Gertrude Förstel (21 December 1880 – 7 June 1950) was a German operatic dramatic soprano and an academic voice teacher.

Angelo Neumann noticed her voice, and he supported her studies in Berlin with Bertha Niklas-Kempner and in Dresden with Aglaja Orgeni.

She made her operatic debut at the Deutsches Theater Prag, which Neumann directed, on 1 September 1900 as Amina in Bellini's Die Nachtwandlerin.

[2] On 11 April 1905 she appeared as a guest at the Wiener Hofoper as Sulamith in Karl Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba, where she was then engaged as member from 1906 to 1912.

[2] From 1904 to 1912, she performed several times at the Bayreuth Festival, in parts such as Waldvogel in Siegfried, and Woglinde in Der Ring des Nibelungen, among others.