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Born: November 25, 1916 - Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Died: December 27, 2020 - Vienna, Austria |
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The German baritone, Heinz Maria Lins, was born into a musical family. He received piano, violin and clarinet lessons at a very early age. Already at the age of 4 he was on an amateur stage for the first time. After graduating from high school, he studied medicine. He had to give up his studies because of the outbreak of World War II and was assigned to the medical service.
After 1945 Heinz Maria Lins had his voice trained. In order to be able to finance his singing studies, he sang in American nightclubs. The artist aspired to a career in classical music. But his friends, the hit and film composer Werner Bochmann and actor Heinz Rühmann, persuaded him to play the "light music". Lins then sang hits and folk songs as well as opera arias and Schubert Lieder. He had particular success at the time with the hits In Eine Klein Konditorei and Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren, which he had written in the 1920's, but which he performed in the manner typical of the 1950's. His best-known role on stage was the cathedral bandmaster Römer in Schwarzwaldmädel, which he played in around 1,600 performances.
Heinz Maria Lins was heard in many TV and feature films, but not seen. For example, he lent his singing voice to Dieter Borsche in the film Fanfaren der Liebe, Gerhard Riedmann in Der Bettelstudent and Hans Clarin in the television film Don Giovanni, which was broadcast on ARD on December 29, 1959. Numerous recordings by Decca, Ariola and Telefunken, among others, bear witness to his musical diversity. He sang alongside Sári Barabás, Erika Köth, Herta Talmar, Renate Holm, Marianne Schech, Josef Traxel, Walter Berry, Ferry Gruber and other artists.
Heinz Maria Lins worked more and more for radio and therefore only rarely appeared on German music stages. From the end of the 1960's it became quiet around the artist. He had his last engagement in 1987 in Zürich. He lived with his wife Angelika in Innsbruck's Hötting district. In November 2016 he celebrated his 100th birthday and gave an interview to BR-Klassik. On December 27, 2020, he died in Vienna at the age of 104. He was buried on January 8, 2021 at the Waldfriedhof in Munich.
Selected discography: Golden Operetta. Gasparone (Telefunken, 1957); Schwarzwaldmädel (Ariola, 1959); Der Vogelhändler (Ariola, 1960); Heimat, schöne Heimat (Polydor, 1960). |
