Max Kuttner

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Max Kuttner (born February 24, 1883 , other source: 1880 in Baden , Austria-Hungary ; † October 17, 1953 in Straubing ) was a German opera and operetta singer (tenor) and radio singer.

Life

After completing technical training, Kuttner initially worked professionally as a designer in Frankfurt am Main, but at the same time trained as a singer there. In 1905 he made his debut at the Lortzing Theater in Berlin. This was followed by a few years in the province a. Posen, Weimar (in the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach he became the Grand Ducal Weimar court opera singer ) and Colmar. His specialty were roles for tenor buffo , in which he also proved to be a good actor. He sang Jacquino in “Fidelio”, Monostatos in “Magic Flute”, Pedrillo in “Entführung aus dem Seraglio” and above all roles in Lortzing operas. His career took place almost exclusively on the stages of Berlin.

In the 1920s he moved to the field of operetta and sang with great success at the major operetta theaters in the capital. He also became known through his appearance on the Berlin radio (since 1924) and as a record singer.

The first recordings, still on Edison Amberol cylinders, came out around 1910. He then sang numerous records for the Lindström brands Beka and Odeon , for Grammophon, Artiphon, Homocord and Vox. The opera and operetta recordings with Kuttner were among the artistically best productions of the time.

Kuttner was of Jewish descent and fled from persecution in National Socialist Germany towards the end of 1938. He emigrated to Shanghai , where he played theater for several years under Alfred Dreyfuss. After 1945 the Shanghai troop disintegrated, Max Kuttner returned to Germany in August 1947. He ended up in Straubing in Lower Bavaria. He died there on October 17, 1953.

Discography (selection)

  • Grammophon 11 046 (15 852 b) The love that gently envelops us. Drinking song from "Hofmann's Tales" (J. Offenbach)
  • Zonophone 17 706 (13 535 r) Seemanns Los (W. Petrie-Martell) / (13 552 r) Seemanns Abschied (Ed.v.Werner)
  • Gramophone 20 278 (3676 ar) Madonna you are more beautiful than the sunshine. Song and blues from the revue “Kisses at midnight” (Robert Katscher) / (3677 ar) I know a room, that's completely unabashed. Song u. Foxtrot from the revue “Achtung Welle 505!” (W. Kollo), with Godwin Ensemble.
  • Vox 1954 (2827 B) cigarette song (“There I'll take my little cigarette”), from “Der Orlow” (B. Granichstaedten), with orchestra Georges Boulanger .
  • Homocord B.1852 (M 17 927) I saw Miss Helen bathing. Fox Trot (F. Raymond, Text: F.Grünbaum) / (M 17 905) Jonathan! (He wants once, she wants twice). Shimmy song (Desider Seifert)
  • Artiphon 2639 (C19527) I dreamed of the Rhine last night. Song from the review "The Sins of the World" (A.Egen, text by F.Rotter)
  • Beka B. 6170 (33 569) Always (homesickness). Lied (Irving Berlin, German text by Beda), with Dobbri saxophone orchestra.
  • Beka B.3603-II (mx.) Please, greet me, dear stars --- Heimatlied (Rosendal)

literature

  • Luciano di Cave: Mille voci una stella. Il contributo degli esecutori vocali ebrei o di origine ebraica alla musica operistica e classica. Carucci editore, Roma 1985.
  • Alan Kelly: His Master's Voice. The German catalog. A complete numerical catalog of German gramophone recordings made from 1898 to 1929 in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere by The Gramophone Company Ltd. = The voice of his master (= Discographies 55). Greenwood Press, New York NY et al. 1994, ISBN 0-313-29220-5 .
  • Artist on the radio. A pocket album from the magazine “Der deutsche Rundfunk”. Rothgießer & Diesing, Berlin 1932.
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Immortal Voices. Singer lexicon. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Francke, Bern et al. 1982, ISBN 3-7720-1555-7 .
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Large singer lexicon . 4 volumes. Francke et al., Bern et al. 1987–1994;
  • Berthold Leimbach (Ed.): Sound documents of cabaret and their interpreters 1898 - 1945. Self-published, Göttingen 1991.
  • Kurtz Myers (Ed.): Index to record reviews. Based on material originally published in Notes, the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association between 1949 and 1977. Volume 5: Indexes. GK Hall, Boston MA 1980, ISBN 0-8161-0087-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Music Sack, under [1] .
  2. ↑ “Artists on the radio”, p. 105, caption
  3. ^ Collection of reviews that go back to 1938. Max Kuttner can be found under the professional title of opera singer in the Berlin address books until 1939. A departure from Germany could therefore have taken place at the end of 1938 at the earliest. Source: Max Kuttner biography
  4. ↑ "The 'European Jewish Artist Society' existed from 1940 to summer 1941 under the direction of the actor and director Alfred Dreyfuss , which during this time [...] presented theater productions ...", cf. Wiebke Lohfeld and Steve Hochstadt: The Emigration of Jewish Germans and Austrians to Shanghai as Persecuted Under National Socialism , p. 21. Source: www.exil-archiv.de/grafik/themen/exilstationen/shanghai.pdf
personal data
SURNAME Kuttner, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera and operetta singer (tenor) and radio singer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 1953
Place of death Straubing