Edith Kraus
Edith Kraus (born May 16, 1913 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ; died September 3, 2013 in Jerusalem , also Edith Kraus-Bloedy; Edith Kraus-Steiner ) was an Israeli pianist.
Life
Edith Kraus' father ran a linen business in Vienna with a branch in Karlsbad , where Edith had grown up since 1919. She was considered a musical child prodigy and made her first appearance with the Karlovy Vary Orchestra in Mozart's Piano Concerto in C minor when she was eleven . In 1927, she was with a letter of Alma Mahler of Artur Schnabel in the master class in Berlin added. From 1930 she worked as a piano teacher in Prague and also appeared on the radio. In 1933 she married the Prague factory owner Karl Steiner. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, she was banned from working or performing. In 1942 they were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , Steiner and his mother and sister were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on the October 1944 transports .
After the liberation she married Arpad Bloedy for the second time in 1947, and a daughter was born in 1948. In 1949 they emigrated to Israel . Edith Kraus initially taught all interested neighborhood children until she taught at the Tel Aviv Music Academy from 1957 to 1981. Tel Aviv University .
Kraus devoted herself mainly to the Viennese Classic , the Second Viennese School and the music of Viktor Ullmann and Pavel Haas , so-called Theresienstadt composers, who she had experienced there. She paid particular attention to Pavel Haas. Viktor Ullmann asked her to premiere his 6th piano sonata in Theresienstadt.
She made CD recordings, gave lectures in various countries and took part in TV documentaries. In 1993 Kraus recorded Ullmann's first four piano sonatas in Prague. In 1998 she suffered a stroke. This affected her left hand so much that she could no longer step. She began to give master classes: Music and Rememberance took place in Israel and Prague in the following years, until Edith Kraus came back to Germany for the first time in 2002 to give master classes in Schwerin and to participate as a juror in the “Ostracized Music” competition.
literature
- Friederike Haufe and Volker Ahmels : Encounter with women of the century. The pianists Edith Kraus and Alice Herz Sommer. In: Neue Musikzeitung , June 6, 1999, p. 31. online
- Julia Grunwald: Edith Kraus. In: Life paths of female musicians in the “Third Reich” and in exile. Series Music in the “Third Reich” and in Exile , 8th ed. Working Group Exile Music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg . Von Bockel, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-93269637-9 , pp. 229-251.
- Alisa Douer : New territory. Israeli artists of Austrian origin. Picus, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85452-407-2 , pp. 184f. (Book accompanying the exhibition of the same name).
Movie
- Marita Barthel-Rösing and Wilhelm Rösing: Enjoy the Music - The pianist Edith Kraus - from the child prodigy through Theresienstadt to Israel. Documentary. 2012, 99 min.
Web links
- Literature by and about Edith Kraus in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature by and about Edith Kraus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Edith Kraus , with Leo Kestenberg
- Edith Kraus , biography, in: MUGI-Music and Gender on the Internet, University of Music and Theater Hamburg
- Edith Kraus , at the Exile Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obituary , in Orpheus
- ^ A b Julia Grunwald: Edith Kraus-Bloedy , biography, in: MUGI-Music and Gender on the Internet, University of Music and Theater Hamburg
- ^ Joseph Croitoru : Child prodigy. On the death of Edith Kraus. FAZ , September 12, 2013, p. 32
- ↑ Film website , accessed December 3, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kraus, Edith |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kraus-Bloedy, Edith; Kraus-Steiner, Edith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 2013 |
| Place of death | Jerusalem |