Leni Alexander
Helene Alexander , known as Leni Alexander (born June 8, 1924 in Breslau , † August 7, 2005 in Santiago de Chile ) was a German-Chilean composer of new music and radio play author.
Life
The child of Jewish parents spent his childhood in Hamburg until 1939. After the destruction of the Hamburg synagogue on the Night of the Reichspogrom from November 9th to 10th, 1938, the parents decided to flee Germany and emigrated to Chile via Amsterdam in 1939.
From the 1950s onwards, she went back to Europe for several study trips. a. to Paris, Cologne and Venice. As a supporter of Allende, she feared for her life again after the military coup in Chile in 1973 , so she stayed in Paris. She got involved in politics after Pinochet came to power and worked for Amnesty International and Chile solidarity committees.
Leni Alexander was the mother of three children.
Musical career
Her musical talent was encouraged early on by her mother, an opera singer, so that she learned the piano and cello. In Chile, Leni Alexander trained as a Montessori teacher and then studied psychology and composition with Fré Focke , Pierre Boulez , Olivier Messiaen , René Leibowitz and Bruno Maderna .
Her Jewish identity and her experiences with two dictatorships flow into Leni Alexander's radio plays and compositions.
literature
- Bettina Frankenbach, "Leni Alexander", in: Life paths of female musicians in the "Third Reich" and in exile. Series Music in the “Third Reich” and in Exile, 8th ed. Working Group Exile Music at the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg . Von Bockel, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3932696379 , pp. 343-361
Web links
- Leni Alexander in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
- Lexical article on Leni Alexander at MUGI - "Music and Gender on the Internet" at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater
- Exile - exilio; Life paths of Leni Alexander , bschaefer.de
- Leni Alexander - composer (Strong Women - The Portrait Series) , wdr.de
credentials
- ↑ Helene Alexander on the pages of Musik und Gender on the Internet , accessed on August 20, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alexander, Leni |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alexander Pollack, Leni; Alexander, Helene |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean-German composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 2005 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |