Max Mikhailov

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Michailow , actually Mordechaj Finkelstein (born May 11, 1912 in Berlin , † February 19, 1991 in Munich ), was a German violinist and concert master .

Live and act

At the beginning of the First World War , Finkelstein fled to Sweden with his father, the violinist and band leader Michail Michailow and his mother, the daughter of the concert master Polischuk, and received violin lessons from Leopold Auer . After the war he returned to Berlin with his parents and began studying the violin as Max Michailow on September 1, 1926 at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where his father had also studied . In the end he was accepted into the master class of Alexander Petschnikoff. In addition, he traveled through Europe as a “ child prodigy ”. Like his father in 1914, he too was awarded the Gustav Hollaender Medal for his performance as a violinist on June 12, 1929 .

In early 1933 should the Max Mikhailov Member Berliner Philharmoniker are what the seizure of power prevented the Nazis. The following months shook Mikhailov's health so much that he fell ill with tuberculosis and spent the years 1934 and 1935 in Davos on a cure.

After the Nuremberg Race Laws were passed on September 15, 1935, his career in Germany seemed to be over. He could only appear at the Jewish Cultural Association and, because of the ban on aliases, only under his real name Mordechaj Finkelstein. In the spring of 1941 he was drafted into forced labor. In 1943 he managed to go into hiding. He survived in the stairwells and basements of bombed-out buildings, was seriously injured in a bomb attack and suffered nerve paralysis. He couldn't see a doctor. After recovering, he joined a resistance group. In the last months of the war, Frida Fischer hid him and his mother from the Nazis.

In 1945 he helped rebuild the radio symphony orchestra in Berlin under Soviet occupation. Due to his war injuries, he was not able to pick up a violin again until 1948. With the Berlin Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Artur Rother , he again presented himself to the audience with Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.

In the next few years he was concert master at the Berliner Rundfunk. He also directed a chamber quartet consisting of Helmut Pietsch (2nd violin), Hugo Fricke (viola) and Werner Haupt (cello). It was often heard on the radio in the GDR. He also recorded for the state company Eterna / VEB Deutsche Schallplatte . His piano accompanist was often Erwin Milzkott .

After the construction of the Berlin Wall , Mikhailov left the GDR in 1961 and went to Munich, where he got a position as first concertmaster at the radio. He also made recordings in the West, this time at Telefunken. In 1975 he had to give up the post for health reasons, as the consequences of the war made him difficult. He died on February 19, 1991 in Munich.

The “ Silent Heroes Memorial Center ”, which opened at Rosenthaler Strasse 39 in Berlin-Mitte at the end of October 2009 , also commemorates the fate of Max Michailow.

Audio documents

  • Rimski-Korsakow (1844–1908): Chant Hindu: (Hindu song) from the opera "Sadko". Max Michailow (violin), Erwin Milzkott (piano) Telefunken A 10 942 (matrix number 35 829) DNB
  • M. Michailow Sr.: Gavotte, Op. 2. Max Michailow (violin), Erwin Milzkott (piano). Telefunken A 10 942 (die number 35 831) DNB
  • Max Butting : Small Chamber Music , opus 70. Erwin Milzkott (flute), Erich Erthel (English horn), Max Michailow (violin), Werner Haupt (cello). Eterna / Lied der Zeit Berlin 20/41.
    • 1st movement: Scherzo. ET 20-6287 (die number ET 20 6287) DNB
    • 2nd movement: Danza. ET 20-6288 (die number ET 20 6288) DNB
    • III. Movement: Canzonetta. ET 20-6289 (die number ET 20 6289) DNB
    • IV. Movement: Variazioni senza tema. ET 20-6290 (die number ET 20 6290) DNB

literature

  • Horst JP Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz: The riddle of M. Michailow. In: Fox on 78th issue 19, spring 2000, pp. 16-19.
  • Axel Jockwer: Popular music in the Third Reich. Diss., University of Konstanz 2005. ( Online )
  • Alexander Kulpok: Silent Heroes in Berlin. In: Reinickendorfer Zeitung , No. 2, Dec 08 / Jan 09, p. 3.
  • Rainer E. Lotz : German Ragtime and Prehistory Of Jazz. Storyville Publications, Chigwell 1985.
  • O. author: The Michailow Quartet - About our broadcast on Monday 3:45 p.m., Berliner Rundfunk. In: Unser Rundfunk , No. 47/55, p. 8.
  • Theophil Stengel , Herbert Gerigk (edit.): Lexicon of Jews in Music . With a list of titles of Jewish works. Compiled on behalf of the Reich leadership of the NSDAP on the basis of official, party-officially checked documents. (= Publications of the NSDAP Institute for Research on the Jewish Question, Vol. 2.) Bernhard Hahnefeld, Berlin 1941.

Web links

Illustrations
  • Photo , described as follows: With a Beethoven mane - Willy Steiner conducts the small orchestra of the Deutschlandsender and the Reichssender Berlin at "Wish Concerts for the German Wehrmacht". Berlin, Haus des Rundfunks, Hall 1, September / beginning of October 1939. The black-haired violinist on the right is Max Michailow, concert master. After the capitulation, he also held this position in the successor orchestra of the Great Radio Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Source: Der Deutsche Rundfunk / Funk Post (title in German), Berlin, October 15, 1939.
  • Abraham Pisarek: Photos from the concert of the violinist Max Michailow in the Haus des Rundfunks in 1948.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stengel-Gerigk sp. 74 and 208 call him 'Morduch (Max)'; Mikhailov Sr. is not listed there.
  2. ↑ "Ban on foreign aliases" of October 16, 1935, came into force on November 1, 1935, cf. Jockwer pp. 104, 155-156, 367, 567.
  3. ↑ Horst JP Bergmeier and Rainer E. Lotz: The riddle of M. Michailow. In: Fox at 78th issue 19, spring 2000, p. 17.
  4. ↑ cf. A. Kulpok: Silent Heroes in Berlin , in: Reinickendorfer Zeitung .
  5. ↑ cf. Article by Barnabás: The House of Broadcasting and its Role in the New Beginning of Music. At grammophon-platten.de: One of the first was the Jewish violinist Max Michailow, he offered himself up to the military government and took care of the first cleanup work in the house of the radio. From the 1930s to 1940, Mikhailov was concertmaster in the orchestra of the Jewish Cultural Association in Berlin, where he was among other things leader of a string quartet.
  6. ↑ Cf. the memoirs of Manfred Ganady: In the eastern part of the city the "Berlin Symphony Orchestra" (BSO) was founded; his first conductors were Hans Hildebrandt and Paul Dörrie ... And there was the excellent Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB, founded in 1923!) with the conductors Hermann Abendroth and Rolf Kleinert and the concertmaster Max Michailow. [1]
  7. ^ The issue of the radio newspaper Unser Rundfunk from November 4, 1955 shows a full-page photo of the quartet.
  8. ↑ Recordings with his orchestra were later also released on LP and CD. Cf. Poème by Zdeněk Fibich with the Rundfunk-Orchester München under Werner Schmidt-Boelcke on LP "Klassik Wünsche", label: Parnass - 38 344 8, F 2. Or black eyes on the CD "Ein Russisches Märchen (Popular songs and new ones Melodien aus dem Lande Schiwagos) "Label: SR International - 65 267 7, Format: 3 × CD, Compilation, CD 2, Track 5. Or the meditation from Thais by Massenet on record K Track 3 of the 10-LP set" Klingender Hausschatz Immortal Melodies «(Label: Marcato - 38 677 1, Eurodisc - 38 677 1, Format: 10 × vinyl LP).
  9. ↑ cf. List at Dismarc.org.
  10. ↑ Alexander Kulpok: At the end of October, the "Silent Heroes Memorial Center" was opened in Berlin-Mitte at Rosenthaler Strasse 39. It commemorates those Germans who offered resistance in a special way during the Nazi era by supporting persecuted Jews. A historical chapter that has not been illuminated so far ... Here is the story of a "silent heroine" from Berlin-Neukölln - told in short form from the carefree perspective of a child's eyewitness .... From: Silent Heroes in Berlin - Frida and the rescue of Max Mikhailov. In: Reinickendorfer Zeitung , Dec. 2008 / Jan. 2009. Quoted from the author's website , accessed on June 28, 2013.
  11. ^ Discography of the artist on CHARM , contains 12 titles.
  12. ↑ [2] Dismarc.org lists 10 titles with Michailow and Milzkott.
personal data
SURNAME Mikhailov, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finkelstein, Mordechaj (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German violinist and concert master
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 19th February 1991
Place of death Munich