Hanns Petersen
Hanns-Herbert Schulz, better known as Hanns Petersen, was a German opera singer, music college teacher and pop singer. He is known for his career in popular music, his many operatic performances at the Semperoper and the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and his work as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber and Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar.
Career
Studies and first performances
Hanns-Herbert Schulz, the son of Ella Schulz-Schulenburg and Walter Schulz, solo cellist at the German National Theater Weimar and professor at the Leipzig University of Music and director of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar, studied the violoncello as a guest student from 1942 to 1944. Thereafter, he studied singing under Hauschild and opera production with Kranz at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar from 1945 to 1950. After graduating, he began both his career as a soloist and as an opera singer at the German National Theater Weimar under his real name Hanns-Herbert Schulz and his career as a singer in light entertainment music under the pseudonym Hanns Petersen.'Schlager' singer Hanns Petersen
Hanns Petersen's career began as a singer with the Leipzig Radio Dance Orchestra conducted by Kurt Henkels. Petersen became known through his numerous radio productions, television broadcasts, Amiga recordings and public events. However, first recordings were made on Weimar's provincial radio as early as 1946. In June 1951 he also took part in the 'Opera singer Hanns-Herbert Schulz
After finishing his studies, Hanns-Herbert Schulz sang at the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar from 1952 to 1959 and at the Staatsoper Dresden from 1959 to 1962, as well as from 1965 to 1969. He became a widely acclaimed opera singer through his performances as Nabucco, Don Giovanni, Kaspar and Eugen Onegin et al. In the meantime he was also working as an opera singer at the Opernhaus Leipzig.Dresdner Staatsoper (selection)
- 1958 – 1966: Amonasro in Giuseppe Verdi: "Aida" – Staged by Erich Geiger
- 1959 – 1965: King in Carl Orff: „Die Kluge“ – Staged by Erhard Fischer
- 1962 – 1966: Count in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: „Die Hochzeit des Figaro" – Inszenierung von Erich Geiger
- 1963 – 1969: Guglielmo in W. A. Mozart: Così fan tutte – Staged by Erich Geiger
- 1964 – 1966: Don Giovanni in W. A. Mozart: „Don Giovanni" – Staged by Erich Geiger
- 1960 – 1962: Schischkoff in Leoš Janáček: „Aus einem Totenhaus" – Staged by Erich Geiger
- 1960 – 1968: Narrator in W. A. Mozart: „Die Zauberflöte" – Staged by Erhard Fischer
- 1962 – 1963, 1967: Konrad Nightingale in Richard Wagner: „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" – Staged by Heinz Arnold
- 1960 – 1965: Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini: „Tosca" – Staged by Erich Geiger
- 1964: Kaspar in Carl Maria von Weber: „Der Freischütz" – Staged by Johannes Wieke
- 1959 – 1964: Escamillo in Georges Bizet: "Carmen" – Staged by Erich Geiger
- 1964 – 1968: Count in Richard Strauss ''Capriccio'' – Staged by Erich Witte
Berliner Staatsoper (selection of roles)
- 1956: Worker Gil in Rudolf Wagner-Régeny: „Der Günstling"
- 1962: Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini: „Tosca"
- 1967: Count in ''Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: „Die Hochzeit des Figaro"''
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar (selection of roles)
- Hans Foltz / and also Kothner in Richard Wagner: „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
- King Heinrich in Richard Wagner: „Lohengrin"
- Count / and also Wolfram von Eschenbach in Richard Wagner: „Tannhäuser"
- Fafner in Richard Wagner: „Siegfried"
- Hunding in Richard Wagner: „Die Walküre"
- Fasolt in Richard Wagner: „Das Rheingold"
- Hagen in Richard Wagner: „Götterdämmerung"
- Amfortas in Richard Wagner: „Parsifal"
- Doctor Grenvil in ''Giuseppe Verdi: „La traviata"''
Opera House Leipzig (selection of roles)
- Wolfram von Eschenbach in Richard Wagner: „Tannhäuser"
- Prince Igor in Prince Igor – produced by Joachim Herz
University teaching position
Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber
In 1970 he was instrumental in setting up the popular music departments at the music academies in Dresden and Weimar, where he began teaching singing. In 1986 he received his professorship in Dresden. Many well-known German singers, such as Veronica Fischer, Reinhard Fißler, Heinz-Jürgen Gottschalk, Ike Moriz, Ute Freudenberg, Brigitte Stefan and Tom Luca studied singing under Schulz. He taught here for a total of over thirty years until shortly before his death in 2006.Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar
Schulz taught from 1968 as a lecturer, from 1970 as a singing teacher and from 1983 to 1992 as professor for singing in the dance and popular music department at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. He remained connected to the university as a lecturer until 1994.Discography
Song titles (selection)
All published by Amiga (record label):- Addio amore
- Addio Donna Gracia – 1951
- Adelheid – 1951
- Am Samstag um vier – 1951
- Andalusische Märchen – 1953
- Cordoba
- Denk´ an mich −1953
- Dolores – 1951
- Dreh dich noch einmal um – 1953
- Du hast so wunderschöne blaue Augen – 1953
- Ein Musikus, ein Musikus
- Geflüster – 1953
- Hernando's Hideaway – 1956
- Ich build´ mir ein – 1954
- Ich habe heut´ nacht eine große Dummheit gemacht – 1953
- Ich lad´ dich ein, Cherie – 1954
- Ich möcht´ mit dir spazieren geh´n
- Jambalaya – 1953
- Jawoll, das ist Musik – 1953
- Je vous aime
- Kleiner Bär von Berlin
- Lass die Sorgen Sorgen sein
- Leg´ deine Hand in meine Hand -1953
- Leise weht der Wind – 1953
- Madeleine – 1954
- Noch vor Tag
- O, Pepita – 1952
- Reiterlied – 1951
- Schütt die Sorgen in ein Gläschen Wein – 1953
- Seemannsgarn – 1953
- Singe, Wind – 1952
- Spatz und Spätzin – 1953
- Süße kleine Dorothee
- Tamingo – 1956
- Verlieb´ dich nicht am Nordpol – 1950
- Wenn du wüsstest, ach, wie ich dich liebe – 1951
- Wir sind füreinander bestimmt – 1951
Literature
- Bernd Meyer-Rähnitz, Frank Oehme, Joachim Schütte: Die "Ewige Freundin" – Eterna und Amiga; Die Discographie der Schellackplatten. Albis International Bibliophilen-Verlag, Dresden/Ústí 2006,
- Siegfried Trzoß: Schlager-Geschichte des Ostens. Band 1 bis 3. Aperçu-Verlag, Berlin,,,
- R. Sudmann: Popmusik in Studiengängen deutscher Hochschulen. In: Handbuch Jugend und Musik / Dieter Baacke, Opladen,
- Eike Moriz: Darstellung verschiedener stimmbildnerischer Arbeitsmethoden und deren vergleichende Betrachtung. Blurb Bücher Deutschland, 2020,
- Werner P. Seiferth: Richard Wagner in der DDR – Versuch einer Bilanz. Sax Verlag, 2012,
- D. J. Aitken, International Handbook of Universities 1981, Eighth Edition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 18 May 2020, page 414
- Musikstudium, Musikpraxis : Beitr. zu Theorie u. Praxis d. Erziehung u. Ausbildung von Musikern u. Musikpädagogen in d. DDR / hrsg. von Hans John u. Günther Stephan, Hanns-Herbert Schulz, Zur Hochschulausbildung von Gesangssolisten der Tanz- und Unterhaltungsmusik, page 299,