Paula Salomon-Lindberg (née Levi; 21 December 1897 – 17 April 2000[1]) was an internationally renowned German classical contralto before the Second World War.

She was friends with numerous personalities such as Siegfried Ochs, Kurt Singer, Erich Mendelsohn, Alfred Einstein, Paul and Rudolf Hindemith and Albert Schweitzer, and her house became a frequent meeting place for musical and social evenings.

[9] The rooms were equipped with a small art collection that was established from about 1928 to 1935, among others with works by Theodoor van Loon, Gustav Schönleber and Ambrosius Bosschaert.

[10] After being banned by the Nazi government from performing in public in 1933, she sang until 1937 for the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden[11] which she helped to build up under the direction of Kurt Singer.

[14] After the war, Lindberg-Salomon lived in the Netherlands, was able to fit into Dutch concert life without any problems[15] and worked as a singing teacher at the Amsterdam Music Lyceum and at the summer courses of the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

In 1989, she founded an international song competition named after her, which since then has been held every two years by the Universität der Künste Berlin, and which she actively supervised until her death.