Albine Nagel

Autograph card from Albine Nagel, ca.1915.

Albine Nagel , married Albine Nagel-Ballin , (born March 5, 1884 in Graz , Austria ; † August 31, 1969 in Braunschweig ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ), chamber singer and since 1951 an honorary member of the Braunschweig State Theater .

Life

Nagel's career began in 1902 at the Municipal Theater in Opava in what was then Moravian Silesia , where she stayed until 1904. Engagements at the Deutsches Theater in Brno and at the Court Theater in Coburg followed . The 27-year-old finally came to Braunschweig on February 23, 1912 via the Halle / Saale City Theater , where she performed with great success at the Court Theater as Octavian in Richard Strauss ' Der Rosenkavalier . She then immediately received a contract from Artistic Director Egbert von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorff. In November 1925 Richard Strauss conducted his opera Salome in the city and was enthusiastic about Nagel, who sang the title role.

On December 29, 1921, Albine Nagel married the Jewish aluminum manufacturer Hans Ballin from Seesen . From 1931 she worked as a freelancer on various stages in Germany and Austria. After the seizure of power of the Nazis in early 1933, this is a performance ban imposed on them and locked them also from the Ministry of Arts , since she was married to a Jew.

After the end of the Second World War , Albine Nagel appeared again in Braunschweig for the first time in 1947. In 1951 she was made an honorary member of the Braunschweig State Theater. She died of a fall in Braunschweig in 1969 and was buried in Seesen, in the grave of her mother Katharina. An inscription in memory of her husband, Hans Ballin, was also placed on the tombstone. The grave has now been dissolved, the gravestone was removed from the city of Seesen and destroyed in 2015.

The Albine-Nagel-Straße in the Braunschweig district of Stöckheim was named in her honor.

Husband Hans Ballin

Stumbling block for Hans Ballin at Bachemer Strasse 235 in Cologne. Location

Hans Heinemann Ballin was born on March 12, 1887 in Gandersheim . His parents were the banker, city councilor and honorary citizen of the city of Gandersheim Louis Ballin (born 1834 in Echte ; died 1918 in Braunschweig) and his wife Anna Ballin (1854–1921). Louis Ballin was a member of the Braunschweig Freemason Lodge Carl to the Crowned Pillar . In 1911, Hans Ballin and the Seesen industrialist Fritz Züchner sen. (1870–1950) founded an aluminum plant, which he managed together with it. The married couple Albine Nagel / Hans Ballin moved to Cologne in 1935 , but separated the following year, after which Albine Nagel returned to Braunschweig. In the 1938 Cologne address book , Hans Ballin is listed as a businessman. On October 22, 1941, he was deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź) on the first Cologne transport (No. 8) (deportation No. 275). In the transport list for 1941, the job title earth worker is given for him. Hans Ballin had to pay 95.50 marks for his deportation , as noted in the deportation list. Hans Ballin died in the ghetto on March 28, 1942.

literature

• Gabriele Armenat (ed.): Women from Braunschweig. City Library, Braunschweig 1991, pp. 124-126 OCLC 64263113 .
• Reinhard Bein : Eternal House - Jewish cemeteries in the city and country of Braunschweig . Döring Druck, Braunschweig 2004, ISBN 3-925268-24-3 .
• Norman-Mathias Pingel: Nagel, Albine. In: Manfred Garzmann , Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (Hrsg.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon . Supplementary volume. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-926701-30-7 , p. 97 .
• Angela Klein: Nagel, Albine. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8 , p. 434 .
• Karl-Josef Kutsch: Nagel, Albine. In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 7, KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-598-25037-8 , p. 343.
• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Nagel, Albine. In: Large song dictionary . 4, ext. and act. Edition, Volume 1, KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 3286. ( books.google.de )

Web links

• Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online
• Illustration by Albine Nagel from February 10, 1903 as a member of the ensemble of the Stadttheater in Troppau

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Armenat: Women from Braunschweig. P. 126.
2. ^ Bernhard Struckmeyer: The play at the court theater Braunschweig from 1890 to 1918. In: Braunschweiger Werkstücke. Volume 4/41, Braunschweig 1969, p. 101.
3. ^ Ilona Büttenbender: Braunschweig theater life from 1690 to today. History - thoughts - conversations. Joh. Heinr. Meyer Verlag, Braunschweig 1988, p. 66.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Angela Klein: Nagel, Albine. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 19th and 20th centuries. P. 434.
5. ↑ Armenat: Women from Braunschweig. P. 125.
6. ↑ The Tombstone of the Persecuted Diva. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of July 31, 2015.
7. ^ Norman-Mathias Pingel: Nagel, Albine. In: Manfred Garzmann, Wolf-Dieter Schuegraf (ed.): Braunschweiger Stadtlexikon supplementary volume. P. 97.
8. ↑ Bein: Eternal House , p. 123.
9. ↑ Bein: Ewiges Haus , p. 120 (with photo of the tombstone).
10. ^ Deportation list Cologne-Ghetto Litzmannstadt, October 22, 1941, with the entry "Hans Ballin" (No. 275)
11. ^ Commemorative sheet for Hans Heinemann Ballin in the Yad Vashem database of Holocaust victims . - The statement there that he was married to Anna Luise Ganz is incorrect. Rather, she was the widow of the doctor Dr. Martin Ballin and the mother of resistance fighter Gottfried Ballin ; she wasn't married a second time.