Language:
German
Pages:
81
,
typescript (photocopy).
Year of publication:
1961
Keywords:
Geiger, Hermann
;
Geiger, Rudolf.
;
Geiger family.
;
Kullmann family
;
Centralverein Deutscher Staatsbürger Jüdischen Glaubens.
;
Kristallnacht, 1938.
;
Composers.
;
Jews Persecution 1933-1945.
;
Jews Intellectual life 1933-1945.
;
Musicians.
;
Voyages and travels.
;
World War, 1914-1918.
;
World War, 1939-1945.
;
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
;
United States Emigration and immigration 1933-1945.
;
Autobiographies
;
Biographical sources
;
Memoirs
Abstract:
The memoirs were written in 1961 in the United States. Genealogical background of the Kullmann and Geiger families going back to the 15th and 16th century in Frankfurt/Main. Her father's sister Elise St. Goer, nee Kullmann was one of the first feminists in Germany. Early discovery of Rosy Kullmann's musical talents. Sunday outings with the family. Catholic nanny who contributed to the confusion of her religious identity. Journey to Innsbruck and Switzerland with her parents. Death of her father in 1899. Rosy was granted piano lessons with Carl Friedberg, who had started his career as a student of Clara Schumann. Concert evenings of Hugo Wolf. First compositions of Rosy Kullmann at age 13. Summer vacations with her mother in Madonna di Campiglio and in the Black Forrest. Private English lessons. Remarriage of her mother and birth of her half-sister Erna Levy. Rosy was enrolled at the higher-daughter's "Elisabethinenschule" in Frankfurt. The first performance of one of Rosy Kullmann's compositions took place in 1902. Friendship with Willy Dreyfus and the young composer Max Wolff. Various concerts visits in Frankfurt. Summer vacations with relatives in England. Voice lessons with Margarete Dessof. Studies with Carl Schuricht. Engagement and marriage with Dr. Rudolf Geiger, grandson of Dr. Abraham Geiger, in 1906. Genealogy of the Geiger and Auerbach family. Birth of their son Hermann in 1907. Military service of the author's husband and his brother during World War One. Continuation of the musical career of Rosy Geiger-Kullmann. Compositions to poems by Hans Muehlestein. Birth of her daughter Ruth in 1914. Teaching position during World War One. Musical talent of her son Hermann, who became a musical stage director for operas. 1916 performance of Geiger-Kullmann's first orchestral compositions with Carl Schuricht in Wiesbaden. Work on her first operas and the oratorio "Moses".
Abstract:
Rising of National Socialism and increasing of anti-Jewish laws. Establishment of the Jewish "Tonkuenstler-Verein" by Arthur Holde. Continuation of her compositions and several performances by the "Kulturbund" in various synagogues. Night of the November pogrom 1938 and arrest of her husband Rudolf Geiger. Affidavits from their relatives in New York and release of her husband. Emigration to the USA via Cuba in April of 1939. Arrival in New York in September of 1940. Continuation of her work in the United States.
Note:
Available on microfilm
,
Synopsis in file
