Berthold Sander
Berthold Sander (born April 18, 1890 in Emmerich , Rhine Province ; † after 1941, lost in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German conductor and choirmaster .
Life
Sander was introduced to music by his mother and in 1910 trained as a conductor at the Raff Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main . He was then employed by the Trier City Theater as a conductor. He worked there for ten years. In 1921 he went to the State Theater in Mainz , where he was Kapellmeister until 1927. In 1930 he became the choir director of the State Theater in Braunschweig . As a member of the Braunschweig branch of the Schlaraffia cultural association , from which he resigned in mid-1933 because of his Jewish origins, he carried the name of Ritter Hahn in the basket . In 1931 he became conductor of the city theater in Hildesheim . After he lost his job there, he left Hildesheim and came to the Berlin-Zehlendorfer apartment of the opera and concert singer Heinrich Schlusnus in 1933 . In January 1934 he appeared again with the choir of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, which he had built up in Berlin . On June 12, 1941, he gave the last premiere with a Verdi evening at the music theater stage of the Kulturbund, where he had conducted many concerts alongside Julius Prüwer and Rudolf Schwarz . Sander was brought from Berlin to Theresienstadt , in whose ghetto his traces are lost.
On November 18, 2016, a stumbling block was laid in front of Hochstrasse 21 in Braunschweig in memory of Sander .
literature
- Deutsche Orchestervereinigung (Ed.): Das Orchester , Volume 44 (1996), p. 7.
Web links
- Berthold Sander , object metadata sheet on the lexm.uni-hamburg.de portal( University of Hamburg , Institute for Historical Musicology)
- Photo as conductor of the orchestras of the Jüdischer Kulturbund and the Künstlerhilfe der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin, 1937/1938 , website in the collections.ushmm.org portal( United States Holocaust Memorial Museum )
- Photo as conductor of the orchestra of the Jewish Cultural Association in 1940 , data sheet in the portal akg-images.fr
- Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
Individual evidence
- ^ Andor Izsák (ed.), Stephan Stompor, Susanne Borchers: Jewish music and theater life under the Nazi state . Series of publications by the European Center for Jewish Music, Volume 6, Hanover 2001, p. 27
- ↑ Joachim Braun, Vladimír Karbusický, Heidi Tamar Hoffmann: Ostracized Music. Composers in the dictatorships of our century. Documentation of the colloquium from 9. – 12. January 1993 in Dresden . Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 66
- ↑ Sylvia Rogge-Gau: The double root of existence. Julius Bab and the Jewish Cultural Association Berlin . Metropol Verlag, Berlin 1999, p. 171
- ↑ Stolperstein Schlaraffia Brunsviga 55 , website in the portal brunsviga-55.de , accessed on August 31, 2018
- ↑ Berthold Sander , website in the portal stolpersteine-fuer-braunschweig.de , accessed on August 31, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sander, Berthold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German conductor and choir director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Emmerich (today: Emmerich am Rhein ) |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1941 |