Hanns Petersen

Hanns Petersen (Hanns-Herbert Schulz) was born on * 26 June 1927 in Weimar, Germany. From 1945 to 1949 he attended the Weimar Academy of Music to become an opera singer. During his engagement at the German National Theater in Weimar, he started a parallel career in light music and joined the Leipzig Dance Orchestra lead by Kurt Henkels. With them, he sang several recordings on the radio, on television and with the record label AMIGA. From 1952 he worked as an opera singer (baritone) at the "Nationaltheater Weimar" the Semperoper, the Berlin opera house as well as the Leipzig opera and moved to Dresden in 1959. He was a celebrated singer in both the opera and light music genres during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1970, he began teaching popular music at the universities of Dresden and Weimar. Professor Schulz taught Cape Town-based singer Ike Moriz from 1995 to 1999 at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden among many other popular singers like Gotte Gottschalk, Ute Freudenberg, Veronika Fischer and Brigitte Stefan. Hanns-Herbert Schulz died on 9 June 2006 in Dresden, Germany.