Hermann Thomaschek
Hermann Thomaschek (born April 13, 1824 in Schwarzstein , East Prussia , † December 11, 1910 in Weimar ) was a German opera singer specializing in bass.
Life
As the son of a Protestant pastor, Thomaschek studied theology and philology at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1846 he became a member of the Corpsland Team Normannia Königsberg . Worn to sing by Eduard Mantius in 1847 , he was trained by Franz Hauser in Munich. He had his first stage appearance in Gdansk in 1849 in the Theater am Kohlenmarkt . This was followed every year by changing engagements : Hoftheater Sondershausen (1849/50), Stadttheater Würzburg (1850/51), Aktientheater Zürich (1851/52), Stadttheater Rostock (1852/53), Hoftheater Kassel (1853/54), Deutsche Oper Amsterdam ( 1854/55), Theater Görlitz (1855/56) and City Theater Stettin (1856/57). With a traveling opera he was in Lausanne and Chambéry in 1857/58 . He then found permanent engagements at the Lübeck Theater (1858/59), at the Old City Theater on Lorenzer Platz in Nuremberg, at the Royal National Theater Salzburg (1861/62) and at the Basel City Theater (1862/63). After being a singer and director at the Stralsund Theater in 1864/65 , he went even further north in 1865/66, to the new (German) opera house in Riga . After a year at the Mecklenburgisch-Strelitzschen Hoftheater he went to the Stadttheater Trier (1867/68), the Hochfürstlich Lippische Hoftheater (1868/69), the Stadttheater Chemnitz (1869/70) and the Stadttheater Posen (1870/71 ) as a singer and director ). After the establishment of the German Empire he came to the Altenburg court theater . In 1873/74 he sang at the Freiburg City Theater in the Augustinian Hermits' monastery , and in the following season at the Magdeburg City Theater . He then lived in Chemnitz , where his wife Luise Schmidt (1829–1887) was a singing teacher. In engagement he was again in Sondershausen (1877/78) and in Trier (1878/79). He turned into a bass buffo and had the last appearances in the three emperor year . For many years he was involved in singing education . He spent the 23 years of widower in the home for needy stage artists, which Marie Seebach had donated in Weimar in her will.
roll
- Il Commendatore in Don Giovanni
- Oroveso in Norma
- Giorgio in I puritani
- Gaveston in La Dame Blanche
- Marcel in The Huguenots
- Sarastro in The Magic Flute
- Kaspar in Der Freischütz
- Landgrave in Tannhäuser and the Singers' War on Wartburg
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 142/115.
- ↑ Large Singer Lexicon (2003)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thomaschek, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thomaszik, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (bass) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 13, 1824 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwarzstein , East Prussia |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 11, 1910 |
| Place of death | Weimar |