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Alfred Kerr (né Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: German pronunciation:) was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ("Culture Pope").
German Jewish writer Alfred Kerr was a well known theater critic during the Weimar period. His works were burned during the Nazi book burnings of 1933.
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. Together with Paul Cassirer and Wilhelm Herzog, Kerr founded the theater magazine Pan, which was ...
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Alfred Kerr (* 25. Dezember 1867 in Breslau; † 12. Oktober 1948 in Hamburg) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Theaterkritiker und Journalist. Sein Geburtsname war Alfred Kempner, er publizierte aber von Anfang an unter dem Namen Kerr, um nicht mit der (mit ihm nicht verwandten) Dichterin Friederike Kempner in Verbindung gebracht zu werden.
Alfred Kerr was a German-Jewish artist and journalist who was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 and murdered there. He was a close friend of the artist Gerty Simon, who also survived the Holocaust and emigrated to Britain. Learn more about his life and his friendship with Gerty Simon from this web page.
Alfred, who had been a critic of the Nazi’s, fled Germany just before they came to power, in 1933. He was later joined by Judith, her brother Michael and her mother Julia, and this exhibition explores the family’s flight and life afterwards.
KERR, ALFRED (pen name of Alfred Kempner ; 1867–1948), German literary and theater critic and author. Kerr was born in Breslau and studied there and in Berlin. He became drama critic for the Berlin newspaper Der Tag and later for the Berliner Tageblatt.
