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

Life

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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 Viktor Schnittke [de] (1937—1994).[3]

Works

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

References

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  1. ^ "Schnittke, Thea - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
  2. ^ "Taube Shnitke". yvng.yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 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.