Uwe Kreyssig

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Uwe Christian Kreyssig (born September 28, 1930 in Chemnitz ; † May 17, 2008 in Havelsee ) was a German opera singer ( baritone ), opera director and television presenter.

Life

Uwe Kreyssig was the third of four sons of Lothar Kreyssig . In 1937 he moved with his family from Flöha to Hohenferchesar , where his parents had acquired the Bruderhof , a farm. Kreyssig was introduced to music early on in the family circle and originally wanted to be an actor. Participation in student performances at the Pforta State School , which he attended with his brother from 1946, aroused his interest in the theater. For example, he appeared in Hans Sachs's The Breeding of Calves , What You Want by William Shakespeare , Philippe II by Émile Verhaeren , as well as the Singspiele Bastien and Bastienne and The Drama Director by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart . In 1949 he was Creon in Antigone and in 1950 he played Oedipus .

His father enabled him to study at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin from 1950 to 1952 . Here he was advised to have his voice checked for vocal possibilities. As a result, he attended the Hochschule für Musik Berlin from 1952 to 1956, especially with the bass-baritone Jaro Prohaska and Paul Schmidtmann. Immediately after graduating, Uwe Kreyssig was engaged at the Komische Oper Berlin , where he got his first role in Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's The Curious Women , directed by Heinz Rückert.

Uwe Kreyssig was often heard in radio recordings of classical but also contemporary music and often appeared in television recordings of classical operas. In mid-1969 he received his own television series with Treffpunkt Operetta , which he supervised as a presenter and which was broadcast until New Year's Eve 1973. Effective June 1, 1990, the Kammersänger was appointed deputy artistic director at the Komische Oper in Berlin, where he had worked as a singer actor from 1956 to 1983 before taking on directing duties in the Federal Republic and the Netherlands . Since 1965 he worked as a director. From 1979 to 1982 Kreyssig worked as an opera director at the Bonn Opera House and later at the Hildesheim City Theater and in Enschede in the Netherlands , where he also set up a studio for young opera singers. He staged a. a. at the Bonn Opera House, at the Wiesbaden State Theater (1984; A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten ) and at the Nuremberg Opera House (1990; Tsar and Zimmermann ).

Uwe Kreyssig also had teaching positions in Berlin and Weimar. Parallel to his work as deputy director of the Komische Oper Berlin, he was also head of the class for opera singers at the Hanover University from 1991 to 1995/1996, which had appointed him professor.

Family grave in Hohenferchesar

Uwe Kreyssig was married to the singer Hella Jansen since 1961 and the couple had two children. Together with his wife, he moved back to the Bruderhof in Hohenferchesar in 1996 and was elected mayor there. In this role he was involved in the merger with three other municipalities to form the city of Havelsee in 2001 . Two years after a serious illness, Uwe Kreyssig died in May 2008 and was buried in the family grave in Hohenferchesar.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Uwe KREYSSIG: 85th birthday . IN MEMORIAM BIRTHDAYS in September 2015. Online marker. September 2015 edition. Retrieved August 15, 2017
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of November 30, 1963, p. 3
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland from June 14, 1990, p. 6
  4. ↑ unsophisticated Biedermeier . Performance review. In: Opera world . Issue June 1990. Pages 40/41.
  5. ↑ Die Pforte 61/2008, pp. 80–81
personal data
SURNAME Kreyssig, Uwe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kreyssig, Uwe Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German opera singer (baritone), opera director and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 17, 2008
Place of death Havelsee