Margarete Netke-Lion
Margarete Julia Netke-Löwe (born June 27, 1889 in Breslau , † 1971 in Tokyo ) was a German soprano singer.
Career
Margarete Löwe was born as the daughter of the Jewish journalist Ernst Löwe. After graduating from high school, she trained as a language teacher in Breslau and then studied with Johannes Messchaert in Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt am Main. After concerts in Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and the Baltic States, she was invited to the Imperial Music Academy in Tokyo in 1924, where she taught singing until 1931. She then taught at the Kunitachi private music academy . She went on concert tours through Japan, Formosa, Manchuria and China.
She was married to the photographer Martin Netke.
When the National Socialists came to power in Germany, the Jewish singer and her husband were increasingly excluded from the German colony in Tokyo and also from the OAG as so-called “Jewish Versippte” in the mid-1930s, and were also expatriated from Germany. Margarethe Netke-Löwe was only able to return to the service of the Music Academy in 1948.
Honors
- 1955: Cross of Merit (Steckkreuz) of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Joachim Braun, Vladimír Karbusický, Heidi Tamar Hoffmann: Ostracized Music: Composers in the dictatorships of our century. Peter Lang, Dresden 1995
- The Japan who's who. Tokyo News Service, Tokyo 1950–1951
Individual evidence
- ↑ elsewhere, 1884 and 1885 are also given as the year of birth
- ↑ Home ホ ー ム ペ ー ジ - Subject areas テ ー マ 別 分野 AZ - Music. In: das-japanische-gedaechtnis.de. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Netke-Leo, Margarete |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Netke-Löwe, Margarete Julia (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German soprano singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 27, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1971 |
| Place of death | Tokyo |