Born on December 20, 1898, in Aachen, the singer made her debut in 1928 at the Aachen Stadttheater. In 1930, she moved to Stettin (present-day Szczecin, Poland), and in 1932 she joined the opera choir of the Hessian Landestheater Darmstadt as an alto. As a Jewish performer, she was placed on leave on March 31, 1933, and dismissed at the end of the season. From 1933 to 1937, she sang in the choir of the Jewish Cultural Federation in Berlin before deciding to flee Germany. Departing from Hamburg, she traveled to the United States aboard the transatlantic steamship President Harding, arriving in New York on July 19, 1937. She became a US citizen in 1944 and received an engagement that same year in the choir of the Metropolitan Opera, where she remained active until 1966. Meta Hartog died on September 25, 1968, in New York.
1898 Aachen
1968 New York