Paula Salomon-Lindberg

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Stolperstein , Wielandstrasse 15, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

Paula Salomon-Lindberg , b. Levi (born December 21, 1897 in Frankenthal ; † April 17, 2000 in Amsterdam ) was an internationally known classical singer ( alto ) before the Second World War . She specialized in art songs , oratorios and cantatas , but occasionally also devoted herself to opera .

parents

Paula Salomon-Lindberg was originally called Paula Levi. Her father was the Jewish religion teacher and Chasan Lazarus Levi, who had a special reputation as a singer, far beyond the city of Frankenthal. He was born on July 16, 1862 in Eckardroth and came to Frankenthal in 1896, which was then part of Bavaria . On March 9, 1897, he married Sophia Mayer in Frankenthal, who was born on December 29, 1872 in Frankenthal. The only child out of the marriage was their daughter Paula. Lazarus Levi died on November 17, 1919, his wife on November 26, 1930, both in Frankenthal. The grave in the new Jewish cemetery in Frankenthal is still preserved today.

Life

Paula Salomon-Lindberg received her training mainly in Mannheim and Berlin from Julius von Raatz-Brockmann . She learned counterpoint from Ernst Toch . She became known in the 1920s and appeared mainly in works from the Baroque period such as JS Bach's St. Matthew Passion , Handel's Messiah , but also in more modern works such as Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth . In 1929 she made a guest appearance at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Geneva . Between 1930 and 1933 she sang the alto parts in the performances of the Bach cantatas in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig . On September 4, 1930, she married the surgeon Albert Salomon (1883–1976) in Frankenthal , becoming the stepmother of the painter Charlotte Salomon and from then on appeared under the name Paula Lindberg-Salomon instead of under Paula Lindberg. She was friends with numerous personalities such as Siegfried Ochs , Kurt Singer , Erich Mendelsohn , Alfred Einstein , Paul and Rudolf Hindemith as well as Albert Schweitzer , and her house became a frequent meeting point for musical and sociable evenings. The premises were equipped with a small art collection that was created from around 1928 to 1935, u. a. with works by Theodoor van Loon , Gustav Schönleber and Ambrosius Bosschaert .

After being banned from performing in 1933, she sang for the Jüdischer Kulturbund Berlin , which she helped to build, until 1937 , under the direction of Kurt Singer. Among other things, she performed here with the pianist Grete Sultan . From 1935 she took lessons from the singing teacher Alfred Wolfsohn . With a determined demeanor and numerous visits to the authorities, she was able to get her husband, imprisoned in 1938 as a result of the Reichspogromnacht , released from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . In the artist aid she also stood up for other endangered people and was able to enable many of them to emigrate. In 1939 she and her husband fled to Amsterdam, where they were both interned in the Westerbork concentration camp in 1943 , but later escaped and survived the occupation period in hiding until 1944.

Paula Lindberg and Marjon Lambriks (1980)

After the war, Paula Lindberg-Salomon lived in the Netherlands , was able to easily fit into the Dutch concert life and worked as a singing teacher at the Amsterdam Music School and the summer courses at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . In 1947 she traveled with her husband to southern France , where they were given the pictures by Charlotte, which they donated to the Joods Historisch Museum in Amsterdam in 1971 . She visited Germany in 1986 for an exhibition with works by her stepdaughter. In 1989 she founded an international song competition named after her, which has been held every two years by the Berlin University of the Arts since then , and which she actively supervised until her death. Paula Salomon-Lindberg rejected a classification or assessment of people according to religious or national affiliation with the following words:

“Today I don't ask anymore: Are you German, are you a Jew or a Christian? Today I see people in everyone. "

Honors

On April 21, 2012 , a stumbling block for Paula Salomon-Lindberg was laid in front of her former home in Berlin-Charlottenburg , Wielandstrasse 15 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Paula Salomon-Lindberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paula Salomon-Lindberg in: Lexicon of persecuted musicians of the Nazi era on the website of the Musicological Institute of the University of Hamburg
  2. ^ Paula Lindberg-Salomon (Contralto) on Bach Cantata's website
  3. ^ Lydia Koelle: The Whole Life , Derekh Judaica Urbinatensia, 1/2003
  4. ^ Paul Theobald: Jewish fellow citizens in Frankenthal with Eppstein and Flomersheim from 1800 to 1940, issue July 2013
  5. ^ Paula Lindberg-Salomon (Contralto) on Bach Cantata's website
  6. ↑ Hermann Jung, Paulo de Assis, Ernst Toch, Hermann Jung (eds.): Spurensicherung - The composer Ernst Toch (1887–1964) - Mannheimer Emigrantenschicksale , Volume 6 of the Mannheimer Hochschulschriften, Verlag Lang, 2007, p. 94
  7. ^ Paula Lindberg-Salomon (Contralto) on Bach Cantata's website
  8. ↑ On the death of the Jewish singer Paula Salomon-Lindberg Welt Online on April 19, 2000
  9. ↑ Cordula Heymann-Wentzel, Johannes Laas (Ed.): Music and Biography - Festschrift for Rainer Cadenbach , Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2004, p. 451
  10. ↑ ACTIVE MUSEUM MEMBERS 'LETTER NO. 65 July 2011, p. 9
  11. ^ The Musical Tradition of the Jewish Reform Congregation in Berlin BTR 9702 (Double CD) on Mes musiques régénérées
  12. ↑ Preserving the names: The Capriccio memorial plaque for victims of National Socialism from musical life on Capriccio Forum for Classical Music  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.capriccio-kulturforum.de  
  13. ↑ Glenn Sujo, David Fraser Jenkins: Legacies of silence - The visual arts and the Holocaust memory , Philip Wilson Publishers, London 2001, p. 116
  14. ↑ Kirsten Heinsohn, Barbara Vogel , Ulrike Weckel (eds.): Between career and persecution - areas of action for women in National Socialist Germany , Verlag Campus, Frankfurt a. M., 1997, pp. 140 and 141
  15. ^ Hermann W. von der Dunk : Germans as Dutch - On the subject of national and cultural amphibians. In: Friso Wielenga (Ed.): Grenzgänger - Personalities of the German-Dutch Relationship , Waxmann Verlag, 1998, p. 44
  16. ↑ http://www.capriccio-kulturforum.de/allgemeine-themen/p77261-die-names-bewahren-die-capriccio-gedenkafel-für-opfer-des-nationalsozialismus-aus-dem-musikleben/  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.capriccio-kulturforum.de  
  17. ↑ Charlotte Salomon Life? Or theater? . Silvia Eiblmayr . Page of the Jewish cultural magazine DAVID
  18. ↑ http://www.capriccio-kulturforum.de/allgemeine-themen/p77261-die-names-bewahren-die-capriccio-gedenkafel-für-opfer-des-nationalsozialismus-aus-dem-musikleben/  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.capriccio-kulturforum.de  
  19. ^ Paula Salomon Lindberg Song Competition website Jewish Museum Berlin
  20. ↑ http://www.capriccio-kulturforum.de/allgemeine-themen/p77261-die-names-bewahren-die-capriccio-gedenkafel-für-opfer-des-nationalsozialismus-aus-dem-musikleben/  ( page no longer available , Search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.capriccio-kulturforum.de  
  21. ↑ Many references to Salomon-Lindberg; about the joint appearances with Grete Sultan in the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden
personal data
SURNAME Salomon-Lindberg, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Levi, Paula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankenthal
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 2000
Place of death Amsterdam