Biography

Danish tenor. Before singing, he studied Chemistry at the Technical College in his natal city, where he graduated as an engineer with honors. His official debut came in Neustrelitz in 1921 as Don Jose in Carmen.

Shortly after the Second World War, he was abducted in Berlin and deported to Russia. Following his release, he settled down in Wien and established himself as an engineer in the chemical industry. Yet, singing was very much at the core of his heart, and he resumed his career in 1949 at the Volksoper and the Staatsoper in Wien.

Before he launched his artistic career he studied chemical at the Technical College and finished it as an engineer with honors.

At one point he also led a theatre for operetta in Wien, where he himself starred as the Prince Sou Sou-Chong in Lehár's Land des Lächelns.

Because of his closeness to the NS regime (Joining the NSDAP in 1933, guest at Hermann Göring's wedding in 1935, participation at NS events and the inclusion to the so-called "Gottbegnadeten" list by Adolf Hitler in 1944) he was abducted in Berlin and deported to Russia. Roswaenge shared his fate with many other artists of that time who nearly didn't have an opportunity to continue their artistic career without contact to the power in Germany at that time. Politically he was described as rather naive. After his release he went to Spain where he earned his living with his original profession in the chemical industry till 1948. In 1948 he went to Switzerland and afterwards to Vienna and he was able to continue his artistic career.