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Mia Werber , born as Maria Tachauer , (born November 10, 1876 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died 1943 in Ghetto Theresienstadt , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ) was an Austrian singer ( soprano ) on German operetta stages and a victim of the Holocaust.
Life
The Viennese merchant's daughter Maria "Mia" Tachauer received singing lessons from Anna Dubois-Dollinger from November 1893 to April 1897 . The petite artist made her debut on April 25, 1896 in the English-French conversation club. In 1897 she made her first permanent engagement at the Hamburg Carl-Schultze-Theater . As a soprano, she quickly made a career in Berlin, where she accepted an engagement at the Thalia Theater in 1898. Her first major part was the Mimosa in the operetta The Geisha of Sidney Jones . Mia Werber quickly enjoyed great popularity with the Berlin audience, which she was able to experience at the Lessing Theater and, above all, Central Theater, to which Mia Werber belonged from 1899 to 1908. In the 1908/09 season she was a member of the New Berlin Operetta Theater, and from 1910 to 1911 she went on a major tour of South America . Most recently, before she appeared as a freelance guest artist, Mia Werber was a member of the Königsberg City Theater .
Werber's delicate physique made her the ideal cast for the doll in the play of the same name ( The Doll ). Mia Werber also celebrated great success as a niniche in The Excellence , as Maja in The Greek Slave and as the title character in The Beauty of New York (based on the American musical The Belle of New York ). In 1920, at the age of 44, she said goodbye to the stage, but remained connected to music theater as a singing teacher in Berlin.
From February 1902 until 1921, Mia Werber also recorded numerous records in Berlin, with old successful games as well as newly rehearsed songs, including Die Geisha, Das süße Mädel , Les Hirondelles, Der Rastelbinder , Der Vogelhandler , Die Dollarprinzessin and The Belle of New York . Mia Werber was already in half retirement when the National Socialists seized power in Germany and finally banned her from appearing. She was deported during the war, and in 1943 Mia Werber's life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ended.
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 179.
- Wilhelm Kosch, Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: German Theater Lexicon. Volume VI. de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-093611-7 , p. 3233 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Web links
- Mia Werber at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Mia Werber on capriccio-kulturforum.de
- Mia Werber sings from Die Geisha (1906) on YouTube
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Advertiser, Mia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tachauer, Maria (birth name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian singer (soprano) on German operetta stages and a victim of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1943 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt ghetto , Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia |