Thea Schnittke
Thea Schnittke (born Taube/Toiba Katz —15 February 1889, Liepāja - 1970, Moscow) was a German Soviet writer and translator. Life. Taube Katz was born in Liepāja, Latvia, the daughter of Abram Meerovich Katz and Mina-Reizi Orelovna Kadyshevich. She married Viktor Schnittke with whom she moved to Frankfurt in 1910. Viktor and Thea (sometimes spelled Tea) were the grandparents of the composer Alfred Schnittke and his brother, also called (1937—1994). Works. In 1920 Thea Schnittke had two texts published in "Der Gegner":