Carlo Sigmund Taube

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Carlo Sigmund Taube (born July 4, 1897 in Galicia , Austria-Hungary ; died around October 3, 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was an Austrian composer and pianist .

Life

Born in Galicia, he studied music with Ferruccio Busoni in Vienna and earned his living in Vienna , Brno and Prague by performing in cafes and night bars. On December 10, 1941, Taube and his family (wife and one child) were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto . There he composed several songs and, as concert director, led his own camp orchestra, the so-called Stadtkapelle, which upheld the old Bohemian musical tradition of the spa towns. Taubes Lied, A Jewish Child , composed in November 1942 , was the only one of his works created in the camp to survive the end of the war.

On October 1, 1944, he was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, where the transport called "Em" arrived on October 3, 1944. His wife Erika, a poet, was transported to Auschwitz on October 4, 1944 on the transport "En". In Auschwitz concentration camp, both were presumably gassed immediately upon arrival.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Song on Youtube
  2. ^ Zikmund Karel Taube . In: Central database of the names of the Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem. Retrieved March 16, 2019.
  3. ↑ Erika Taubeova . In: Central database of the names of the Holocaust victims . Yad Vashem. Retrieved March 16, 2019.

literature

  • Judaica bohemiae Státní židovské muzeum, 1982. Under inventory number 326 there is also a photocopy of the criticism of the Theresienstadt cabaret by Josef Taussig (the original document is the private property of M. Kárny).
  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks , p. 416 f. Berlin 2008 ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9
  • Joža Karas: Music in Terezín 1941–1945. New York: Pendragon Press, 2008
  • Marianne Baumgartner: The Theresienstadt artist couple Erika and Carlo Taube. A biographical search for traces , in: Documentation archive of Austrian resistance (ed.): YEARBOOK 2011. Focus: Political persecution in the light of biographies , Vienna, 2011, ISBN 978-3-901142-59-8 , pp. 138–166 ( online ) . Very thorough reconstruction of the biographies.

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personal data
SURNAME Taube, Carlo Sigmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian pianist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Galicia , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH around October 3, 1944
Place of death Auschwitz concentration camp