Naëmi Priegel

Naëmi Priegel (* 1941 in Breslau ) is a German actress and singer .

Life

Priegel, daughter of an old Lutheran pastor, fled as a toddler in 1944 with her mother and siblings from Silesia to Görlitz , where the family experienced the end of the Second World War . Priegel's father died in World War II. Priegel lived in Görlitz until 1953, when her family left the GDR via Berlin . After fleeing to the west, Priegel attended high school in Rüsselsheim . After graduating from high school , she completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Frankfurt am Main . She wrote her thesis on Hermann Hesse . In Frankfurt Priegel sang in the church choir and worked as a model to improve her apprenticeship salary . She received her first private acting lessons from Dirk Dautzenberg . From 1964 to 1966 he studied acting and singing in Berlin at Else Bonger's private drama school . In addition, Priegel worked as a spokeswoman for the SFB to finance the drama school. She also sang songs such as Moon River and Embrace me in various American clubs . She was discovered in one of these clubs and received the offer to sing as a background singer in a choir, the later Rosy Singers . Priegel took over the alto part of the Rosy Singers and performed alongside Gerhard Wendland , Caterina Valente , Peter Alexander , Heidi Brühl and René Kollo .

Priegel had her first engagement in the 1966/67 season at the Munster Municipal Theaters . In the second year of her engagement, she sang the role of Eliza Doolittle in the musical My Fair Lady , a role that later became one of her star roles. In Münster alone she sang this part over 60 times. From 1969 to 1972 Priegel was engaged as an actress and singer at the Wiesbaden State Theater . She appeared there in the comedy Minna von Barnhelm (1971), in the comedy Die Kaktusblüte (1972) and in the title role of the musical Kiss Me, Kate (1972). In 1973 she was hired by Rolf Kutschera , the artistic director of the Theater an der Wien , to sing the title role in Kiss Me, Kate also in Vienna in a production of the musical by Helmut Käutner . Priegel's partner as Petrucchio in Vienna was Harald Serafin , the two gangsters were Ossy Kolmann and Felix Dvorak . In 1973 she sang Eliza in Berlin, in the revival of My Fair Lady , in the Theater des Westens ; her partners were Paul Hubschmid (Higgins), Kurt Pratsch-Kaufmann (Doolittle), Käthe Haack and Agnes Windeck (as Mrs. Higgins). In 1974 she took over the role of Eliza at the Cologne Opera in a production by Werner Saladin . In 1975, she sang at the Theater an der Wien on the side of Zarah Leander in the musical Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim . In 1975 she appeared at the Stadttheater Basel in Brecht / Weill's Die Dreigroschenoper and as Iduna Obolski in the musical comedy Feuerwerk , a role that subsequently also became one of her important stage roles. In 1976 she sang Eliza at the Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern and the title role in the musical Annie Get Your Gun at the Staatstheater Braunschweig . In 1977 she took over the role of Countess Franziska in the world premiere of the musical Das Wirtshaus im Spessart by Franz Grothe at the Musiktheater im Revier ; with this musical she later went on tour (1980) through Germany, Austria, Holland and Switzerland. In 1977 she sang at the Zurich Opera House for the first time the title role in the musical Hello, Dolly! . From 1979 to 1989 Priegel sang regularly at the Staatstheater Braunschweig (1979 in Feuerwerk , 1981 in Kiss Me, Kate , 1982 and 1984 in I get out and do my own show by Nancy Ford , 1983 in Cabaret and 1984 in Can-Can ). In the season 1987/88 and 1989 she performed at the Staatstheater Braunschweig in the title role of Hello, Dolly! on.

In the 1980s, Priegel made guest appearances in musical productions at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt (1980 as Iduna, 1980 title role in Ninotschka , 1989 as Julie LaVerne in Show Boat ), at the Städtische Bühnen Osnabrück (1981 Can-Can ), at the Städtische Bühnen Münster ( 1982 in Sorbas by John Kander ), at the Staatstheater Oldenburg (1984 as Iduna), at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe (1986 as Iduna) and at the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg (1989 in the Prairie-Saloon by Lotar Olias ).

In the 1990s Priegel sang again the Dolly (1993 in Kaiserslautern, 1994-1996 on tour) and the Kate (1996 at the Städtische Bühnen Münster); In 1992 she appeared at the Hanover State Theater as Mother Superior in the musical Non (n) sense and gave several solo evenings with songs and chansons. At the end of the 1990s, Priegel switched to the character subject. In My Fair Lady she switched from Eliza to Mrs. Higgins. She played this role in 1998 at the Städtische Bühnen Münster, 2001/02 at the Grenzlandtheater Aachen and 2007/08 in the comedy in Frankfurt am Main; in Frankfurt she also took on the role of housekeeper Mrs. Pearce.

In 2008/2009 she made guest appearances in Germany and Switzerland with the musical revue Mit Marlene mal janz alleene, det war scheene , in which she interpreted songs and chansons by Marlene Dietrich . In 2010 she made a guest appearance in Luxembourg with the program From Head to Toe Marlene . In 2009/10 she performed together with the musical actress Jessica Blume and the pianist Cornelia Hacke in the program That's only available once .

Priegel also worked for television and radio . In 1976 she also stood in a film adaptation of the musical comedy Das kleine Hofkonzert for ZDF, alongside Amadeus August in front of the television camera. In 1978 she took over the role of the dancer Féodora in a radio recording by Westdeutscher Rundfunk in a complete recording of the operetta Der Opernball ; her partners were Benno Kusche , Hermann Winkler and Trudeliese Schmidt . She appeared in several television shows (including As beautiful as today , ZDF 1978). In 1979 she appeared in Wiesbaden in the show One will win as a singer with a musical medley. Several times she was a guest of the entertainer Heinz Schenk in his show Zum Blauen Bock . In the Christmas program 1984 she interpreted the lullaby Aba Heidschi Bumbeidschi, among other things .

literature

• Naëmi Priegel: stories of a juggler . Verlag AT Edition 2005. ISBN 3-89781-077-8 ( excerpts from Google Books )

Web links

• Naëmi Priegel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Naëmi Priegel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The smile of a summer night Stage roles Zarah Leander .
2. ↑ Grenzlandtheater Aachen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Photo from 2002) .  
3. ^ My Fair Lady in Frankfurt The internet magazine Musik und Bühne .
4. ↑ With Marlene mal janz alleene, det war Scheene  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ilteatro.ch (Theater Winterthur).  
5. ↑ From head to toe Marlene ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. theatreinfo.lu . 
6. ↑ THAT ONLY GIVES ONCE ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Program details with biographical information . 
7. ^ Richard Heuberger: The Opera Ball in the Tamino Klassikforum .
8. ↑ As beautiful as today ' Musical picture sheet Franz Grothe .
9. ↑ Der Blaue Bock YouTube Video .