23. November 2025, 08:15
The Viennese writer Maria Lazar was born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family in 1895 and is one of the most productive literary voices of her time. But unlike her male colleagues Elias Canetti or Hermann Broch, Lazar’s work was hardly published during his lifetime. At the beginning of the 1930s she fled with her little daughter Judith to her closest friend Helene Weigel in Berlin. She later went into exile with the Brecht family in Denmark and Sweden. Here she found a living as a translator of works from the Scandinavian region, but wrote primarily under the pseudonym Esther Grenen.
Maria Lazar’s literary oeuvre was considered lost for over 70 years and was only rediscovered in 2014 by the Viennese Germanist Johann Sonnleitner. A look into the author’s estate, which was in boxes and boxes under her granddaughter’s bed in a district of Nottingham, finally revealed a small sensation. In addition to unpublished novels, brilliant short stories and clever plays, Maria Lazar also wrote poems. They provide an insight into the final months of a great and unjustly forgotten author who ended her own life in 1948.
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Maria Lazar, To my unknown reader. Poems & Photographs, The Forgotten Book Publishing House, Vienna, 2023
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Composer: Robert Schumann/1810-1856
Title: Davidsbündlertanz op.6 No.13: Wild and funny (00:03:18)
Booklet 2 – 18 Dances for Piano
Soloist/Solistin: Adam Laloum /Klavier
Length: 03:18 min
Label: Mirare MIR299
Composer: Germaine Tailleferre/1892 – 1983
* Adagietto – 2nd movement (00:03:40)
Title: Sonata for Violin and Piano No.2
Violinsonate
Soloist: Renate Eggebrecht / violin
Soloist: Angela Gassenhuber / piano
Length: 03:39 min
Label: Troubadisc TRO CD 01406
Composer: Germaine Tailleferre/1892 – 1983
Title: Pastorale for flute and piano: Allegretto
Solist/Solistin: Emily Beynon /Flöte
Soloist: Andrew West / piano
Length: 03:49 min
Label: Hyperion CDA 67204
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach/1685 – 1750
* Loure – 6.Satz (00:02:50)
Title: French Suite for Piano No.5 in G major BWV 816
Soloist: Piotr Anderszewski / piano
Length: 02:47 min
Label: HMN 911679 world harmony
Composer: Michael Nyman/born 1944
Title: The school room/instr. / from the film “The diary of Anne Frank” no Nikki” Diary of Anne Frank”
Soloist/soloist: Valentina Lisitsa / piano
Length: 02:03 min
Label: Decca/Universal 4786421
Composer: Claude Debussy/1862 – 1918
Arranger: David Cullen /Arrangement
Title: Reverie – for piano / arrangement for cello and orchestra
Solist/Solistin: Julian Lloyd Webber /Violoncello
Performer/Performer: Skaila Kanga /Harp
Orchester: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Leitung: James Judd
Length: 03:54 min
Label: Philips 4625882
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/1756 – 1791
* Allegro – 1st movement
Title: Trio for piano, violin and cello in G major KV 564
Piano trio
Performers: Beaux Arts Trio
Performer/performer: Menahem Pressler/piano
Performer/Performer: Isidore Cohen /Violin
Performer/Performer: Bernard Greenhouse / Cello
Length: 05:13 min
Label: Philips 426888-2
Composer: Nikolai Medtner/1880 – 1951
* Nr.8 To Reminiscence. Almost queue (00:02:43)
Title: FORGOTTEN WISES op.38 – Eight pieces for piano, first cycle
Soloist: Marc André Hamelin / piano
Length: 02:39 min
Label: Hyperion CDA 67221/4 (4 CD)
Composer: Michael Nyman/born 1944
Title: Candlefire/instr. / from the film “The diary of Anne Frank” after Nikki “Tagebuch der Anne Frank”
Soloist/soloist: Valentina Lisitsa / piano
Length: 02:17 min
Label: Decca/Universal 4786421
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