Lotte Buschan

Lotte Buschan (born January 23, 1917 in Heidenau ; † January 1994 in Annaberg-Buchholz ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Lotte Buschan was born in Heidenau near Dresden as the daughter of a chimney sweep and a housewife . After completing the commercial elementary school, she began a commercial apprenticeship in Pirna . From 1937 to 1941 she studied singing at the opera school of the Dresden Conservatory . Due to the Second World War, her career stagnated during this time.

Shortly before the end of the war, she was drafted into the Heidenau women's hat factory in December 1944. In October 1945, by order of the Soviet military administration, the theater in Heidenau was reopened, where Lotte Buschan received her first theater contract as a singer / soubrette .

Lotte Buschan was engaged at the Bautzen City Theater in 1947 , at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Theater in Görlitz in 1948 and at the Altmark Theater in Stendal from 1949 to 1952 . She celebrated her first successes in Stendal. In May 1951, “Der neue Weg” wrote about the premiere of “ Hoffmanns Erzählungen ”: “The incomparably luminous shimmer that is characteristic of the soprano Lotte Buschans enabled the singer to demonstrate the virtues of her voice for the two female figures. Giulietta 'and "Antonia" to use fully. "

She left Stendal in order to work as an operetta singer for one season at the Stadttheater Cottbus from September 1953 . In Zwickau , where she sang the role of Princess Maria Anna Elisa in the 1956/57 season in “Paganini” by Lehár “... vocally outstanding and charming in form and play…” ( Union , November 18, 1957), she became the artistic director of the Annaberg Theater, Walter Siebenschuh, committed for the following season there, where she stayed until she retired from the stage in 1976.

literature

• Gotthard B. Schicker : Memories of the singer Lotte Buschan in Dicknischl - Erzgebirge people from then and now , pages 145–151, Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg mbH, 2008, ISBN 978-3-931770-76-1