Clementine von Schuch

Through her maternal aunt, Klara (Lala) Koszler (i.e. Koslerova), she was related by marriage to Klaus Pringsheim Sr., whose sister Katia was married to Thomas Mann.

[3] Schuch received from her aunt, the coloratura soprano Liesel Schuch-Ganzel (1891-1990), trained in Dresden, after which her first stage engagement was at the Stadttheater Königsberg from 1942 to 1944.

During the first opera performance in Dresden after the Second World War on 10 August 1945, Clementine von Schuch gave the following role at the Kleines Haus auf der Glacisstraße Cherubino (mezzo-soprano) from Mozart's the Marriage of Figaro.

[4] After World War II, she performed at the Semperoper from 1945 to 1947, after which she was engaged by the newly founded Komische Oper Berlin in 1947, where she worked until the 1960s.

She sang medium and smaller roles from all areas of opera, such as Mercédès in Bizet's Carmen, Antonia (mezzo-soprano) in Tiefland by Eugen d'Albert, Annina (alto) in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Frugola (alto) in Puccini's Il tabarro, Hortense in Die Wirtin von Pinsk by Richard Mohaupt as well as Sebastian in Arthur Kusterer's Was ihr wollt.