Konrad Latte

Konrad Latte (born May 5, 1922 in Breslau ; † May 21, 2005 in Berlin ) was a German musician and survivor of the Holocaust .

Life

Latte grew up in an assimilated family. He was a student of Edwin Fischer and Leo Borchard . According to the Nuremberg race laws , however, he was considered a Jew and was subject to persecution. Most recently he worked as an organist in the St. Anne's Church in Dahlem . In 1943 he went into hiding with his parents in Berlin. While his sister Gabi died of scarlet fever and his parents Margarete and Manfred Latte were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp , Konrad Latte survived the war years underground. Among his prominent helpers were the composer Gottfried von Eine , Pastor Harald Poelchau , the pianist Edwin Fischer, the conductor Leo Borchard, the journalist Ruth Andreas-Friedrich , the actress Ursula Meißner and Anne-Lise Harich , who, according to the authors of the Blue, he worked with Book about Erich Kästner , who also supported him, lived. During his time with Anne-Lise Harich in Zehlendorf, he used the code name Bauer. He also wore a badge of the German Workers' Front as camouflage .

After the war, Konrad Latte worked as a répétiteur with conducting duties in Cottbus (1949–52) and as a musical director in Bautzen (1952/53). In 1953 he founded the Berlin Baroque Orchestra, which he directed until 1997. Most recently he lived with his wife Ellen in Berlin-Wannsee .

literature

• Peter Schneider : And if we only win an hour. How a Jewish Musician Survived the Nazi Years . Rowohlt, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-87134-431-2
• Konrad Latte - Survival under the swastika (1999), documentary, director: Irmgard von zur Mühlen
• Anat Feinberg : Nachklänge - Jewish Musicians in Germany after 1945 . Philo Verlag, Berlin / Vienna 2005, ISBN 978-3-86572-503-5
• Michael Schweizer: The Jewish musician told Peter Schneider about his years in the underground: How Konrad Latte survived the Nazi era. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 30, 2001 . 
• Peter Schneider : Konrad or the love of music . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2000 ( online ).
• Anita Lasker-Wallfisch : You should inherit the truth: the cellist from Auschwitz. Memories. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 2000, ISBN 978-3499226700

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Latte in the catalog of the German National Library
• Beate Kosmala: Musician on the run from the Gestapo. In: Netzeitung . September 2, 2004 . 
• Peter Schneider: Saving Konrad Latte. In: The New York Times . February 13, 2000 (English). 
• Klaus Harpprecht: Life story: The other Germany. In: The time . March 22, 2001 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Willy Cohn : No right, nowhere. Diary of the fall of Wroclaw Jewry 1933–1941 . Edited by Norbert Conrads . 2 volumes, 2nd edition Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2007, p. 761, ISBN 3-412-32905-3 (= New Research on Silesian History. Volume 13, 1–2).
2. ^ Nicole Ristow: Konrad Latte. In: Lexicon of persecuted musicians from the Nazi era. University of Hamburg, accessed on June 6, 2020 . 
3. ^ Website of the State of Berlin, district lexicon [1]