Hans Reinmar

Hans Reinmar , actually Hans Wochinz , (born April 11, 1895 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † February 7, 1961 in Berlin ) was an Austrian opera singer ( baritone ).

Life

Hans Reinmar was born in Vienna in 1895. After dropping out of architecture training, he turned to singing and gained his first stage experience at the Moravian Theater in Olomouc . After engagements at the opera houses in Zurich , Dresden and Hamburg , he was committed to the Städtische Oper Berlin in 1928, with which he remained connected until his death in 1961.

Reinmar sang an extensive classical repertoire (including Mozart , Wagner , Verdi ) and performed at the Bayreuth Festival from 1939 to 1941 . He also had an excellent reputation as an interpreter of contemporary music ( Hindemith , Weill , von Eine , Robert Kurka ). 1941 seemed Reinmar where Zarah Leander film The Road to the Open as a baritone in the Semiramis by Gioachino Rossini with. Zarah Leander plays an opera singer there and Reinmar is on stage with her. At the end of the war, he was still on the God-gifted list .

Hans Reinmar celebrated a great success as Falstaff under Walter Felsenstein at the Komische Oper , where he demonstrated his talent as a singer and as an actor.

literature

• KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, second volume M – Z, Sp. 2436 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
• Sound carrier by Hans Reinmar in the catalog of the German National Library
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 , p. 263.

Web links

• Hans Reinmar at Discogs (English)
• Hans Reinmar in the Internet Movie Database (English)