Lohmann, Paul

Singer (baritone), singing teacher

Born: 02.04.1894 in Giebichenstein (Halle/Saale)

died: 26.06.1981 in Aschaffenburg

After his military service, Lohmann studied singing with the famous baritone and voice coach Karl Scheidemantel (1859-1923) and was in great demand as a lieder and oratorio singer from 1924-48. He was unable to pursue a stage career due to his war injury (he lost his right arm). He gave his last concert in Wiesbaden in 1949.

From 1933, he worked as a professor of vocal training at the Musikhochschule in Berlin, from 1946-49 at the Musikhochschule Weimar and finally from 1950-63 at the Frankfurt Musikhochschule. The vocal department and the opera school were established there under his aegis. In 1935/36, he founded the vocal department at the Ankara Academy of Music.

He passed on his wealth of experience as a voice teacher in numerous publications, including "Die sängerische Einstellung" in 1929, "Stimmfehler - Stimmberatung" in 1939 and the song selection "Das Lied im Unterricht" in 1942.

Together with his first wife, Franziska Martienssen-Lohmann (1887-1971), he led courses for singers and singing teachers in Potsdam, Sibiu (Romania) from 1928, at the Lucerne Festival from 1949 and from 1952 in Lund, Bergen (Norway), Oslo, Stockholm, Gothenburg, Copenhagen, Aarhus, Lübeck and Freiburg, among other places. Among the singers he trained are Ingrid Bjoner, Helmut Krebs, Jakob Stämpfli, Ortrun Wenkel, Günter von Kannen and Roland Hermann.

Lohmann lived in Wiesbaden with his second wife Prof. Hildegund Lohmann-Becker (*1922) until shortly before his death. His widow founded the "Lohmann-Stiftung für Liedgesang Wiesbaden e.V." in 1987.

Kutsch, Karl J./Riemens, Leo: Großes Sängerlexikon, 4th edition, Munich 2003.