Anna Seghers
Born on 19 November 1900Died on 1 June 1983WriterThe student of art history at Heidelberg soon became aware that her calling was in fact writing. After receiving her doctorate with a work on Rembrandt she published under the name Seghers in the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Steffie Spira
Born on 2 June 1908,Died on 10 May 1995Actress, Theater directorSteffie Spira came from a German-Austrian theatre family. Her father was the actor Fritz Jacob Spira, her mother Lotte Spira-Andresen, stage and film actor.
Saša Stanišić
The coincidence of originsBorn 7 March 1978Writer, Hörspielautor“I was born on 7 March 1978 in Višegrad on the river Drina. In the days before I was born, it had been raining non-stop.
Leonard Steckel
Born on 8 January 1901Died on 9 February 1971Actor, Theater directorBefore 1933, Leonard Steckel was a successful actor in contemporary plays performing alongside well-known colleagues like Helene Weigel or Alexander Granach. He was one of the most important actors on the avant-garde stage of Piscator.
Margarete Steffin
Born am 21. März 1908Died am 4. Juni 1941WriterMargarete Steffin went on a convalescence trip in Agra, Switzerland in the spring of 1933, and was never to see Germany again. In the elegant villa where she put on theatre shows with the other patients, she wrote stories and poems about her years as an adolescent in the working-class milieu of the 1920s; friends brought these writings to the Berlin resistance movement.
Fred Stein
Born on 3 July 1909Died on 22 September 1967PhotographerFred Stein came from an intellectual family, his father a rabbi and his mother a teacher of religion. He was already politically active against the emerging fascism in Germany as a youth. After finishing his law studies, in 1933 the Nazis prevented him from finishing his thesis.
Hans Wilhelm Steinberg
Born on 1 August 1899Died on 16 May 1978ConductorIn 1929, following engagements in Cologne and Prague, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg was appointed General Music Director at the opera house in Frankfurt am Main. He was dismissed from this post in May 1933 because he was Jewish.
Hugo Steiner-Prag
Leipzig book illustrator and graphic artist of international reputeBorn 12 December 1880Died on 10 September 1945Graphic designer, IllustratorAt the time the Nazis seized power, Hugo Steiner-Prag - since 1910 professor at the renowned Leipzig Academy for Graphic Art and the Book Trade - was one of Germany’s most famous illustrators and book designers. His reputation was founded particularly on the illustrations he did for an entire series in the fantasy genre which appeared in book form after the turn of the century.
Gerda Taro
Born on 1 August 1910Died on 26 July 1937PhotographerThe war photographer known to us today as Gerda Taro was born as Gerta Pohorylle in Stuttgart, the daughter of Jewish-Galician immigrants. Her active opposition to the Nazis forced her into French exile in 1933.
Richard Tauber
Born on 16 May 1891Died on 8 January 1948Singer, Conductor, ComposerOn 9 March 1933, four days after the Reichstag elections, the performance by singer Richard Tauber in Berlin’s Admiralspalast theatre was disrupted by ante-Semitic heckling. The star tenor, who was Jewish from his father’s side, only sang in German and had become famous performing operettas by Franz Léhar.
