Roswitha Trexler

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Roswitha Trexler
Trexler
Born (1936-11-23) November 23, 1936 (age 87)
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
NationalityGerman
Occupations
  • Operatic soprano
  • Mezzo-soprano
AwardsSee Awards and distinctions

Roswitha Trexler (born 23 November 1936) is a German operatic

avantgarde vocal music
.

Life and career

Trexler was born in 1936 in Leipzig as the daughter of the composer, cantor and professor of catholic

Thomasschule there and made her debut in 1956 at a festival week with medieval church music. From 1957 she appeared at the Bach performances in Leipzig's Thomaskirche under Thomaskantor Kurt Thomas. For several years she belonged to the MDR Rundfunkchor under Herbert Kegel and was active in special ensembles for early music
(Capella lipsiensis, Capella fidicina).

Her career as an interpreter of contemporary music began on 22 May 1969 in a

Centre Georges-Pompidou
in Paris and the Musikbiennale in Zagreb.

Discography

TV films

  • Klaus Ager: La Règle du Jeu (ZDF, 1979)
  • Versuche über Roswitha – Roswitha Trexler und die neue Musik (Deutscher Fernsehfunk, 1981)
  • Brecht in den Zwanzigern: Brecht als Komponist (Radiotelevisione della Svizzera Italiana, 1983)
  • Ich will singend sagen, wie ich die Welt sehe – Porträt von Roswitha Trexler (DEFA-Dokumentarfilm [de], director Gitta Nickel, 1985)

Awards and distinctions

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Roswitha Trexler: What the singer can learn from Brecht or My conception of music. With the collaboration of Fritz Hennenberg. In John Fuegi, Reinhold Grimm, Jost Hermand (edit.) Brecht-Jahrbuch 1979, Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, p. 30-45.
  2. ^ Hohe Auszeichnungen für Kulturschaffende, In: Neues Deutschland, 5/6 July 1975, p. 4
  3. ^ Neues Deutschland, 5 October 1985, 5

External links