Hanna Litten
Hanna Litten (born on May 17, 1920 in Berlin ; died on October 29, 1942 in the Riga-Jungfernhof concentration camp , Latvia ) was a German set designer .
Life
Due to her young age, Hanna Litten never had the opportunity, as a Jew in the Third Reich, to prove her talent as a stage designer in a theater open to the general public, and so her artistic work is limited exclusively to theater performances within the framework of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden her hometown Berlin. There she achieved extraordinary things despite the very limited access to materials. Her first work in 1939 was the set for the operetta Countess Mariza by Emmerich Kálmán , her last drafts also supplied the final Kulturbund performance in August 1941, Spiel im Schloss by Franz Molnar . After the closure of the last cultural institution left by the Jews in September 1941, the brunette artist was completely isolated. On October 26, 1942, she was deported to the Riga ghetto, where Hanna Litten was shot shortly after arriving at the Jungfernhof camp.
Web links
- Hanna Litten on akg-images.de
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. 401.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Litten, Hanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German set designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1942 |
| Place of death | Riga-Jungfernhof concentration camp , Latvia |