Heinrich Bötel
Heinrich Friedrich Bötel ( March 6, 1854 in Hamburg - January 5, 1938 there ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ).
Life
Bötel worked in his father's wagon business from his 14th to his 18th year. After he had fulfilled his military duties with a hussar regiment, he resumed his civil existence as a coachman in 1876.
His beautiful voice was often noticed in the company of good friends, but no further attention was paid to it. Then Hofrat Bernhard Pollini , director of the Hamburg City Theater, heard him and had him audition. At the beginning, when the news got through Germany that they had discovered a tenor on the driver's seat again, they didn't want to put any real trust in this news, they didn't believe in a second Theodor Wachtel .
Bötel, trained by the composer Hermann Zumpe and the singer Franz Krückl , made his debut in 1883 at the Hamburg City Theater as “Manrico”.
Whether in Vienna or Berlin, whether in Cologne, Breslau or Stuttgart, wherever he appeared on guest appearances, Bötel's rare voice was always given unconditional recognition.
Ludwig Speidel occasionally said of a guest performance in Vienna: It is like a bird that only feels comfortable at high altitude.
In 1900 he left the Association of the City Theater and worked as a singer until 1911. He died in Hamburg and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery , but the grave no longer exists. The tombstone is now on the family grave in St. Marien and St. Nikolai Cemetery I in the Prenzlauer Berg district .
His son Bernhard Bötel (1883–1953) also became an opera singer.
literature
- Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 108, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Web links
- Heinrich Bötel at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Hamburg 3, No. 11/1938
- ↑ a b Heinrich Bötel on the pages of the Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof eV
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bötel, Heinrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bötel, Heinrich Friedrich (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 6, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 5, 1938 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |