Lookbook: Johanna Lehmann

Johanna is the oldest daughter of Peter and Adelheid Lehmann. As of 1887 she is six years old. Her clothing reflects her family’s status as better off working people- pieces of Peter’s furniture can be found in fashionable saloons of Europe, though the family only sees a portion of that money, and so Johanna has some nice clothes, but nothing too impractical. She still has to help with the chickens after all! 

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all: stockings, boots (get to work)

Everyday: pinafore

Sundaywear: hat, dress, lace gloves

Workclothes: hat, dress

Nightwear: nightgown

Party: flowers,  dress

Swimming: outfit

Hot weather: hat, dress

Cold weather: hat, coat, scarf, gloves

February 8. 1921 the portuguese Baritone Francisco d’Andrade died in Berlin.

Here a picture of him as Rigoletto and his portrait.

His brother was the famous tenor Antonio d'Andrade. His full name was Francisco Augusto de Andrade E Silva. In 1881 he studied singing under Manuel Carreira, Luiz da Costa and José Romano in Lisbon, but in  1886 he went to Milan, where he was a pupil of pedagogues Miraglia and Ronconi. In 1882 he made his debut in Sanremo as Amonasro in Verdi’s ‘’Aida’’. During the following years he appeared with success first in Italy, then in Spain and Portugal, performing not only at the Teatro alla Scala, but also at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. In 1886 he made guest appearance at Covent Garden, London as Renato in Verdi’s ‘’Ballo in maschera’’, in which he had big success till 1890, among other things as Germont ‘’Traviata’’, Enrico in ‘’Lucia di Lammermoor’’ and as Count di Luna in ‘’Trovatore’’. In 1887 he sang in Moscow as Telramund in ‘’Lohengrin’’. In 1889 he went with an opera troupe of the impresario Gardini, the husband of the soprano Etelka Gerster, to Berlin. He was so successful there as Figaro in ‘’Barbiere di Siviglia’’, Rigoletto and as Don Giovanni that he took later here his residence. From 1906 to 1916 he was often to be heard at the Berlin Court Opera. From 1891 to 1910 he was nearly every year appeared at the Opera House of Frankfurt a. M., in 1894, 1896, 1901 and 1909 at the Municipal Theatre of Zurich. He performed also in Germany, Holland, Austria, Russia, England and Scandinavia mainly as a Don Giovanni. In this part he counted as unequalled; his amusing representation of the Don Giovanni was painted by Max Slevogt. Also in Salzburg (1901) he sang the role of Don Giovanni together with Lilli Lehmann, Johanna Gadski and Geraldine Farrar. Up to 1919 he appeared on the stage, last only as Don Giovanni. His other star role was Figaro in Rossini’s ‘’Barbiere di Siviglia’’. He controlled a stage repertoire of 56 roles into six languages, under it numerous parts from the area of the French opera (Nevers in ‘’Les Huguénots’’, Escamillo in ‘’Carmen’’, Hoël in ‘’Dinorah’’ of  Meyerbeer, Zurga in ‘’Pêcheurs de perles’’ of Bizet, Nelusco in ‘’L'Africaine’’, Valentin in ‘’'Faust’’ of Gounod, Scindia in ‘’Le Roi de Lahore’’ of Massenet). When Portugal entered into the First World War, he had to leave in 1916 Germany. Then he lived in Portugal, where in 1918 for the last time he appeared on the stage as Figaro in ‘’Barbiere di Siviglia’’. However, in 1919 he came back again to Berlin, but two years later died suddenly.

‘And in this very moment’

‘The moment’ in the context of performing arts is a cocktail of a perfect chemistry that is not predictable and its documentation almost impossible. ‘Moments’ are somethings to experience, to be ‘in’ and to go ‘through’. And to share them afterwards with others, to talk about their leftovers, their special resonance… Sometimes you even find yourself having a weird encounter by smiling to strangers on the way home from a performance. ‘Moments’ stay vivid, present and timeless by connecting themselves to our everyday life, our surroundings, hopes and desires. They stay alive by being shared. Due to the special times we are still in while writing this, our starting point for this performing arts project was to know that we would fail to share these very moments on the instance of their coming into being. So, we decided to appoint them as our artistic challenge, looking for new ways to share them in their aftermath and in new compositions, looking for ways to make sure they connect themselves to new encounters.

Digital Work by Marlin de Haan, Ayşe Draz

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Dete was soon followed by little Paul, who, after the easiest labour Adelheid had endured yet, was born on the 5th of May, 1885, though that fact would not make it to the records, as, given the general business of harvest season, time went on and Peter continued to not find the time to get the birth recorded, and before anyone knew it it was too late, and so the baby’s birthday swiftly became the 13th May instead.

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Busy Nationals Saturday Part One

It’s a busy weekend for Nationals! Let’s get into it. Below the cut, as it is long!

At the Swiss Nationals, Stephane Walker won his fifth National title. Nicola Todeschini won his third National medal, taking the silver. Lucas Bruschgi, the reigning Silver medalist, won the bronze. In the ladies event, Alexa Pagini won her first National title. Yoonmi Lehmann won her second straight silver medal, and reigning champ, Yasmine Yamada, won the bronze.

In the Pairs event, Ioulia Chtchetinina and Mikhail Akulov were the only competitors and therefore won the National title. In the Ice Dance event, Victoria Manni and Carlo Rothlisberger were the only competitors and therefore won the National title, their second.

At the German Nationals, Paul Fentz won his first National title. Reigning six-time Champion, Peter Liebers, won the silver, and Catalin Dimitrescu won the bronze. In the Ladies event, Nichole Schott won her third National title. Reigning two-time Champ Nathalie Weinzierl won the silver, and Lea Johanna Datisch won her second medal, the bronze.

In the Pairs event, Aliona Savchenko and Bruno Massot won their second National title. Minerva Fabienne-Hasse and Nolan Seegert won their third medal, the silver, and the only other team, Annike Hocke and Ruben Blommaert won the bronze. In the Ice Dance event, Kavita Lorenz and Joli Polizoakis won their second National title. Katharina Mueller and Tim Dieck won their third straight silver, and Shari Koch and Christain Nuchtern won their second straight bronze.

At the French Nationals, 2016 National Champion Chafik Besseghier won his second National title. Reigning Champ, Kevin Aymoz, won the silver, and Romain Ponsart won his fourth medal, a bronze. In the ladies event, Mae Berenice Meite won her fourth National title. Reigning Champ, Laurine Lacavlier, got the silver, and Lea Serna won the bronze.

In the pairs event, James/Cipres were forced to withdraw, and therefore, the title was won by reigning Silver medalists, Lola Esbrat and Andrei Novoselov, their first. Cleo Hamon and Denys Strekalin won the silver, and the only other team, and Coline Kerivin and Noel Antoine Pierre won the bronze. 

In the Ice Dance event, Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron won their fourth straight National title. Marie-Jade Lauriet and Roman LeGac won their third silver medal, and Angelique Abachinka and Louis Tharon won the bronze,

At the Italian Nationals, in the Men’s event, reigning three-time silver medalist, Matteo Rizzo, won his first National title. Reigning four-time champ, Ivan Righini, won the silver, and Mauricio Zandron won his fourth bronze medal. In the Ladies event, Carolina Kostner won her ninth National title - with a score of 222.34! Over fifty points behind, Giada Russo won her third medal, the silver, and Elisabetta Leccardi won the bronze.

In the Pairs event, Nicole Della Monica and Matteo Guarise won their third straight National title by over twenty points. 2015 National Champs, Valentina Marchei and Ondrej Hotarek won the silver, and the only other competitors, Rebecca Ghilardi and Filippo Ambrossini won their second straight bronze.

In the Ice Dance event, Anna Cappellini and Luca Lanotte won their seventh straight National title. Charlene Guignard and Marco Fabbri won their eight straight silver, and Jasmine Tessari and Francesco Fioretti won their second straight bronze.

Four Continents being put in a separate post. 

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Diese 44 Künstler sind in JAZAM! Vol. 12 - Spiel:

Chris Alicke, Johanna „Schlogger“ Baumann, Adrian vom Baur, Lew Bridcoe, Erkan, David Füleki, Sascha Gallion, Piers Goffart, Ann-Kathrin Gross, Lenny Großkopf, Maximilian Hillerzeder, Uwe Höck, Marcel Hugenschütt, Kaydee, Katja Klengel, David Koslowski, Matthias Lehmann, Joachim Lipski, Mike Loos, Johannes Lott, Lou, Karl Lux, Simone Mändl, Katharina Netolitzky, Nudlmonster, Charlie O'Konar, Julia Panzer, Armin Parr, Petra Popescu, Martin Rathscheck, Q. Scharfenberg, Mycha Schekalla, Gregor Schenker, Moritz Schmid, Schradi, Mme. Secretairin, Nico Simon, Florian Steinl, Franz Suess, Sunny-Ray, Lea Wegner, Yinfinity, Zwen

Cover: Ingo Römling

Das Buch befindet sich seit gestern im Druck und erscheint spätestens zum Comicfestival München im Mai 2017.

For Johanna, visiting the schoolhouse was a most dreaded thing- although she always was glad to see the other students, especially her best friend Klara, the work was a constant threat to her happiness. No matter how much she wanted to, she could not make sense of it, not even with the help of Klara, who was their teacher’s niece after all, and always knew very well how to do it.

In the end it was the adored teacher herself who took mercy on Johanna, and took to inconspiciously bringing up the day’s work after school, when Johanna would keep Klara company while Ms. Kahn prepared to lock the room for the day. 

Indeed, this repitition seemed to help Johanna, and slowly, but with certainty, she not only ceased to despair over her homework, but with time could more and more contribute in class, and eventually read better than even Klara could!

Happy Birthday, Mme. Johanna Gadski. (Picture of her as Isolde).

Johanna Gadski studied singing at the Stettin High School with Anna Schröder-Chaloupka and when still very young was engaged by the Kroll Opera in Berlin, making her stage debut there in 1889. This was followed by engagements in Stettin, Mainz and Bremen as well as Berlin; her repertoire during this period included Agathe / Der Freischütz, Marguerite / Faust, Pamina / Die Zauberflöte, Berthe / Le Prophète, Donna Elvira / Don Giovanni and parts in the comic operas of Marschner and Lortzing. She also took the role of Bedura in d’Albert’s first opera, Der Rubin, which she sang with the composer conducting. Having married Hans Tauscher, a lieutenant in the German army, in 1892, Gadski had built up enough experience by 1894 to begin to appear internationally, which she did with a concert tour of Holland that year.

She was then invited to tour the USA with the Damrosch Opera Company during 1895 and 1896, making her debut in New York as Elsa / Lohengrin (1895) and creating the role of Hester Prynne in Damrosch’s opera The Scarlet Letter (1896). Other roles included Micaëla / Carmen and Marzellina / Fidelio. She toured again with the Damrosch Company during 1898 and 1899 before appearing for the first time at the Royal Opera House, London as Elisabeth / Tannhauser in 1899. This was followed by her successful debut at the Bayreuth Festival as Eva / Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

In December 1899 Gadski made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera, substituting as Elisabeth in Philadelphia. Two weeks later, at the beginning of 1900, she first appeared in New York with the company as Senta / Der fliegende Holländer. She quickly became a key member of the Metropolitan Opera, singing Sieglinde / Die Walküre, Brünnhilde / Der Ring des Nibelungen, Elsa and Eva, together with more varied roles including the title part in Aida, Amelia / Un ballo in maschera, Santuzza / Cavalleria rusticana, Valentine / Les Huguenots, the Countess / Le nozze di Figaro, Micaëla, Donna Elvira and Pamina, as well as Röschen in the first performance of Dame Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald (1903).

Having left the Met in 1904 following a dispute over her salary, Gadski undertook extensive concert tours of the USA during 1905 and 1906. In Europe she studied Isolde / Tristan und Isolde with Lilli Lehmann, as well as singing at the Salzburg Festival in 1906 as Donna Elvira opposite Lehmann’s Donna Anna and in 1910 as Pamina opposite Lehmann’s First Lady. Financial matters resolved, she returned to the Met as Isolde in February 1907 and remained a valued member of the company until 1917, singing broadly the same parts as before, as well as Eurydice / Orfeo ed Eurydice (under Toscanini, 1909), Agathe and Leonora / Il trovatore.

In 1917, following America’s entry into World War I, a ban was placed upon German music and musicians in the US. Nonetheless Gadski remained in that country, but did not sing again until 1921 when she gave a rapturously received recital at Carnegie Hall, followed by a coast to coast concert tour which also took in Canada. She became an American citizen in 1925, returning to the operatic stage in 1928 with Die Walküre in Washington. From 1929 onwards Gadski toured America annually with various companies performing German opera, singing Brünnhilde, Isolde and Senta. She intended to continue such touring, but was killed in a motor accident in Berlin.

Un cadeau unique et plein d'émotion; le livre personnalisé

Un cadeau unique et plein d’émotion; le livre personnalisé

Dans 12 jours c’est Noël! Et je suis certaine que toi aussi, derrière ton écran, tu cherches encore le cadeau unique qui fera mouche. Alors je te livre mon coup de coeur du mois; le livre personnalisé de Johanna Lehmann “L’arbre de vie”.

Un livre personnalisé bienveillant et encourageant

J’ai découvert Johanna,  il y a quelques semaines via Instagram.  J’ai immédiatement accroché avec son concept…

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Johanna’s first birthday has come and gone, and she is beginning to talk and move around quite freely. 

Nevertheless, the cradle stays in the room, waiting for it’s next inhabitant. 

Poor Johanna already dislikes the idea of a new baby, even though she doesn’t really understand it. Her parents both have siblings, and their parents don’t pay nearly as much attention to them as Peter and Adelheid pay to her! Besides, she might have to share her beloved toy bear with the new baby!

Adelheid had been up early in the morning baking bread when the contractions set in. The only thing she could think was that it was too early, and then it was over. Tobias Lehmann was born on the 7th of july, 1887, and by the next day he was gone.

They all suffered of course, even little Paul who hardly understood why, but Adelheid took the loss the hardest. Peter and the girls tried their best to give her time to grieve, but still, nothing hurt Peter more than finding her sitting on their bed in the evenings, staring blankly at the entry in their family bible, tears welling up in her eyes. But still, there were no words to ease the loss, and all he could do was hold her as she cried.

But  they had to keep living, and so while Dete took over everything to do with the chickens and the goat and tended to her mother’s herb garden in the afternoon, Johanna kept house almost on her own, and Peter was quite busy doing everything the girls couldn’t and hardly entered his workshop.

It felt like years went by this way, but it could not have been more than a few months until Adelheid began to leave the house again.

Here a picture of Melanie Kurt as Isolde.

 Born on January 8th 1880 in Vienna, Melanie Kurt studied piano before her voice was discovered. Her singing teachers were Fanny Müller and Mari Lehmann, famous sister of the even more famous Lilli, Lehmann. In 1902 Kurt gave her debut as E1isabeth in "Tannhäuser" at the Stadttheater in Lübeck. In 1905 she moved on to Braunschweig and in 1908 arrived at the Berlin Court Opera. She became known internationally through her guest appearances at the London Covent Garden Opera as Sieglinde, in 1910 and later performances in Budapest, Dresden, Munich and several Italian Opera Houses. At the Salzburg Festival she sang together with Hermine Kittel and Lilli Lehmann the Three Ladies in "Die Zauberflöte". In 1913 she joined the ensemble of the just opened Deutsche Opernhaus Berlin, where she concentrated on dramatic roles: she was Berlin's first Kundry at the premiere at the Deutsches Opernhaus on January 1st 1914. Her contract with the Metropolitan Opera in 1915 can be considered the high point of the soprano's career. During those three years in New York she not only sang the dramatic Wagner-roles, but also mezzo roles, such as Fricka in "Rheingold", she was Amelia in "Un Ballo in Maschera" (with Enrico Caruso and Pasquale Amato), Marschallin in "Rosenkavalier", Iphigenie, Santuzza, Leonore ("Fidelio") and Pamina (in a cast which included Carl Braun and Frieda Hempel and saw as Tamino either Johannes Sembach, Jacques Urlus or Otto Goritz). In the programs of her MET concerts she also tried to include less familiar arias, such as the then only rarely performed Rezia aria from "Oberon" or Johanna's aria from the opera by Tschaikovsy. After the 1916/17 season most German singers, especially if they had focused their repertory on Wagner opera, left the MET: together with Margarete Arndt-Ober, Ernestine Schumann Heink, Johanna Gadski, Carl Braun, Otto Goritz, Johannes Sembach, Hermann Weiland Jacques Urlus Melanie Kurt left the United States in 1917. Kurt's last performance at the MET as Brünnhilde on March 28th 1917 (with Urlus, Braun, Reiss and Arndt-Ober) was at the same time the last "Siegfried" until 1923. After her return to Europe Melanie Kurt accepted no more long-term engagements but gave guest performances, especially in her much acclaimed Wagner roles, at all major European stages. She was the first Brünnhilde in "Siegfried" at the Waldoper Zoppot when the Festival was opened in 1922. The performance was conducted by the young Hans Knappertsbusch and the cast included Fritz Vogelstrom, Heinrich Knote, Werner Engel, Waldemar Henke, Desider Zador and Margarete Arndt-Ober. After having ended her singing career Melanie Kurt lived in Berlin and later in Vienna where she was active as a singing teacher. After the annexion of Austria by the Third Reich in 1938 she was able to leave her home country in time and emigrated to the United States where she died in New York on March 11th 1941.

Dete Lehmann is born a few months later. 

While Johanna remains sceptical about sharing her parents affection, she softens with time, as her parents keep paying nearly as much attention to her as ever. And as long as her little sister stays in that cradle she can’t touch her things either.

The day Adelheid finally went into labour had been as busy as it could be. The chickens were revolting, and Bertha’s egg had finally hatched, against everyone’s expectations.

Even worse, the labour was a long and painful affair, but after many hours Johanna Lehmann (and Haensel the chicken) saw the light of day!