Priska Aich

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Priska Aich (born November 16, 1887 in Budapest , † March 10, 1943 in Weimar ) was a Hungarian opera singer with a soprano voice .

Life

The daughter of a wealthy industrialist began her stage career in 1911 with an engagement at the Dortmund City Theater , of which she was a member until 1914. After moving to Leipzig (1914/15), Frankfurt am Main (1915/16) and Halle an der Saale (1916–1919), she ended up in Weimar, where she worked as a leading soprano at the German National Theater from 1919 . She contributed significantly to the premieres of the operas Ol-Ol by Alexander Tscherepnin (January 1928) and Tyll by Mark Lothar (October 1928 under the musical direction of Ernst Praetorius ). Her further repertoire in Weimar included the roles of Pamina (in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Zauberflöte ), Donna Elvira (in Mozart's Don Giovanni ), Musetta (in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème ), Marguerite (in Charles Gounod's Faust ) , Eva (in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg ), Luise (in Siegfried Wagner's Der Bärenhäuter ), Christine (in Richard Strauss ' Intermezzo ) and Els (in Franz Schreker's Der Schatzgräber ). From 1937 Priska Aich took on a teaching position at the conservatory in Jena .

Through her partner, the conductor Ernst W. Latzko, and his friend Robert Reitz, Aich met the young Marlene Dietrich , who began training as a concert violinist at the Weimar Academy of Music in 1918 . Priska Aich's diary is one of the early sources on Dietrich's life.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch , 55, 1944, p. 66.
  2. ↑ a b Kutsch / Riemens, Großes Sängerlexikon , 4th exp. Ed., Munich 2003, vol. 1, p. 29.
  3. ↑ Playbill from the world premiere; online as Document No. 1899 / Bl. 31 of the Thuringia State Archives - Main State Archives Weimar .
  4. ↑ cf. Eva Gesine Baur, lonely class. The life of Marlene Dietrich , Munich 2017.

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SURNAME Aich, Priska
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian opera singer with a soprano voice
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1943
Place of death Weimar