Paula Santa

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Paula Santa , married Paula Heller (born June 14, 1875 in Vienna ; missing after April 9, 1942 ) was an Austrian opera singer ( soprano ) and singing teacher .

Life

Santa was trained for the stage by Marianne Brandt and made her debut in 1898 as Anna in Boieldieu's opera Die weisse Frau in Klagenfurt, where she stayed for a year. From 1900 she worked in Linz and was engaged in Nuremberg from 1901 to 1903, where she gave the title role in the opera Louise by Gustave Charpentier .

From 1904 to 1905 she worked at the Theater an der Wien and from 1906 to 1907 at the Residenz Theater in Cologne, which opened in 1901. Later she made a guest appearance from Vienna and worked as a singing teacher. She was married to the baritone Max Heller .

Little is known about her further life. During the war she lived in Vienna-Währing at Ferstelgasse 6/12.

With Transport 17 she was deported from Vienna on April 9, 1942 with the number 784 to the Izbica ghetto in Poland , where she was later murdered.

literature

  • Ludwig Eisenberg : Large biographical lexicon of the German stage in the XIX. Century . Published by Paul List , Leipzig 1903, p. 866.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Schneider: New musical press: magazine for music, theater, art, singers and clubs , Volume 7, 1898, p. Xxx.
  2. ^ Hermann Weninger: The old city theater in Nuremberg 1833-1905 , Würzburg 1932, p. 100.
  3. ↑ Listed as a performing member of the Residenztheater with residence at Hohenzollernring 29 in: Neuer Theater-Almanach 1907 , ed. Cooperative of German Stage Members , p. 355.
  4. ↑ Max Heller at Operissimo  on the basis of the Great Singer LexiconTemplate: Operissimo / maintenance / use of parameter 2
  5. ^ Paula Heller , Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era
  6. ^ Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial
personal data
SURNAME Santa, Paula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heller, Paula (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Opera singer and vocal teacher
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH between April 1942 and May 1945