Maria Madlen Madsen

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Maria Madlen Madsen (born March 23, 1905 in Krefeld , † March 23, 1990 in Frankfurt am Main , temporarily also Gerda Hansi (stage name )) was a German opera singer ( soprano ), theater and television actress.

Life

Training time

Madsen grew up in Hamburg , went to school there and studied classical singing with Robert Dähmke for four years. Under the stage name Gerda Hansi, she initially worked as a program employee (singer) for Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG) between 1926 and 1929 , where she became known as the "Swabian Nightingale". She also took part in a form of broadcasting that was new at the time and popular with listeners, the city portraits presented as a radio play. At the same time, she took lessons from the teacher Daimler in Stuttgart.

Singing career

Maria Madlen Madsen was engaged at the Zurich City Theater between 1929 and 1934
From 1934 onwards, the Frankfurt Opera was the stage for Maria Madlen Madsen's singing career

From 1929 to 1934 she was engaged for the Zurich City Theater in Switzerland, where she participated in the 1933 world premiere of Der Kreidekreis by Alexander von Zemlinsky .

From 1934, it undertook the Frankfurt Opera , Madsen began in the Third Reich A Twelve-Year-lasting great career as a coloratura - soubrette . She took part in the world premiere of Werner Egk's opera Die Zaubergeige on May 22, 1935 as Gretl and in the world premiere of Carl Orff's " Carmina Burana " on June 8, 1937 with a solo.

Guest appearances have taken Madsen to the state operas in Berlin , Breslau , Dresden , Hamburg , Munich and Stuttgart , and abroad to Barcelona , Belgrade , Bologna and Paris .

After the Second World War Madsen was hired by Radio Frankfurt (later: Hessischer Rundfunk ) for archive and studio productions, among other things. During this time she met colleagues such as Trude Eipperle , Franz Fehringer , Ferdinand Frantz , Karl Friedrich , Herbert Hess , Otto von Rohr , Helge Rosvaenge , Heinrich Schlusnus , Erik Schumann , Georg Stern and Günther Treptow .

She was preferably cast for comic stage roles, as Despina in Così fan tutte , as Zerlina in Don Giovanni , as Blondchen in Die Entführung aus dem Serail , as Marzelline in Fidelio , as Ännchen in Der Freischütz , as Marie in Tsar and Zimmermann , as a woman Fluth in Der Postillon von Lonjumeau , as Musetta in La Bohème , as Adele in Die Fledermaus and as Christel in Der Vogelhändler .

In addition, she was known and appreciated as a concert and lieder singer, she also sang Schlager at least in the early 1950s on the Hessischer Rundfunk radio.

play

From the second half of the 1950s she was cast as an actress for mostly comic roles, e.g. B. in Frankfurt's Small Theater in the Zoo (today: Fritz Rémond Theater ), but also on German television. After completing her singing career, she gave voice training to young singers from 1963 in Frankfurt am Main.

Radio

After working as a singing program employee for Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG (SÜRAG) between 1926 and 1929, Madsen was active as a radio speaker in the 1960s and took on roles in radio plays at Hessischer Rundfunk .

Filmography

  • 1956: Mr. Hesselbach and the company
  • 1956: The traitor
  • 1958: Sin began with Eve
  • 1958: Thanks from the underworld
  • 1959: bounty
  • 1959: A blank slate
  • 1960: The cemeteries
  • 1967: The Name Day Celebration "(1967)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Photo (undated), approx. 1930s: Maria Madlen Madsen . uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ SÜRAG organization chart from January 1, 1926 and 1927 on: dra.de (PDF file, 197 kB)
  3. ^ "Gerda Hansi drinks coffee" in: "Collages in radio plays - the development of a radiophonic art", p. 249
  4. ↑ Photo and text: Maria Madlen Madsen, in: Opera in National Socialism (continued) ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on: oper-frankfurt.com (PDF file, 3.6 MB)
  5. ↑ Maria Madlen Madsen at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
  6. ↑ Photo (1940): Maria Madlen Madsen (left) in Salzburg . uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
  7. ↑ Maria Madlen Madsen ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: beethoven-haus-bonn.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / katalog.beethoven-haus-bonn.de
  8. ↑ Hessischer Rundfunk: "Liebliche kleine Dingerchen", January 23, 1952, 8:00 pm, Alte Schlager: Maria Madlen Madsen, among others, sing ... ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on: fuenfzigerjahresaenger.de
  9. ↑ Coloratura and humor: Maria Madlen Madsen on: tamino-klassikforum.at
  10. ↑ 6 years of singing studies with Maria Madlen Madsen at: petra-pascal.info
  11. ↑ 4 years of singing studies with Maria Madlen Madsen at: thalia-zeilsheim.de
  12. ↑ Madsen, Maria Madlen. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  13. ↑ Maria Madlen Madsen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Madsen, Maria Madlen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hansi, Gerda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano), theater and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Krefeld
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1990
Place of death Frankfurt am Main