Kittel and then underwent teaching at Bankhort in Karlsruhe. In 1923 he was allowed to perform as a singer for the first time at the Bayreuth Singing Festival, where he was very interested in the present Max von Schillings, who won Rudolf Watzke for the Berlin State Opera from 1924 to 1928. After that he performed only as a singer of oratorios and concerts. . He was the first radio singer in Berlin in the so-called "Vox House". This was followed by a long singing tour to Scandinavia, Budapest, Sofia, Athens, Rome, Paris and other major European cities. He sang in front of the Italian queen Eleonora and Princess Maria, he also sang in front of Pope Pius XII. He has received a large number of awards and honors. He especially enjoyed singing Schubert and Handel's compositions. At home, that is, in the Czech Republic, he became an honorary member of many German choirs, as well as of various associations and communities, of course in Mimoň. He was also a guest on the stage of the forest theater in Mimona. To support the purchase of a new organ for the St. Peter and Paul Church in Mimoň, he organized a benefit concert in Mimona. He was a singer from the people who became an idol of ordinary people. It has already been written about parents. His grandfather František Watzke was to make stockings in Jablonné pod Ještědí in No. 79, his grandmother Helena was the daughter of weaver Filip Mildner from Cvikov near Jablonné. My mother's grandfather and grandmother were also ordinary people. Grandfather Alois Teifel from Mimona No. 18/1 was a supervisor in the factory, grandmother Tereza was the daughter of knitter Ignác Klehr from Mimona No. 13/1. After joining the State Opera in Berlin, Rudolf Watzke lived here until 1942, when he moved back to his homeland, he lived in Liberec, from where he was displaced in 1946 as a German from Czechoslovakia to Bremen. His family stayed in Liberec. In 1948 he met his family again in Bremen, but soon the family came from moved to Wuppertal. He died shortly after his 80th birthday party on December 18, 1972, in Wuppertal. Rudolf Watzke was twice married. He was to marry for the first time on October 2, 1918, to Marta Morndl from Vratislavice near Liberec. His second wife was Liliana Christova from Sofia, who was the daughter