Marta Eggerth
Marta Eggerth (also Martha Eggerth , actually Eggerth Márta ; born April 17, 1912 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary ; † December 26, 2013 in Rye , New York ) was an Austro-Hungarian-American operetta singer (soprano) and film actress who has since Lived in New York in 1938 .
Life
Eggerth was the daughter of the German bank director Paul Eggerth and the singer Tilly Herzog (Herezegh). After an early vocal training, a career as a musical child prodigy and engagements in Vienna and Hamburg, she went to Berlin in 1930, where she appeared in numerous operetta and singer films and became a celebrated star.
While shooting the film My Heart Calls for You , she met the Polish tenor Jan Kiepura . The two were considered the "dream couple" of German and Austrian music films of the thirties and married in 1936. At that time the couple lived a. a. in Vienna . The Castle in Flanders and The Court Concert were filmed in and around Berlin in 1936. Because of her marriage to Kiepura, she was no longer wanted in the Reich from 1937. Her last two German-language films, Zauber der Boheme and Immer Wenn ich Glück am , were made in Vienna in 1937.
In 1938, after the “ Anschluss ” , she emigrated with her husband, who had an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera , from Vienna via France to New York. (“Leaving Vienna hurt terribly,” said Marta Eggerth fifty years later.) Kiepura's secretary at the time, Marcel Prawy , followed them to the USA. In 1939 Martha Eggerth accompanied her husband to Paris , where he was supposed to be in front of the camera from September 1st; on that day Germany invaded its homeland.
In New York she appeared eight times a week from 1944 to 1946 in Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow , which Robert Stolz had adapted for Broadway . Her film and stage career continued.
In 1952 Eggerth visited Vienna for the first time since the war and had great success in "Zarewitsch" at the Raimundtheater .
In 1979 she received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film. In 1988 she said in an interview that she gave master classes for young opera singers. She regretted that opera singers in Europe did not want to sing operettas.
In 1998 she played and sang in the Tatort: Never again Opera of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) alongside Marcel Prawy, Erni Mangold and Harald Krassnitzer, a former opera diva named Babette Schöne. In 2001 she was awarded the Golden City Hall Man of Vienna. In 2002 she received the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .
Marta Eggerth last lived in Rye , New York, and celebrated her 100th birthday in April 2012. Your older son, Jan Kiepura jun. (born 1944) became a singer, her younger son Marjan (born 1950) is a pianist and businessman in the music industry.
Filmography
- 1931: Trara about love - Director: Richard Eichberg
- 1931: One night in the Grandhotel - Director: Max Neufeld
- 1931: The Bridegroom Widow - Director: Richard Eichberg
- 1931: Der Frauendiplomat - Director: EW Emo
- 1931: The daredevil
- 1932: Modern dowry - Director: EW Emo
- 1932: Kaiserwalzer - Director: Friedrich Zelnik
- 1932: Once Upon a Time there was a waltz - Director: Victor Janson
- 1932: A song, a kiss, a girl - directed by Géza von Bolváry
- 1933: The Flower of Hawaii
- 1932: The Blue from Heaven - Director: Victor Janson
- 1933: My songs quietly plead
- 1933: The Tsarevich - Director: Victor Janson
- 1934: The Unfinished Symphony - Directed by Anthony Asquith , Willi Forst
- 1934: My Heart Is Calling - Directed by Carmine Gallone
- 1934: My heart calls for you - Director: Carmine Gallone
- 1934: Your greatest success - Director: Johannes Meyer
- 1934: Die Czardasfürstin - Director: Georg Jacoby
- 1935: The whole world revolves around love - Director: Viktor Tourjansky
- 1935: The Blonde Carmen - Director: Victor Janson
- 1936: Where the lark sings. Pacsirta - Director: Carl Lamač
- 1936: La chanson du souvenir. Concert à la cour - Direction: Detlef Sierck , Serge de Poligny
- 1936: The Castle in Flanders - Directed by Geza von Bolvary
- 1936: The court concert
- 1937: The magic of the bohemian
- 1938: Always when I'm happy - Director: Carl Lamač
- 1942: For Me and My Gal
- 1943: Presenting Lily Mars - Director: Norman Taurog
- 1947: Addio Mimí! - Director: Carmine Gallone
- 1948: Valse Brilliant - Director: Jean Boyer
- 1952: The land of smiles
- 1957: Spring in Berlin
- 1999: Tatort: Never again opera (TV thriller)
DVDs
- The court concert
- The Daredevil (Film Jewels, 2014)
- Valse brillante (Gaumont, France, 2012)
- Your greatest success (Filmjuwelen, 2015)
literature
- Monika Kornberger: Eggerth (Eggert), Marta . In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 978-3-7001-3077-2
- Klaus Krüger: Happiness is what makes a woman so beautiful. Marta Eggerth for the hundredth . In: Fox on 78, issue 27, 2013, pp. 12-15
Web links
- Works by and about Marta Eggerth in the catalog of the German National Library
- MARTA EGGERTH in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Marta Eggerth at filmportal.de
- Christoph Dompke: Marta Eggerth in the dictionary of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era (LexM)
- Happiness lives everywhere: Singer Marta Eggerth-Kiepura ( memento from August 23, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) at www.mdr.de
- Pictures by Marta Eggerth In: Virtual History
- "L'inséparable duo de Martha Eggerth et Jan Kiepura" - biography (French)
- Stefan Frey: The waltz with the heart: 100 years ago the singer Marta Eggerth was born , contribution to the series calendar sheet of the Deutschlandfunk
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Jelinek : News from the 4th Reich , Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902404-64-0 , p. 75
- ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 131
- ↑ In: Jelinek, p. 76
- ↑ Marta Eggerth, quoted in: Jelinek, p. 76
- ↑ Jelinek, p. 77
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF, 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Beautiful, rich and famous . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 17, 2012. Accessed March 27, 2013.
- ↑ http://www.fox-auf-78.de/FOX-auf-78/Ververzeichnis.html
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eggerth, Marta |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eggerth, Martha; Eggert, Márta (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian-American operetta singer (soprano) and film actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 17, 1912 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
DATE OF DEATH | December 26, 2013 |
Place of death | Rye , New York |