Alice Samter was born in Berlin June 11, 1908. Her father, Georg Samter, was Jewish.
How did she survive there? “With hardships, like everyone else,” she explained in a telephone interview from her home on Friedbergstraße. Her father “did not live through the Nazi era,” having died in 1927, and her mother, Susanna (née Rothe), who died in 1952, was Protestant [Evangelisch], the religion in which Alice was brought up. This did not, however, prevent her from accepting honorary membership in, and having her chamber music featured in the concerts of, the Jüdischer Musiktheaterverein Berlin–at Berlin’s Jüdisches Gemeindehaus, Amerikahaus, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, and elsewhere, in 1984-86. And her partially Jewish background can hardly be considered irrelevant regarding her choices of texts to set, especially Nelly Sachs and Mascha Kaléko.
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