Alfred Jerger News
Austrian actor, singer and opera singer (1889-1976)
- bass-baritone
- Austria
- actor, opera singer, university teacher
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2016-12-12 17:05:06
Vienna completes return of Nazi-stolen art
[…] the Vienna Philharmonic to explore the provenance of the painting, has shown that there was “a close relationship of many years” between Loos, who hailed from Vienna, and the orchestra. During the Austrofascism period, Loos, a member of the NSDAP since 1932 or 1933, had acted as liaison between the police and the illegal NS organization cells at the Austrian state theaters, which included the Vienna State Opera. The close ties between Loos and Wilhelm Jerger (of the VPO) were initiated at that time, and Jerger made use of this contact to obtain the release of Josef Geringer from the Dachau concentration camp. The actual handing-over of the painting, probably in Vienna, is not documented in the sources. The question as to whether the inauguration of Baldur von Schirach as the new Reichsstatthalter only a few days earlier played any role in this context remains unanswered. Among the audience at […]
2016-10-04 01:09:53
Strike up the banned
Jonny spielt auf, the second opera by 26-year-old composer Ernest Krenek, was such a huge success after its 1927 Leipzig premiere that in the following season it was performed 491 times in Germany alone. Translated into 14 languages, it was given by 42 opera companies worldwide, but by 1931 it disappeared. What happened? Jonny’s success was so widespread that its Wiener Staatsoper premiere knocked Die Fledermaus off the schedule for New Year’s Eve in 1927. In New York, the Met gave it seven performances (two with Lawrence Tibbett in the title role), a box office success which scandalized the local critics, but unfortunately a mere six months before the great stock market crash of 1929 diminished tastes for such frothy, escapist entertainment. In Wien, the opera was given 33 times through April 1931 (with Alfred Jerger performing Jonny in the majority of performances), even while National Socialist factions denounced the […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2015-12-23 11:29:51
Vienna Philharmonic comes clean on its post-Nazi era. Well, almost.
The orchestra has published a 55-page scholarly investigation into its ‘ambivalent loyalties’ in the period from 1938 to 1970. During the union with Hitler’s Reich the orchestra was a willing collaborator with racial persecution and other crimes against humanity. That much is well documented. The post-War period is more hazy. The orchestra’s chairman from 1938-45, and its most influential board member for the next quarter-century was the charming Wilhelm Jerger, an avowed Nazi and lifelong anti-Semite. Jerger proclaimed that the orchestra’s first loyalty was to itself. His exchanges with Nazi leaders are among the most revealing passages in the new research. Jerger emerges as the force behind the 1960s decision to award the orchestra’s Ring of Honour to the Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach (pictured), the genocidal Gauleiter of Vienna. However, the research team of Silvia Kargl and Friedemann Pestel, admits that there are gaps in the archive for 1966-68 […]
2013-03-11 22:23:54
[…] but managed to rejoin two years later as lead trumpeter. After the war just four party members were fired during the "de-Nazification" period and six pensioned off.Rathkolb said he was surprised at the "high rate of Nazification" at the Vienna Philharmonic. Many of its members joined the Nazi party before 1938, when membership was illegal in Austria, he noted. However, he said it was notable that the chairman of the orchestra at the time, Wilhelm Jerger, tried to intervene on behalf of Jewish colleagues, petitioning Schirach to stop their deportation.On 27 October 1941, he petitioned the governor to spare Robitzek and his wife, Elsa, who were to be sent to Theresienstadt, a major transit centre, at 9am the following day. Both were elderly and ill, he wrote, signing off "Heil Hitler". The letter failed to have any effect."Jerger intervened in a positive way," said Rathkolb. "He described the cultural history […]
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