Ottilie Metzger
Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann (born July 15, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main ; died February 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German opera singer ( alto ) and singing teacher.
Life
Ottilie Metzger was a student of Selma Nicklass-Kempner , Georg Vogel and Emanuel Reicher (acting). She made her debut in Halle in 1898 . She had engagements in Cologne, was first contralto in Hamburg from 1903 to 1915 and appeared in guest performances by Enrico Caruso in the female title roles. From 1902 to 1908 she was married to the writer Clemens Froitzheim . In Hamburg she met the bass-baritone Theodor Lattermann , whom she married for a second time in 1910.
Further stations in her career were Dresden, Bayreuth, where she repeatedly appeared at the Festival, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Prague, Zurich, Amsterdam, Munich, Budapest, London and a tour with Leo Blech in the USA (1923). In 1925 she ended her stage career (in connection with the serious illness of her husband, who died on March 4, 1926 at the age of 46), but continued to work as a song singer (accompanied by Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner, among others ). She gave her last concerts in 1933 (under the conductor Bruno Walter in Berlin and Otto Klemperer in Dresden). From 1927 she worked as a singing teacher, a. a. at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where she herself began her training. All of this ended in 1933 with the handover of power to the National Socialists in Germany in 1933. In Herbert Gerigks and Theophil Stengels Lexikon der Juden in der Musik she was denounced as a Jew and was banned from performing.
In the following years she became involved with the Jewish Cultural Association (1935–1937). In 1939 she fled to her daughter Susanne in Brussels . There she was arrested by the German occupiers in 1942, deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered.
student
- Benno Arnold , opera singer
literature
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania-Verlag, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4
- Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 234.
- Hannes Heer , Jürgen Kesting, Peter Schmidt: Silent voices: the expulsion of the "Jews" from the opera in 1933 . Exhibition tour since 2008
- Metzger-Lattermann, Ottilie . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, pp. 16387-16390
Web links
- Literature by and about Ottilie Metzger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ottilie Metzger in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
- informative page with many pictures
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lattermann, Theodor . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, pp. 13861f.
- ↑ Eva Weissweiler eliminated! The Lexicon of the Jews in Music and its Murderous Consequences. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2 , p. 278
- ↑ Arnold, Benno . In: Large song dictionary . 2000, pp. 790f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Butcher, Ottilie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Metzger-Lattermann, Ottilie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German opera singer (alto) and singing teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 15, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1943 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz concentration camp |