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Multiply unheard and rendered invisible

On the intersectionality of Gerty Landesberger alias Felice Wolmut as an exiled woman in music

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    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
  • cris.virtual.orcid
    0000-0002-1025-5862
  • dc.contributor.author
    Kohl, Marie-Anne
  • dc.date.accessioned
    2025-11-10T10:37:51Z
  • dc.date.available
    2025-11-10T10:37:51Z
  • dc.date.issued
    2025-10-30
  • dc.description.abstract
    As both gender and exile music research deal with ruptures in biographies and a scatteredness of remaining sources, women musicians affected by escape and exile are often confronted with a double erasure from music history. An example is Felice Wolmut—singer, composer, music therapist and pedagogue—whose estate lies scattered across various archives and whose story and musical creations remain unpublished to this day. Her ego documents draw a fascinating image of an intellectual musician, born in the Vienna of the Fien de Siecle, socialised in Red Vienna, who escaped Nazi Vienna and started a completely new life in exile in the USA. The sources offer insights into Wolmut's views on the artistic and political developments of the time and on the violent, patriarchal societies she was part of. Her autobiography, written in the late 1970s, reveals just as much about the 80-year-old narrating Wolmut as it does about the younger, narrated Wolmut. This article is based on a critical assessment of the sources, asking how they can help construct the historical figure ‘Felice Wolmut’, a woman and a musician whose voice has historiographically been (made) forgotten.
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  • dc.identifier.citation
    Kohl, M.-A. (2025). Multiply unheard and rendered invisible: On the intersectionality of Gerty Landesberger alias Felice Wolmut as an exiled woman in music. PlaySpace, 4(1), 127-139. https://doi.org/10.31265/4h2db448
  • dc.identifier.doi
    https://doi.org/10.31265/4h2db448
  • dc.identifier.uri
    https://dspace.mdw.ac.at/handle/123456789/23405
  • dc.language.iso
    en
  • dc.relation.issn
    2703-9838
  • dc.relation.journal
    PlaySpace
  • dc.rights.license
    CC-BY-NC-4.0
  • dc.subject
    Exile
    Displacement
    Gender
    C20 Music Culture
    Autobiographical Narration
    Gender-based Violence
  • dc.title
    Multiply unheard and rendered invisible
  • dc.title.subtitle
    On the intersectionality of Gerty Landesberger alias Felice Wolmut as an exiled woman in music
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    text::journal::journal article::research article
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  • mdwlis.subject.oefosDeKunstzweig
    GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN - Andere Geisteswissenschaften
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  • oaire.citation.endPage
    139
  • oaire.citation.issue
    1
  • oaire.citation.startPage
    127
  • oaire.citation.volume
    4
  • oairecerif.author.affiliation
    University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna