Maria Madlen Madsen (23 March 1905 â€" 23 March 1990), temporarily
also under the stage name Gerda Hansi, was a German operatic soprano,
theatre, film and television actress.Born in Krefeld, Madsen grew up
in Hamburg, went to school there and studied classical singing with
Robert Dähmke for four years. Under the stage name Gerda Hansi she
first worked between 1926 and 1929 as a program employee (singer) for
the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and became known there as the "Schwäbische
Nachtigall" (Swabian Nightingale). She also took part in a new form of
broadcasting which was popular among the listeners at the time, the
Stadt-Portraits presented as a radio play. Parallel to this she was
taught in Stuttgart by the pedagogue Daimler.From 1929 to 1934 she was
engaged by the Opernhaus Zürich in Switzerland, where she took part
in the premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis in 1933.From 1934 she
was engaged by the Oper Frankfurt. For Madsen began a twelve-year
lasting great career in the Third Reich as coloratura-soubrette. She
participated in the premiere of Werner Egk's Die Zaubergeige on 22 May
1935 as Gretl and in the premiere of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana on 8
June 1937 as a soloist.
also under the stage name Gerda Hansi, was a German operatic soprano,
theatre, film and television actress.Born in Krefeld, Madsen grew up
in Hamburg, went to school there and studied classical singing with
Robert Dähmke for four years. Under the stage name Gerda Hansi she
first worked between 1926 and 1929 as a program employee (singer) for
the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and became known there as the "Schwäbische
Nachtigall" (Swabian Nightingale). She also took part in a new form of
broadcasting which was popular among the listeners at the time, the
Stadt-Portraits presented as a radio play. Parallel to this she was
taught in Stuttgart by the pedagogue Daimler.From 1929 to 1934 she was
engaged by the Opernhaus Zürich in Switzerland, where she took part
in the premiere of Zemlinsky's Der Kreidekreis in 1933.From 1934 she
was engaged by the Oper Frankfurt. For Madsen began a twelve-year
lasting great career in the Third Reich as coloratura-soubrette. She
participated in the premiere of Werner Egk's Die Zaubergeige on 22 May
1935 as Gretl and in the premiere of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana on 8
June 1937 as a soloist.
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