Shots for the Prima Donna - Schicksalsbrunnen
On 29 June 1910 the jilted court conductor Aloys Obrist forced his way into the flat of Stuttgart's adored prima donna Anna Sutter, shot her twice and then killed himself. Four years later the city raised this Jugendstil Fountain of Fate beside the new opera house in her memory.
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The Schicksalsbrunnen, the Fountain of Fate, counts among the finest Jugendstil fountains in Germany, and it exists because of a murder. Anna Sutter, born in Wil in Switzerland in 1871, sang at the Stuttgart court theatre from 1893 and became its undisputed prima donna, a celebrated Carmen and a daring Salome who danced the Dance of the Seven Veils herself. Her love affairs made headlines in a city that scolded and adored her in equal measure. In 1909 she ended a relationship of two years with the court conductor Aloys Obrist. On 29 June 1910 he forced his way into her flat, killed her with two pistol shots and then took his own life. About 10,000 people attended her funeral at the Pragfriedhof. In 1914 the sculptor Donndorf created this semicircular memorial: a goddess of fate with outstretched arms and closed hands, flanked by a couple of joy and a couple of sorrow, above a carved verse about the dark spring of fate. It first stood at the artists' entrance of Max Littmann's opera house, which opened in 1912, two years after her death, and was moved to this park side of the building in 1963.
Fatti principali
- 2 pistol shots — Aloys Obrist fired two shots at Anna Sutter in her Stuttgart flat on 29 June 1910, then turned the gun on himself.
- 10000 mourners — About 10,000 people came to the prima donna's funeral at the Pragfriedhof cemetery.
- 1914 year — The Fountain of Fate was set up in her memory at the artists' entrance of the new opera house; it moved to the park side in 1963.