Ilse Rieth

Ilse Rieth (born June 25, 1928 in Hamburg-Bergedorf ) is a German choir director and holder of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

She grew up as the daughter of an export merchant and a housewife in the Bergedorf district with her three older brothers. During the Second World War , her family was severely burdened, her eldest brother was killed and the other two were badly wounded. As a child, Rieth learned to play the recorder and the piano . In 1948 she graduated from the Luisen-Gymnasium in Hamburg-Bergedorf. Then began a three-year study of church music in Hamburg. Ilse Rieth then worked for 17 years as a church musician in various parishes, such as in Moorrege and Uetersen, and then worked as a music teacher at the secondary school in Tornesch and in Uetersen until she retired.

Ilse Rieth was the founder of the Uetersen Choirboys at the Erlöserkirche in 1965 and directed the nationally known boys' choir for more than 25 years until 1991. During this time, the choir performed several times in the Current Schaubude and traveled through Europe and the United States . Other highlights were the encounters with the then Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Pope . In 1968 she founded a recorder choir and a chamber choir that came into being ten years later.

For her important musical work, she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1986 by the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker . The city of Uetersen also awarded Ilse Rieth the city's Ehrentaler in 1991 and the rose needle in 1999.

literature

• Laura Silber: Choirboys . In: The Uetersen Lexicon . Schmidt & Klaunig, Kiel 2012 ISBN 978-388312-421-6 , pp. 25-28