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Alfred Kerr (né Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: German pronunciation:) [1] was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ("Culture Pope").
Who was Alfred Kerr? With his unsparing wit, gift for satire, and accurate, learned descriptions, German Jew Alfred (Kempner) Kerr (1867–1948) was one of the most widely read theater critics of the Weimar Republic —both admired and feared.
Alfred Kerr (* 25. Dezember 1867 in Breslau; † 12. Oktober 1948 in Hamburg) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Theaterkritiker und Journalist.
Alfred Kerr (pen name of Alfred Kempner) was a German literary and theater critic and author. Kerr was born in Breslau and studied there and in Berlin. He became a drama critic for the Berlin newspaper Der Tag and later for the Berliner Tageblatt.
Alfred Kerr (25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948), born Alfred Kempner, was an influential German-Jewish theatre critic and essayist, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ("Culture Pope"). Kerr was born into a prosperous family in Breslau, Silesia, taking the surname Kerr in 1887, and making the change officially in 1909.
Alfred Kerr (1867–1948) was a leading Berlin-based theatre critic and journalist, whose writings and radio broadcasts made him a public intellectual in Germany, popularly known as the «Culture Pope». Of Jewish heritage, he was fiercely and openly anti-Nazi, so his exile in 1933 was lifesaving.
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Alfred Kerr's books were burned by the Nazis shortly after he had fled Germany. The family later travelled to France, before finally settling in Britain in 1936, where Judith Kerr lived for the remainder of her life.
