Thea Schnittke Explained

Thea Schnittke (born Taube/Toiba Katz —15 February 1889, Libava - 1970, Moscow) was a Soviet writer and translator.^[1]

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.^[2] 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 (1937—1994).^[3]

Works

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

• "Kommunismus und Tradition" (Communism and Tradition) Volume 1, Number 3, July 1920
• "Tolstoi der Denker" (Tolstoy the Thinker) Volume 1, Number 5, September 1920

Notes and References

1. Web site: Schnittke, Thea - Deutsche Biographie . www.deutsche-biographie.de . Deutsche Biographie . 13 October 2020 . de.
2. Web site: Taube Shnitke . yvng.yadvashem.org . Yad Vashem . 13 October 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.