Waldemar Staegemann

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Waldemar Ludwig Eugen Staegemann (born July 21, 1879 in Bad Neuhäuser near Koenigsberg ; † February 11, 1958 in Hamburg ) was a German actor , opera singer (baritone), radio play speaker and singing teacher .

Life

The son of the general manager of the Leipzig city ​​theater , Max Staegemann , and his wife, the violinist Hildegard Kirchner, attended the royal high school in Leipzig together with his brother Max , which he left at Easter 1897 with the school leaving certificate. Before he embarked on a stage career, he studied law at the universities of Königsberg , Freiburg and Leipzig at the request of his father . Because of his dissertation on the subject of the testimony of the shop assistants (§ 73 HGB) , he was in 1903 by the Law Faculty of the University of Leipzig doctorate .

From 1902 to 1912 he worked as an actor in the youthful hero subject at the Königliches Schauspielhaus in Berlin , where he quickly became a crowd favorite. At the Art Theater he was Ulysses partner of Tilla Durieux in Calderóns Circe . Despite his success as a theater actor, he was driven to music theater .

After completing his vocal training , he made his debut as a baritone at the Dresden Court Opera in 1912 , where he soon enjoyed great success as a celebrated Mozart singer . He was a member of the Dresden ensemble until 1936. Among other things, he took over the role of the emperor in the first performance of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot in 1926 . Guest appearances have taken him to the world's great opera houses, including the London Royal Opera House and the Paris Opera . He was also in great demand as a concert and oratorio singer .

From 1926 he also worked as a director and senior director in Dresden . On October 3, 1930, under his direction - and with Fritz Busch as musical director - the world premiere of Othmar Schoeck's Vom Fischer un syner Fru took place at the Dresden State Opera, and before that, on January 8, 1927, his Penthesilea (opera) after Heinrich von Kleist under the direction of Hermann Kutzschbach . Likewise, on September 29, 1932, Staegemann directed the world premiere of Mr. Wu , the last opera by Eugen d'Albert .

In 1939 he took his leave from the stage. From 1940 Staegemann took over the vocal training at the Musikhochschule Berlin and from 1945 he worked as a singing and acting teacher in Hamburg. During these years he also took part in several television and radio play productions.

Staegemann was also active as a writer. He mainly published poems, mostly in the Saxon dialect.

Waldemar Staegemann and his sister, the soprano Helene Staegemann (1877-1923), who later married the composer Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg , were the last Staegemanns to embark on a stage career as descendants of the Devrient theater family .

Student (selection)

Sound recordings

Ensemble scenes from:

Conductor: Frieder Weissmann , choir and orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, recording from December 17, 1928, label: Odeon, matrix number: xxB 8266-67

Conductor: Frieder Weissmann , choir and orchestra of the Berlin State Opera, recording from December 17, 1928, label: Odeon , matrix number: xxB 8268.

Filmography

  • 1919: Verlorene Seelen (Germany), directed by John B. Kirsch
  • 1954: A man from a big city (TV production, Federal Republic of Germany), director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1955: The Bad Men (TV production, BR Germany), director: Curt Goetz
  • 1955: The Public Prosecutor (TV production, BR Germany), directed by Konrad Wagner

Radio plays

  • 1950: Albert Ballin - Director: Hans Freundt
  • 1952: From the life of a doctor. The surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch tells - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: murder or suicide) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: Fahrwohl, Benjowsky - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: March 13th) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The secret parcel of value) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: Love story without money - Director: Hans Gertberg
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (consequence: § 170 c) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: The bailiff - director: Detlof Krüger
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (consequence: the prosecutor becomes a defense attorney) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1952: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: Der Orgeldieb) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: fear of the father) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: lonely old man) - director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The Kiss in the Gazebo) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: Password “Company Heartbreak” - Director: Gerlach Fiedler
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The Farewell Meal) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: The Actress - Director: Otto Kurth
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: Walter Reimer's fear) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1953: Sunday school for negro children (The Green Pastures) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1953: The court withdraws to deliberate (result: child abduction) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The search for the emperor of the world. Five audio scenes - Director: Detlof Krüger
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: Big Brother) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The enemy neighbors) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The man without a testimony) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The fatal rays) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: Im Affekt) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1954: Resolved in the family council - director: Gerda von Uslar
  • 1955: The court withdraws to deliberate (consequence: law and justice) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1955: The Friend of Mr. Lowden - Director: Gert Westphal
  • 1955: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: The punishment before the act) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1955: The court withdraws to deliberate (episode: Evil Tongues) - Director: Gerd Fricke
  • 1956: The Passenger from November 1st (Part 2: Wolves and Sheep) - Director: Fritz Schröder-Jahn
  • 1957: The Ides of March - Director: Gert Westphal

Synchronized work

Publications

  • Impromptu children (poems), A. Hofmann & Comp. 1907
  • Poems , Tittmann, Dresden 1919.
  • The umbrella. Poems in Saxon dialect , Tittmann, Dresden 1926.
  • The slipper. Building around Minna , Tittmann, Dresden 1928.
  • Diary (poems), Tittmann, Dresden 1928.
  • The forge. Volksoper in 3 acts with free use of an old Flemish legend , music: Kurt Striegler, Dresden 1933.

literature

  • Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Immortal Voices. Singer Lexicon , Francke, Bern Munich 1982, p. 667.
  • Wilhelm Kosch: Deutsches Theater-Lexikon , 4th volume: Singer-Tzschoppe, KG Saur Bern, Munich 1998, p. 2269f.

Web links

Commons : Waldemar Staegemann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ König Albert-Gymnasium (Royal High School until 1900) in Leipzig: Student album 1880-1904 / 05 , Friedrich Gröber, Leipzig 1905.
  2. ↑ Julius Bab: The Devrients. History of a German theater family , Stilike, Berlin 1932, p. VI.
personal data
SURNAME Staegemann, Waldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staegemann, Waldemar Ludwig Eugen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor, opera singer (baritone), radio play speaker and singing teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Neuhäuser near Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1958
Place of death Hamburg