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Wanda Achsel , married Achsel-Clemens (born October 12, 1886 in Berlin , † August 3, 1977 in Vienna ) was a German opera singer ( soprano ).
Life
Wanda Margarethe Gertrud Achsel was born as the daughter of the carpenter Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Achsel and his wife Elisabeth Albertine Amanda. Götsch was born at Reichenbergerstrasse 24 in Berlin. She received her training from Laura Détschy in Berlin and made her debut in the Berlin Summer Opera in 1910 as Elsa in " Lohengrin " by Richard Wagner . After engagements at the Stadttheater Würzburg (1910–1912) and then at the Cologne Opera (1912–1923), she worked at the Vienna State Opera from 1923 to 1939 . In 1923 she sang the title role in the premiere of "Fredigundis" by Franz Schmidt . Achsel, who sang the role of lyrical-dramatic soprano , had a broad repertoire that combined roles as diverse as Butterfly or Mimi with Elisabeth (“ Tannhäuser ”) and Sieglinde . She was committed to contemporary opera and sang Marie (“ Wozzeck ”), composer (“ Ariadne auf Naxos ”) and Octavian (“ Der Rosenkavalier ”) or alongside Richard Tauber in 1937 at the Vienna premiere of Bernhard Paumgartner's “Rossini in Naples ”.
Achsel, who was awarded the title of chamber singer in 1919 , gave guest appearances in the Netherlands , Poland , Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia . In 1929 she sang Rosalinde in " Fledermaus " at the Salzburg Festival .
After the end of her career she worked as a singing teacher.
Until 1933 she was married to the tenor Hans Clemens (1890-1958), whom she had met in Cologne. Most recently she lived as a singing teacher in Vienna. Her grave is in the Evangelical Cemetery of the Vienna Central Cemetery (II, 466/68).
literature
- Richard Bamberger , Franz Maier-Bruck : Austria Lexicon , Volume I. Vienna 1966, p. 13.
- Andrea Harrandt: Achsel-Clemens, Wanda. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3043-0 .
- KJ Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Unchanged edition. KG Saur, Bern, 1993, first volume A – L, Sp. 5 f., ISBN 3-907820-70-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Achsel-Clemens, Wanda . musiklexikon.ac.at. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ↑ see birth register entry of the StA Berlin 5a No. 2998/1886
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Armpit, Wanda |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Achsel-Clemens, Wanda (married name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (soprano) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 12, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd August 1977 |
| Place of death | Vienna |