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Persoonlijke gegevens Helene Meyerstein 

• Zij is geboren op 5 januari 1874 in Leipzig.
• Zij is overleden op 17 juni 1958 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, zij was toen 84 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Moritz Meyerstein en Pauline Philipp

Gezin van Helene Meyerstein

Zij is getrouwd met Alfred Schneider.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 3 november 1892, zij was toen 18 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Alice Caroline Schneider  1893-????
2. Friez Schneider  1894-????
3. Lucie Schneider  1895-???? 
4. Gisela Ruth Sara Schneider  1904-

Notities over Helene Meyerstein

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Stein-Schneider

Helene Meyerstein studied piano and singing at the Leipzig Conservatory. After marrying the Berlin merchant Alfred Schneider, she changed her name to Lena Stein-Schneider. Under this name she published songs, instrumental pieces and - as a woman a rare exception - also operettas. She often wrote the texts herself. The dedications of her pieces were for well-known people from Berlin's cultural life, in which Lena Stein-Schneider was well integrated, not least because before the First World War she led a musical salon in which high-ranking personalities from society and nobility was wrong.

In the 1920s, Lena Stein-Schneider also spent some time in the USA, where she gave concerts. The Keith's Theater in New York even performed the composerus dream that she wrote. Back in Germany, Lena Stein-Schneider founded the Rubinstein women's choir based on the New York choir of the same name in Berlin. Her own works were then performed, among other things. Connected to the successful choir was the Rubinstein Club, which she also founded, and which was primarily dedicated to young musicians.

With the National Socialists' takeover, everything came to an end. The club and choir were banned, and Lena Stein-Schneider was not allowed to enter the Reich Chamber of Culture as a Jew. She was therefore banned from working. This affected her particularly because she had excelled in patriotic compositions in the First World War (for example by the Crown Prince Marching Song) and at times even worked as a voluntary hospital sister. [1] Even the reference to the Iron Cross bestowed on her son did not help. [2] Lena Stein-Schneider became impoverished and disappeared from the public eye. On August 6, 1942, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp at the age of 68. After the liberation in 1945, she survived and initially settled in Switzerland, where she composed a few pieces before moving back to Berlin at a very old age in the early 1950s. Her health was ruined by the concentration camp imprisonment, she could no longer play the piano. Nevertheless, her fight in court for reparation ended with the payment of a total of DM 3,500, because she could not prove the material damage that had been caused to her by the professional ban and the persecution.

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