Tiny debut

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Tiny Debüser (born June 4, 1892 in Cologne ; † October 10, 1957 ), also Tini Debüser von Passavant, was a German mezzo-soprano .

Life

At the beginning of the 1920s Debüser was celebrated as an excellent soprano who was particularly committed to modern music. She sang works by Paul Hindemith , Rudi Stephan , Julius Weismann , Yrjö Kilpinen and Ernst Krenek , who in 1925  consciously set three poems by Rainer Maria Rilke - under the title O Lacrimosa - to music. She also sang the world premiere in 1927 under the direction of Hermann Abendroth . Debüser was a co-founder of the Cologne Society for New Music. She married the composer Erich Anders , but the marriage did not last long. Her popularity was still evident in 1932, when she lived as a vocal actress for the film Goethe ...! was hired by Eberhard Frowein .

As early as 1933 she was a staunch National Socialist , worked in the Nazi women's group and was a member of the Kampfbund for German Culture . She hoped for an upswing in her career, as her artistic reputation threatened to sink into mediocrity. Debüser was meanwhile newly married to the production manager of the "Goethe" film Hans von Passavant. The criticism was no longer so sympathetic to her, the conductor Hermann Scherchen ridiculed her as a "raspberry candy". Since she did not succeed in boosting her career with art alone, she worked for a time in the Propaganda Ministry .

Together with two neighbors, she denounced the pianist Karlrobert Kreiten in 1943 for making derogatory remarks about National Socialism. Kreiten was then sentenced to death and executed. After the end of the war, she claimed that she had been persuaded to do so. Kreitens friend later recalled, however, that Debüser Kreitens mother, who was also a singer, envied her success and especially her son and “took the opportunity to give her one”.

literature

  • Debut . In: Frank, Altmann: Kurzgefaßtes Tonkünstler-Lexikon 2nd part, volume 1. Heinrichshofen, Wilhelmshaven 1974
  • Friedrich Lambart (ed.): Death of a pianist: Karlrobert Kreiten and the case of Werner Höfer . Hentrich, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-926175-48-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In some sources there is also the wrong form of the name Passavent.
  2. ^ Fred K. Prieberg: Music in the Nazi State . Frankfurt am Main 1982.
  3. ↑ Harald Wieser : Death of a pianist . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1987 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Hartmut Lück: An example is set - the Karlrobert Kreiten case . In: Music and Music Politics in Fascist Germany . Fischer, Frankfurt 1984.
personal data
SURNAME Debut, Tiny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Debüser, Tini; Passavent, Tiny by; Passavant, Tiny by
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mezzo soprano
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1957