Luise Siegfriede Hochdorf (verh. Tischler)

Born:	05-26-1915
Faculty:	Philosophical School
Category:	Expelled student

Luise Siegfriede HOCHDORF (married: TISCHLER), born on May 26th, 1915 in Vienna. She had already finished her studies in conducting at the Vienna Conservatory and had also finished all the lectures of her musicology studies at the university before the "Anschluß", so she was no more enrolled at the Philosophical School in 1938, but was preparing for the final exams ('Rigorosen'). She registered for the final exams in Musicology on June 21st, 1937 and passed the first 'Rigorosum' on July 5th, 1937. She presented her dissertation 'Mendelssohns 'Lieder ohne Worte' und der 'Lieder-ohne-Worte'-Stil in seinen übrigen Instrumentalwerken' on June 24th, 1938, which was accepted on June 24th, 1938, and she also passed the second 'Rigorosum' on July 2nd, 1938. She could finally finish her studies and graduated on July 21st, 1938, but only with the discriminating ceremony of a 'Nichtarierpromotion', which included at the same time that she was banned from her profession. Only a week later she married her colleague, the music historian Hans Tischler (1915–2010) on July 27, 1938, who took his PhD in musicology at Vienna University in 1937. Together they emigrated to the USA in November 1938 and worked as private piano teacher and her husband started his musicology studies at Yale University with Leo Schrade and Paul Hindemith in 1940 (PhD 1942) and then joined the US-Army (1943-45). He later became Professor in Buckhannon, West Virginia/USA, Chicago/USA and at Indiana University, Bloomington/USA. 1944 both were naturalized and became US-citizens and Luise Hochdorf Tischler continued to work as piano teacher. They had two children, Judith Ben Or (1943) and Leonhard Jordan (1945). Luise Hochdorf Tischler died in 1957 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Lit.: POSCH 2009, 366; Austrian Music Lexicon; RÖDER 1983, 2, 565.

Herbert Posch