Julie Salinger (singer)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julie Salinger (born June 6, 1873 in Sárvár , Austria-Hungary ; died after May 8, 1945) was a Hungarian-German opera singer (soprano).

Life

Julie Salinger worked as an opera singer from 1894 to 1933, primarily in Hamburg , and was honored as a Royal Prussian Chamber Singer . She had German citizenship. She had two illegitimate sons with Prince Heinrich of Prussia , brother of the German Emperor Wilhelm II : Otto Graf von der Schulenburg and Gustav Graf von der Schulenburg. Her civil marriage with Max Schlesinger was divorced.

During the First World War she was a hospital nurse in Hamburg and was awarded the Red Eagle Order IV class .

On June 17, 1942, as a Jew, she was deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , where she was classified as a prominent prisoner . It can be seen in a short sequence in the 1944 propaganda film Theresienstadt by Kurt Gerron , which has only survived in fragments .

She survived the camp imprisonment.

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. 410.

Web links

  • Julie Salinger , near Ghetto-Theresienstadt. There is an index card with the details of your CV and photo.

Remarks

  1. Salinger's singing activity is not listed in the singer lexicon. Karl-Josef Kutsch , Leo Riemens : Large singer lexicon . Fourth, expanded and updated edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-598-11598-9 .
  2. Karel Magry: The concentration camp as an idyll: "Theresienstadt" - a documentary film from the Jewish settlement area . In: Fritz Bauer Institute (ed.): Auschwitz - history, reception and effect . Campus, Frankfurt 1997, pp. 319–352, here p. 338.