Karl Ueberhorst

Karl Ueberhorst (born September 19, 1823 in Elsey ; † November 5, 1899 in Dresden ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ), opera director and writer .

Life

Ueberhorst came from an old Westphalian farming family. Originally studying law, he entered the stage for the first time as a member of a traveling troupe on January 15, 1842. After his musical mother had trained him, he was repeatedly used in opera roles.

In Mainz the composer Conradin Kreutzer heard him sing and sent him to Vienna for further training to Giovanni Gentiluomo .

In 1845 he got his first engagement as a baritone at the city theater of Chemnitz . This was followed by engagements in Ballenstedt-Bärenburg (1846, 1848), Rostock and Königsberg (1849 to 1852), Bremen (1853 to 1855), Wiesbaden (1855 to 1857), Detmold (1857 to 1860), Stettin, in Neustrelitz , Würzburg , Düsseldorf and Kiel (1862 to 1864), at the Volkstheater in Munich (1865), at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg (1866 to 1869) and at the Carltheater in Vienna (1870 to 1871).

In 1872 he went to the Nuremberg City Theater , where he mainly directed, and in 1881 to the Dresden Court Theater, where he stayed until his death.

Karl Ueberhorst also wrote regularly for the magazines Gartenlaube , Westermannsmonthshefte and the correspondence from and for Germany .

He was married to the actress and soubrette Minna Wagner .

Works

• Götz von Berlichingen
• Wallenstein's student years
• The pious mercenaries
• Nuremberg's medieval amusements
• The record industry
• Hans Georg Derfflinger. A rider song from the old days , Berlin 1858. Full text in the Google book search

literature

• Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Verlag von Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 1056, ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Wikisource: Karl Ueberhorst  - Sources and full texts

• Karl Ueberhorst in the Bavarian Musicians' Lexicon Online (BMLO)
• Karl Ueberhorst at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon