Helmut Kallmann

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Helmut Max Kallmann (born August 7, 1922 in Berlin ; died February 12, 2012 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian music historian and librarian .

Life

Arthur Kallmann to Helmut Kallmann, June 13, 1941
Stumbling block for Arthur Kallmann in Berlin's Geisbergstrasse

Helmut Kallmann's father was the lawyer Arthur Kallmann (1873–1943) in Berlin, the publisher of the “German Jurists Calendar”. After the handover of power to the National Socialists in 1933, Helmut had to leave the secondary school and attend the Jewish high school of the Berlin Jewish community . His father gave him his first music lessons. After the November pogroms he was rescued at the age of sixteen in 1939 on a Kindertransport to Great Britain . His father was murdered in the Theresienstadt ghetto , his mother Fanny Paradies (1894–1944) in the Auschwitz concentration camp , and his sister Eva in the Riga ghetto . Helmut Kallmann married the actress Ruth Singer in 1955, they had no children.

Kallmann was interned as an enemy alien when the war broke out and deported to Canada in July 1940, where he lived in a POW camp until 1943. From 1944 he was able to work in a bookstore in Toronto and had piano lessons with Naomi Adaskin, Florence Steinhauer and Greta Kraus . From 1946 to 1949 he studied music at the University of Toronto . During his studies he began to take care of Canadian composers, as these were not mentioned in the curriculum.

In 1946, Kallmann acquired Canadian citizenship.

He became a librarian at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio station in 1950 , and from 1962 onwards. In 1965 he organized a CBC radio documentary series Music in Canada . He then headed the music department of the Canadian National Library from 1970 , which he initially helped set up.

Kallmann was co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada between 1981 and 1992. He edited the biographies of the Canadian composers Joseph Quesnel , Theodore F. Molt, Healey Willan and James P. Clarke, arranged for the performance of music by Canadian musicians and in 1988 led an exhibition to Glenn Gould . From 1975 he was a visiting lecturer at Carleton University . He also wrote articles for the German encyclopedia Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart , including the one about himself in 2003.

Honors

  • 1977 "Médaille du Conseil canadien de la musique"
  • 1986 Appointed to the Order of Canada
  • 2000 - 2012 Le Prix Helmut Kallmann , awarded five times by the "Association canadienne des bibliothèques, archives et centers de documentation musicaux" (ACBM)

Fonts (selection)

  • Catalog of Canadian Composers. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CBC, Toronto 1952
  • Canada in: The Music in Past and Present (MGG), Kassel 1958
  • A History of Music in Canada 1534-1914. Toronto 1960, again with additions in 1987
  • with Gilles Potvin, Kenneth Winters (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Music in Canada . University of Toronto Press, 1981 print, 2nd edition 1992
  • The German Contribution to Music in Canada. A Bibliography. In: Deutsch-Kanadisches Jahrbuch - German-Canadian Yearbook . University of Toronto Press, 1983, ISSN  0316-8603 pp. 228-233
    • The German Contribution to Music in Canada, ibid. Vol. 2, 1975, pp. 108-120
  • John Beckwith, Robin Elliott Eds .: Mapping Canada's Music. Selected Writings by Helmut Kallmann. Wilfrid Laurier University Press , Waterloo (Ontario) 2013 ISBN 155458891X

literature

  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Eds.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945. Vol. 2, Part. 1. Saur, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 588
  • Kallmann, Helmut . In: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.): MGG . tape 9 . Bärenreiter Verlag, 2003, Sp. 1410-1411 .
  • John Beckwith ; Frederick A. Hall : Musical Canada. Words and Music Honoring Helmut Kallmann. 1988
  • Gerd Braune: Escape into the unknown. Kindertransporte saved many young Jews from the Nazis, for example Helmut Kallmann. Frankfurter Rundschau on the weekend, FR, Time and Image section, June 19, 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Kallmann ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . 2012
  2. ↑ On this matter see Annette Puckhaber, A privilege for a few. German-speaking migration to Canada in the shadow of National Socialism. Lit, Münster 2002 ISBN 3825862194 Chap. 4: The group of deported refugees , p. 173ff. Kallmann granted interviews to the author. Full text
  3. ↑ It will be continued bilingual. updated online as a section of the Encyclopédie Canadienne . The website is common. Kallmann wrote the first version of several dozen musicological articles, also one on the so-called "Massey Commission" and one on the "Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences" 1949-1951.
personal data
SURNAME Kallmann, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kallmann, Helmut Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian musicologist and librarian
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 2012
Place of death Ottawa