Werner Enders
Werner Enders (born March 11, 1924 in Beiersdorf ; † December 1, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German opera singer ( tenor ) and member of the Komische Oper Berlin .
Life
Enders attended the Radebeul Music School and then studied violin in Zwickau and Berlin . In 1941/42 he helped out as second violinist at the Dresden State Opera . During the war he suffered paralysis in his left hand, which made it impossible for him to continue playing the violin. From 1945 he therefore played the drums and from 1947 - since he had also received vocal training - he was a choir singer in Zwickau. Two years later he went to the Landestheater Altenburg , where he worked as a soloist for four years. Later he was engaged at the Landestheater Halle (Saale) and belonged together with Philine Fischer , Margarete Herzberg , Günther Leib , Hellmuth Kaphahn, Kurt Hübenthal and others. a. to the ensemble of the Handel Festival in Halle (Saale) .
In 1955 Enders moved to the Komische Oper Berlin . There he was a member of the ensemble from 1957 and later a chamber singer , from 1993 an honorary member.
" Walter Felsenstein discovered the young tenor by chance in Halle and was so convinced of his creation of a female role in Il Campiello that he brought him along with the director and set designer (whom he was supposed to examine) to the Komische Oper," it said Obituary of the house.
Werner Enders was on stage in a total of 61 productions by Walter Felsenstein, Joachim Herz , Götz Friedrich and Harry Kupfer , including Bobèche in Offenbach's Knight Bluebeard (which he played for 29 years) and the double role of the dachshund / schoolmaster in Schlauen Füchslein by Leoš Janáček belonged to.
He was also one of the soloists who sang the world premiere of the opera Das Land Bum-Bum (composed by Georg Katzer with the libretto by Rainer Kirsch ) at the Komische Oper, a critical piece in GDR times.
The mezzo-soprano Margarete Herzberg was his sister-in-law. His great-nephew is the conductor Fabian Enders .
Awards
- 1962: National Prize of the GDR for art and literature
- 1984: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
Filmography
- 1965: The clever little fox (studio recording)
- 1970: Hoffmann's Tales (studio recording)
- 1973: Knight Bluebeard (studio recording)
- 1976: The Marriage of Figaro (theater recording)
literature
- Cooperative of German Stage Members (publisher), German Stage Yearbook 2007 , Verlag Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, 2007, page 852 ISSN 0070-4431
Web links
- Werner Enders at Discogs (English)
- Werner Enders at Allmusic (English)
- Werner Enders at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Tenor Werner Enders is dead ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Congratulatory defile for Bobèche, the king of comedians. For my 80th birthday. at www.der-neue-merker.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quotation from: Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Members (Ed.), Deutsches Bühnen-Jahrbuch 2007 , Verlag Bühnenschriften-Vertriebs-Gesellschaft mbH, Hamburg, 2007, page 852 ISSN 0070-4431
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enders, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (tenor) and member of the Komische Oper Berlin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beiersdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 1, 2005 |
| Place of death | Berlin |