Paul Aron Sandfort

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Paul Aron Sandfort (born Paul Efim Rabinowitsch July 12, 1930 in Hamburg ; died December 29, 2007 in Hornbæk ) was a Danish musicologist.

Life

Paul Efim Rabinowitsch was a son of Aron Rabinowitsch and Maria Warschavsky. Aron Rabinowitsch was later murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp . His mother and stepfather Max Kern fled to Denmark with their children in the face of the German persecution of the Jews in 1935 . Rabinowitsch learned the piano and trumpet . In 1943, while trying to escape from occupied Denmark to Sweden , he and his parents were arrested and deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto , but his two older brothers managed to escape.

Rabinowitsch was separated from his parents in the Theresienstadt ghetto and placed in the L 414 youth home. He participated in the cultural events of the Jewish ghetto administration and among other things played the trumpet in performances of the children's opera Brundibár by Hans Krása . In the course of the liberation of the Danish Jews negotiated by the International Red Cross , he came to Sweden together with his mother and stepfather in April 1945 and returned to Denmark after the war.

Rabinowitsch finished school and studied musicology and German. From 1959 to 1964 he stayed in Italy and studied opera directing. He worked for two years as an assistant director at the Opera House in Rome .

In Denmark, Rabinowitsch worked as a music teacher at the Schneekloths Skole high school . Later he also worked at the Det Danske Institute for Videnskab og Kunst in Rome in Italy. In 1972 he changed his name to Paul Aron Sandfort, Aron in memory of his father.

In 1999 he staged the children's opera Brundibár with the Helios Theater in Hamm and made a tour with the Jeunesse Musicale . His play The Visit deals with the inspection of the Theresienstadt ghetto by a delegation from the Red Cross. Sandfort was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in Copenhagen in 1999 . In 2006 he composed an overture for Brundibár .

Fonts

  • Ben. Bird from abroad: novel . Cologne: Dittrich, 2000 ISBN 978-3-920862-60-6
  • Replenishment . Composition for narrator, string quartet, flute and trumpet. Text Sandfort.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Anderson: Paul Aron Sandfort: Survivor of the Terezín ghetto , obituary in: The Independent, March 17, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Sandfort, Paul Aron
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rabinowitsch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2007
Place of death Hornbæk