Magda Spiegel

Magda mirror ( born November 3, 1887 in Prague, † probably on 20 October 1944 in Auschwitz ) was a German opera and concert singer.

Life

Even with nearly 20 years had the classical contralto her first appearance in her hometown. She moved to Germany and received gigs in the Düsseldorf State Theatre (1911 ). They now lived for several years in the city on the Rhine, but again she was obliged to other opera houses to guest performances. Richard Strauss brought her to Berlin in 1917, she had a huge success at the Frankfurt Opera as Brangäne in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. There, in Frankfurt, she also received her first firm commitment, and from here they continued to be requested at home and abroad in order to interpret all the known roles of their profession. Magda mirror was with her dramatic contralto as a talent of the century.

When the National Socialists in 1933, began cleaning up the cultural sites, also fell Magda Spiegel, who was of Jewish descent on. Although she converted, she received fewer offers and ridiculed in the press. The part of Ortrud in Lohengrin in 1935 their last performance. She pulled back and lived for seven years in the Main metropolis, until it was kidnapped in 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

The deportation to Theresienstadt was on 1 September 1942. Yet you came to camp at concerts, among other things, she was one of alternating altos in Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi. On 19 October 1944 she was transported to the extermination camp Auschwitz -Birkenau and there probably murdered immediately after arrival. Stumbling blocks in front of the house Holzhausenstraße 16, where she lived from 1936 to 1941, and before the Hamburg State Opera remember the artist.