Roswitha Trexler

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Roswitha Trexler

Roswitha Trexler (born November 23, 1936 ) is a German singer ( soprano / mezzo-soprano ) who has become internationally known primarily as an Eisler interpreter and with her commitment to avant-garde vocal music .

life and work

Roswitha Trexler was born in Leipzig in 1936 as the daughter of the composer, cantor and professor of Catholic church music Georg Trexler . She attended the Thomas School there and made her debut in 1956 at a festival week with medieval church music. From 1957 she took part in the Bach performances in the Leipzig Thomaskirche under the Thomaskantor Kurt Thomas . For several years she was a member of the Leipzig Radio Choir under Herbert Kegel and was active in special ensembles for early music ( Capella lipsiensis , Capella fidicina ).

Her career as an interpreter of contemporary music began on May 22, 1969 in a Leipzig town hall concert by Radio DDR with works by Luigi Dallapiccola under the direction of the composer. In the following years she worked with Hans Werner Henze , Luigi Nono , Witold Lutosławski , Milko Kelemen and Frederic Rzewski at concerts and radio recordings. She also campaigned for the world premiere of works by Reiner Bredemeyer , Paul Dessau , Edison Denissow , Paul-Heinz Dittrich , Georg Katzer , Hermann Keller , Luca Lombardi , Robert Moran and Friedrich Schenker . One focus of her work was on Hanns Eisler : As part of the record edition of the GDR label Nova , she was given the complete recording of his songs with piano and cantatas from exile , and in 1982 she premiered his full-length Hollywooder songbook for the first time. As a Schoenberg interpreter, she performed with Pierrot Lunaire under Kurt Masur and recorded the song cycle Das Buch der Hängende Gardens with John Tilbury (piano) for the label Eterna . A side branch of their repertoire was the chanson / song; She also reflected theoretically on her Kurt Weill interpretations. Her international career began in 1971 at the Styrian Autumn Festival and took her to focal points of new music such as the Warsaw Autumn , the Buffalo Festival, the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte Montepulciano , the Pompidou Center Paris and the Zagreb Music Biennale.

Discography (selection)

  • Portrait plate with works by Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Witold Lutosławski ( Wergo , 1975)
  • Hanns Eisler: Cantatas from Exile (Nova, 1977)
  • Hanns Eisler: From the Hollywooder songbook (Nova, 1978)
  • Arnold Schönberg : The book of the hanging gardens / Alban Berg: Seven early songs (Eterna, 1979)
  • Paul Dessau: Songs and Chants (Nova, 1981)
  • Hanns Eisler: Songs from Exile (Nova 1981)
  • Hanns Eisler: Early Songs (Nova, 1983)
  • Cheerful satirical verses (works by Rainer Kunad , Christfried Schmidt , Friedrich Schenker, Hans J. Wenzel ) (Nova, 1984)
  • Kurt Schwaen : Songs (Nova, 1984)
  • Luca Lombardi: Tui chants (Eterna, 1985)
  • Anton Webern : Songs (Eterna, 1987)
  • Rudolf Wagner-Régeny : Songs (Nova, 1989)
  • Individual contributions, including participation in ensemble pieces, on numerous other records

Television films

  • Klaus Ager : La Règle du Jeu ( ZDF , 1979)
  • Experiments about Roswitha - Roswitha Trexler and the new music ( DDR TV , 1981)
  • Brecht in the twenties: Brecht as a composer (Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, 1983)
  • Singing I want to say how I see the world - portrait by Roswitha Trexler ( DEFA-Studio for Documentary Films , Director: Gitta Nickel , 1985)

Awards

literature

  • Uncertainty with profit. The soprano Roswitha Trexler in an exclusive conversation about Hanns Eisler . In: Notate 5 (1982), No. 5, ZDB -ID 135474-7 , pp. 10-11.
  • Cornelia Rost: Friendly in dark times. A conversation with the singer Roswitha Trexler . In: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik 146 (1985), ISSN  0343-0332 , pp. 26-29.
  • Fritz Hennenberg : Singing & Faces. Roswitha Trexler in encounters with musicians and music . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00360-5 .
  • Fritz Hennenberg: In my dear hometown ... Portrait of the singer Roswitha Trexler . In: Leipziger Blätter 17 (1990), ISSN  0232-7244 , pp. 72-73.
  • Roswitha Trexler . In: Horst Riedel: Leipzig lexicon from A to Z . 2nd, revised and expanded edition, PRO Leipzig, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-82-6 , p. 604.
  • [ Peter Deeg ]: Then you have probably already sung Pierrot. An interview with Roswitha Trexler . In: Eisler-Mitteilungen 22 (2015), No. 59, ISSN  1619-3903 , pp. 25-27.
  • Fritz Hennenberg: Roswitha Trexler's Eisler records at Wergo and Nova . In: Eisler-Mitteilungen 22 (2015), No. 59, ISSN  1619-3903 , pp. 28–33.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roswitha Trexler: What the singer can learn from Brecht or my conception of music . With the collaboration of Fritz Hennenberg. In: John Fuegi, Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand (Eds.): Brecht-Jahrbuch 1979 (edition suhrkamp). Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, pp. 30-45.
  2. ^ High awards for cultural workers , In: Neues Deutschland , 5./6. July 1975, p. 4
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland , October 5, 1985, p. 5
personal data
SURNAME Trexler, Roswitha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (soprano, mezzo-soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig