Lisl Frank

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Lisl Frank , real name: Alice Aufrichtig (born as Alice Frankel on January 28, 1911 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died on November 30, 1944, presumably in or near the Christianstadt subcamp ) was a Czechoslovak singer and entertainment artist. She was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Lisl Frank began her artistic career in 1931 as a singer and actress at the Berlin Metropol Theater of the brothers Fritz and Alfred Rotter . Just a year later, the artist returned to her Czech homeland and appeared in the operettas of Teplitz-Schönau and Franzensbad . In 1936 Lisl and her Austrian husband Otto Aufrichtig, who appeared as an artist under the pseudonym Aurich and whom Lisl Frank had known since they both shared the theater in Teplitz-Schönau, decided to move to the Netherlands. There the couple joined Fritz Hirsch's emigrant theater troupe for two years , and Lisl Frank played cheerful songs like “ Men, Men, Men ” there. In February and March 1939 it can also be demonstrated with singing lectures in Rudolf Nelson's revues . From June 1940 to February 1942 Lisl Frank appeared at irregular intervals in the celebrities' cabaret, the last time (June 1942) you saw her at the Joodschen Schouwburg in Amsterdam.

In 1943, Otto and Lisl Aufrichtig were deported from German agencies to the Westerbork transit camp, where both spouses continued to work artistically. In March and April 1944 Lisl Frank's appearances in two cabaret programs by Max Ehrlich called " Bunter Abend 2 und 3 " are documented. On September 6, 1944, Lisl Frank was deported on Transport XXIV / 7, No. 24 to the Theresienstadt ghetto , four weeks later, on October 4, she was transferred to Auschwitz on Transport En, No. 41 . There she escaped gassing, but at the end of November of the same year she had to go on a death march from the Groß-Rosen concentration camp to the Christianstadt satellite camp. Completely exhausted, she probably died there or on the way there on November 30, 1944 under circumstances that have not yet been clarified. Other sources give January 1945 as the time of death. In 1999, six decades after its creation, a selection of songs with Lisl Frank as the singer was published under the title " And Rudi makes music to it ".

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. 388.

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personal data
SURNAME Frank, Lisl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frankel, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak singer
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1944
Place of death Christianstadt subcamp