Rudolf Bandler

Photo from 1912

Rudolf Bandler (born March 5, 1878 in Rumburg , Austria-Hungary ; died August 14, 1944 in the Litzmannstadt ghetto in occupied Poland) was a German-Czechoslovak opera singer ( bass ) and director . As a Jew , he was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Rudolf Bandler had his first engagement in 1904 at the Stadttheater Trier , then he worked in Metz (1905-07), at the Stadttheater Essen (1907-12) and in the years 1912-21 and 1924-27 at the Vienna Volksoper . He had guest appearances in Breslau (1905), Cologne (1908), Bremen (1909), at the Stadttheater Hamburg (1909) and in Vienna at the State Opera . In 1927 he went to the German Theater in Prague , where he was engaged as a singer and director until 1933 .

In 1916 he took part in the world premiere of the opera Das Testament by Wilhelm Kienzl at the Vienna Volksoper . On guest tours in 1922 he sang Alberich in the Ring of the Nibelung at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro , and in 1928 in Rio de Janeiro he sang Bartolo in Figaro's wedding .

Bandler first sang parts for serious bass and later switched to the buffo field .

As a Jew, he could no longer perform in Germany after the handover of power to the National Socialists . Bandler lived in Prague-Vinohrady . In 1939 Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Germans. On October 26, 1941, Bandler was deported on Transport C of the Prague Jews to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in occupied Poland. His wife, the pianist Elisabeth (Lilly) Bandler (* February 20, 1901), who died in the ghetto, and his daughter Susanne (Suse) (* May 5, 1924) were also deported to the ghetto. Suse had participated in the radio children's lesson on December 5, 1934 in Bandler's radio play Hans and Franz on the way in the land of milk and honey on the German radio in Prague. In the Litzmannstadt ghetto, Bandler gave a concert evening with operetta music on November 21, 1942, accompanied by the piano by Dawid Bajgelman. The concert was attended by all the top officials. Lilly Bandler had also played at concerts in the ghetto. Susanne Bandler was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and survived the Holocaust. She emigrated to Great Britain after the war, became an actress and died at the age of 40.

His brother Heinrich Bandler (born November 19, 1870 in Rumburg, † June 8, 1931 in Hamburg) was trained as a violinist from 1882 to 1888 at the Prague Conservatory with Anton Bennewitz and from 1893 to 1896 in Berlin with Joseph Joachim . From 1892 to 1896 he worked as principal violist at the Breslauer Konzertverein, from 1896 concertmaster and first violinist with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra . At the same time head of the Bandler Quartet, to which Emil Bohnke belonged for a while . In October 1903 he played the Beethoven Violin Concerto and the Violin Concerto in D minor by Henri Vieuxtemps as a soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic . Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 , was premiered on February 3, 1923 in Hamburg . The Bandler Quartet and the composer played the piano.

Fonts

• Humor in the song: a series of cheerful chants. Selected and performed in his concerts by Rudolf Bandler. Berlin-Lichterfelde: Schlesinger; Vienna: Haslinger 1924.
• Laughing theater: funny all sorts; gathered for amusement in a favored public. Prague: self-published 1937.

Records

Ultraphon
Am Bechstein: Wilhelm Grosz . Recorded in March 1930 in Berlin, Ultraphon-Studio Wilhelmsaue.

• The song about the flea. Music by Modest Mussorgski , text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . Order no. A 437 (mat. No. 10833). at youtube
• The music is coming. Music by Oscar Straus , text by Detlev von Liliencron . Order no. A 437 (mat. No. 10834). at youtube

Filmography

• Meriota, the dancer (Austria 1921)

literature

• Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, enlarged and updated edition. KG Saur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 , p. 1186.
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 63 f.

Web links

• Rudolf Bandler in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Rudolf Bandler short bio and photo at holocaust.cz
• Rudolf Bandler short bio and photo at capriccio-kulturforum. (Based on KJ Kutsch; Leo Riemens.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The details of his murder are not recorded in the illegally managed ghetto chronicle .
2. ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (Retrieved November 7, 2012.)
3. ^ Rudolf Bandler. ( Memento from December 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at centrumdialogu (pl)
4. ↑ Eckhard Jirgens: Radio magazines of the 1st Czechoslovak Republic Music historical photo material of the 20s and 30s . With photos by Suse, Lilly and Rudolf Bandler.
5. ↑ Dawid Bajgelman see Polish Wikipedia pl Dawid Bajgelman
6. ↑ Chronicle of the Lodz / Litzmannstadt ghetto . Volume 2, Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89244-834-1 , p. 567.
7. ^ Isaiah Trunk , Robert Moses Shapiro: Łódź Ghetto. A history . Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 2006, ISBN 0-253-34755-6 , p. 381.
8. ↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , Lemma on p. 381.
9. ↑ Old Aquaitances. Obituary. In: AJR Information. March 1965, p. 7. The information about Susanne Bandler in The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (accessed on November 7, 2012.) only refers to the incomplete information from Lodz.
10. ^ Alfred Einstein: The new music lexicon. Berlin: Hesse 1926, p. 30 and Peter Muck: One Hundred Years of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Representation in documents . Third volume. The members of the orchestra. The programs. The concert tours. First and world premieres . Hans Schneider, Tutzing 1982, ISBN 3-7952-0341-4 .
11. ↑ Guy Wagner: Korngold. Music is music . Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-897-8 , p. 174.