Hermann Horner

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Hermann Horner

Hermann Horner ( January 30, 1892 in Rzeszów - probably in 1942 in the Reichshof ghetto or in the Belzec extermination camp ) was an opera singer from Austria-Hungary with a bass-baritone voice . He appeared on numerous stages in Germany and Czechoslovakia and made guest appearances at the Bayreuth Festival . He was murdered by the Nazi regime .

life and work

Hermann Horner was born as the son of a hotel owner in Rzeszów. From 1916 to 1918 he served as a non-commissioned officer in the Austrian Army in Montenegro and Albania.

Horner completed his vocal studies in Belgium and made his debut at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp . From 1919 to 1923 he was engaged at the Lviv City Theater. This was followed by positions at the Breslau Opera House (1923/24), the Berlin State Opera (1924/25), the Deutsches Theater in Prague (1925-27), the Nuremberg Opera House (1927-29) and the Stuttgart State Opera (1929-33). In Stuttgart Horner also worked as a singing teacher. One of his students was Gottlob Frick . In 1928 he sang Titurel in Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival .

On the day of the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses , two months after the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, the singer was told that he can not longer occur immediately. He was suspended from duty with immediate effect. He first went back to Rzeszów and then to Czechoslovakia, where he was engaged for two years (1933–35) at the Aussig City Theater .

Hermann Horner was married to Anna, née Koller, who was born in Lviv in 1892 . The couple had at least three children, all three were born in Stuttgart : Mario (born 1925 or 1926), Eva (also Ewa, born 1930) and Ludwig (also Ludvik, born 1931 or 1932).

The entire family was murdered. According to Danny Newman, a relative by marriage, Hermann Horner and his younger son were said to have been shot while trying to protect his son from the Nazis who murdered the other family members in a gas truck .

Repertoire (selection)

The list of roles was created on the basis of Kutsch / Riemen and the Vox recording book.

Beethoven :

Flotow :

Halévy :

Mozart :

Nicolai :

Offenbach :

Pfitzner :

 

Smetana :

Verdi :

Weber :

Wagner :

Wolf-Ferrari :

Audio documents

The voice of Hermann Horner has been handed down through Vox recordings from 1923, he sang arias by the Landgrave and King Heinrich (from Tannhäuser and Lohengrin ), as well as the porter song of Plumkett from the opera Martha and the drinking song of Falstaff from the opera Die merry wives of Windsor .

Commemoration

His name can be found on a memorial plaque for Nazi victims in the Stuttgart State Opera , which was unveiled on April 7, 2016 by Minister Theresia Bauer together with the artistic director of the Stuttgart State Theater.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Horner, Hermann Fig. 3, accessed on April 2, 2019
  2. ^ Deutscher Musikrat: New blackboard "Mute Voices" in the Stuttgart Opera House commemorates victims of National Socialism , accessed on April 3, 2019.
  3. ^ University of Hamburg: Horner, Hermann , accessed on April 3, 2019
  4. ↑ a b Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Großes Sängerlexikon , Volume 4, p. 2145, 4th expanded and updated edition, Munich 2003
  5. ↑ Klaus Günther: The singer prince: Gottlob Frick and his time , p. 23, Stieglitz-Verlag 2007, ISBN 3-7987-0391-4
  6. ↑ Persecution of Jewish artists in Stuttgart: crime scene "Württembergisches Staatstheater" , from: Ingrid Bauz, Sigrid Brüggemann, Roland Maier: 'You don't need to come anymore!' The suppression of artists of Jewish faith and of Jewish descent from Stuttgart's theater and music scene by the National Socialists, 76 pages, accessed on April 2, 2019
  7. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: ANNA KHANA HORNER , memorial sheet prepared by Sofia Rachkovski, accessed on April 2, 2019
  8. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: ANNA HORNER , based on the GEDENKBUCH Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945, accessed on April 2, 2019
  9. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: MARIO HORNER , based on the GEDENKBUCH Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945, accessed on April 2, 2019
  10. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: MARIO HORNER , memorial sheet prepared by Sofia Rachkovski, accessed on April 2, 2019
  11. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: EVA HORNER , based on the GEDENKBUCH Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945, accessed on April 2, 2019
  12. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: EWA HORNER , memorial sheet prepared by Sofia Rachkovski, accessed on April 2, 2019
  13. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: LUDWIG HORNER , based on the GEDENKBUCH Victims of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933-1945, accessed on April 2, 2019
  14. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: LUDVIK HORNER , memorial sheet prepared by Sofia Rachkovski, accessed on April 2, 2019
  15. ↑ : Danny Newman: Tales of a Theatrical Guru , accessed April 2, 2019
  16. ↑ Music in Baden-Württemberg , Yearbook 2001, p. 46
  17. ↑ Rainer E. Lotz: Vox recording book , accessed on April 2, 2019
  18. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg : Memorial plaque for Nazi victims unveiled in the Stuttgart State Theater , accessed on April 2, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Horner, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Opera singer with a bass-baritone voice
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rzeszów
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1942
Place of death Ghetto Reichshof or in the Belzec extermination camp