Peer Baedeker

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Peer Baedeker ; actually Ernst-Max Hacke (born January 1, 1912 in Alt-Lönnewitz ; † November 30, 1999 in Bayreuth ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ), writer , antiquarian and actor .

Life

Peer Baedeker was born under the real name of Ernst-Max Hacke in the village of Alt-Lönnewitz near Bad Liebenwerda in what is now southern Brandenburg, the son of the landowner Max Hacke and his wife Marianne (née Baedeker). Through his mother he was a grandson of the publisher Fritz Baedeker and great-grandson of Karl Baedeker , founder of the publishing house of the same name and editor of the Baedeker travel guide . Hacke attended grammar school in Torgau and the Schloss Bischofstein boarding school in Eichsfeld, Thuringia . From 1934 to 1938 he studied singing with Albert Wermuth in Berlin . He later adopted his mother's famous maiden name as his stage name and married the soprano Marianne Gründer.

The Görlitz director Rolf Prasch engaged Peer Baedeker at the age of twenty-eight at the theater in Görlitz . From 1940 to 1944 he worked here, the celebrated tenor , where he, among others, in the operetta The Tsarevich as Tsarevich and in Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser as Walter von der Vogelweide excelled. In addition, he was busy writing. However, the approaching front put an end to the engagement in Görlitz. Baedecker was drafted into the Wehrmacht that year . Further stations in his career as a singer included the stages in Braunschweig , Landsberg , Augsburg , Munich , Salzburg and Bayreuth .

Baedeker eventually became a friend and partner of the writer Erich Ebermayer . Together they wrote the scripts for the popular films "Your Highness Let Ask" and "The Girls from Immenhof". On Ebermayer's sixtieth birthday, Baedeker published the Book of Friends , which among other things contains a bibliography. Daughter Ginster emerged from the marriage with Marianne Gründer. Erich Ebermayer became her godfather.

Peer Baedeker later ran the theater and film specialist antiquariat proscenium in Kemnath in Upper Palatinate . In the course of his life he had extensive correspondence with people from contemporary history. A collection with parts of his personal and business correspondence, among others with Elisabeth Bergner , Curt Bois , Alfred Frankenstein , Fritz E. Jonas , Felix Langer , Curt Riess , Leonard Steckel , Hans Weigel and Walter Zadek , is now in the German National Library in Frankfurt / Main . In addition, Baedeker and Ebermayer were friends with the writer and Nobel Prize winner Gerhart Hauptmann . Both kept an extensive archive in Ebermayer's Kaibitz Castle , where large parts of Hauptmann's estate were brought from the Lower Silesian Agnetendorf (Hauptmann's place of residence) after the Second World War . In 1979, at the instigation of Baedeker, a tombstone was erected in the Kaibitzer castle garden. He reminds of the "captain friend" Erich Ebermayer. Baedeker's autobiography, published in 1987, was ultimately entitled “Youth with Gerhart Hauptmann - a tenor remembers”.

Work (selection)

Books

  • Ascent only for those with a head for heights , Roman, Munz-Verlag, Berlin 1942
  • Highness let ask (screenplay), feature film, 1954
  • Die Mädels vom Immenhof (screenplay), feature film, 1955
  • Today you are mine , AWA-Verlag, 1957
  • Erich Ebermayer: Book of Friends , 1960
  • End of all pain - Joseph Rubinstein 1847–1884 , programs of the Bayreuth Festival, Bayreuth 1984
  • Youth with Gerhart Hauptmann - a tenor remembers (autobiography), Koblenz 1987
  • Stefan Zweig to Erich Ebermayer , editor, Bayreuth 1993

Essays

  • A Jew seeks redemption from Richard Wagner: Joseph Rubinstein (1847–1884) . In: Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation (ed.): Jüdisches Bayreuth . Bayreuth 2010, p. 119-128 .

Filmography

  • 1935: Traumulus
  • 1937: Monika. A mother fights for her child

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Family tree of the Baedeker family on www.bdkr.com , accessed on September 3, 2016
  2. ^ Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 .
  3. ↑ a b Ralph Schermann: The acclaimed Tsarevich - Peer Baedeker was a once celebrated tenor at the theater in Görlitz. Today he would be 100 years old . In: Sächsische Zeitung , January 7, 2012
  4. ↑ Silesia . tape 35 . Kulturwerk Schlesien, 1990, p. 42 .
  5. ^ A b Lutz Hagestedt [founded by Wilhelm Kosch] (Ed.): German Literature Lexicon. The 20th century . tape 13 . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York / Boston 2009.
  6. ↑ Eva Caflisch: A visit to Ginster Eheberg . seniorweb.ch, May 26, 2015
  7. ^ Manfred Knedlik: Kaibitz Castle: Erich Ebermayer's Gerhart Hauptmann Archive. In: Literaturportal Bayern. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Baedeker, peer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoe, Ernst-Max (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (tenor), writer, antiquarian and actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Alt-Lönnewitz
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1999
Place of death Bayreuth