Henny Borchers

Henny Borchers ( November 24, 1864 in Hanover - after 1910) was a German child actress and opera singer ( mezzo-soprano ).

Life

Borchers, daughter of a law firm and the actress and singer Alwine Heine-Moser (1831–1910), was already employed in children's roles when she was four years old, and has actually always been active in the theater since that time, accounting for a few years of development. The tenor Hermann Mathias took over her singing training in Frankfurt and her stepfather and baritone Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Heine (1847-1893) continued the same.

She found her first engagement in Koblenz in 1890. She actually sang mezzo-soprano for three years, and it was only when she stepped in as “Santuzza” (she had rehearsed this role for her pleasure) that she was made aware of her thoroughly dramatic voice, whereupon she actually went into the highly dramatic field. In 1891 she worked in Magdeburg, from 1892 to 1893 at the Stadttheater in Augsburg , then for a year at the Stadttheater Mainz, from where she followed a call to the court theater in Darmstadt , which stage she belonged to until 1897. Since then, the artist has been a popular and deserving member of the Wroclaw City Theater, where she and her “Brunhilde” and “Isolde” have absolute respect. In 1901 or 1902 the artist was hired for the city theater in Strasbourg, where she made her debut as "Valkyrie". She stayed there until 1910, her further life is unknown.

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 114, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Henny Borchers in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Henny Borchers at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
• Henny Borcher's picture in the Manskopf Collection of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main