Margit Schramm

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Margit Schramm (born July 21, 1935 in Dortmund , † May 12, 1996 in Munich ) was a German opera , lied and operetta singer ( soprano ), also "operetta queen", chamber singer and film actress.

Life

The singer Margit Schramm made her debut in 1954 in the singspiel Meine Sister und Ich . In the 1960s she became known as an operetta diva on German television, in numerous concerts and in films, where she often appeared together with her favorite stage partner, the tenor Rudolf Schock , and was also able to look back on numerous appearances on television shows.

Her best-known and best roles include the performances in I quattro Rusteghi , Clivia , Madame Pompadour , Countess Mariza , Frau Luna and The Merry Widow . In the latter operetta she appeared on stage more than 500 times in the role of Hanna Glawari.

The artist has also worked in a number of successful operetta films: Frau Luna (1964), Viktoria und ihr Husar (1965) and Waltz Dream (1969). Her partners included: Johannes Heesters , Brigitte Mira , Gunnar Möller , Viktor de Kowa , Reinhold Bartel and Rudolf Schock .

Together with Willy Schneider as cellar master, she presented the SWF Saturday evening show “The Happy Wine Round” as hostess and landlady - with artists such as Paul Henckels , Arno Paulsen , Jupp Hussels , Frank Barufski and Kurt Großkurth as regular guests.

In her second marriage she married the director Fred Kraus , the father of the pop singer Peter Kraus . Peter Kraus and Margit Schramm star in the 1969 film Waltz Dream , while Fred Kraus directed.

In the early 1980s, when the operetta lost its broadcasting slots, she withdrew from the stage and television and lived as a businesswoman in Munich, where she died at the age of 60.

She found her final resting place in the Grasbrunn OT Neukeferloh cemetery.

Awards, honors

  • 1967 bronze screen
  • 1968 Golden Screen
  • In 1976 Schramm received an honorary doctorate (Doctor delectationis humoris causa) from the foolish University of Froistecksburg .
  • In 2005, a street in Munich's district 9 (Neuhausen / Nymphenburg) was named after the "Queen of the Opera".

Discography

  • Viktoria and her hussar (Ariola 1984)
  • The great operetta request concert (Philips 1988)
  • On the wings of colorful dreams. From operetta, musical and sound film (Eurodisc 1992)
  • Countess Mariza (Eurodisc 1994)
  • Gypsy love (Eurodisc 1994)
  • Venus in silk (Eurodisc 1994)
  • The Unforgettable - Vol 3 (Eurodisc 1996)
  • Igo Hofstetter - Roulette of Hearts, Everything speaks of Charpillon, Chess the Boss (ORF Oberösterreich 1996)
  • Nico Dostal - The Much Beloved + excerpts from operettas by Ludwig Schmidseder (Hamburg Archive for Singing Art, CD No. 30131 no year)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Hirschel:  Schramm, Margit. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 515 ( digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Schramm, Margit
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera, lied and operetta singer (soprano), chamber singer and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1996
Place of death Munich