Thea Schnittke (bornTaube/Toiba Katz —15 February 1889,Libava - 1970,Moscow) was a Soviet writer and translator.[1]
Taube Katz was born inLibava,Courland Governorate,Russian Empire (today Liepāja,Latvia); the daughter of Abram Meerovich Katz and Mina-Reizi Orelovna Kadyshevich.[2] She married Viktor Schnittke with whom she moved toFrankfurt in 1910. Viktor and Thea (sometimes spelled Tea) were the grandparents of the composerAlfred Schnittke and his brother, also calledViktor Schnittke [de] (1937—1994).[3]
In 1920 Thea Schnittke had two texts published inDer Gegner: