Horst Prentki

Horst Prentki (born April 19, 1922 in Berlin ) is a German-Uruguayan clarinetist .

As a teenager, Prentki learned to play the clarinet and piano. Because of the anti-Semitic Nazi legislation, he had to leave the Sophien-Gymnasium in Berlin in 1937; until 1940 he attended the Jewish private music school Hollaender , which was located at Sybelstrasse 9 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. At the age of 16 he became the youngest member of the orchestra of what was then the Jewish Cultural Association , of which he was a member until his emigration in 1940. In October 1940 he and his parents managed to escape to Uruguay , and he has lived in Montevideo ever since .

In 1945 he became principal clarinetist in the local radio symphony orchestra in Montevideo, and in 1959 he became a member of the Montevideo Municipal Symphony Orchestra. He co-founded various chamber music groups, in 1973 he founded the "Trio Prentki" with his two sons Esteban and German. His son German Prentki is a cellist.

In 1975 he was appointed professor of clarinet and saxophone at the Montevideo Conservatory, and in 1977 he became principal clarinetist in the Uruguayan National Chamber Orchestra.

In 1992 Prentki visited Berlin again for the first time, where he has since performed numerous appearances.

source

• Program of a discussion concert with Prentki on February 17, 1998 at the Ibero-American Institute of Prussian Cultural Heritage (leaflet)

Web links

• Page about a collecting cup that Prentki gave to the Prenzlauer Berg Museum in "Museum-Digital.de"
• Report on Prentki in Berlin in the Tagesspiegel
• Report on Prentki in the Berliner Kurier

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/vha31687 - Testimony von Prentki in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2. ↑ see also http://www.gedenkenafeln-in-berlin.de/fileadmin/inhalte/stoffen/07_Charlottenburg/sybelstr_9_mat_1_01.pdf and Weblink Digitales Museum
3. ↑ see page about German Prentki at http://www.siwikultur.de/khb/2/1/185.htm