Marta Eggerth
Marta Eggert ( Martha Eggert, actually Márta Eggert, born April 17, 1912 in Budapest, † December 26, 2013 in Rye, New York) was an Austro -Hungarian operetta singer and film actress, who lived in New York since 1938.
Life
Eggert was the daughter of the German bank director Paul Eggert and singer Tilly Herzog ( Herezegh ). After an early vocal training, a career as a musical prodigy and engagements in Vienna and Hamburg, she went to Berlin in 1930, where she performed in numerous operetta singer and film and a celebrated star.
During the filming of the movie My heart calls out to you got to know the Polish tenor Jan Kiepura. The two were considered the " dream couple " of the German and Austrian musical film of the thirties and married in 1936. At that time, the couple lived in Vienna because Eggert in Germany since 1935 no longer allowed to occur because they had a Jewish parent.
In 1938 she emigrated to the " connection" with her husband, who had an engagement at the Metropolitan Opera from Vienna via France to New York. ( " The Leaving of Vienna has done terribly hurt ," Marta Eggert said fifty years later. ) Secretary Kiepuras was then Marcel Prawy, which then went to the U.S. with the couple. In 1939, she accompanied Kiepura to Paris where he should stand in front of the camera from 1 September; on this day Germany invaded his homeland.
In New York she appeared from 1944 to 1946 eight times a week in Franz Lehar's operetta The Merry Widow, which Robert Stolz was adapted for Broadway. Your film and stage career continued.
1952 Eggert visited Vienna for the first time since the war and had the " Tsarevich " at the Raimund Theater much success.
In 1979 she was awarded the Film Award for many years of excellent work in the German film. In 1988, she said in an interview, they give master classes for young opera singers. She regretted that opera singers in Europe want to sing no operettas. 1998 played and sang it in the scene: Never again opera of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF ) adjacent to Marcel Prawy, Erni Mangold and Harald Krassnitzer a former opera diva named Babette Beautiful. In 2001 she was awarded the Golden Hall of Vienna man. In 2002 she received the Great Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria.
Marta Eggert last lived in Rye in the U.S. state of New York in April 2012 and celebrated its 100th anniversary. Her older son, Jan Kiepura jun. (born 1944), was a singer, her younger son Marjan (b. 1950) is a pianist and businessman in music industry.