Greta Klingsberg
Greta Klingsberg b. Hofmeister (born September 11, 1929 in Vienna ) is an Israeli singer and translator. She became known as the female lead Aninka in the children's opera Brundibár , which was performed by prisoners in the Theresienstadt concentration camp .
Life
In 1942, at the age of 13, Klingsberg was deported by the National Socialists to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. There she played the main female role Aninka in more than 50 performances until she was further deported to Auschwitz .
After the liberation from Theresienstadt, where she was transferred again shortly before the end of the war from Oederan , a satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp , she emigrated first to London and later to Jerusalem . There she studied singing at the Jerusalem Conservatoire . In the following years she got the Hebrew translation of Brundibár's libretto .
Klingsberg lives in Jerusalem today.
literature
- Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 396f
- Thomas Gonschior, Christa Spannbauer : Courage to live. The message of the survivors from Auschwitz. Europa Verlag, Berlin et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-944305-57-8
Movie
- Courage to Live - The Message of the Survivors of Auschwitz , 2013, Authors: Christa Spannbauer and Thomas Gonschior
- Reunion with Brundibar cinema documentary about their encounter with a young theater group from the Schaubühne Berlin, 2014, director: Douglas Wolfsperger
Web links
- Brief biography of Klingsberg at Exile Archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Torsten Hampel: The picture disturbance. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 16, 2012.
- ^ Website for the film
- ^ Website for the film
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klingsberg, Greta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli singer and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |