Peter Roth-Ehrang

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Peter Roth-Ehrang (born June 8, 1925 in Ehrang ; † December 28, 1966 in Hamburg ) was a German opera singer ( bass ) and actor .

Life

Pillow stone Peter Roth-Ehrang, Ohlsdorf cemetery

Peter Roth-Ehrang came from a family of craftsmen ; his father was a master printer . Before he embarked on a full-time career as an artist, he was a trained surveyor. After his release from French captivity (May 1948), Peter Roth-Ehrang had his bass voice trained in Trier and Wiesbaden . He put his stage name Peter Roth-Ehrang together from his real name Peter Roth and his hometown Ehrang.

Stations in his career were: Stadttheater Trier , Landestheater Dessau , Municipal Opera in West Berlin, Leipzig Opera House , Hamburg State Opera , German Festival in Central Germany, Bayreuth Festival , Handel Festival in Hanover-Herrenhausen and many guest performances in German and European cities.

Peter Roth-Ehrang was also an actor. In the television film “ Black Peter - Fairytale Opera for Little and Big People ” (1966) he played the broom-maker alongside with Theo Lingen , Brigitte Mira and Henry Vahl . Before he could start his guest performance contract at the Metropolitan Opera New York, he died at the age of 41 of complications from a heart attack.

His grave is on the Ohlsdorf cemetery in grid square Y 10 (south-west of the north pond ).

Honors

Known as "Roth's Pitt" in his hometown Ehrang, a square was named after him. On Peter-Roth-Platz there is a fountain with a bench and a memorial plaque is attached.

Since the 1970s, the opera singer Franz Grundheber has given a concert every five years with the male choir of Rhineland-Ehrang in memory of his mentor Peter Roth-Ehrang.

Sound carrier (selection)

literature

  • Willi Schmitt: Chamber singer and actor Peter Roth-Ehrang. In: Ehranger Heimat e. V. (Ed.): Ehranger Heimat , Volume 5, Years 1964–1967, Pages 284–287.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Willi Schmitt: Chamber singer and actor Peter Roth-Ehrang. In: Ehranger Heimat eV (Hrsg.): Ehranger Heimat. Volume 5, 1964–1967, pp. 284–287.
  2. ↑ Schwarzer Peter - fairy tale opera for young and old, FRG, 1966, director: Joachim Hess
  3. ↑ Internet memorial page for Peter Roth-Ehrang
  4. ^ Entry on fountain at Peter-Roth-Platz in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 2, 2016.
  5. ^ Trierischer Volksfreund dated February 24, 2014: Franz Grund lifter in a Trier pack of three
personal data
SURNAME Roth-Ehrang, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (bass) and actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Honor
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1966
Place of death Hamburg