Otto Matzerath

Paul Otto Matzerath (born October 26, 1914 in Düsseldorf , † November 21, 1963 in Camp Zama near Tokyo) was a German conductor .

Life

Otto Matzerath was born in 1914 as the son of the bank employee Josef Matzerath and his wife Anna, nee. Garding, born in Düsseldorf.

Adolescence

He graduated from high school in April 1934 at what was then Hindenburg-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf and at the same time finished his studies (November 1934) at the Buths-Neitzel Conservatory (today Robert Schumann University ) in Düsseldorf in the subjects of piano and violin. His teachers were Bram Eldering (violin), Hans Weisbach (piano) and Joseph Neyses (theory). At the age of sixteen he was able to lead the performance of a school opera (“ Der Jasager ” by Brecht / Weill). As a conductor he was self-taught.

Career between 1935 and 1944

He found his first job in Gladbach-Rheydt (Mönchengladbach) as solo coach and conductor (January 1, 1935 to May 15, 1936). From August 1936 to August 1937 he was Kapellmeister for opera and operettas at the Krefeld City Theater and from September 1937 to April 1940 Kapellmeister of the Opera and musical director of the Würzburg City Theater . After he had given a guest performance with the opera "Carmen" in Karlsruhe on January 14, 1940, he became director of the opera and concerts on September 1, 1940 (as the successor to Joseph Keilberth ) and thus the position of general music director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe ( until August 15, 1956). During this time he performed the following operas: 1940: "Troubadour", "Enoch Arden", "Meistersinger". 1941: "Tannhäuser", "Walküre", "Carmen", "Simone Boccanegra", "The Flying Dutchman", "Don Juan", "Fidelio", "La Traviata", "Magic Flute", "Lohengrin", "Figaro's Wedding ". 1942: "Tristan", "Figaro", The four rascals , "Fidelio". 1943/44: “La Boheme”, “Rosenkavalier”, “Schinderhannes”, “Dicke Elster”, “Walküre”, “Le Laudi”, “Siegfried”, “Butterfly”, “Figaro”, “Freischütz”. He was the only conductor in Germany who was called up for military training and had to be "released" for every concert. Through the mediation of Wilhelm Furtwängler he was released from this (June 1942). Towards the end of the war he was finally drafted into the Wehrmacht in Zuffenhausen (Stuttgart) in August 1944, together with the set designer Heinz-Gerhard Zircher, the actor Gustav Altnöder and the opera director Robert Krahl. Later he was transferred to the radio operators in Böblingen. On August 10, 1944, Goebbels' decree closed all theaters in the summer of 1944. The last performance in the Karlsruhe theater took place on July 9, 1944 (“Figaro's wedding”). Concerts in Germany during the war: Regularly with the Berliner Philharmoniker (from 1941 permanent guest conductor at the personal invitation of Wilhelm Furtwängler ), Heidelberg (1942/43), Dresden (1943 and 1944 with concert in Halle), Leipzig (May 1, 1944) . Foreign engagements: Venice (February 1943), Budapest (July and October 1943, February 1944).

Career in the post-war period

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In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the French in Tuttlingen. He fled (without papers) with a doctor friend on foot to Konstanz. He returned to Karlsruhe with the Reichsbahn, for which he was able to get hold of a certificate from a friend from Karlsruhe. The local Coca Cola representative Troullier then provided him with the necessary papers. In August 1945 the occupying power in Karlsruhe changed from French to American. The old theater director Thur Himmighoffen was drafted into the Wehrmacht as a reserve officer and committed suicide on November 12, 1944. He is said to have made anti-Nazi statements while drunk in the officers' mess in Boeblingen, whereupon he was advised to pick up a pistol. The actor Hans Herbert Michels became the new artistic director and director of the theater.

Thanks to his impeccable political biography, he was able to continue working at the State Theater immediately after the end of the war. Since the theater was badly damaged in an air raid, it moved to today's concert hall. The first opera to be performed was “Hansel and Gretel” (with Else Blank and Hannelore Wolf-Ramponi), followed by “La Traviata”. "Fidelio" followed in 1946, "Carmina Burana" and the "Magic Flute" in 1947. In 1948 there was “Tristan und Isolde” and in 1950 “Elektra” (with the architect Egon Eiermann as the set designer). On December 20, 1945 he was appointed general music director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. The American military government asked him to apply for a written authorization as a general manager (license no. 5209 of October 5, 1945) in order to ensure the operation of the theater in the event that the Americans dismiss another manager.

In September 1945 he founded the Matzerath Quartet with instruments from the Ney family from Söllingen. Besides him, the members were Professor Elisabeth Weizenecker (2nd violin), Georg Valentin Panzer (viola), and Hans van Geldern (violoncello). The concerts first took place in private apartments, later in the Solms house in Karlsruhe. As an instrumental soloist, he accompanied Karl Erb at a Schubert evening in Karlsruhe, played Schubert's “ Trout Quintet ” with the famous Köckert quartet and gave an evening of folk songs with Erika Köth . With her he later brought out a record (Electrola, 1956) with folk songs (which he also edited musically).

In April 1946 Hans Herbert Michels was revoked by the Americans, he was a member of the NSDAP and is said to have forged the denazification questionnaire. The Americans banned him from working. Matzerath therefore became interim director. Then until September 1946 Erich Weidner was appointed artistic director for a short time. He was followed by Erwin Hahn (January 1, 1947 to October 30, 1947), who previously worked in Heidelberg and Munich. From August 1948 to the end of 1948, Hans Schulz-Dornburg was artistic director. His successor was provisionally Heinrich Koehler-Helffrich. He was again followed by Heinz-Wolfgang Wolff from 1950 to 1953.

In the times without a director, Matzerath also had to step in as a director. Then calm returned with Paul Rose (1953 to 1962). Operas during this time were "Turandot" (with Erika Köth), "Salome" (with Lieselotte Enk), "Falstaff" (with Eugen Ramponi), "Hansel and Gretel" (with Erika Köth and Anke Naumann), "Rosenkavalier" ( with Erika Köth and Anke Naumann), "Don Giovanni" (costumes and set design by Heinz-Gerhard Zircher), "Catulli Carmina", "Tristan", "Meistersinger", "Carmina Burana", "Elektra", "Ariadne auf Naxos" , "Iphigenie auf Aulis" (with Hannelore Wolf-Ramponi), "Cosi fan tutte" (1953 with Erika Köth; her last role in Karlsruhe in a regular opera performance before going to Munich), "Arabella" (with Hannelore Wolf- Ramponi), "Falstaff" (with Eugen Ramponi), "Otello" (with Hannelore Wolf-Ramponi and Josef Walden), "Orpheus and Euridike", "Johanna on the stake" (with Lore Hansen). Erika Köth got a farewell performance in Karlsruhe: "Hansel and Gretel". He himself said goodbye to the Karlsruhe State Theater with the opera "Butterfly".

From September 1, 1955 to August 31, 1961, he was chief conductor of the Hessischer Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra in Frankfurt. His main task there was the performance of symphony concerts and the production of radio recordings. He also recorded operas for HR: “Orpheus and Euridike” (with Ira Malanjuk, Elfride Trötschel and Lisa Otto), “Hansel and Gretel” (with Erika Köth, Elfriede Grümmer and Marcel Cordes), “Fidelio” (with Maud Cunitz, Erika Köth, Ernst Kozub, Gottlob Frick and Marcel Cordes), the "Barber of Baghdad" (with Julia Costa, Max Noack, Benno Kusche, Helmut Krebs, Anneliese Rothenberger , Gisela Litz, Richard Holm and Josef Greindl) and the " Rosenkavalier ”(with Erika Köth, Clara Ebers, Joseph Greindl, Gisela Litz, Benno Kusche and Lorenz Fehenberger). He has also made guest appearances at home and abroad.

From September 1, 1961 to August 31, 1962 he was still employed as a freelance conductor for the Hessischer Rundfunk. In March 1962 he was engaged for a guest performance with the Ankara State Symphony Orchestra (one of the oldest symphony orchestras in the world) in Turkey, and a contract as chief conductor of this orchestra followed (until August 31, 1963). With this orchestra he made a concert tour through Europe in the summer of 1963.

From September 1, 1963, he was chief conductor of the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, the orchestra of the largest Japanese newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. The contract was signed until August 31, 1964 and should be renewed, but he died on November 21, 1963 in the American Military Hospital (Sagami Ono) in Zama near Tokyo, Japan.

Concerts in Germany: Berliner Philharmoniker, Leipzig, Munich (1949, 1958), Heidelberg (1947/1955), Bamberg (1947/1950), Hamburg (1949/1953/1957), Freiburg (1950), Frankfurt a. M., Essen (1956), Tübingen, Schwetzingen, Münster (1959), Saarbrücken (1961), Stuttgart (1951), Nuremberg, Dresden (1956), Düsseldorf, Cologne (1949), Bonn, Wiesbaden (1949/1955/1961 ), Dortmund (1956), Essen (1956) Concerts abroad: Paris (July 29, 1949 as the first German conductor), Basel (1949; the first concert by a German orchestra abroad after the Second World War), Dublin (1950, 1952 ), Naples (1955/57), Turin (1956), Milan (1963), Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki.

Private

Tombstone

Otto Matzerath was a devout Catholic and showed this attitude even during the National Socialist era. This brought him several problems with the Nazi regime. He was therefore completely unencumbered politically and was able to continue his career seamlessly after the Second World War. He married Lore Matzerath (née Bohner) on July 15, 1944 and had five children with her. His grave in the Karlsruhe main cemetery has a gravestone that was designed by the important Karlsruhe sculptor Emil Sutor .

Honors

On January 18, 1947, he was made an honorary citizen of the Technical University of Karlsruhe (today University of Karlsruhe / KIT).

Recordings as a conductor

(some recordings are of poor technical quality due to their age)

Instrumental works

• Johann Sebastian Bach :
  • 2. Suite for flute and orchestra, recording with the symphony orchestra (SO) of the Hessischer Rundfunk (hr), (flute: Elaine Shaffer)
  • Ricercare from the musical offering, recording with the SO of hr

• Béla Bartók :
  • Music for string instruments, recording with the SO of hr
  • Die Zauberhirsche, Cantata profana, recording with the SO of the hr (baritone: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau), 1956

• Ludwig van Beethoven:
  • 3. Leonore Overture, recording with the SO of HR
  • Symphony No. 2, D major, recording with the SO of hr
  • Symphony No. 7, A major, recording with the SO of hr
  • Symphony No. 8 in F major, recording with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963
  • The ruins of Athens, overture, recording with the SO of hr
  • Violin-Romance No. 1, G major, recording with the SO des HR (violin: Alberto Lysy)
  • Violin Concerto, D major, 1932, (violin: Otto Matzerath, piano: Karlrobert Kreiten, final thesis study)
  • Symphony No. 3, E flat major, “Eroica”, recording with the SO des hr
  • Violin Concerto in D major, op.61, recording with the SO des HR, (violin: Henryk Szeryng)
• Georges Bizet:
  • L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1, recording with the SO of the hr
• Luigi Boccherini:
  • Cello Concerto, B flat major, recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (cello: Ludwig Hoelscher)

• Johannes Brahms:
  • Violin Concerto, D major, recording with the SO des HR (violin: Henryk Szeryng), 1959
  • Symphony No. 1, C minor, recording with the orchestra of the Badisches Staatstheater
  • Symphony No. 2, D major, op.73, recording with the SO des hr
  • Symphony No. 3, F major, op.90, recording with the orchestra of the Badisches Staatstheater

• Benjamin Britten:
  • Violin Concerto No. 1, D minor, op.15, recording with the SO des HR (violin: Oliver Colbentson)
• Anton Bruckner:
  • Overture in G minor (WAB 98), recording with the SO des HR

• Alfredo Casella:
  • Italia, Rhapsody f. big. Orch., Op. 11, recording with the Berlin Philharmonic

• Marc-Antoine Charpentier:
  • Te Deum, D major, recording with the SO des HR (soprano: Agnes Giebel, Marlise Wendels, alto: Eva Bornemann, tenor: Theo Altmeyer, bass: Hans Wilbrink)

• Aram Khachaturyan:
  • Cello concerto, recording with the SO of the hr (cello: Hans Andrä)

• Frederic Chopin:
  • Piano Concerto No. 1, E minor, recording with the SO des HR (piano: Stefan Askenase)
  • Piano Concerto No. 2, F minor, op.21, recording with the SO des HR (piano: Branka Musulin)

• Peter Cornelius:
  • Barbier von Baghdad, aria "so raves youth", recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (bass: Gottlob Frick)
  • Barbier von Baghdad, aria "Salam Aleikum", recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (bass: Gottlob Frick)

• Antonín Dvořák:
  • Symphony No. 9, E minor (From the New World), recording with the SO of hr
  • Symphony No. 9, E minor (From the New World), recording with the orchestra of the Badisches Staatstheater
  • 7 Slavonic Dances (1st series), recording with the SO of HR

• Manuel de Falla:
  • El amor brujo , recording with the SO of the hr
  • 7 Canciones populares espagnolas, recording with the SO des HR (mezzo-soprano: Teresa Berganza)
• Mikhail Glinka:
  • Ruslan and Ludmilla , recording with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra

• Georg Friedrich Handel:
  • Concerto grosso, F major, op.6 No. 2, recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker
  • Concerto grosso, B minor, op. 6 No. 12, recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker
  • The Messiah, oratorio, recording with the SO of the hr (soprano: Anneliese Kupper, alto: Ira Malaniuk, tenor: William McAlpine, bass: Kim Borg)

• Joseph Haydn:
  • Symphony No. 58, F major, recording with the SO of hr
  • Symphony No. 100, G major, recording with the SO of hr
  • Piano Concerto in F major, Hob XVIII, 3, recording with the SO des HR (piano: Heinz Schröter)
  • Symphony No. 92, G major, recording with the SO of hr
  • Symphony No. 95, C minor “Londoner”, recording with the SO des hr
• Hans Werner Henze:
  • Der Idiot, ballet pantomime for orchestra, recording with the SO of hr
  • Five Neapolitan songs, recording with the SO des HR (baritone: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau), first performance on May 26, 1956
  • Sonata per archi, recording with the SO of HR
  • Vocal symphony (from König Hirsch), recording with the SO des HR (tenor: RichardHolm, soprano: Sybille U. Fuchs, Irmgard Georgi-Kohlermann, Carla Henius, Nora Jungwirth)
• Paul Hindemith:
  • Prelude to a Requiem, recording with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra
  • Funeral music for viola and string orchestra, recording with the SO des HR (viola: Alexander Presuhn)
  • Herodiade, recitation for chamber orchestra, recording with the SO of hr
  • Philharmonic concert, recording with the Berlin Philharmonic
• Arthur Honegger:
  • Symphony No. 3, recording with the SO of hr
  • Pacific 231, mouvement symphonique, recording with the SO des hr
• Jacques Ibert:
  • Louisville concert (for orchestra), recording with the SO of hr
• Zoltán Kodály:
  • Marosszek dances, recording with the SO of HR
• Rolf Liebermann:
  • Concert for jazz band and symphony orchestra, recording with the SO des HR (and the Willy Berking orchestra), 1956
• Franz Liszt:
  • Tasso-Lamento e Trionfo (symphonic poem), recording with the RIAS symphony orchestra
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy:
  • Calm sea and happy voyage, overture, recording with the SO des hr
  • Concerto for violin and string orchestra, recording with the SO des HR (violin: Alberto Lysy)

• Olivier Messiaen:
  • Poèmes pour Wed, recording with the SO des HR (tenor: Helmut Krebs)
• Darius Milhaud:
  • Saudades do Brazil, recording with the SO des hr
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
  • Masonic funeral music, recording with the SO of hr
  • Adagio and Fugue in C minor, recording with the SO of hr
  • Recitative and rondo for soprano, orchestra and obbligato piano, recording with the SO des HR (soprano: Erika Köth, piano: Heinz Schröter)
  • Symphony No. 23, D major, KV 181, recording with the SO des hr
  • Symphony No. 36 in D major (Linz), recording with the Berlin City Orchestra, 1943
  • Symphony No. 36, D major (Linzer), recording with the SO des hr
  • Symphony No. 40, G minor, recording with the SO of hr
  • Concert rondo, D major, KV 382, ​​recording with the SO of hr
  • Don Giovanni, overture, recording with the SO of hr
  • Piano Concerto in C major, KV 467, recording with the SO des HR (piano: Emil Gilels)
  • Tardi s'avedde, from Titus, KV 621, recording with the SO des HR (baritone: Herbert Brauer)
  • Rivolgete a lui lo squardo, KV 584, recording with the SO des HR (baritone: Herbert Brauer)
  • Marriage of Figaro, 2 cherubim arias, recording with the SO des HR (mezzo-soprano: Teresa Berganza)

• Walter Piston:
  • Violin Concerto No. 1, recording with the Berliner Symphoniker (violin: Hugo Kolberg)

• Serge Prokofieff:
  • Concerto for violoncello and orchestra, E minor, op.58, recording with the SO des HR (violoncello: Maurice Gendron), 1956
  • Symphony No. 1 (classique), recording with the SO of hr

• Maurice Ravel:
  • Pavane on the death of an infanta, recording with the SO of HR

• Max Reger:
  • To hope, for alto and orchestra, recording with the SO of the hr (alto: Gertrud Pitzinger)

• Camille Saint-Saëns:
  • Cello Concerto No. 1, A minor, recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (cello: Ludwig Hoelscher)
  • Danse macabre, recording with the SO des HR (violin: Helmut Schuhmacher)

• Arnold Schoenberg:
  • Violin Concerto, op.36, recording with the SO of the HR (violin: Rudolf Kolisch)
• Dmitri Shostakovich:
  • Cello Concerto No. 1, E flat major, recording with the SO of the HR (cello: Klaus Storck)

• Franz Schubert:
  • Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, recording with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963
  • Symphony No. 9 (“7”), C major, recording with the RSO of the SDR
  • Prelude to Rosamunde, recording with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra

• Robert Schumann:
  • Symphony No. 1, B flat major, recording with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra
  • Violin Concerto, D minor, recording with the SO of the HR (violin: Henryk Szeryng)

• Johann Strauss:
  • Kaiserwalzer, recording with the RIAS Symphony Orchestra

• Richard Strauss:
  • Don Juan, recording with the SO of hr
  • Till Eulenspiegel, recording with the SO of HR
  • Aria d. Zerbinetta from Ariadne auf Naxos, recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (soprano: Erika Köth)
• Igor Stravinsky:
  • Danses concertantes 1-5, recording with the RIAS symphony orchestra
  • The Firebird, recording with the SO of the hr
  • The Firebird, recorded with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963
  • Octet, StWV 41, recording with the SO of HR
  • Symphony in 3 movements for orchestra, recording with the RIAS symphony orchestra
• Werner Thärichen:
  • Concerto, op.34, for timpani and orchestra, recording with the SO des HR (timpani: Werner Thärichen)

• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
  • Symphony No. 5, E minor, recording with the SO des HR, April 1961
  • Piano Concerto No. 1, B flat minor, recording with the Berliner Symphoniker (piano: Jakob Gimpel)
  • Piano Concerto No. 1, B flat minor, recording with the SO des HR (piano: Emil Gilels)
  • Serenade for string orchestra, recording with the Berliner Symphoniker
  • Symphony No. 6, B minor (Pathetique), recording with the SO of hr
  • Suite No. 3, G major, recording with the SO of hr
  • Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture, recording with the SO of hr
  • Swan Lake, prelude to Act 2, recording with the SO of HR
  • Variations on a Rococo theme, recording with the SO of the hr (cello: Edmund Kurtz)

• Giuseppe Verdi:
  • Messa da Requiem, recording with the SO of the hr
  • La Traviata, prelude 1st and 3rd act, recording with the SO of hr
  • Sicilian Vespers, aria "O mein Palermo", recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (bass: Gottlob Frick)
  • Simone Boccanegra, aria "Lebwohl auf Ewig", recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker (bass: Gottlob Frick)

• Antonio Vivaldi:
  • Concerto grosso, D minor, (11), recording with the SO des hr

• Richard Wagner:
  • Tannhäuser, Overture, recording with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963
  • Lohengrin, prelude to Act 3, recording with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963

• Carl Maria von Weber:
  • Invitation to dance, recording with the RIAS symphony orchestra
  • Freischütz Overture, recording with the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963
  • Oberon Overture, recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker
  • Clarinet Concerto No. 2, E flat major, op.74, recording with the SO des HR (clarinet: Louis Cahuzac)

• Alexander von Zemlinsky:
  • Sinfonietta for orchestra, op.23, recording with the SO des hr

• Bernd Alois Zimmermann:
  • Concerto for oboe and small orchestra, recording with the SO des HR (oboe: Lothar Faber)

Operas

• Ludwig van Beethoven:
  • Fidelio, opera-dialogue version, without overture, recording with the SO des HR with Maud Cunitz (Leonore), Erika Köth (Marzelline), Ernst Kozub (Florestan), Gottlob Frick (Rocco), Marcel Cordes (Don Fernando), Ferdinand Frantz ( Don Pizarro) and Murray Dickie (Jaquino), 1957

• Boris Blacher:
  • Die Flut, chamber opera in one act, recording with the SO of the HR (baritone: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau), 1956

• Peter Cornelius:
  • The Barber of Baghdad, recording with the SO des HR with Julia Costa (Scheherazade), Max Noack (Sultan), Benno Kusche (Der Kalif), Helmut Krebs (Baba Mustafa), Anneliese Rothenberger (Margiana), Gisela Litz (Bostana), Richard Holm (Nurredin) and Josef Greindl (Abul Hassan Ali Ebn Bekar), Frankfurt in April 1957
• Christoph Willibald Gluck:
  • Orpheus and Eurydice, opera in three acts, recording with the SO of the HR with Ira Malaniuk (Orpheus), Elfride Trötschel (Eurydice) and Gisela Otto (Amor), 1957

• Engelbert Humperdinck:
  • Hansel and Gretel, opera in three images, recording with the SO of the hr with Elisabeth Grümmer (Hansel), Erika Köth (Gretel), Marcel Cordes (father) and Res Fischer (witch), 1956

• Giacomo Puccini:
  • Madame Butterfly, opera in three acts, incomplete recording of the performance of the Badisches Staatstheater with Hannelore Wolf-Ramponi (Cho-Cho-San), Anke Naumann (Suzuki), Christoph Reuland (Linkerton) and Eugen Ramponi (Sharpless), 1955

• Richard Strauss:
  • Der Rosenkavalier, comedy for music in three acts, recording with the SO des HR with Clara Ebers (Feldmarschallin), Josef Greindl (Baron Ochs von Lerchenau), Gisela Litz (Octavian), Benno Kusche (Herr von Faninal) and Erika Köth (Sophie ), July 1956

• Igor Stravinsky:
  • Oedipus Rex, opera oratorio, recording with the SO of the HR with Helmut Melchert (Oedipus), Ursula Zollenkopf (Jokaste), Hans Herbert Fiedler (Kreon / Bote), Franz Crass (Tiresias) and Kurt Marschner (Hirte), 1957

Songs

• German folk songs with Erika Köth (soprano) and Otto Matzerath (arrangement and piano), Electrola, 1956.

literature

• Joachim Draheim: Karlsruhe Music History. Hoepfner Library at Info Verlag, Karlsruhe 2004
• Horst Ferdinand (author): Otto Matzerath. From: Badische Biographien NF 3, 180-181
• Günther Haass, Wilhelm Kappler, Bernhard Müller, Marie Salaba, Hansmartin Schwarzmaier: Karlsruhe Theater History: From Court Theater to State Theater. Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1982, © Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Wilhelm Kappler: Fifteen years of the Great House of the Badisches Staatstheater on the fairground. Karlsruhe 1960
• Wilhelm Kappler: The Badisches Staatstheater after the war, Karlsruhe 1971
• Ferdinand Köster: When Orpheus sang again ... The restart of opera life in Germany after the Second World War. Edition Octopus, publishing house Monsenstein and Vannerdat OHG Münster 2009
• Lore Matzerath: My memories of Otto Matzerath. Self-published, Karlsruhe 2002
• David Monod: settling scores. German music, Denazification, And the Americans, 1945–1953. The University of North Carolina 2005
• Georg Patzer: Small history of the city of Karlsruhe. G. Braun Buchverlag, Karlsruhe 2014
• Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.): State history and contemporary history: End of the war in 1945 and a new democratic beginning on the Upper Rhine. Upper Rhine Studies, Vol. V. Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1980
• Alfred Sous: An orchestra for the radio. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Waldemar Kramer publishing house, Frankfurt a. M. 1998
• Josef Werner: Karlsruhe 1945. Under swastika, tricolor and stars and stripes. Braun Verlag, Karlsruhe 1985

film records

• Richard Strauss: Don Juan (symphonic poem). Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra, 1961.
• Carl Maria von Weber: Der Freischütz, overture to the opera. Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, 1963.

Radio interview with Otto Matzerath: Hessischer Rundfunk: Conversation with General Music Director Otto Matzerath, 1955

Web links

• Works by and about Otto Matzerath in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Matzerath, Otto" in the Bavarian Musicians Lexicon
• "Matzerath, Otto" in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
• "Matzerath, Otto" in the International Biographical Archive 03/1964 from January 6, 1964
• “Matzerath, Otto” at leobw
• “Matzerath, Otto”  in the German Digital Library
• Matzerath, Otto. Hessian biography. (As of May 9, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Matzerath, Otto in the Frankfurt personal dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ^ Directory of the Karlsruhe General Music Directors
2. ^ Ferdinand Köster: When Orpheus sang again ... The restart of opera life in Germany after the Second World War. Edition Octopus, publishing house Monsenstein and Vannerdat OHG Münster 2009
3. ↑ Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra: Chief Conductor: 1955–1961 ( Memento from August 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
4. ^ RIAS Symphony Orchestra