Thea Schnittke (born Taube/Toiba Katz —15 February 1889,

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writer and translator.

Life

Taube Katz was born in Liepāja, Latvia, the daughter of Abram Meerovich Katz and Mina-Reizi Orelovna Kadyshevich. She married Viktor Schnittke with whom she moved to

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in 1910. Viktor and Thea (sometimes spelled Tea) were the grandparents of the composer

Alfred Schnittke Alfred Garrievich Schnittke (russian: Альфре́д Га́рриевич Шни́тке, link=no, Alfred Garriyevich Shnitke; 24 November 1934 – 3 August 1998) was a Russian composer of Jewish-German descent. Among the most performed and re ...

and his brother, also called (1937—1994).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.

Works

In 1920 Thea Schnittke had two texts published in ''

Der Gegner Der Gegner (The Opponent) was a German arts magazine published between April 1919 – 27 September 1922. It was edited by Julian Gumperz, and Karl Otten. It was published in Halle by Franz Joest Verlag. Wieland Herzfelde replaced Otten on the edi ...

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

References

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