Käthe Heidersbach

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Käthe Heidersbach ( October 30, 1897 in Breslau - February 26, 1979 in Kyrkhult , Olofström parish , Sweden ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

life and work

Heidersbach originally wanted to become a pianist and studied piano at the conservatory in her hometown. She then took singing lessons from Juan Luria , who was later interned by the Nazi regime and murdered in the Sobibor extermination camp in 1943 , from Lola Beeth and Fred Husler . The soprano made her debut at the Detmold City Theater in 1922 and was engaged at the Breslau Opera House from 1924 to 1927 . From 1927 to 1944 she was committed to the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin.

Guest performances have taken the artist to Dresden, Amsterdam, Vienna, Zurich, Hamburg, Munich and Barcelona. She was engaged at the Bayreuth Festival from 1928 to 1934, where she sang Waldvogel, Freia, Gutrune, Elsa and Eva, as well as a flower girl in the first Bayreuth production of Parsifal since Richard Wagner's premiere in 1934 .

In 1934 she was appointed Prussian Chamber Singer at her parent company . According to Joseph Goebbels , however, she should not have been satisfied there, since in March 1939 she should have complained to him about too little singing time. On June 2, 1939, she sang Eva in a gala performance by the Mastersingers of Nuremberg in honor of Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia , who was also attended by Adolf Hitler . It conducted by Herbert von Karajan . In September 1941, Heidersbach appeared in occupied Krakow as the “bearer of the German cultural will in the east”, including at the theater of the SS and the police there . There was lunch with Governor General Hans Frank .

Heidersbach was married to the doctor Johannes Eppinger for the first time. Her second marriage was in 1928 with the Swedish opera singer Nils Källe , who, like her, was engaged at the Wroclaw Opera from 1924 to 1927. After 1945 she worked as a concert soprano and teacher in Stockholm, where she had moved her residence.

Discography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Short biography of Käthe Heidersbach (English). Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
  2. ↑ WagnerMania: Bayreuth occupation Parsifal 1934 , accessed on July 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ WagnerMania: Bayreuth occupation Rheingold 1933 , accessed on July 18, 2016.
  4. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung (Munich): Historical recording , Richard Strauss and the singer at a rehearsal for the opera Die ägyptische Helena in 1935, accessed on July 29, 2016.
  5. ^ Sven Felix Kellerhoff : Goebbels and Göring on the battlefield of the opera , Die Welt (Berlin), September 11, 2012.
  6. ↑ Richard Osborne: Herbert Von Karajan: A Life in Music , Random House, 1999, p. 132. This performance became legendary because Karajan, who conducted without a score, got out of time and thus drew the anger of the Führer.
  7. ^ Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 228.
  8. ^ Who's Who, The People Lexicon, short biography of Käthe Heidersbach. Retrieved July 18, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Heidersbach, Käthe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heidersbach, Kate; Heidersbach-Källe, Käthe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1979
Place of death Kyrkhult , Sweden