Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese

Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese (born August 25, 1886 in Roßwiese, Landsberg district, Warthe , † 1942 in the Riga ghetto ) was a German pianist , composer and librettist .

Already during his high school time (first in Landsberg, later at the Königstädtisches Gymnasium in Berlin ) he took piano lessons. He studied from 1907 to 1909 at the Stern Conservatory and at the University of Berlin, and later at the University of Munich . From 1914 he worked in Leipzig as a pianist, piano teacher, composer and librettist.

Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese was a member of the Reich Association of German Sound Artists and Music Teachers and had been the editor in charge of the programs for the Philharmonic Concerts in Leipzig since 1921 . In 1928 he became an employee of the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG, forerunner of the MDR ), initially as the successor to Wilhelm Rettich as head of the record department, from 1930 as head of the concert department. From 1932 to 1933 he was a lecturer in radio music at the radio institute initiated by MIRAG.

Liebermann-Roßwiese was baptized as a Protestant, but was still considered a Jew after 1933 . After unsuccessful attempts to get a job in Turkey, he applied - also unsuccessfully - to the Dutch radio in 1938. Most recently he lived in a “ Jewish house ” in Leipzig. On January 21, 1942 , he was deported to the Riga ghetto and murdered there that same year.

See also

• List of composers persecuted by the Nazi regime or its allies

Web links

• Erich Liebermann-Roßwiese in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)