Hilde Rosenberg

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Hilde Rosenberg (* 1928 in Lodz , Polish Łódź; † February 1, 2019 in Hamburg ) was a Hamburg original and showman . Since 1946 she has been a full-time fortune teller by reading cards and palm reading and thus to 2015 under her stage name Mama Blume at the Hamburg Cathedral and other popular festivals in Germany.

Life, family and work

Rosenberg grew up in a Sinti family , her father was an exterminator . She learned fortune telling from her mother as a child and practiced it on the street with other children. Due to persecution during the Nazi era , she only enjoyed a few years of schooling and never really learned to read and write. In Bergen-Belsen , she met her future husband Lani, a musician know. He was also a Sinto. Only he and his sisters survived the concentration camp, his parents and all of his brothers perished. After the liberation they went to his hometown Hamburg in 1945. The couple had six children, and Rosenberg's grandchildren and great-grandchildren now also live in Hamburg. Her youngest child, daughter Simona, called "Esmeralda" (born 1964), will continue fortune-telling at the cathedral from 2015, her son Tornado is a musician and wrote a book about the life story of his parents called Vom Glück im Leben . Regarding her fate, Rosenberg said in an interview in 2014 that she had forgiven the Germans, but could not forget their actions. Throughout her life she was self-confident about her Sintiza origin and described herself as a gypsy .

Rosenberg was considered the grande dame of her profession and was a role model and teacher for other fortune tellers. In addition, with her distinctive circus wagon , she was an integral part of the showmen at the Hamburg Cathedral, which was also well known nationwide .

The singer Marianne Rosenberg belongs to a branch of the family.

Fate under National Socialism

After the German invasion of Poland , Rosenberg had to leave school at the age of 11 and was sent to a labor camp. At 14, she was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and did forced labor in an assigned ammunition factory . She experienced numerous abuse in the camp; Bone fractures caused by this and not treated, resulting in their permanent disabilities. Ultimately, she attributed her survival to the fact that she read from the hands of SS guards and predicted a positive future for them. Her mother was murdered in the camp, as was a cousin.

Literature & sources

  • undated: "The Rosenbergs, my friendship with a Sinti family", report by Tania Kibermanis in the weekend magazine FR7 of the Frankfurter Rundschau , www.frstory.de/rosenberg/
  • 2009 "Mama Blume - the fortune teller from the cathedral", report by NDR from July 23, 2009 (not available on the Internet)
  • 2014 “Everything just for show”, Summer Cathedral Hamburg. Temporary portrait online.
  • 2019 "Lani Rosenberg and Mama Blume - About happiness in life", by Tornado Rosenberg, epubli-Verlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7485-1127-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary: Farewell to Mama Blume, Holocaust survivor. In: Zeit Online. February 17, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Central Council of German Sinti and Roma mourns Hilde Rosenberg. In: Central Council of Sinti and Roma Online. February 22, 2019, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Esmeralda inherits Mama's fortune teller's car. In: Bild Online. November 28, 2015, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ The mysterious disappearance of the fortune teller's car by Esmeralda Rosenberg. In: Stern Online. January 9, 2020, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  5. ^ Carrot and Games - Portraits of the Hamburg Cathedral. In: Geo Online. February 9, 2015, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Everything just for show, Summer Cathedral Hamburg. In: Zeit Online. July 24, 2014, accessed February 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rosenberg, Hilde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mama Blume (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German showwoman
DATE OF BIRTH 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Lodz
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 2019
Place of death Hamburg