Rosalind von Schirach

German opera singer (1898–1981)

Rosalind von Schirach (21 April 1898 – 13 December 1981^[1]) was a German opera singer, mainly known as a lyric soprano.

From 1920 to 1925 she performed under the pseudonym Rosa Lind at the Leipzig Opera. From 1925 to 1928 she performed as Rosa Lind as a coloratura soprano at the National Theatre Mannheim. She later performed as a lyric soprano under her real name Rosalind von Schirach from 1930 to 1935 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She moved to the Berlin State Opera in 1935.^[2] She performed at the Royal Opera House in London in 1935.^[3]^{: Ch 14}

She was portrayed as the "ideal image of a Nordic-Aryan singer" in the early Third Reich. She joined the Nazi Party in 1932.^[3]^{: Ch 14} At the Deutsche Oper she organised a Nazi employees' cell, assisted by her lover baritone Gerhard Hüsch.^[2]

She was the daughter of the theatre director Carl von Schirach, a member of the noble Sorbian Schirach family, and his American wife Emma Middleton Lynah Tillou. She had two brothers including Nazi youth leader Baldur von Schirach.^[4]

She married Viktor Borsini Edler von Hohenstern.^[1] She was a Christian,^[3]^{: Ch 10} but may have left the Church.^[3]^{: Ch 14}

References

^ ^a ^b Miller, Michael; Schulz, Andreas (11 July 2021). Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, Volume 3. Fonthill Media. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b Kater, Michael H. (21 May 2019). Culture in Nazi Germany. Yale University Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-300-21141-2. Retrieved 16 June 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Oliver Rathkolb and John Heath (trans.) "Baldur von Schirach: Nazi Leader and Head of the Hitler Youth", 2022. ISBN 9781399020961
^ Karl-J. Kutsch and Leo Riemens: Großes Sängerlexikon. 4th ed. Munich 2003. Vol. 6: Rasa–Sutton, p. 4208. ISBN 3-598-11598-9

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