Edith Boroschek
Edith Boroschek b. Edith Friedländer ( 1898 in Berlin - 1976 in Düsseldorf ) was a German concert singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .
Life
Edith Friedländer studied singing at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, and from 1922 also with Frederick Husler , who came to the Stern Conservatory in 1922 and also gave private lessons. She has appeared as a song and concert singer as a soloist in Hamburg , Cologne , Hanover and Berlin. In 1921 she married the young stock exchange trader Paul Boroschek (1900–1967), and in 1922 they gave birth to their son Wolfgang.
After the seizure of power of the Nazis , she fled in 1933 because of her Jewish origin with her husband and son to Palestine . Since she learned Hebrew very quickly there, she was soon able to establish herself professionally. In spring 1935 she sang songs by Gustav Mahler , accompanied by the Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra under Michael Taube . Taube often accompanied her on the piano in song recitals . In the same year she appeared again with the Tel Aviv Symphony Orchestra, this time under the direction of Georg Singer (1906–1980). At the beginning of 1936 she sang a song cycle by Franz Schubert in German, thereby breaking a taboo , as the German language was frowned upon among the Jewish population of Palestine. Soon afterwards she repeated with Dela Gotthelft , under the direction of Karel Salmon , a concert that the three had already given in Berlin in 1932, with scenes from Handel's “Salomon” and Carissimi's “Historia di Jephte” and Bach's cantata No. 196. Ab In 1939 she was a member of the radio choir of the Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS), which in 1948 became Kol Israel (Radio Israel). For the radio she sang songs by Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972), among others .
In autumn 1935 she began teaching for ten years at the Palestine Conservatory, founded in 1933 by the Hungarian violinist Emil Hauser (1893–1978), and at the Academy of Music in Jerusalem . She later gave private singing lessons. One of her best-known students was Hilde Zadek .
Edith Boroschek suffered greatly from being expelled from Germany, and in 1957 she returned to Germany with her husband Paul. She died in Düsseldorf in 1976.
progeny
Her son Wolfgang (1922–1997) stayed in Israel . He had changed his name to Zvi Brosh , served in the Israeli War of Independence , rose to lieutenant colonel in the Israel Defense Forces and then served in the diplomatic service from 1962 to 1988 , including as ambassador to Burma and Romania and as consul general in Chicago and Los Angeles .
literature
- Barbara von der Lühe : The Emigration of German-Speaking Musicians to the British Mandate Palestine. Her contribution to the development of Israeli radio, opera and music education since 1933. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al., 1999.
Web links
- Edith Boroschek in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians from the Nazi Era (LexM)
Remarks
- ↑ http://www.lexm.uni-hamburg.de/object/lexm_lexmperson_00002409?wcmsID=0003
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boroschek, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Friedländer, Edith (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German concert singer (soprano) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1976 |
| Place of death | Dusseldorf |