Käthe Hyan
Käthe Hyan (born 1876 ; died 1958 in Kingston , England) was a German song composer and singer.
Life
Nothing is known about Käthe Hyan's early or later life. In 1898 she married the cabaret artist Hans Hyan (1868–1944), one daughter was the singer Yvette Hyan and a grandson of the painter Jacques D. Hyan (1937–2008). In 1901 they both founded the cabaret Zur Silbernen Punschterrine in Schröder's Restaurant in Steglitz , before they had performed in Max Tilke's short-lived cabaret for the hungry Pegasus . Hyan set her husband's texts to music and accompanied both lectures with the lute . Her appearances in the Viennese cabaret Fledermaus (1907) are documented, Carl Leopold Hollitzer designed a Biedermeier scenario for her there, Peter Altenberg and Oscar AH Schmitz remembered her appearance. Appearances in the Linden Cabaret in Berlin have been handed down from 1920 .
With her second husband Fritz Kohlberg she opened the cabaret Kunstasyl in Berlin . In 1937 both emigrated to England.
Works (selection)
- Old time songs . Leipzig undated
- with Rudolf Presber : Das Schreiberlein zu Osnabrück . Leipzig: Executioner, 1910
- Song of a stagecoach . Leipzig: Executioner, 1910
- The young queen and other songs to the lute . Leipzig: Executioner, undated
- with Hans Hyan: Schlossermaxe: Posse with singing in four acts . Berlin: Österheld, 1913
- Old Berlin in words and songs . Berlin: Ullstein, 1924
literature
- Evelin Förster : The woman in the dark: authors and composers of cabaret and entertainment from 1901–1935. Edition Braus, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86228-057-5 , pp. 116–121
Web links
- Literature by and about Käthe Hyan in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinz Greul : Boards that mean time: the cultural history of cabaret . Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1967, p. 126
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hyan, Kathe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kohlberg, Kathe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German composer and singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1876 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1958 |
| Place of death | Kingston |