Julius Bab
Julius Bab (December 11, 1880 – February 12, 1955) was a German dramatist and theater critic.
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Memorial plaque to Julius Bab in Berlin
He was a cofounder of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden. Bab was a close friend of journalist and theater critic Siegfried Jacobsohn and a key contributor to the early years of the magazine Schaubühne, the later Weltbühne. He was a mentor to the young actor and future film director Veit Harlan.[1]
In 1939 he emigrated to the United States through France. In 1951 he visited Germany in a lecture tour.
He died in Roslyn Heights, New York in 1955.
Works
Around 90 books and biographies about the theater including:
- Der Mensch auf der Bühne
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gollark: And that without "technology" we'd be hunter-gatherers, struggle to stay alive, have a life expectancy of a few decades tops, and have far worse quality of life.
gollark: Please tell her that I said that it's horrendously ill-defined to say technology.
gollark: Ah, of course.
gollark: Oh no.
References
- Noack p.72
Bibliography
- Noack, Frank. Veit Harlan: The Life and Work of a Nazi Filmmaker. University Press of Kentucky, 2016.
- Sylvia Rogge-Gau: Julius Bab und der Jüdische Kulturbund. Metropol, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-932482-14-X
External links
- Works by or about Julius Bab at Internet Archive
- Julius Bab Collection, AR 196 Archival Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York
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