Renate Holm

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Renate Holm , née Renate Franke , also Renate Haase (born August 10, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German-Austrian opera singer ( lyric soprano , coloratura soprano ) and actress .

Life

Born as Renate Franke, Renate Holm grew up in Berlin. Inspired by a film adaptation of Puccini's Madama Butterfly with Maria Cebotari , she made the resolution to become an opera singer when she was twelve. She and her mother were evacuated from bombed Berlin to the Spreewald. There she spent her youth in Ragow , where her mother was mayor and registrar, and in Lübben , where she belonged to the school and church choir and attended the Paul Gerhardt School . She first worked as a dental assistant to earn the money for singing training. She studied privately with Maria Ivogün , Waltraud Waldeck and Maria Hittorf. Her mother registered her for the singing competition at the former radio station RIAS , in which she easily took first place. From this point on she called herself Renate Holm , because there was a pop singer named Renée Franke , which led to confusion.

She acted in several music and homeland films and achieved considerable popularity; Operetta recordings and radio appearances contributed significantly to their popularity. In 1957 she was engaged by Hubert Marischka at the Vienna Volksoper , where she made her debut as Helene in Oscar Straus' Waltz Dream and where she was earning 300 marks a month at the time. Her big breakthrough came with her move to the Vienna State Opera in 1961, of which she was a member from 1964 to 1991. Under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, she hurried from success to success and was under his leadership and management. a. with Luciano Pavarotti and Mirella Freni in La Bohème on the stage of the Salzburg Easter Festival . She sang alongside big names in almost every opera house in the world. Her most frequent singing partners included Rudolf Schock , Fritz Wunderlich , Hermann Prey and Peter Minich . Especially known it was as Adele in the Bat-film adaptation of Otto Schenk , which for several years at New Year in ORF ran.

Her artistic activity lasted for more than 50 years, all the while she was loyal to the Vienna State and Volksoper. Renate Holm has lived in Austria for decades, where she was appointed Austrian Chamber Singer in 1971 (application: Vienna State Opera). Her repertoire ranges from the masters of opera literature to modern music theater, from operettas to concertante arias and lieder. One of their specialties is the artistic Wienerlied . Her operetta recordings were not only made for record companies such as EMI , Decca and Polydor , but also for radio. Above all at WDR Cologne , many recordings were made with the conductor Franz Marszalek , including outspoken rarities such as When love awakens by Eduard Künneke .

In 1986 and 1987, at the suggestion of Gerhard Gutruf, she was President of the Weinviertel Cultural Summer (1982–1997) and conducted her first singing seminars in the Schloßmühle in Altenmarkt im Thale as part of this series of events.

Renate Holm still gives many concerts today; she appears at festivals (including the Elblandfestspiele Wittenberge in Germany) and in 2006 played the role of Viktoria in Mich You Should Have Seen at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna (Kammerspiele) (premiere: September 21, 2006). She is also a sought-after singing teacher. Holm was chairman of the jury of the international singing competition for operetta Jan Kiepura / Paul Lincke and was the artistic patron of the Elbland Festival in Wittenberge (Germany). Since 2009 she has been chairwoman of the board of trustees of the European Cultural Workshop (EKW) in Berlin.

She lives both in Vienna-Döbling and in her 350-year-old watermill (castle mill) in Altenmarkt im Thale, Lower Austria, which she acquired in 1966 . Cultural events have been held there for years.

In 1965 she married the Berlin publisher Horst-Wolfgang Haase, with whom she was married for seven years.

Awards (selection)

Works

  • A life according to the game plan . edition q, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-928024-44-2 . ( Autobiography ).
  • Christine Dobretsberger: What I love gives me strength. Stage stars from opera and theater tell stories. Interview with Renate Holm, Styria Premium, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-222-13517-0 .
  • "Who gives wings to his soul ..." Mastering life with art. Recorded by Christine Dobretsberger. Amalthea Verlag, Vienna, 2017, ISBN 978-3-99050-098-9 ( memoirs ).

Filmography

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefanie Hanus: Renate Holm visiting friends. In: Lausitzer Rundschau . April 26, 2008 (with picture)
  2. ^ Archives of the Salzburg Easter Festival since 1967. Retrieved on January 2, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Die Fledermaus (1972). Accessed January 2, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Irene Suchy: Wine. Weather and singing. Music. In: Mella Waldstein and Manfred Horvath (eds.): The Weinviertel. More than idyll. Yearbook Volkskultur Lower Austria, 2013, pp. 236–243.
  5. ↑ Honor for Kammersängerin Renate Holm Rathauskorrespondenz from April 3, 2002 (accessed on May 28, 2010)
  6. ↑ Kammersängerin Renate Holm receives the professional title "Professor" . APA notification dated June 30, 2010, accessed June 14, 2015.
  7. ^ Chamber singer Renate Holm awarded the Golden Town Hall Man. High honor on the occasion of the 80th birthday . In: wien.gv.at , August 10, 2011, accessed on July 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Renate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franke, Renate (maiden name); Haase, Renate (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian opera singer (lyric soprano, coloratura soprano) and actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin