Marianne Alfermann
actor and singer (1891–1942)
Marianne Elisabeth Felicitas Alfermann (8 June 1891 – 27 February 1954) was a German soprano and actress.
Life
Born in Berlin, Alfermann came to the Stadttheater Main in 1910 after acting lessons and singing training in the soprano range voice. In December 1911 she had a guest performance at the Berlin Hofoper and so she left Mainz in 1912 and was a member of the ensemble there until 1917. From 1917 to 1918 she then worked in Frankfurt.
After that she lived in Berlin from 1918 on and worked as a guest from there, but at this time she already turned increasingly to operetta.
In the 1920s she continued her career at various Berlin stages as well as in the just-opened entertainment radio Funk-Stunde Berlin.
In March 1922 she married Gustav Lombard, the later SS-Brigadeführer and Major General of the Waffen-SS, from whom she had a son the same year.
In 1926 she played the leading role in a Hugo Hirsch's revue in Wieder Metropol". Still in 1927/28 she belonged to the operetta of the Berlin Central Theater. The stage yearbook 1934 notes "guest" under her Berlin address.
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