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 The grave of Arthur Eloesser at the Wilmersdorfer Friedhof in Berlin. Picture by androom (23 Aug 2006) |
Eloesser, Arthur |
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BORN 20 Mar 1870, Berlin - DIED 14 Feb 1938, Berlin GRAVE LOCATION Stahnsdorf, Brandenburg: Wilmersdorfer Waldfriedhof, Bahnhofstraße 2 (Feld C II-UW 1-8 (Ehrengrab)) |
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Athur Eloesser was born in Berlin near the Alexanderplatz. He studied history and wrote a doctor's thesis on the work of Molière. His academic career failed because he was a Jew and in 1899 he became a theatre critic at the Vossischen Zeitung. In 1904 he published studies on Heinrich von Kleist and on French literature. From 1913 until 1920 he managed the Lessingtheater in Berlin. During the twenties he wrote biographies of contemporary writers. When the nazis came to power he was forced to leave the Vossischen Zeitung. His books were burned and he was forbidden to work. From 1934 until 1937 he lived in Palestina, but in 1937 he returned to Germany, where he died in 1938. His wife Margarete (born Nauenberg) was deported to Riga in 1942 and died there. Related persons • wrote about Bergner, Elisabeth Events |
| 19/9/1905 | Ida Orloff appears in Hauptmann's "Hanneles Himmelfahrt" at the Lssingtheater in Berlin. The critics Alfred Kerr and Arthur Eloesser weren't enthousiastic about her performance. [Kerr, Alfred][Orloff, Ida] |
| 8/11/1905 | Ida Orloff appears in "Die Wildente" by Ibsen. Arthur Eloesser hadn't lked her in "Hannes Himmelfahrt" earlier that year but now he praised her performance. [Orloff, Ida] |
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The grave of Arthur Eloesser at the Wilmersdorfer Friedhof in Berlin. Picture by androom (23 Aug 2006) |
Sources • Heuser, Frederick W., The Life of Ida Orloff and her Relations to Gerhart Hauptmann, 1957 • "Ehrung, Erinnerung, Mahnung in Berlin: welche Person wie im Gedächtnis der Stadt blieb" |
