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Born: November 16, 1928 - Hamburg, Germany
Died: December 9, 2020 - Frauenchiemsee, Lake Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany. |
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The German soprano and music teacher, Christa Degler, sang professionally from her cradle, because her father Josef Degler (1890-1957) was Kammersänger at the Hamburger Staatsoper. After World War II, the family moved to the father's Bavarian homeland and settled on Lake Chiemsee. The father bought a house on the island of Frauenchiemsee, which Christa Degler lived in until the end of her life. Against his will, she studied singing at the Münchener Musikhochschule with Annelies Kupper, whom she admired throughout her life.
Christa Degler began her career as a soprano in the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks. However, the theater blood in her drew her to the stage and within a short time she received numerous engagements as the title role in La Traviata, Gilda in Rigoletto, Queen of the Night in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte and with others at various theaters and opera houses in Germany (e.g. in Heidelberg, Darmstadt and Kassel), Greece and Switzerland coloratura soprano parts.
After completing her stage work, Christa Degler devoted herself to concert singing and accepted a teaching position at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. In 1972 she began teaching at the then Bayerischen Staatskonservatorium für Musik in Würzburg and received the title of Professor when it was converted into a Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik. In 1992, after thirty years of dedicated work with generations of young students, she moved back to the island in Lake Chiemsee, taught privately, continued her education in various languages and played the piano with passion until shortly before her unexpected death on December 9, 2020. She is vividly remembered by the older colleagues in the house as a friendly, good-humoured teacher who was always concerned about the students |
