- Her last performance was at age 99 in 2011.
- Because Martha Eggerth was of Jewish extraction, the political situation in Germany became more and more uncomfortable. She eventually emigrated to the USA with Jan Kiepura where both could continue her career without any difficulties because her names already conquered the world before. Both triumphed on Broadway with plays like "The Merry Widow" and "Polonaise".
- Martha Eggert's career began very early and because of her wonderful voice she soon was called a child prodigy who filled concert halls.
- Kiepura died in 1966. Eggerth stopped singing at this time for several years. Finally, persuaded by her mother, she decided to revive her career. In the 1970s she began to make regular television appearances, and to actively perform concerts in Europe. In 1982, she returned to the American stage to co-star in the Tom Jones/Harvey Schmidt musical Colette opposite Diana Rigg in Seattle and Denver, and later in Stephen Sondheim's Follies in Pittsburgh.
- Still living at her home in Rye, New York, USA. She has released a new album of earlier recordings, "Marta Eggerth: My Life My Song" (Patria Productions), produced by her son, Marjan Kiepura. (August 2005)
- In 2001, Eggerth returned to London for "An Interview-in-Concert" at an absolutely sold-out Wigmore Hall, accompanied by conductor-pianist Alexander Frey and hosted by British author and critic, Brendon Carroll. She also sang at the annual Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation concerts at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall to much fanfare.
- Mother of Jan Tadeusz Sharbek (born 1944), singer, and Marjan Wictor (born 1950), producer and pianist.
- Martha Eggerth worked again in Europa after the war but she wasn't able to gain a foothold again in the German film business.
- The actress Martha Eggerth especially made a global career as a singer, and thanks to her huge popularity and her acting talent she also took part in many movies of the 30's.
- Eggerth was awarded many major artistic decorations from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Italy in recognition of her accomplishments in operetta, theatre and film. Her final recognitions included the Knights Cross of the Order of the Merit of the Republic of Hungary, her native land's highest honour, and the Erwin Piscator Life Achievement Award for her legendary achievements.
- Highlights in 2006/2007 have included two concerts with interviews at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; sold out shows at the Café Sabarsky in Neue Galerie entertaining audiences with her great pre-war Viennese/Berlin cabaret style of wit, artistry and song; a concert and discussion held as part of New York University's Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes; an appearance at the Austrian Cultural Forum as part of their Mostly Operetta series; operetta master classes at the Manhattan School of Music; as well as an appearance at the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (JASA).
- In 1999, at the age of 87, she sang on the stage of the Vienna State Opera in a special televised matinée concert hosted by opera impresario and historian Marcel Prawy, to mark that opera house's first production of Lehár's The Merry Widow. She sang a medley from the operetta in four languages and received a spontaneous standing ovation. She repeated this medley in 2000, at a gala to mark the 200th anniversary of Vienna's Theater an der Wien.
- Her real film career blossomed into life with the talkies. In the golden era of German musical movies she took part in operetta movies and became a very popular star in no time at all.
- She had a little comeback on television in 1999 when she impersonated a chamber singer in the serial "Tatort: Nie wieder Oper" (1999).
- Eggerth was married to the Polish tenor Jan Kiepura and they had two sons, Jan and Marjan. The latter is a concert pianist in New Hampshire and is married to Jane Knox-Kiepura, who helps run his company Patria Music.
- Singer and actress.
- She practiced her main activity on different stages, and this till her old age.
- During the shooting for "Mein Herz ruft nach dir" in 1934 she met singer and actor Jan Kiepura. They got married two years later, acted together in other movies and belonged to the most dazzling pairs in Germany.
- Many of the 20th century's most famous operetta composers, including Franz Lehár, Fritz Kreisler, Robert Stolz, Oscar Straus, and Paul Abraham, composed works especially for her.
- Her final recognitions included the Knights Cross of the Order of the Merit of the Republic of Poland, Knights Cross of the Order of the Merit of the Republic of Hungary, her native land's highest honour, and the Erwin Piscator Life Achievement Award for her legendary achievements.
- Eggerth was awarded many major artistic decorations from Austria, Germany, Poland, and Italy in recognition of her accomplishments in operetta, theatre and film.
- In 2003, Patria Music released a retrospective double CD of her songs entitled My Life My Song.
- Eggerth was born in Budapest, the daughter of a retired operatic soprano, and a bank director.
- Realising that Marta had a natural singing voice, her mother encouraged her to sing in public from an early age.
- Between the two world wars, during the so-called "silver age" of Viennese operetta, the coloratura soprano Marta Eggerth, reigned supreme on stage and, above all, on screen.
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