Maria Pig
Maria Wutz , b. Ernst (born March 19, 1898 in Starnberg , † June 4, 1983 in Miesbach ) was a German singer .
Life
Maria Wutz was born as the third of five children of the Starnberg fishing family Ernst. After her vocal training in Munich, she made her debut at the Stadttheater von Aachen in 1930 as Agathe in »Freischütz« and stayed at this house until 1932. Then she was engaged at the Landestheater Dessau until 1934, then from 1935 to 1942 as the first lyric soprano at the Berlin Volksoper, where she was able to celebrate major successes. In the first years after the war she was largely unsuccessful in establishing herself as a private teacher for "singing and drama". A comeback attempt in 1950 as an opera singer at the stages of the city of Essen also failed for reasons not known in detail.
Maria Wutz and her husband, the businessman Max Wutz, belonged to the National Socialists from the very beginning; even if the exact entry date is disputed, they were close to it even before the renaming of the German Workers' Party to the NSDAP in 1920. For example, “Party member Mrs. Marie Wutz” took part in the design of the NSDAP Christmas party in 1921 in the hall of the Hofbräuhaus. In the following years she tried to advance her career with the help of party circles, but had little success. After her death, she bequeathed her considerable fortune to the CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation , which, given the couple's political past and the unclear origin of the fortune, provoked public criticism. A detailed report commissioned as a result, however, came to the conclusion that it was based primarily on inheritances and other enterprises, but not on aryanization gains or other direct advantages of their position under National Socialism.
literature
Karl Josef Kutsch / Leo Riemens , Großes Sängerlexikon , Saur, Bern and Munich 1997, Volume 5, p. 3774.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ [Völkischer Beobachter No. 3 of January 11, 1922]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pig, Maria |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ernst, Maria (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Starnberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 4th 1983 |
| Place of death | Miesbach |