Kurt Hübenthal (30 November 1918 – 13 March 2007) was a German operatic bass baritone, director and music teacher. He was professor for singing at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. Life Hübenthal was born in 1918 as one of two sons in Halle (Saale). He and his brother were members (soprano) of the and, with the financial support of the choir, attended the elitist Latina. After their parents separated, the brothers moved to the orphanage of the Francke Foundations. They left school without a degree. Kurt Hübenthal completed a locksmith apprenticeship at the Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk in Halle. During the Second World War, the brothers were drafted into the Wehrmacht (his brother was killed). During his deployment in the Afrikafeldzug at the turn of the year 1941/42, both were victimes of eardrums burst. In 1942, he became a British prisoner of war and was taken on the RMS Queen Mary to a prison camp in the Canadian Rockies. A camp choir and orchestra was formed in captivity. He also took part in an opera performance of Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann. There he also met Kammersänger Karl Marstatt and Kapellmeister Hans Oncken, who trained him in voice teaching and solo singing as well as choral conducting and theory. After the war he was moved to England, where he gave camp concerts and taught British officers. In spring 1947 he was able to return to his home town, where he studied under Kurt Wichmann. In addition, he was trained by Fritz Polster in Leipzig. His first performances as a concert and oratorio singer followed. At the beginning of 1948, he received a teaching position at the . In 1950, he became a lecturer for voice projection and head of a specialist group at the Institute for Music Education (later the Institute for Musicology) of the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Hübenthal also taught at times at the Evangelische Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Halle, at the Institute for Music Education of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena and at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar. While teaching at the Kirchenmusikschule, he devoted himself intensively to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, including his role as Christ in the St Matthew Passion. Hübenthal also sang in Handel oratorios like Alexander's Feast, Judas Maccabaeus, Messiah, Salomon and Samson and modern choral works were part of his repertoire. Under the conducting of Helmut Koch, he gave a guest performance in 1959 with