Anna Teichmüller

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Anna Teichmüller (born May 11, 1861 in Göttingen ; died September 6, 1940 in Schreiberhau ) was a German composer , pianist and music teacher.

Life

Anna Teichmüller was the oldest child of the later Dorpater university professor Gustav Teichmüller with his first wife Anna von Cramer (1842-1862). Her mother died shortly after the birth of her second daughter Lina. After Gustav Teichmüller married Anna von Cramer's sister Lina von Cramer (1844-1894), Anna Teichmüller grew up with her sister and eight other half-siblings in Dorpat . She kept her Baltic accent throughout her life. In Saint Petersburg around 1884 she temporarily lived with her maternal relatives. She stayed in Berlin in the winter of 1887/1888 and then moved to Jena with her mother and siblings after her father's death in May 1888 . It is known that she pursued a wide range of interests, which in addition to music also included philosophy and theology.

In Jena, in 1893, she met Carl Hauptmann , who moved her to move to Schreiberhau with other family members around 1900 . As a member of the "Circle of Schreiberhau", she was there with Hanns Fechner , Hermann Hendrich , Wilhelm Bölsche , Bruno Wille , Werner Sombart and Hermann Stehr, among others . From 1904 she published compositions. The friendship with Gerhart Hauptmann was particularly close, who particularly valued her piano playing and referred to her as his "song bride". Carl Hauptmann often needed to play the piano to stimulate himself to write. In addition to Hauptmann's poems, she also set poems by Vollrad Eigenbrod , Conrad Ferdinand Meyer , Gottfried Keller and Hermann Löns to music . Although a Protestant , she also composed the music of Ilse von Stach's Missa poetica . An opera and some children's plays have not survived.

As a "recognized" composer, she was also appropriated by National Socialism.

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  1. Genealogy entries
  2. a b Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 459.
  3. a b c d e Anna Teichmüller - Biography of Music and Gender on the Internet (PDF)
  4. ^ A b Claudia Friedel: Women composing in the Third Reich , material no .: 87. Digitized