Josef von Manowarda
Josef von Manowarda (born July 3, 1890 in Krakow , † December 24, 1942 in Berlin ) was an Austrian opera singer ( bass and hero baritone ).
Life
Josef von Manowarda was born in Kraków as the son of the Austrian general Eberhard Manowarda von Jana. He initially prepared for a diplomatic career in Vienna , but then studied philosophy in Graz . He received violin lessons at an early age, as well as speaking and singing lessons in Graz.
From 1911–15 he was engaged in Graz , 1915–18 at the Vienna Volksoper , and from 1919–1934 at the Vienna State Opera . From 1922 he appeared at the Salzburg Festival , from 1932–35 he was professor at the Vienna Music Academy .
Manowarda and his wife had joined the NSDAP before 1933 and remained politically active after the party ban in 1933 by distributing propaganda material to the staff of the Vienna State Opera and refusing to wear the badge of the Patriotic Front despite the threat of severe penalties . According to his own statements, this is said to have brought him political difficulties, which is why he moved to the Berlin State Opera under Clemens Krauss in 1935 .
As early as 1931 he achieved great success at the Bayreuth Festival as Landgrave in " Tannhäuser " under Arturo Toscanini . After moving to Berlin, Manowarda was particularly popular with Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels and used this attention to propose to Heinz Tietjen, among other things, the merger of the State Theaters of Berlin and Kassel with the Burgtheater and the Vienna State Opera in 1936 . However, the project was never implemented due to internal power distribution struggles of the National Socialist leadership elite, further memoranda to Hitler were also unsuccessful. Self in Bayreuth followed until 1942, including as Gurnemanz in the staging of Parsifal by 1937 .
Manowarda was married to the opera singer Cornelia "Nelly" Pirchhoff-Manowarda.
He found his final resting place in the state's own cemetery in the Kisseln in the Berlin district of Spandau .
Honors
Manowarda was awarded the honorary title of chamber singer in 1929 .
After Manowarda's death, a funeral service was held in the Berlin State Opera in January 1943, attended by Goebbels and Hermann Göring . In Göring's speech Manowarda was described as a “faithful, uncompromising and victorious follower of the Führer”. The singer's coffin was placed on the stage of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden at this memorial service by order of Hermann Göring.
In 1960 a street was named after him in the 23rd district of Vienna .
Web links
- Josef von Manowarda at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Entry on Josef von Manowarda in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Sound carrier by Josef von Manowarda in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Street names in Vienna since 1860 as “Political Places of Remembrance” (PDF; 4.4 MB), p. 51f, final research project report, Vienna, July 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Manowarda, Josef von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian opera singer (bass and hero baritone) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krakow |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1942 |
| Place of death | Berlin |