Hans Köhler (singer)

Hans Georg Emmerich Köhler (born November 19, 1842 in Prague , † September 2, 1880 in Sonnenstein , Kingdom of Saxony ) was an Austrian opera singer (bass).

Life

Köhler's father was a professor at the University of Innsbruck. He himself began to study chemistry at the Estates Polytechnic Institute in Prague . He became active in the (technical) Corps Frankonia Prague in 1861 and proved himself as a senior in two semesters . With a talent for bass , he had his voice trained. In 1864 he began his stage career at the Meiningen court theater . From 1866 to 1869 he sang at the Comoedienhaus am Roßmarkt in Frankfurt. Engaged at the court opera in Dresden , he was considered the successor to Emil Scaria . With his voluminous, deep bass he sang Sarastro in the Magic Flute , Kaspar in Freischütz , Bertram in Robert le diable , Don Pedro in L'Africaine and Mephisto in Gounod's Faust . On March 21, 1874 he took part in the world premiere of Edmund Kretschmer's opera about the Folkunger . In 1877 a mental illness (probably syphilis ) began to emerge. He was admitted to the closed asylum at Sonnenstein Castle , where he died when he was not yet 38 years old.

Web links

• Photography (DDB, 1866)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Corps list of Frankonia Prague (1984), No. 21
2. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, expanded and updated edition. De Gruyter Saur, Munich 2004. ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 2434 f. ( limited preview in Google Book search).