Margarethe Quidde

Ludwig and Margarethe Quidde

Margarethe Quidde , b. Margarethe Jacobson (born June 11, 1858 in Königsberg i. Pr. , † April 25, 1940 in Munich ) was a German musician and writer.

Life

Margarethes parents were Julius Jacobson , the director of the Königsberg University Eye Clinic, and Hermine Jacobson geb. Haller , a Grand Ducal Saxon-Weimar court opera singer. Margarethe studied piano playing and composition with Woldemar Bargiel and violoncello with Robert Hausmann at the Royal University of Music in Berlin from 1874 to 1879 . On the recommendation of Joseph Joachim , she continued her cello studies from 1880 to 1882 with Alfredo Piatti in Cadenabbia . As a pianist and cellist , she has given concerts in Germany, Austria, England and Switzerland. From 1912 she played as a cellist in the Michaelis Quartet in Munich.

In 1882 she married the historian Ludwig Quidde in Königsberg . At her husband's request, she largely renounced a public career as a musician. She moved with him to Frankfurt am Main , in 1886 back to Königsberg and finally in 1890 to Munich , where she appeared occasionally as a pianist and cellist, but mainly as a writer , editor , music critic and translator . Her best-known work was the satirical "Heresies from the Bayreuth Sanctuary" from 1896. In Munich she was the center of a Mozart community. With her husband, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1927 , she was involved in the peace movement and was a member of the Bund for Radical Ethics founded by Magnus Schwantje .

She also founded an association for animal protection and against vivisection in Munich in 1896 with her husband .

In 1933 Ludwig Quidde fled from the National Socialists into exile in Switzerland . Margarete Quidde stayed in Munich to take care of her sick sister. Stigmatized and persecuted as a " half-Jew ", she was protected by her mixed marriage with her " Aryan ", but also persecuted, husband.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Renate Brucker: Animal rights and peace movement. “Radical Ethics” and Social Progress in German History . In: Dorothee Brantz, Christof Mauch (Ed.): Animal history. The relationship between humans and animals in modern culture . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76382-2 , pp. 268–285, here p. 281.

personal data
SURNAME	Quidde, Margarethe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jacobson, Margarethe (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German musician and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 11, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1940
Place of death	Munich

[1] Renate Brucker: Animal rights and peace movement. “Radical Ethics” and Social Progress in German History . In: Dorothee Brantz, Christof Mauch (Ed.): Animal history. The relationship between humans and animals in modern culture . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76382-2 , pp. 268–285, here p. 281.