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Fritz Löhner-Beda was one of the most successful librettists and pop songwriters of the interwar period, yet his name is almost forgotten today. As a Jewish artist, he was persecuted, deported and finally murdered in the I.G. Farben camp in Auschwitz III Monowitz.



This event commemorates his musical legacy and tells the story of a man whose songs enchanted the world, while he himself was denied his humanity.


  • VOCALS: Katharine Mehrling
  • PIANO: Ferdinand von Seebach
  • DISCUSSION with Annemarie Hühne-Ramm (Finkelstein Foundation), Sophie Jira (Komische Oper) and Christoph Böhmke (Bayer Kultur)
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Dates
January 2026
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