Moje Forbach

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Moje Forbach , bourgeois Amalie Staubwasser (born September 24, 1898 in Munich ; † December 21, 1993 ibid), was a German opera singer ( soprano ) and actress .

Life

Forbach spent large parts of her childhood and youth at Reichertshausen Castle, which belongs to the von Cetto family . Her original professional goal was to be a home economics teacher, but at the request of her mother she studied singing in Munich from 1916. After completing her training, she adopted her stage name and made her debut at the Landestheater in Gotha in 1920 in the role of Elisabeth in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser . In 1921 Forbach was engaged at the Stadttheater Augsburg , from 1924 at the Stuttgart State Opera , before Otto Klemperer signed her to the Kroll Opera in Berlin. During her time in Berlin, Forbach had a number of guest contracts, such as in 1926 and 1928 at the Vienna State Opera and at the State Opera Unter den Linden . She sang at the State Operas in Munich and Dresden , in 1930 in Amsterdam, and in 1931 at the National Operas in Belgrade and Zagreb. After further engagements at the Hamburg State Opera in 1934/35, at the Nationaltheater Mannheim (1935) and in 1936 at the Stadttheater Trier , Moje Forbach ended her singing career and worked as an actress. Until the end of the Second World War she played at the Altonaer Stadttheater in Hamburg, at the Berlin Schillertheater and in Düsseldorf. After the end of the war Forbach worked in Essen, at the Münchner Kammerspiele and, most recently, at the Cologne theater .

Moje Forbach sang many Wagner roles in her operatic career, Senta in Fliegende Holländer , Gutrune in Götterdämmerung , Sieglinde and later also Brünnhilde in Walküre and Isolde in Tristan and Isolde . She was also Charlotte in Ernst Krenek's Dictator , Leonore in Beethoven's Fidelio , Marie in Wozzeck by Alban Berg or sang the only part in Arnold Schönberg's monodrama Expectation .

From 1960 Moje Forbach was occasionally seen on television, in addition, she worked in some radio play productions of the West German radio . Since 1965 Forbach has also taught at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich .

family

Moje Forbach was the eldest of three sisters as the daughter of General Otto Staubwasser and his wife Marianne , nee. born of Cetto. Her grandmother was Jenny Mejo , her great aunt Anna Grobecker . Her parents, Franz Mejo (1798–1855) and Rosa Mejo-Straub (* 1798), were her great-grandparents. The four aforementioned were all opera singers.

Filmography

  • 1960: A month in the country
  • 1967: love for love
  • 1968: Tea party
  • 1968: Anna Böckler
  • 1970: the nail
  • 1971: The suicide
  • 1975: Tristan
  • 1982: Creepy Stories - When time stood still

Radio plays

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c biography at isoldes-liebestod.net , accessed on November 11, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Forbach, Moje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dust water, amalie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (soprano) and actress
DATE OF BIRTH September 24, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 1993
Place of death Munich