[1] From 1919 to 1923 he studied musicology with Jean Paul Ertel and Johannes Wolf at the University of Berlin and was awarded a doctorate with a dissertation on Constantin Christian Dedekind.
During his student days, Stege composed Schlager, which he had to dismiss as a youthful sin during the period of National Socialism when he was a victim of intrigue.
In the Weimar Republic, Stege had been a follower of radical right-wing groups since the early 1920s[1] and from 1927 to 1929 he was Music Reporter of the German Völkisch Freedom Party.
[8] Stege was the music critic of the party organ Völkischer Beobachter[3] and also wrote for the SS newspaper Das Schwarze Korps.
[9] In May 1933, Stege demanded in an article in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, of which he had become editor-in-chief,[5] the assumption of power in opera houses and orchestras.
[15] For the Austrian composer Roderich Mojsisovics he wrote the libretto for his Nordic folk opera in 3 acts Norden in Not, which premiered in 1936.