Rudolf Deman

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Rudolf Deman (before 1907)

Rudolf Deman (born April 20, 1880 in Vienna , † March 19, 1960 in Berlin ) was a violinist, concertmaster and music teacher.

Life

The youngest of the eight children (Victor * 1863 / Budapest, Helene * 1866 / Budapest, Ludwig * 1868 / Budapest, Felix * 1871 / Budapest, Minna * 1873 / Vienna, Heinrich * 1875 / Vienna, Leopold * 1876 / Vienna) by goldsmith Moritz Diamant (* 1838 in Kuclo / Hungary) and Anna, née Bohenzky (* 1837 in St. Georgen near Pressburg ). The name was changed from "Diamant" to "Deman" in 1892.

In 1898 he graduated from the Vienna Conservatory with distinction ( Jakob Grün School ). He may have received additional training from Joseph Joachim in Berlin.

He served three years in the military and worked from 1901 to 1908 as the first concertmaster at the Lviv City Theater . From 1908 to 1918 he was concertmaster (in May 1909 he was appointed court concertmaster) of the orchestra at the Grand Ducal Court Theater in Karlsruhe . In 1911 Deman married the actress Edith Ausfeld (born July 31, 1886 in Wiesbaden, † October 9, 1960 in Bonn, theater name: Edith Delkamp, ​​at times also Deman-Delkamp) in 1911. Their son Hans Eduard Maximilian Deman later worked in the German diplomatic service.

From 1914 Deman also played in the orchestra of the Bayreuth Festival . During his draft during World War I , he worked as a courier in the Vienna War Ministry in 1917/1918. After the First World War Deman was a member of the Pozniak Trio for some time .

From 1918/1919 to 1930 Deman was one of the concert masters in the orchestra of the Berlin State Opera . In the 1920s he was appointed professor at the State Academic University of Music and founded the Deman string quartet with Emil Kornsand (2nd violin), Karl Reitz (viola) and Carl Dechert (cello) . On October 29, 1923 , he was one of the musicians who took part in the first German radio broadcast from the Berlin Vox house .

In 1930 Rudolf Deman married the second marriage to the singer Frida Leider , whom he met in July 1923 while working together at the Sopot Forest Opera . He gave up his position as concert master to accompany her on her international tours. As a Jew, he was no longer able to work in public from 1933, but as an Austrian citizen he was protected from further attacks until 1938. After the annexation of Austria and the pogrom night in 1938 , Deman emigrated to Switzerland. In order to enable his economic survival, Frida Leider tried to support him with foreign guest appearances and with money sent by detours. The marriage was officially divorced in 1943, but the couple resumed the marital union in 1946 after Deman's return from exile. Deman continued to teach and was again given a professorship at the University of Music.

On April 2, 1955, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Grave of Rudolf Deman in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Rudolf Deman died a month before his 80th birthday on March 19, 1960 in Berlin. The burial took place in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße , located near the Berlin Olympic site , in the Charlottenburg district in today's Berlin-Westend district (grave location: 19-N-26/27). His wife Frida nee Unfortunately, she found her final resting place there in 1975.

Audio documents

Deman made his first trio recordings for the Odeon label around 1921 , and in 1923 he accompanied singers on homocord .

In 1923 and 1924 numerous recordings for Vox, here more sophisticated light music in duo / trio formation, but also the Lento from Richard Strauss' violin concerto . Finally from 1926 to 1930 recordings with the Deman string quartet for Deutsche Grammophon : string quartets by Beethoven ( op.18.4 , op.59.3 and op.132 ), Dittersdorf (E flat major quartet), Glasunow (interlude) , Mozart (quartet KV 464) and Schubert (quartets D 87, D 804, D 810 and 5 German dances) in complete recordings.

literature

  • Who is who? , Berlin, 13th edition 1958, p. 199.
  • Eva Weissweiler: heiress of fire. Friedelind Wagner. A search for clues . Pantheon Verlag, 2013, pp. 45, 115, 125, 256, 296.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietmar Schenk: The Berlin University of Music . Steiner, Wiesbaden 2004, p. 114. ISBN 3-515-08328-6 .
  2. ↑ see Deman in the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/web/ .
  3. ^ Herbert Gerigk: Lexicon of Jews in Music. Berlin: Hahnefeld 1941.
  4. ↑ 75 years of radio in Germany Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dra.de
  5. ↑ Frida Leider: That was my part - memories of an opera singer. Berlin: Herbig 1959, p. 74.
  6. ^ Peter Sommeregger: Frida Leider in: http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/A_lexartikel/lexartikel.php?id=leid1888 .
  7. ↑ Information from the Office of the Federal President
  8. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 485.
personal data
SURNAME Deman, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Demann, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1960
Place of death Berlin