Gabriele Schreckenbach (born in Berlin) is a German contralto singer in opera and concert and an academic voice teacher. She recorded Bach cantatas with the Gächinger Kantorei and Helmuth Rilling . She recorded choral works of Mozart , his Waisenhausmesse K. 139 and rarely performed pieces, with the RIAS Kammerchor and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , conducted by Marcus Creed . She recorded the part of Ursula in the opera Feuersnot of Richard Strauss with Erich Leinsdorf and parts in three operas of Paul Hindemith with Gerd Albrecht , who also conducted recordings of Die Gezeichneten of Franz Schreker and Der Corregidor of Hugo Wolf. She recorded the part of Iocaste in Stravinsky's Oedipus rex with Ferdinand Leitner . In 1994 she was appointed professor at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen .