Elkan Bauer

Elkan Bauer (* April 4th 1852 with Nikolsburg/Mikulov (then attached to the Austria-Hungary); † September 20th 1942 with the Concentration camp of Theresienstadt) was an Austrian type-setter.

Biography

Elkan Bauer could neither read nor to write the music but the melodies which it whistled were transcribed and played in concerts in the open air or kiosks of Vienna in Austria. He was off-set in 1942 in the Concentration camp of Theresienstadt and was killed over there the same year. His/her little girl, surviving of Auschwitz Elisa Springer wrote a book „Das Schweigen der Lebenden “ (" The silence of the vivants"); within the foundation Elisa Springer manages the heritage of Bauer.

See too

List of the type-setters persecuted during the Nazism

External bonds

Orpheus Trust, Wien. Association for the search and the publication for forgotten artistic works
Document with the format mp3: Diana-Walzer

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