Margarete Maschmann

Margarete Maschmann (born 1886 in Mainz ; died 1978 there ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).

After her vocal training, Maschmann had her first engagement in the 1908/09 season at the Mainz City Theater . Her other stage stations were the Theater Krefeld (1909–1911), the Stadttheater Basel (1911–1914), the Stadttheater Essen (1916–1921) and the Stadttheater Bremen (1921–1925). In the 1925/26 season she sang at the Leipzig Opera House ; then she was permanently engaged at the Braunschweig State Theater from 1926 to 1928 . Her last stage engagement was between 1928 and 1932 at the Stadttheater Dortmund ; after that she gave up her career.

Maschmann sang a broad repertoire, which particularly included the youthful-dramatic soprano subject, but also included roles of character soprano. Her roles included: Donna Elvira ( Don Giovanni ), Agathe ( Der Freischütz ), Berthalda ( Undine ), the title role in Salome , Octavian ( Der Rosenkavalier ), Chrysothemis ( Elektra ), Kaiserin ( Die Frau ohne Schatten ) and the title role of Opera Mona Lisa . In Italian she sang a. a. the Forza -Leonore, Aida and Santuzza ( Cavalleria rusticana ), in the Slavic repertoire the title role in Jenůfa . She was also known as a well-known Wagner interpreter with roles such as Tannhauser- Elisabeth, Elsa ( Lohengrin ), Fricka ( The Ring of the Nibelung ) and Kundry ( Parsifal ).

She was married to the actor Kurt Uhlig (1887–1943). Their daughter was the actress Anneliese Uhlig (1918-2017). The couple only lived together for a short time; after the First World War they separated.

After the end of her stage career, Marschmann first lived in Potsdam , then from the mid-1930s together with her daughter in Berlin , where she also took over the care and upbringing of her grandson from 1940 onwards. At Easter 1945 she left Berlin for the west. In the last years of her life she lived in an old people's home in her native Mainz.

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Volume 4: Kainz – Menkes, p. 2969. Fourth, expanded and updated edition. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
• Wilhelm Kosch (Ed.): German Theater Lexicon . Supplementary volume. Part 4. M-Pa. De Gruyter, Berlin [et al.]. Page 57 November 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-036175-9 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).

Web links

• Margarete Maschmann in: New Magazine for Music, Volume 93, 1926.