Grete Forst

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Grete Forst (born August 16, 1878 as Margarete Feiglstock in Vienna ; died June 1, 1942 in the Maly Trostinez extermination camp near Minsk ) was an Austrian soprano who was a victim of the Holocaust .

Forst was trained under Hermine Granichstätten . For the first time in 1898 she made a public appearance at a student concert. She made her stage debut as a singer in 1900 at the Cologne Opera in the title role in Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor . In 1903 she moved to the Vienna Court Opera , where she had previously appeared a few times as a guest singer. Her first role there was again that of Lucia. She had the greatest successes of her career during this time, for example in 1907 in the title role in the Vienna premiere of Puccini's Madama Butterfly .

Forst married the banker Hans Schuschny in 1911 . After her marriage, she left the Vienna Court Opera and then had guest appearances, worked as a concert singer and taught singing in Vienna. From then on she usually appeared under the stage name Grete Forst-Schuschny.

While her son emigrated to the USA in 1939 , Forst stayed in Vienna and converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1940. On May 27, 1942, she was deported on a transport from Vienna to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp , where she was murdered a few days later on June 1, 1942.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ilse Korotin (Ed.): BiografıA. Lexicon of Austrian Women. Volume 1: A-H. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-79590-2 , p. 868.
  2. ↑ a b c Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . De Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-094655-0 , pp. 422 .
  3. ^ Institute for Modern and Contemporary History Research (Hrsg.): Austrian Biographical Lexicon . tape 11 , p. 379 ( biographien.ac.at [PDF]).
  4. ^ Hans Morgenstern: Jüdisches biographisches Lexikon: a collection of important personalities of Jewish origin from 1800 . Lit Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-0509-8 , pp. 238 .
  5. ↑ Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . tape 4 . De Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 978-3-598-44088-5 , p. 1521 .
personal data
SURNAME Forst, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Forst, Margarete; Feiglstock, Margarete (maiden name); Feiglstock, Grete; Forst-Schuschny, Grete; Forst-Schuschny, Margarete; Schuschny, Grete; Schuschny, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian soprano
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1942
Place of death Maly Trostinez extermination camp