Thea Schnittke

Thea Schnittke
Born
Thea Taube / Toiba Katz

(1889-02-15)15 February 1889
Libava, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1970 (aged 80–81)
Moscow, USSR
Occupationswriter and translator
Notable work"Kommunismus und Tradition]"
(Communism and Tradition),
"Tolstoi der Denker]"
(Tolstoy the Thinker)
SpouseViktor Schnittke
RelativesAlfred Schnittke (grandson)

Thea Schnittke (born Taube/Toiba Katz, 15 February 1889, Libava – 1970, Moscow) was a Soviet writer and translator.

Life

Taube Katz was born in Libava, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (today Liepāja, Latvia); the daughter of Abram Meerovich Katz and Mina-Reizi Orelovna Kadyshevich. She married Viktor Schnittke with whom she moved to Frankfurt in 1910. Viktor and Thea (sometimes spelled Tea) were the grandparents of the composer Alfred Schnittke and his brother, also called Viktor Schnittke [de] (1937—1994).

Works

In 1920 Thea Schnittke had two texts published in Der Gegner:

References

  1. ↑ "Schnittke, Thea - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Taube Shnitke". yvng.yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  3. ↑ Edgar Seibel: Viktor Schnittke: Ein wolgadeutsch-jüdisches Schicksal. Hrsg.: "Volk auf dem Weg" - Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland e.V. Nr. 7. Stuttgart Juli 2018, S. 28–29.