Grave of Emy von Stetten at the Kocherstetten cemetory
Memorial plaque for Emy von Stetten in Bayreuth

Emy Freifrau von Stetten (6 April 1898 – 22 February 1980) was a German oratorio, opera and Lied soprano and music teacher at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts.

Life

Born in Königsberg, Emilie Brode was a daughter of Ellida Wittich and Max Brode,[1] the founder and conductor of the Königsberg Symphony Orchestra. Until her divorce in 1948, she was married [2] to the Austrian painter Norbert von Stetten. The marriage produced two daughters, Ellida (1919-2008) and Brigitte (b. 1920).[3]

During the National Socialist era, she was banned from performing as a "half-Jew", although she emphasised her own National Socialist sentiments and her husband's party membership, and was only given special permits to work as a music teacher. In Herbert Gerigk's and Theophil Stengel's Lexikon der Juden in der Musik her name already appeared in the first edition (1940).[4]

References

  1. ↑ Max Brode: Erinnerungen Peter Brode on kultur-in-ostpreussen
  2. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, F XIX 1996, p. 317
  3. ↑ Emy von Stetten on Üniversität Hamburg
  4. ↑ Eva Weissweiler Ausgemerzt! Das Lexikon der Juden in der Musik und seine mörderischen Folgen. Dittrich, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-920862-25-2, p. 319

Further reading

  • Hannes Heer, Jürgen Kesting, Peter Schmidt: Verstummte Stimmen: die Bayreuther Festspiele und die "Juden" 1876 bis 1945. Eine Ausstellung. Festspielpark Bayreuth und Ausstellungshalle Neues Rathaus Bayreuth, 22. Juli bis 14. Oktober 2012. Metropol, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-86331-087-5, p. 339 and 385
  • Karl-Josef Kutsch, Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. Dritte, erweiterte und aktualisierte Auflage. Berlin 2000,
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