Paul Blumenfeld

Paul Blumenfeld (born April 12, 1901 in Berlin ; died April 25, 2001 in London ) was a German musician ( cellist ).

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Born in Berlin, he received lessons in violin and cello playing and later went to college in his hometown. Blumenfeld began his artistic career in 1929 as a cellist in the Bruinier Quartet, until in 1933 he was banned from performing because of his Jewish faith. Until then, he also took part in the Berlin radio hour and was a member of the Tobis film orchestra. In 1933 he joined the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden and, as a cellist, was a member of the so-called Mendelssohn Trio from 1936 to 1939. At the beginning of June 1939 Paul Blumenfeld fled to England, where he continued his cellist career from 1943 to 1960 in various formations such as the Polish String Quartet, the Ballet Rambert Orchestra and the orchestra of the Sadler's Wells Opera. In addition, Blumenfeld performed in several Jewish institutions and gave cello lessons. The musician died almost two weeks after his 100th birthday in his English exile.

Web links

• Paul Blumenfeld on lexm.uni-hamburg.de
• Paul Blumenfeld on books.google.de
• Part of Paul Blumenfeld's estate in the German Exile Archive of the German National Library

literature

• Jutta Raab Hansen: Nazi persecuted musicians in England. Traces of German and Austrian refugees in British musical culture (= music in the “Third Reich” and in exile, vol. 1, Hanns-Werner Heister, Peter Petersen (ed.)), Phil. Dissertation University of Hamburg 1995, Hamburg: von Bockel, 1996.
• Agata Schindler: Dresden List. Music city of Dresden and the Nazi persecution of Jews 1933–1945 in words and pictures. A contribution to the history of music in Dresden, Dresden: 2003.
• Thomas Schinköth: Jewish musicians in Leipzig 1855–1945, Altenburg: Kamprad, 1994.
• Stephan Stompor: Jewish music and theater life under the Nazi state, Hanover University of Music and Theater. European Center for Jewish Music (= series of publications by the European Center for Jewish Music, vol. 6), Andor Izsák (ed.), Hanover: European Center for Jewish Music, 2001.