenth child of a family of miners and grew up in poor conditions. A scholarship from Ursula Oetker made it possible to train with T. Ritzhaupt in Bielefeld and with Clemens Kaiser-Brehme at the Folkwang School in Essen ; The scholarship was soon withdrawn from him because he had quarreled with a US occupation soldier. A firmly promised engagement at the Bielefeld Theater did not materialize either. Nocker studied at the Cologne University of Music for a short time , but broke off the training due to lack of money.

From 1951 to 1954 he was a member of the opera studio of the Komische Oper in Berlin . In 1954 he became a permanent member of the Komische Oper ensemble, the inaugural role was the second speaker in the Magic Flute .

He stayed at the Komische Oper until his death and can be considered one of the most important protagonists of Walter Felsenstein's music theater and “Felsenstein's dearest child” ( Ernst Krause ).

Hoffmann's stories were filmed with Nocker in 1970 at DEFA-Studio Babelsberg. He celebrated great success at German and Italian opera houses as well as in Paris , Moscow , Stockholm and Vienna .

The musicologist Ernst Krause wrote about his “Bluebeard” in 1979: “What a 'grand carneval' sparkling Offenbach bouffonnerie! One must have experienced how this mightily fluffed, broad-lined insatiable stride and go about his gruesome business with a fiery and bloody tenor. Eros, irony and eeriness have never again come together in this way ”.

For health reasons, nocker appeared only rarely from the mid-1980s.

Games (selection)

Filmography

Awards

In 1960 Nocker was awarded the National Prize of the GDR III for "his outstanding achievements in Othello and Hoffmann's stories " . Class excellent. In 1970 he received the National Prize of the GDR first class in a collective of the Komische Oper with Walter Felsenstein and Kurt Masur for the television adaptation of the opera Othello . In 1981 he was honored with the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver and in 1986 with the Star of Friendship of Nations in silver.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Germany , October 7, 1960, p. 5
  2. ^ New Germany, October 7, 1970, p. 5
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , October 6, 1981, p. 4
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, 4./5. October 1986, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Nocker, Hanns
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor)
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Altenbögge
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1992
Place of death Berlin