Ursula Mamlok
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Ursula Mamlok
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Persecuted by the Nazis because of her Jewish heritage, she left Berlin with her parents, fleeing to Ecuador in 1939.
In 1940 she was awarded a scholarship to the Mannes School of Music and travelled unaccompanied to New York as a seventeen year old. In the years that followed, she studied composition, becoming one of the USA’s most renowned women composers. In 2006, she returned to her native city, Berlin. Aged 83, she breathed new life into her career through numerous concerts across Europe, CD, radio and television productions; her biography, Time in Flux – The Composer Ursula Mamlok, was published and a documentary film, Ursula Mamlok Movements, was released.
