Irene Eisinger

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Irene Eisinger (born December 8, 1903 in Cosel , † April 8, 1994 in Weston-super-Mare , Somerset , Great Britain ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Eisinger studied singing in the soprano voice, received piano training from G. Schönewald, and took acting lessons from Paula Mark-Neusser in Vienna. She made her debut in 1926 at the Stadttheater Basel . Before 1933 she was engaged at the major Berlin theaters: in 1928 she sang at the Kroll Opera , then at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden under Otto Klemperer's direction. She also appeared in Austria, from 1930 to 1931 she was a guest at the Vienna State Opera . She appeared several times at the Salzburg Festival . There she sang the Cherubino in Figaro's wedding from 1930–1933 , Papagena in the opera Die Zauberflöte from 1931–1933 and Hermione in the new version of the opera Die ägyptische Helena by Richard Strauss . Her participation in Max Reinhardt's staging of the operetta Die Fledermaus from 1930 and in the cabaret opera Calling Mr. Plim from Mischa Spoliansky in 1932 are considered highlights of her artistic career, which at the same time expressed her interest in new musical forms of stage art she Luise Matthes in Kurt Weill's three-act opera Die Bürgschaft at the Städtische Oper Berlin .

After a silent film version of the operetta Die Försterchristl in 1926, she also starred in several sound films between 1930 and 1933 : Two hearts in three-four time , 1930. Role: Anni Lohmeier, Soubrette; The merry women of Vienna , 1931. Role: Leopoldine; Die Försterchristl , 1931. Role: Christl Lange, called 'Försterchristl' and A Johann Strauss Fantasy , [short film], 1933.

She also made numerous recordings for Grammophon, HMV / Electrola , Ultraphon and Orchestrola. Her repertoire ranged from Mozart and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , CM Weber and Albert Lortzing , to Puccini , Lehár and Strauss to Leo Fall , Bruno Granichstaedten , Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz . Well-known colleagues were her partners in duets: Siegfried Arno , Paul Morgan , Joseph Schmidt , Erik Wirl and Richard Fritz Wolf.

In 1933 Irene Eisinger belonged to the ensemble of the Städtische Oper Berlin . The seizure of power by Hitler and the Nazi race laws, which forbade her as a Jewish artist to pursue another profession “in the Reich”, now forced her to leave Germany. She first went to Czechoslovakia . From 1934 she sang at the Prague Opera House. Via the Deutsches Theater in Prague , where she was allowed to perform until 1937, and via Brno / Brno, she emigrated to England after guest appearances in Brussels and Amsterdam.

In London she was able to continue working as a soprano. From 1934 to 1939 she sang at the Glyndebourne Festival , where she made her debut on May 29, 1934 as Despina in Così fan tutte . In 1935 she sang Papagena in Die Zauberflöte and Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail . Charles B. Cochran engaged her in 1936 for his revue Follow the Sun at the Adelphi Theater as partner of the baritone Gerald Nodin .

From 1937 she sang at the Covent Garden Opera in London. There she made her debut on December 30, 1937 in the role of Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck's opera Hansel and Gretel . There she sang again Adele in the operetta Die Fledermaus . She also appeared on the BBC in Die Fledermaus and Ferruccio Busoni's one-act opera Arlecchino .

When the beginning of the Second World War forced the closure of Glyndebourne, Irene Eisinger withdrew from the stage. She shot her last sound film, the comedy Young Man's Fancy , in 1940 in exile in England. After 1945 she sang Despina again at the Edinburgh Festival .

Irene Eisinger's marriage to the London doctor Gerhard (Gert) Schönewald, who had emigrated from Bad Nauheim, had two daughters (Susanne, * 1944, and Emily-Ruth, * 1946); the marriage ended in divorce.

Irene Eisinger died on April 8, 1994 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, Great Britain.

Sound documents (selection)

  • Who put love in our hearts , duet from the operetta The Land of Smiles (Franz Lehár), Irene Eisinger, soprano, and Joseph Schmidt, tenor, members of the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera under the direction of Selmar Meyrowitz. Ultraphon E 247 (mx. 30353), recorded in Berlin on October 22, 1929. ( Video on YouTube )
  • Potpourri from the Polish Economy operetta (Gilbert & Schönfeld) parts 1 and 2: Orchestra Marek Weber, soloists Irene Eisinger and Siegfried Arno. Electrola EH 312 (mx. CNR 607, CNR 609) - Berlin, June 1929
  • You too will cheat me one day, including you (Stolz, Reisch & Robinson) from the sound film operetta Two Hearts in Three-Four Time . Duet Irene Eisinger and Erik Wirl, with orchestra of the Metropoltheater Berlin. Conductor: Clemens Schmalstich. Electrola EG 1845 (mx. BLR 6175-II) - Berlin, March 1930. ( Video on YouTube )
  • Where is that written? Waltz song from the operetta Der liebe Augustin (Leo Fall, text by Bernauer and Welisch) Duet Irene Eisinger and Paul Morgan, with orchestra. Orchestrola 2032 (mx. 1104)
  • Mailied, from the sound film Försterchristl (Bruno Granichstaedten, text by B. Buchbinder) Irene Eisinger, soprano, with the orchestra of the Metropoltheater Berlin under the direction of Clemens Schmalstich. Electrola EG 2209 (mx. 0D 46-II) - apply. Berlin, January 1931 ( video on YouTube )
  • Echo-Lied, from the sound film Försterchristl (Bruno Granichstaedten, text by B. Buchbinder) Irene Eisinger, soprano, with orchestra of the Metropoltheater Berlin under the direction of Clemens Schmalstich. Electrola EG 2209 (mx. 0D 45-I) - apply. Berlin, January 1931. ( Video on YouTube )
  • There's only one of these , from the UFA sound film Der Kongress tanzt (Werner Richard Heymann, text: Robert Gilbert). Irene Eisinger with student and children's choir. UFA Symphony Orchestra, conductor: the composer WR Heymann. Electrola EG 2411 = 2450 (mx. OD 644) - November 1931. ( Video on YouTube )
  • Tic-ti Tic-ta (A declaration of love) (Gaetano Lama), duet Irene Eisinger and Richard Fritz Wolff. Gramophone 24 845 (mx. 3314 ½ BH) - 1932. ( Video on YouTube )
  • I have to be in Grinzing again . Wiener Lied (Benatzky), Irene Eisinger, with Schrammel Orchestra. Orchestrola 2196 (mx. 1364)
  • Così fan tutte (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), part of Despina. Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company cond. by Fritz Busch. HMV DB 2652 to DB 2673 - added. Glyndebourne, June 1935
  • Annen-Polka (Strauss, text by Grosz & Martyn) (Eng. Sung) Irene Eisinger, with orchestra, cond. Walter Goehr. HMV C 2906 (mx. 2EA 4750) - up. London, April 1937

Re-releases

  • CD Irene Eisinger & Annelies Kupper at the Hamburg Archives for Singing Art, Art.Nr .: 10 364
  • Eisinger, Irene: Memories 1929-37 CD, Bear Family Records, Art. No: CD RV 307
  • Mischa Spoliansky, Musical Stations from "Morphium" to Resistance (CD from KLEINaberKUNST, Order No. KK-003/4; contains from the one-act opera "Call Mr. Plim!" “The only surviving live recordings of the cabaret during the Weimar Republic ” )

literature

  • Tobias Becker: The blue miracle. Pp. 294-295. (Review by Stahrenberg 2012) (homepage-nico-thom.de)
  • Peter Cornforth: Mischa Spoliansky: A brief history. (mischaspoliansky.com) . In it a reference to an allusion in the cabaret opera: “... The music was delightful, and the book and lyrics witty and satirical. It also contained a trio, the first lines of which were She is coming, she is coming! (She comes, she's getting nearer!) But with 'a clever shift of musical accents,' the astute listener would hear Sie na h t, si e geht - the exact pronunciation of 'Nazi.' (viii) ”
  • Obituary: Irene Eisinger. In: The Intependent. April 30, 1994. (Obituary)
  • Irene Eisinger. In: Günter J. Gajda: Significant Silesians.
  • Jürgen Kesting (Ed.): The great singers. Volume 2, Verlag Claassen, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-546-45387-5 , p. 806. ( "... Irene Eisinger, born in 1908 in Kosel, Silesia, trained by Paula Mark-Neusser in Berlin, since 1926 at the Basel City Theater active, since 1928 at the Berlin Kroll Opera, since 1930 in Vienna ... " )
  • Wulf Konold: Deutsche Oper, then and now: reflections and investigations into the past and present of German music theater. Verlag Bärenreiter, 1980, ISBN 3-7618-0627-2 , p. 59.
  • Wilhelm Kosch et al. (Ed.): Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Biographical and bibliographical manual. Volume 1: A - Hurk. Verlag Ferd. Kleinmayr, Klagenfurt / Vienna 1960, DNB 551896833 .
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Francke, Bern 1987.
    • Supplementary volume I. 1991, pp. 1133-1954.
    • Supplementary volume II. Francke, Bern 1994, pp. 1125-1474.
  • Eisinger, Irene. In: TheMusicSack. (engl.)
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens (Ed.): Immortal Voices. Singer lexicon. 2., rework. and exp. Edition, p. 151. (online)
  • Berthold Leimbach: audio documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898-1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Eisinger Irene, married Schönwald: Singer. In: Hans Morgenstern (ed.): Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon: A collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800. LIT Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-7000-0703-6 , p. 196.
  • Irene Eisinger. in the online film database
  • Carolin Stahrenberg (Ed.): Hot Spots from Cafe to Cabaret: Musical Spaces in Berlin Mischa Spoliansky's 1918–1933. (= Popular culture and music. Volume 4). Waxmann Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-7520-5 , pp. 244-265. Description of the cabaret opera pp. 245–246, note 437 (quoted from Spoliansky, Goodbye Trouble, p. 84), d. i. Spoliansky's unpublished English autobiography Goodbye Trouble.
  • Thomas Staedeli: Irene Eisinger. Portrait of the artist with picture
  • Theo Stengel, Herbert Gerigk (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Jews in Music. with a list of titles of Jewish works / zsgest. on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. Hahnefeld, Berlin 1940.
  • Eva Weissweiler: Eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences. Dittrich, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Müller: Paula Mark-Neusser. In: Archives for the History of Sociology in Austria
  2. ↑ Cast list for the operetta Die Fledermaus
  3. ↑ cf. Ensemble photo from 1930
  4. ↑ Music: Joh. Strauss, text based on the French, edited. v. C. Roessler u. M. Schiffer; Redesign v. Max Reinhardt, music. Establishment by Erich Wolfgang Korngold , cf. Johann Strauss ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.operone.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on operone.de
  5. ↑ a b Berthold Leimbach: Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945. Göttingen, self-published in 1991, unpaginated
  6. ^ Next to Hans Reinmar and Lotte Lenya under the direction of Fritz Stiedry , cast list
  7. ^ The premiere was on March 10, 1932. "The plot bears clear parallels with the rise of Nazism in Germany" , cf. the English Wikipedia , which is why the opera was banned by the National Socialists shortly afterwards.
  8. ↑ The Försterchristel in the online film database
  9. ↑ Two hearts in three-quarter time
  10. ↑ filmportal.de
  11. ↑ filmportal.de
  12. ^ A Johann Strauss Fantasy in the online film database
  13. ↑ cf. Stengel, Theo and Gerigk, Herbert (Hrsg.): Lexicon of Jews in Music: with a list of titles of Jewish works / zsgest. on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. Edited by Theo Stengel in conjunction with Herbert Gerigk. - Berlin: Hahnefeld, 1940, p. 65.
  14. ↑ a b c d Obituary: Irene Eisinger in: The Independent
  15. ↑ ”Scene 18. Little Acrobat (Lyric by Howard Dietz): The Acrobat - Gerald Nodin. His partner - Irene Eisinger. Gerald Nodin's and Irene Eisinger's costumes designed by Ernst Stern. Executed by BJ Simmons & Co., Ltd. ” , see. Cast list
  16. ↑ cf. Listed by Alan Robinson at musicweb-international.com
  17. ↑ Young Man's Fancy in the online film database
personal data
SURNAME Eisinger, Irene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Cosel
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1994
Place of death Weston-super-Mare