Heinz Sauerbaum

Heinz Horst Sauerbaum (born December 16, 1913 in Rauschen , Fischhausen district, East Prussia , † July 29, 1970 in Lido di Jesolo , Italy ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ) and chamber singer .

Career

Sauerbaum received his musical and singing training at the Königsberg Conservatory . There he started his first engagement as a choir singer at the Königsberg Opera House . Further engagements took him to the Stuttgart Opera House. In 1938 he switched to the soloist and made his debut at the Halle / Saale Opera House as Eric in Richard Wagner's The Flying Dutchman . At the Halle / Saale opera house, Sauerbaum worked as a tenor as well as an opera director. On January 1, 1949, the City Council of Leipzig awarded him the title of "Kammersänger" for his services to Leipzig's musical life.

At the Komische Oper Berlin Sauerbaum sang a. a. Don José in Bizet's Carmen directed by Walter Felsenstein and under the musical direction of Otto Klemperer (see photo below, SZ-Photo, Otto Klemperer and Heinz Sauerbaum). In the 1950s Sauerbaum moved to the Nationaltheater Mannheim with guest appearances in West Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg. In Hamburg he sang the role of Alcibiades in Krenek's Pallas Athene weeping at the reopening of the Hamburg Opera House . Alongside Lotte Lenya , Heinz Sauerbaum sang the role of Jimmy in the complete recording of the Brecht / Weill opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny . At the beginning of 1963 Heinz Sauerbaum had to give up his singing career due to illness.

Heinz Sauerbaum was married to the ballet master Lilo Graf (Lieselotte Sauerbaum née Nüchtern), with whom he had three children.

Web links

• Heinz Sauerbaum at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Berliner Morgenpost from October 15, 2011
• Photo by Heinz Horst Sauerbaum in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Individual evidence

1. ^ Anne Jelena Schulte: Lieselotte Sauerbaum (born 1921). In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 24, 2009, accessed on June 4, 2019.