Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann

Ottilie Metzger - Lattermann, ( born July 15, 1878 in Frankfurt am Main, † February 1943 in Auschwitz ) was a German singer ( alto ) and a singing teacher.

Life

She was a student of Selma Nicklass - Kempner, Georg Vogel and Emanuel Reicher (Acting). Her debut was in 1898 in Halle. She had engagements in Cologne was, from 1903 to 1915 first alto in Hamburg and appeared at guest performances by Enrico Caruso in the female lead roles. In Hamburg she learned the bass-baritone Theodor Lattermann, whom she married her second husband, her first husband was the narrator Clemens Froitzheim.

Further stages of her life were Dresden, Bayreuth, where she appeared again at the Festival, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Prague, Zurich, Amsterdam, Munich, Budapest, London and tours with Leo Blech in the U.S.. In 1925, she ended her stage career ( in connection with the serious illness of her husband, who died on March 4, 1926 at the age of 46 ), but continued to work ( accompanied among others by Richard Strauss and Hans Pfitzner ) as a recitalist. Recent concerts she gave in 1933 ( under the baton of Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer in Berlin in Dresden). From 1927 she worked as a singing teacher, inter alia, at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, where they had started their training. All that ended in 1933 with the rise of Hitler. In Herbert Gerigks and Theophil Stengel Encyclopedia of Jews in the music she was denounced.

She was involved in the subsequent period at the Jewish Cultural Association (1935 - 1937). It was late (various years information on the sources ), possibly only in July 1939, she fled with her ​​daughter Susanne or from the Nazis to Brussels. There she is arrested after the German invasion of Belgium in 1940 by the Nazis and deported to Auschwitz. The circumstances of her death are not known.

Student

• Benno Arnold, opera singers