Heinz Maria Lins

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Heinz Maria Lins (born November 25, 1916 in Munich ) is a German singer with a baritone voice .

Life and artistic work

The artist was born into a musical family. He received piano, violin and clarinet lessons very early on. At the age of four he was on an amateur stage for the first time. After graduating from high school, Lins studied medicine. He had to break off his studies because of the outbreak of war and was assigned to the medical service.

After 1945 he had his voice trained. In order to be able to finance his singing studies, Lins sang in American night clubs. The artist aspired to a career in the field of classical music. But his friends, the hit and film composer Werner Bochmann and actor Heinz Rühmann , persuaded him to play “light music”. Subsequently, Lins sang hits and folk songs as well as opera arias and Schubert songs. He had particular success at the time with the hits In a small pastry shop and I lost my heart in Heidelberg , which he had already written in the 1920s, but which he performed in the manner typical of the 1950s. On the stage, his most famous role was the Domkapellmeister Römer in Schwarzwaldmädel , which he played in around 1,600 performances.

The singer was heard in many television and feature films, but not seen. For example, he lent Dieter Borsche in the film Fanfares of Love , Gerhard Riedmann in Der Bettelstudent and Hans Clarin in the television film Don Giovanni, which was broadcast on ARD on December 29, 1959, his singing voice. Numerous recordings by Decca, Ariola and Telefunken, among others, testify to his musical diversity. He sang alongside Sári Barabás , Erika Köth , Herta Talmar , Renate Holm , Marianne Schech , Josef Traxel , Walter Berry , Ferry Gruber and other artists.

Lins worked more and more for the radio and therefore only rarely appeared on German music stages. From the end of the 1960s onwards the artist became silent. He had his last engagement in 1987 in Zurich, today he lives with his wife Angelika in the Innsbruck district of Hötting . In November 2016 he celebrated his 100th birthday and gave an interview to BR-Klassik .

Discography (selection)

  • Golden operetta. Gasparone, label: Telefunken 1957
  • Black Forest Girl, Label: Ariola 1959
  • The bird dealer, label: Ariola 1960
  • Home, beautiful home, label: Polydor 1960

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hitparade.ch/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Heinz+Maria+Lins
  2. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Heinz Maria Lins in conversation: "The Guardian Angel rang the phone" | BR classic . November 28, 2016 ( br-klassik.de [accessed July 23, 2018]).
  3. ↑ A baritone celebrates his 100th birthday | Innsbruck informed. Retrieved July 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Heinz Maria Lins in conversation: "The Guardian Angel rang the phone" | BR classic . November 28, 2016 ( br-klassik.de [accessed July 23, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Lins, Heinz Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich