Marta Eggerth

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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 .

The Eggerth-Kiepura couple (1954)

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

DVDs

  • The court concert
  • The Daredevil (Film Jewels, 2014)
  • Valse brillante (Gaumont, France, 2012)
  • Your greatest success (Filmjuwelen, 2015)

literature

Web links

Commons : Marta Eggerth  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Jelinek : News from the 4th Reich , Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-902404-64-0 , p. 75
  2. ^ Boguslaw Drewniak: The German Film 1938-1945. Düsseldorf 1987, p. 131
  3. ↑ In: Jelinek, p. 76
  4. ↑ Marta Eggerth, quoted in: Jelinek, p. 76
  5. ↑ Jelinek, p. 77
  6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF, 6.9 MB)
  7. ↑ Beautiful, rich and famous . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , April 17, 2012. Accessed March 27, 2013. 
  8. ↑ http://www.fox-auf-78.de/FOX-auf-78/Ververzeichnis.html
personal data
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