Soubrette and Cabaret artist
Lisl Steinitz was born in Vienna, where she studied dance and singing. At the age of 25 she joined the Theater an der Wien (1938), but following the Anschluss she was fired the same year.
Lisl Steinitz escaped to Prague, from where she was later deported to Ghetto Theresienstadt. In the camp she performed together with her husband Hans Hofer (1907-1973, actor and cabaret artist). The couple was transferred to Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp, where Lisl was forced to work in amunitions plant. She was later sent to Mauthausen concentration camp and detained there until the Liberation in 1945. After WW2, Lisl Steinitz and her husband performed in Prague (Czech Republic) and Rostock (East Germany), where she died.