Alfred Kerr
Alfred Kerr · Arts & Literature
Literary & drama critic
1867, Breslau, Prussia (present-day Wrocław, Poland) — 1948, Hamburg, Germany
Germany · United Kingdom
Alfred Kerr is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Literary & drama critic
Alfred Kerr was a German theatre critic so influential he was nicknamed the 'Kulturpapst' (pope of culture), pioneering a personal, essayistic style of criticism in Berlin's press. An outspoken opponent of Nazism, he fled Germany in 1933 and his books were among those burned; he lived in exile, mainly in Britain. Kerr was Jewish.
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Literary & drama critic
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