Therese Rothauser
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Therese Rothauser (born June 10, 1865 in Budapest , † April 20, 1943 in Theresienstadt ) was a German opera singer ( alto ).
Life
The businessman's daughter and sister of the actor Eduard Rothauser received vocal training from Emmerich Bellovicz in Budapest and from Gustav Schmidt in Berlin . At first she was a concert singer, who performed oratorios and songs by Gustav Mahler in particular .
In 1887 she was committed to the Leipzig Opera House . There she made her debut as a winemaker in the opera Die Loreley by Max Bruch . In 1889 she came to the Berlin Court Opera , of which she was a member until 1914.
She worked here in the world premieres of Felix Weingartner's Genesius (November 15, 1892), Wilhelm Kienzl's Don Quixote (November 18, 1898), Fernand Le Bornes Mudarra (April 18, 1899), and Eugen d'Alberts Kain (February 17, 1900) and Arthur Nevins Poia (April 23, 1910) with.
At German premieres she took on the title role in Bizet's Djamileh (1892) as well as the roles of Suzuki in Puccini's Madame Butterfly (1907) and Annina in the Berlin premiere of Der Rosenkavalier (1911).
Other Berlin premieres with her included Othello (1890 as Emilia), Cavalleria rusticana (1891 as Lola), Falstaff (1894 as Meg Page), Hansel and Gretel (1894 as Hansel) and Die Fledermaus (1899 as Orlowsky).
Therese Rothauser was particularly valued as a Mozart interpreter (Cherubino, Donna Elvira, Dorabella), but also as the title character in Carmen or Amneris in Aida . After a performance of Carmen in 1890, Kaiser Wilhelm II had a precious sapphire brooch presented to her. Guest appearances took her to the Dresden Court Opera (1897–1903), the Leipzig Opera House (around 1900), the Weimar Court Theater (1906) and the Budapest Court Opera (1905).
After the end of her active time as a singer, she worked as a singing teacher in Berlin. On August 21, 1942, at the age of 78, she was deported with Transport I / 49 to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where she perished. Her sister Gisela Rehorst was also a singer. Her brother Eduard Rothauser was able to emigrate in time.
Commemoration
On November 12, 2013 , a stumbling block was laid in front of her former place of residence, Berlin-Wilmersdorf , Konstanzer Strasse 11 .
literature
- 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 , p. 297.
- Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Third edition, Berlin 2000, pp. 20844f.
Web links
- Literature by and about Therese Rothauser in the catalog of the German National Library
- Therese Rothauser in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rothauser, Therese |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (alto) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1943 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt |