Rosita Serrano

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Rosita Serrano after an appearance on December 14, 1941 in the Capitol, Dortmund

Rosita Serrano (actually María Martha Esther Aldunate del Campo , born June 10, 1914 in Vina del Mar , according to other information * June 10, 1912 in Quilpué , † April 6, 1997 in Santiago de Chile ) was a Chilean singer and actress who its greatest successes in Germany in the 1930s and early 1940s. Because of her bell-like voice she was nicknamed the "Chilean Nightingale".

Life

Rosita Serrano was the daughter of the diplomat Héctor Aldunate Cordovés and the opera singer Sofía del Campo de la Fuente (1884–1964), with whom she moved to Europe in the 1930s. After initially living in Portugal and France, she moved to Berlin in 1936. She performed there in the winter garden and in the Metropol-Theater and delighted the audience with Chilean folk songs. The German composer Peter Kreuder discovered her and she got a record deal with Telefunken . From now on she sang mainly in German and songs like “Roter Mohn” ( Roter Mohn, why are you wilting? ), “Nice the music”, “Kiss me, please, please, kiss me”, “And the Music plays "," Der Uncle Jonathan ", and" Der kleine Liebesvogel "became successful hits. From 1938 she got roles in revue films like Bel Ami , The Stars Shine , The Wise Mother-in-Law and Herzensfreud - Herzensleid . She also went on tours with two of the most successful dance orchestras at the time - Kurt Hohenberger and Teddy Stauffer . In 1939, with the intercession of Joseph Goebbels , she got appearances on the radio program " Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht ". In 1940 she recorded the classic " La Paloma ", which was used, for example, in Wolfgang Petersen's film Das Boot in 1981 and in the successful Isabel Allende film adaptation of Das Geisterhaus in 1993 .

In 1943 an arrest warrant ended her career. During a concert tour in Sweden, she was denounced in Germany for espionage. In reality, however, she is said to have supported Jewish refugees with the proceeds from a charity event. Rosita Serrano did not return to Germany and thus escaped arrest. Her songs and films were blacklisted by the Nazi regime until the end of the war. From Sweden she first returned to Chile and then tried to make a career in the USA. Since she also had German songs in her repertoire, she was exposed to a lot of hostility.

Rosita Serrano and Gustav Wally

In 1951 she returned to Germany, but had only moderate success. She worked in the German films Black Eyes and Season in Salzburg . After being whistled at the Berlin Sportpalast in 1953 , Telefunken canceled its record deal. In the following years she only had a few appearances in German entertainment programs. A comeback attempt in 1957 on a tour with a newly formed band under their old musical companion Kurt Hohenberger had only moderate success. In 1961 she reached number 39 in the German charts with the single There were two royal children .

In 1989 the press reported that Rosita Serrano lived in Hohenroda in East Hesse . However, she spent the last days of her life in the community of La Reina in Santiago de Chile . There she died in 1997 in extreme poverty.

Filmography

literature

  • Hans Jörg Koch: Red Poppy. The life of the "Chilean nightingale" Rosita Serrano. A biography , Karin Kramer Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 978-3-8795-6291-6

Web links

Commons : Rosita Serrano  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mariana Marusic, Maximiliano Misa: Rosita Serrano ( es ). Ediciones B Chile, Providencia, Santiago, Chile August 2016, ISBN 978-956-304-225-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Serrano, Rosita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aldunate del Campo, Maria Martha Esther (real name); Campo, Maria Martha Esther Alduante del (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1912 or June 10, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Chile
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1997
Place of death Santiago de Chile , Chile