Rudolf shock
Rudolf Schock (born September 4, 1915 in Duisburg , † November 13, 1986 in Düren ) was a German opera, lied and operetta singer with a lyrical tenor voice .
Beginnings
Rudolf Schock grew up in a working-class family in Duisburg-Wanheimerort and sang in the family and in various choirs from childhood. After the early death of their father in 1923, he and his four siblings, who later all became professional singers, financially supported the mother, who worked at the Duisburg City Theater, by performing folk songs and operetta melodies at festivals and pubs.
As an amateur, Rudolf Schock was accepted into the opera choir of the Duisburg City Theater together with his sister Elfriede in 1932 , where he was soon allowed to take on small solo roles after he had started singing studies with Gustav Pilken in Cologne.
In 1936 he was accepted into the Bayreuth Festival choir as the first chorister . This can be seen as the actual beginning of his career. In Bayreuth he met, among others, the heroic tenor Laurenz Hofer , who became his teacher and who looked after him until the 1950s.
In 1937 he received his first soloist contract with the State Theater in Braunschweig . There he met the dancer Gisela Behrends (1917–2011), whom he married in 1940. The couple, who were only separated after Rudolf Schock's death, had two daughters, Isolde (1941–1983) and Dagmar (* 1945).
Rudolf Schock soon also received evening contracts from the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin Municipal Opera (today: Deutsche Oper Berlin ). However, his career was interrupted in 1939 by the Second World War, as he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and - apart from small breaks for appearances in Vienna and Berlin - had to remain a soldier until the end of the war in 1945. After the war, he first earned a living for his family as a farm worker in the Harz Mountains, but then returned to the opera stage and the concert hall on the advice of the director of the Hanover Opera House .
The career
In 1946 the legendary English producer Walter Legge heard Rudolf Schock at a performance of Bedřich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride in Hanover . He then got his first record deal and made countless recordings for EMI (Electrola) between 1947 and 1961. In 1962 his German producer Fritz Ganss took over the newly founded classical music department of ARIOLA-Sonopress, whereupon Schock also changed the label and then recorded for Eurodisc until 1983.
In 1948, Rudolf Schock was the first German singer to be brought to the Covent Garden Opera in London after the war . In the course of his career he has performed in Berlin and Vienna, at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein (Düsseldorf / Duisburg), in Hamburg , Munich , at the Salzburg Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. In 1949 he went on tour in Australia with the program that had been planned for Richard Tauber , who had died in 1948 . He also performed in America, the Netherlands and Belgium . A highlight of his career was his involvement as Stolzing in the Bayreuth performance of the Meistersinger in 1959.
Schock achieved particular popularity in German-speaking countries through his participation in several music films, such as You are the world for me (1953), The happy wanderer (1955) or The Dreimäderlhaus (1958).
For his artistic achievements, he was appointed chamber singer in Vienna in 1954 , and in 1961 he was awarded the Golden Electrola Ring. He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Great Cross of Merit for his services to the spread of so-called serious music . He was also the recipient of the Robert Stolz Foundation Prize and the Hermann Löns Medal in gold. His hometown Duisburg honored him with the Mercator plaque and named a street after him after his death. The city of Düren , where he spent the last years of his life, gave the square in front of the “House of the City” his name in 1992.
The 1960s and after
After an extraordinarily successful opera career of a quarter of a century only interrupted by the war years, the almost 50-year-old Rudolf Schock gradually reduced his career at the major opera houses. In his recordings he turned more to the classical song, the operetta and the folk / homeland song. “He did not abdicate. He just changed the throne ”(Klaus Geitel).
Rudolf Schock's excursions into popular music were chalked up as betrayal of his actual calling. He himself emphasized again and again that this did not harm his work as an opera and lieder singer, but on the contrary made many new friends through performances with folk music of serious music.
Schock went to the studio with composers Robert Stolz , Nico Dostal , Gerhard Winkler , Peter Kreuder , Franz Grothe , Werner Eisbrenner and Fried Walter for recordings in the field of operetta and light music . Even Werner Schmidt-Boelcke made numerous recordings with him while Willi Boskovsky stood by the Holland-tours frequently conducting.
After 1962 he appeared often as a guest on smaller opera stages and a lot in concert halls (in German-speaking countries, in Belgium, the Netherlands, America and Canada). The programs included classical songs, fragments from oratorios, but also opera arias and operetta songs. At song recitals, Adolf Stauch, Iván Eröd and Hellmut Hideghéti were mostly his piano partners. He often performed with German choirs in mixed programs and in 1980 completed a tour of the United States with the Germania Siegburg choir community .
He greatly expanded his television presence and those who admired him in the cinema became “his TV community with millions of people” (Torsten Schmidt), which remained loyal to him for a second quarter of a century. At that time, shock appeared in the still young medium of television in opera and operetta adaptations and in countless entertainment programs. In 1967 he received the silver screen and in 1970 the gold screen . In 1968 he was awarded a gold record with diamonds, in 1979 a gold record for the album The Voice for Millions .
He recovered well from a heart attack in 1969 and immediately resumed his extensive work on the stage, in the concert hall, in the recording and television studio. He gave his last concert on November 9, 1986 with the Constantia 1869 choir in Düren-Birkesdorf.
On November 13, 1986 Rudolf Schock died of heart failure in his home in Düren. His grave is in the Düren-Gürzenich cemetery .
After his death
Since 2000 the opera singer Rudolf Schock has come to the fore again. EMI / Warner has since re-released its entire opera repertoire with the tenor in various editions on CD and the later complete recordings and opera cross-sections for Ariola-Eurodisc have since been re-released by Sony Classical. Smaller producers (for example Relief and Walhall) made the complete radio opera recordings with Rudolf Schock from the 1950s available to a partly renewed opera audience. The result is that nowadays the growing recognition of his artistic merits not only makes it easier for the admirers of Schocks to “protect him from quick criticism and superficial classification” ( Gerald Köhler , University of Cologne).
Filmography
- 1951: It doesn't work without Gisela
- 1953: You are the world to me
- 1954: King of the ring
- 1954: Cavalleria rusticana ( Pietro Mascagni ) (TV)
- 1954: ten on each finger
- 1954: Fra Diavolo ( Daniel-François-Esprit Auber ) (TV)
- 1955: The happy wanderer
- 1956: The voice of longing
- 1957: The world is beautiful
- 1958: The Dreimäderlhaus (after Heinrich Berté )
- 1958: Countess Mariza (after Emmerich Kálmán )
- 1958: The beautiful Galathée ( Franz von Suppè ) (TV)
- 1958: The Czardas King
- 1960: The big request concert
- 1960: If I were King ( Daniel-François-Esprit Auber ) (TV)
- 1961: Music from all over the world (TV)
- 1962: Lulu ( Alban Berg ) (TV)
- 1963: The Love Potion ( Gaetano Donizetti ) (TV)
- 1963: Berlin Melody (TV)
- 1964: Tiefland ( Eugen d'Albert ) (TV)
- 1965: The Gypsy Baron ( Johann Strauss ) (TV)
- 1965: Viktoria and her hussar ( Paul Abraham ) (TV)
- 1966: Paris is worth a trip (TV)
- 1966: From us - for you! (TV)
- 1967: Een avond in Wenen (An evening in Vienna) (TV)
- 1970: The Circus Princess ( Emmerich Kálmán ) (TV)
- 1970: Air Jumps - Episode: Der Kammersänger (TV Series)
- 1970: Giuditta - Friends, life is worth living ( Franz Lehár ) (TV)
- 1971: Glückspilze (TV)
- 1972: Come on, Zigan (TV)
- 1973: Mask in Blue ( Fred Raymond ) (TV)
- 1979: Another opera ( Heinz Erhardt ) (TV)
- 2017: Biography: 'Rudolf Schock, I sing that too!'
Sound recordings (selection)
- Emmerich Kálmán : Countess Mariza , melody sequence (Count Tassilo) with Oda Troll, Lilli Schubert, Otto Falvay; Choir and orchestra of the Metropoltheater Berlin, conductor: Paul Huhn, EMI-Electrola 1947
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Fidelio , complete recording (Jaquino) with Erna Schlüter , Lisa della Casa , Julius Patzak , Ferdinand Frantz , Otto Edelmann ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic, Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler (Salzburg Festival), ORF Vienna, 1948
- Arthur Bliss : The Olympians, complete recording (Hector) with Margherita Grandi, Adele Leigh, Edith Coates, Murray Dickie; Royal Opera Covent Garden choir and orchestra, conductor: Karl Rankl , BBC London, 1949
- Modest Mussorgski : Boris Godunow , complete recording (Grigory / Dimitri) with Martha Mödl , Anneliese Rothenberger , Margot Guilleaume , Maria von Ilosvay , Georg Hann , Gustav Neidlinger ; Northwest German Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Wilhelm Schüchter , NWDR, 1950
- Giuseppe Verdi : Rigoletto , complete recording (Herzog) with Rita Streich , Margarete Klose , Josef Metternich , Gottlob Frick ; RIAS Chamber Choir, RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin, conductor: Ferenc Fricsay , RIAS Berlin, 1950
- Jacques Offenbach : Hoffmann's stories , with Rita Streich , Anny Schlemm , Josef Metternich ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Thomas Beecham , German-language "soundtrack" for the film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger , 1951
- Eduard Künneke : The great sinner, complete recording (Schrenk) with Maud Cunitz , Helmi Rau, Marianne Schröder, Kurt Großkurth ; Cologne Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor: Franz Marszalek , WDR Cologne, 1951
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky : Eugene Onegin , complete recording (Lenski) with Sena Jurinac , Hugo Hasslo, Gisela Litz, Maria von Ilosvay , Gottlob Frick ; Northwest German Radio Choir and Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Wilhelm Schüchter , NWDR, 1952
- Richard Wagner : Tristan and Isolde , complete picture (young sailor, shepherd) with Kirsten Flagstad , Blanche Thebom , Ludwig Suthaus , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Josef Greindl ; Choir of the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Philharmonia Orchestra London, conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler , EMI-Electrola 1952
- Peter Cornelius : The Barber of Baghdad , complete recording (Nureddin) with Sena Jurinac , Hilde Rössel-Majdan , Alfred Poell , Walter Berry , Gottlob Frick ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Radio Orchestra, conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser , ORF Vienna, 1952
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Fidelio , complete recording (Jaquino, 1st prisoner) with Martha Mödl , Sena Jurinac , Wolfgang Windgassen , Gottlob Frick , Otto Edelmann ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic, Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler , EMI-Electrola, 1953
- Richard Strauss : Capriccio , complete recording (Flamand) with Viorica Ursuleac , Hertha Töpper , Hans Hotter , Karl Schmitt-Walter ; Bavarian Radio Orchestra, conductor: Clemens Krauss , BR Munich, 1953
- Richard Strauss : Ariadne auf Naxos , complete recording (Bacchus) with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , Rita Streich , Irmgard Seefried , Lisa Otto , Karl Dönch ; Philharmonia Orchestra London, conductor: Herbert von Karajan , EMI-Electrola, 1954
- Rolf Liebermann : Penelope, complete recording (Ercole) with Christel Goltz , Anneliese Rothenberger , Max Lorenz , Karl Dönch , Walter Berry , Kurt Böhme ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic, Conductor: George Szell , (Salzburg Festival) ORF Vienna, 1954
- Giacomo Puccini : La Bohème , cross section (Rudolf) with Erna Berger , Erika Köth , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Hermann Prey , Gottlob Frick ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Wilhelm Schüchter , EMI-Electrola, 1954
- Daniel-François-Esprit Auber : Fra Diavolo , complete picture (Marquis) with Ursula Zollenkopf, Wilma Lipp , James Pease, Kurt Marschner; Northwest German Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor: Wilhelm Schüchter , NWDR, 1954
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Missa solemnis , complete recording with Annelies Kupper , Sieglinde Wagner and Josef Greindl ; Kölner Rundfunkchor, Norddeutscher Rundfunk choir, Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, conductor: Otto Klemperer , WDR, 1955
- Richard Wagner : The Mastersingers of Nuremberg , complete recording (Walther von Stoltzing) with Elisabeth Grümmer , Ferdinand Frantz , Gottlob Frick , Benno Kusche , Gerhard Unger , Gustav Neidlinger , Hermann Prey ; Choir of the Berlin State Opera, Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, conductor: Rudolf Kempe , EMI-Electrola, 1956
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The Abduction from the Seraglio , complete recording (Belmonte) with Erika Koeth , Lisa Otto , Murray Dickie, Kurt Böhme , Hannsgeorg Laubenthal ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: George Szell (Salzburg Festival), ORF Vienna, 1956
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Idomeneo , complete recording (Idomeneo) with Christel Goltz , Hildegard Hillebrecht, Waldemar Kmentt , Eberhard Waechter , Kurt Böhme ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic, Conductor: Karl Böhm (Salzburg Festival), ORF Vienna, 1956
- Robert Schumann : Dichterliebe with Adolf Stauch, piano, EMI-Electrola, 1957 / Relief, 2018
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Cosi fan tutte , complete recording (Ferrando) with Annelies Kupper , Hertha Töpper , Erika Köth , Horst Günter , Walter Berry ; Bavarian Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor: Eugen Jochum , BR Munich, 1957
- Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz , complete recording (Max) with Elisabeth Grümmer , Lisa Otto , Hermann Prey , Gottlob Frick , Karl-Christian Kohn ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, conductor: Joseph Keilberth , EMI-Electrola, 1958
- Franz Schubert : The beautiful miller's wife with Gerald Moore , piano, EMI-Electrola, 1958 / Relief, 2015
- Giacomo Puccini : Tosca , cross section (Cavaradossi) with Lisa della Casa , Josef Metternich , Wilhelm Strienz ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Berislav Klobučar , EMI-Electrola, 1959
- A recital, episode 1 and episode 2 (songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Franz Schubert , Robert Schumann , Hugo Wolf , Richard Strauss ) with Adolf Stauch, piano, EMI-Electrola, 1959 / Relief, 2018
- Richard Wagner : The Flying Dutchman , complete recording (Erik) with Marianne Schech , Fritz Wunderlich , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Gottlob Frick ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, conductor: Franz Konwitschny , EMI-Electrola, 1960
- Georges Bizet : Carmen , complete recording (Don José) with Christa Ludwig , Melitta Muszely , Hermann Prey , Ivan Rebroff ; Schöneberger Boys' Choir, Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, Conductor: Horst Stein , EMI-Electrola, 1961
- Gaetano Donizetti : The love potion (Nemorino) with Stina Britta-Melander, Lothar Ostenburg, Ludwig Welter; RIAS Chamber Choir, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Ernst Märzendorfer , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1962
- Eugen d'Albert : Tiefland , complete recording (Pedro) with Isabel Strauss, Margarete Klose , Gerd Feldhoff, Ivan Sardi; RIAS Chamber Choir, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Hans Zanotelli , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1963
- Charles Gounod : Margarethe , cross section (Faust) with Hilde Güden , Hugh Beresford, Gottlob Frick ; Choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Wilhelm Schüchter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1963
- Johann Strauss : The Gypsy Baron , complete recording (Barinkay) with Erzsébet Házy , Lotte Schädle , Hilde Konetzni , Karl Schmitt-Walter , Ferry Gruber , Eberhard Waechter , Benno Kusche ; Choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Robert Stolz , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1964
- Friedrich von Flotow : Martha , cross section (Lyonel) with Erika Köth , Elisabeth Steiner , Manfred Röhrl, Walter Kreppel; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Wilhelm Schüchter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1965
- Johann Strauss : Wiener Blut , complete picture (Balduin Graf Zedlau) with Hilde Güden , Margit Schramm , Wilma Lipp , Ferry Gruber , Benno Kusche , Erich Kunz ; Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Robert Stolz , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1965
- Carl Millöcker : The begging student , complete recording (Symon) with Hilde Güden , Lotte Schädle , Hilde Konetzni , Peter Minich , Fritz Ollendorff ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Robert Stolz , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1966
- Franz Lehár : The Merry Widow , complete recording (Danilo) with Margit Schramm , Lotte Schädle , Jerry J. Jennings, Ferry Gruber , Claudio Nicolai, Benno Kusche ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Robert Stolz , Ariola -Eurodisc, 1966
- Carl Maria von Weber : Der Freischütz , complete recording (Max) with Claire Watson , Lotte Schädle , Gottlob Frick , Fritz Ollendorff , Kurt Böhme ; Choir and orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conductor: Lovro von Matačić , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1967
- I love the world (melodies by Robert Stolz ) with the Günther Arndt Choir, Berliner Symphoniker: Conductor: Robert Stolz, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1967
- Franz Lehár : Giuditta , cross section (Octavio) with Sylvia Geszty , Dorothea Chryst , Ferry Gruber ; Günther-Arndt-Chor, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Werner Schmidt-Boelcke , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1967
- Franz Schubert : A Schubert evening with Rudolf Schock with Iván Eröd , piano, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1968
- Request concert with Rudolf Schock (songs by Stanislao Gastaldon, Wilhelm Baumgartner , Carl Loewe , Giorgio Stigelli (G. Stiegele), Henry W. Petrie-Martell, Wilhelm Speyer , Ludolf Waldmann , Franz Wilhelm Abt , Ernest Roland Ball, Erik Meyer-Helmund , Heinrich Schäffer, Carl Heins) with Johann Gedan (trumpet); Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Fried Walter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1968
- Jacques Offenbach : Parisian life , complete recording (A Brazilian) with Lisa della Casa , Ingeborg Hallstein , Margit Schramm , Gerhard Unger , Peter Alexander , Eberhard Waechter , Kurt Böhme ; Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Franz Allers , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1968
- Greetings to Vienna (Viennese songs by Johann Strauss , Carl Michael Ziehrer , Ralph Benatzky , Heinrich Strecker , Rudolf Sieczyński , Robert Stolz and Peter Kreuder ) with the Günther Arndt Choir, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Robert Stolz, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1969
- Nico Dostal : Clivia , Manina , Monika , The Hungarian Wedding , four operetta cross-sections (Juan, Mario, Horst-Dietrich, Stefan) with Margit Schramm , Sylvia Geszty , Monika Dahlberg , Ferry Gruber ; Günther Arndt Choir, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Nico Dostal, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1970
- Franz Schubert : The Winter Journey with Iván Eröd , piano, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1970
- True Love (melodies from American operettas and musicals by Sigmund Romberg , Jerome Kern , Cole Porter , Richard Rodgers , Leonard Bernstein , Robert Wright / Chet Forrest ) with Anna Moffo , Peter Cornehlsen-Chor, Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Werner Eisbrenner , Ariola- Eurodisc, 1971
- I sing my song for all beautiful women - composers write for Rudolf Schock. (Dedicated compositions by Nico Dostal , Willy Mattes , Werner Eisbrenner , Franz Grothe , Gerhard Winkler , Norbert Schultze ); Günther Arndt Choir, Berlin Symphony Orchestra. The composers conduct it. Ariola Eurodisc, 1971
- Rudolf Schock sings songs by Antonín Dvořák and Richard Strauss ; with Iván Eröd , piano. Ariola Eurodisc, 1972
- The heavens boast of Eternal Honor (songs for festive hours by Ludwig van Beethoven , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Franz Schubert , Conradin Kreutzer , Georges Bizet , Dmitri Bortnjanski , John Stevenson, Karl August Groos , and two Russian folk songs); with the Tölzer Knabenchor , Horst Ramthor, harp and Hans Hild, organ, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1973
- Wilhelm Kienzl : The Evangelimann , cross section (Mathias Freudhofer) with Gerti Zeumer, Margarita Lilowa ; Tölzer Knabenchor , Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conductor: Hans Gierster , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1973
- Heinrich Berté : The Dreimäderlhaus , cross-section (Franz Schubert) with Renate Holm , Isolde Schock-Dehn, Karin Schock, Peter Luitpold, Kurt Schuh; Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Fried Walter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1974
- Johannes Brahms : German folk songs (selection) with Hellmut Hideghéti, piano, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1975
- Rejoice in life (songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , August Nägeli , Wilhelm Heiser, Simon Breu , Carl Michael Ziehrer , as well as folk songs) with the Tölzer boys' choir and an instrumental ensemble, conductor: Fried Walter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1975
- For my friends (opera arias for tenor or baritone by Christoph Willibald Gluck , Otto Nicolai , Paul von Klenau , Richard Strauss , Richard Wagner , Ruggero Leoncavallo , Carl Maria von Weber , Charles Gounod , Peter Cornelius and Daniel-François-Esprit Auber ) with the Berliner Symphoniker, conductor: Fried Walter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1978
- Carl Loewe : Famous songs and ballads; with Iván Eröd , piano, Ariola-Eurodisc, 1980
- I like to remember (original recordings from the ZDF show of the same name) This compilation of older recordings also contains Rudolf Schock's last recordings, namely "I like to remember" by Frederick Loewe , "Do you want to see the land of my dreams" by René Kollo and "I want to ask you again and again" by Norbert Schultze with the Graunke Symphony Orchestra , conductor: Fried Walter , Ariola-Eurodisc, 1983
literature
- Rudolf Schock: Wanderlieder. Howdy God all together. Voggenreiter, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1975, ISBN 3-8024-0044-5 - Songs and stories from hiking, collected and edited by Rudolf Schock.
- Rudolf Schock in collaboration with Rolf Ulrici : Oh, I have in my heart . FA Herbig, Munich and Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7766-1363-7 - autobiography.
- Ralf Krüger: Our life for shock. A cheerful family novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1986, ISBN 3-4991-5750-0 - Rudolf Schock as the dominant family idol of a Berlin family from the post-war period to the 1980s.
- Charlotte Hofmann-Hege : Every day is not a Sunday - The secret of Rudolf Schock and the castle maid . Salzer, Heilbronn 1991, ISBN 3-7936-0299-0 - An elderly castle maid sends roses to the tenor at every concert and is attended by him.
- Barbara Boisits: shock, Rudolf. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
- Rudolf Schock & the Roelens: the tenor and the young lady . Catalog for the exhibition of the theater studies collection of the University of Cologne, Schloss Wahn. With contributions by Elmar Buck, Gerald Köhler and Torsten Schmidt. Theater studies collection, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-931691-40-3 .
- Daniel Hirschel: shock, Rudolf Johann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 351 f. ( Digitized version ).
swell
- ^ Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: On and Off the Record . Faber, London 1982, ISBN 978-0-571-11928-8 , pp. 62 .
- ↑ Rudolf Schock - Not these tones. In: Der Spiegel from November 28, 1962.
- ↑ Rudolf Schock with the Germania Siegburg Choir Association to America. In: RudolfSchock.nl. Retrieved December 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Awards: DE
- ^ The last concert by Rudolf Schock. Retrieved July 10, 2017 .
Web links
- Works by and about Rudolf Schock in the catalog of the German National Library
- Dutch website about Rudolf Schock (also with German texts, as well as pictures and sound samples)
- Rudolf Schock blog incl. FILM BIOGRAPHY + "audio videos" (German, Dutch, partly English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Shock, Rudolf |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera, lied and operetta singer (lyric tenor) |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
DATE OF DEATH | November 13, 1986 |
Place of death | Düren |