Rudolf Bockelmann (singer)

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Rudolf Bockelmann's grave in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Dresden.

Rudolf Bockelmann (born April 2, 1892 in Bodenteich ; † October 9, 1958 in Dresden ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ) and singing teacher .

Life

Rudolf August Louis Wilhelm Bockelmann, the son of a village school teacher, was born in Bodenteich in the Uelzen district in 1892 . From 1902 to 1911 he attended the Ernestinum Celle high school and received piano lessons from his father. From 1912 studied classical philology at Leipzig University . During his studies he became a member of the Leipzig University Choir of St. Pauli . Bockelmann took part in the First World War as a soldier and was wounded several times. He turned to singing only in 1919, after completing his teaching degree, and studied with the baritone Oskar Laßner from 1920 to 1923. In 1921 he made his debut at the Leipzig Opera , a member of which he remained until 1926. He was then appointed first hero baritone to the Hamburg Opera .

In 1932 Rudolf Bockelmann was signed to the Berlin State Opera , with which he remained connected until 1944. In Bayreuth he performed at the Wagner Festival between 1928 and 1942 . He sang hero baritone roles such as Wotan in Die Walküre and Rheingold and Wanderer in Siegfried . Rudolf Bockelmann also celebrated successes internationally as a Wagner interpreter. a. from 1929 to 1937 with guest appearances at the Covent Garden Opera in London and Chicago.

In 1937 Bockelmann joined the NSDAP and was registered under the party number 5,849,261. He then became a member of the Presidential Advisory Board of the Comradeship of German Artists and Chairman of the Stage Student Council within the Reich Theater Chamber . In the final phase of the Second World War , Adolf Hitler included him in the God-gifted list of the most important artists in August 1944 , which saved him from being deployed in the war, including on the home front . In the same year he was appointed as a singing teacher at the Reich University of Music in Salzburg .

After the Second World War , Rudolf Bockelmann appeared again at the Hamburg Opera and on smaller stages in Germany. He also worked as a singing teacher in Hamburg from 1946 to 1954. As a song interpreter, Bockelmann emerged together with the pianist Sebastian Peschko .

In 1955, Bockelmann received a teaching position for a singing class at the Dresden University of Music . He died in Dresden in 1958 at the age of 66.

Sound recordings

literature

  • Rudolf Bockelmann: Hans Sachs from the heath . In: Josef Müller-Marein and Hannes Reinhardt: The musical self-portrait. Hamburg: Nannen 1963.
  • Berndt W. Wessling: Don't despise the masters for me! A book of memory of Rudolf Bockelmann . Celle: Schweiger & Pick 1963.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Ernst Klee : The cultural lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 61.
  2. ↑ Paul Meißner (Ed.): Alt-Herren-Directory of the German Singers. Leipzig 1934, p. 66.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Fred K. Prieberg : Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945 , CD-Rom-Lexikon, Kiel 2004, p. 564.
  4. ↑ Discogs : Tristan und Isolde , accessed October 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bockelmann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone) and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bottom pond
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 1958
Place of death Dresden