Marta Fuchs

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Marta Fuchs rehearsing "Rosenkavalier" at the State Opera (1937)
Marta Fuchs as Kundry with Heinz Tietjen and Ivar Andrésen at the rehearsals for Parsifal , Bayreuth Festival 1936

Marta Fuchs (born January 1, 1898 in Stuttgart , † September 22, 1974 in Stuttgart-Sonnenberg ) was a German concert and opera singer.

Life

Marta Fuchs grew up in a family of artists; the father was a decorative painter, guild board member and city councilor. Like his mother, he had a good voice and sang in several choirs. This is how Marta Fuchs came to music and singing. Later he strove for his daughter's career. Marta attended the Königin-Katharina-Stift-Gymnasium Stuttgart and studied at the Hochschule für Musik with Max von Pauer , Kammersänger Lang and Möhlknabl. In 1923, at the age of 25, she began her career as a concert singer and with concerts and oratorios. Then she supplemented her training with dramatic lessons with Koreny-Scherk in Stuttgart and made her debut on the opera stage at the Stadttheater Aachen in 1928 with Gluck's Orpheus , Azucena in Verdi's Troubadour and Bizet's Carmen .

In 1930 she moved to the State Opera in Dresden . After retraining from alto to highly dramatic soprano , she sang Marschallin , Isolde , Brünnhilde , Arabella and in Fidelio, among others . She retained some of her alto parts even after changing subject to dramatic soprano. Since 1935 she has also been a member of the ensemble of the State Opera and the German Opera House in Berlin and has made guest appearances in Amsterdam, Prague, Paris, London, Florence and Vienna.

In the years from 1933 to 1942 she was the focus of the Bayreuth Festival , where she was celebrated as Isolde, Kundry and above all as Brünnhilde. On February 20, 1935, she took over the role of Maria Tudor in the world premiere of Rudolf Wagner-Régeny's The Favorite .

In the 30s and 40s she belonged to the elite of Wagner and Strauss singers.

Marta Fuchs became an active member of the Christian Community and in 1924 a member of the Anthroposophical Society .

However, she was distant from the National Socialist regime. Her conversation with Hitler in 1936 is legendary : "Herr Hitler, she's making 'e' war!" To Hitler's assertions in the negative, Fuchs replied: "I don't trust 'you'". In May 1939, Hitler asked Marta Fuchs at a reception: "Well, did I go to war?" Marta Fuchs only said: "I still don't trust you!" Known personally to Hitler and Göring , she used her name in petitions for the continuation of anthroposophical work. On June 25, 1941, she campaigned for the repeal of the measures imposed on the Christian community.

In 1941 she sang Fidelio -Leonore at the Roman Opera.

She gave guest appearances in Bayreuth (e.g. Kundry in Parsifal in 1938 ), Amsterdam , Paris , London , Berlin , Vienna and Salzburg .

According to Leoš Janáček's Jenůfa 1944, in which she was the sexton, Fedor Stepun wrote to her : “A really perfect combination of playing and singing and thus a true fulfillment of the opera I have so far only in the great comedy of the brilliant Chaliapin and in your such Found a completely different priestly internalized art realized and if you have succeeded in your design so perfectly, this is not least due to the fact that your game stylistically does not move in the naturalistic-psychological, but in the mysterious-tragic space. ” Furtwängler wrote after Isolde on February 3, 1944 in Berlin, he had never seen such a beautiful representation and such a transfiguration in the death of love.

After the fall of Dresden on February 13, 1945, Marta Fuchs fled to her house on Tegernsee , then to Stuttgart, where she sang as a guest at the Stuttgart Opera, at Christian community meetings and in 1948 at a Waldorf teacher meeting . In 1952 she withdrew from the stage.

She died on September 22, 1974 in a nursing home in Stuttgart-Sonnenberg.

literature

  • Roswitha von der Borne, Johannes Lenz: Marta Fuchs: 1898–1974 "The Swabian Child of the Gods". Johannes Mayer Verlag, Stuttgart 2010. ISBN 978-3-86783-010-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A full life on stage . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . December 30, 1967.
  2. ↑ A full life on stage . In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . December 30, 1967.
  3. ↑ The Swabian Wagner Heroine . In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten . December 30, 1967.
  4. ↑ a b c Marta Fuchs - Article Johannes Lenz Research Center for Culture Impulse - Biographies Documentation
  5. ↑ Gottfried von Eine, Memories
personal data
SURNAME Fox, Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concert and opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1974
Place of death Sonnenberg