Lin Jaldati

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Lin Jaldati (1963)
Memorial plaque on the house at
Puschkinallee 41 in Eichwalde
Gravestone in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin

Lin Jaldati (born December 13, 1912 in Amsterdam , † August 31, 1988 in East Berlin ; actually Rebekka Brilleslijper ) was a Dutch singer , actress and dancer .

biography

Lin Jaldati was born the daughter of a fruit and vegetable dealer in a poor part of Amsterdam's Jewish quarter , where she attended elementary school from 1916 to 1922. At the age of 14 she worked in a sewing studio and also took dance lessons. From 1930 she danced in the Dutch ballet and from 1934 participated in the revue of Bob Peters and the Bouwmeeser revue . After the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, she joined the Communist Party .

In 1937 she met the pianist Eberhard Rebling (1911–2008), who had emigrated from Berlin , whom she married in 1942. From 1938 she gave her own evenings with Yiddish songs with him, where she also performed dance performances. She also studied dance with Olga Preobrazhenskaya in Paris and singing with Eberhard E. Wechselmann in The Hague. In 1941 their daughter Kathinka was born. After the German invasion of the Netherlands in May 1940, Jaldati joined the Dutch resistance and in 1942 went underground with her family, where she gave illegal house concerts with Yiddish songs and helped other persecuted Jews . In July 1944 she was arrested and interned in the Westerbork transit camp , the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (together with Anne Frank , whom she had already met in Westerbork). She was freed by British troops in 1945, terminally ill .

At the end of 1945 she appeared again in Amsterdam for the first time , and from 1946 went on concert tours. She continued to study singing with Paula Lindberg in Amsterdam. She came to the Scandinavian countries, Switzerland , Eastern Europe and Germany, where she also performed in Berlin. In 1949 she took part in the World Peace Congress in Paris . In 1951 their daughter Jalda was born. In 1952 the family moved to the GDR on the advice of friends - including Anna Seghers . As a committed communist , she was long regarded as the only official GDR interpreter of Yiddish songs, expanding her repertoire to include songs by Hanns Eisler , Louis Fürnberg , Paul Dessau as well as folk , partisan and peace songs . In 1965 she performed at the Chanson Folklore International Festival at Waldeck Castle . She made numerous radio, television and recordings. From 1979 she worked with her daughter Jalda (vocals), in 1982 with Kathinka (violin) and toured Western Europe, Israel and the USA on several tours .

Lin Jaldati participated as a consultant of the GDR song movement , was a member of the camp community Auschwitz and the National Front belonging organizations Peace Council of the GDR and Human Rights Committee of the GDR .

After her 75th birthday, Jaldati said goodbye to the stage. She died in 1988 and was buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof in Berlin .

In 2020, in a double biography of the sisters Lin and Janny, an extensive account of the participation of the two in the resistance against the German occupation, the time of hiding and the subsequent persecution by the Dutch author Roxane van Iperen was published in German.

Awards

Works

  • Lin Jaldati, Eberhard Rebling: “It burns, brothers it burns!” Yiddish songs. Rütten and Loening, Berlin 1966, 1985, DNB 850737141 .
  • Lin Jaldati, Eberhard Rebling : “Never say you're going the last way!” Memoirs from 1911 to 1988. Der Morgen, Berlin 1986; New edition: (= Collection series. Volume 1). BdWi-Verlag, Marburg 1995, ISBN 3-924684-55-3 .

Discography

  • 1966: Lin Jaldati sings (VEB Deutsche Schallplatte Berlin - Eterna, Order No. 8 10 024)
  • 1982: Lin Jaldati - Yiddish songs (VEB Deutsche Schallplatte Berlin - AMIGA, order no. 8 45 198)
  • 2008: Lin Jaldati & Eberhard Rebling, Yiddish songs (Hastedt Verlag & Musikedition Bremen - HT 5332)

Radio plays

archive

literature

Web links

Commons : Lin Jaldati  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Etzold, Wolfgang Türk (photos): The Dorotheenstädtische Friedhof. The burial places on Berlin's Chausseestrasse. Updated new edition, 1st edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-261-1 , p. 77 f.
  2. ↑ See review: Christoph Horst, Appreciation without Shyness, in: Junge Welt, May 20, 2020, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Jaldati, Lin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brilleslijper, Rebekka; Rebling, Rebekah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1988
Place of death East Berlin