Arthur Neisser

Closing of a letter to Theodor Helm , 1915

Arthur Neisser (born April 6, 1875 in Oranienburg ; † 1943 or 1944 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a German music critic , art historian and the author of one of Gustav Mahler's first biographies .

Life

Arthur Aaron Neisser was a son of Albert Neisser, who was related to the medical doctor of the same name . He studied art history in Berlin .

In addition to the Mahler biography, he also wrote books on Verdi (1914), Puccini (1928) and the history of opera (1902). Among other things, he worked for the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and for Bühne und Welt , for which he z. B. wrote in 1907 about the actress Sarah Bernhardt .

Neisser, who was married to a woman named Helene Burger, left Germany in 1933, where he had last lived in Berlin. He first moved to Paris . In the 1940s Neisser stayed in Italy; In 1943 he lived in Milan . He was deported to Auschwitz, where he died soon after.

literature

• Robin O'Neil, The Mahler Family in the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , 2013, ISBN 978-1-909874-73-2 ( digitized )

Web links

Wikisource: Arthur Neisser  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

1. ↑ As a student, Neisser lived temporarily at Potsdamer Straße 93a. There is a book in the specialist library for art studies at LMU Munich in which a stamp can still be recognized: "Arthur Neisser, Stud. Hist. Art., Berlin, Potsdamer Str. 93a". An illustration can be found on www.zikg.eu .
2. ^ Sebastian Stauss: Between narcissism and self-hatred. Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-110-23311-7 , p. 76 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
3. ↑ Robin O'Neil, The Mahler Family in the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , 2013, ISBN 978-1-909874-73-2 , pp. 15 f. ( Digital copy ), gives October 24, 1944 as the date of the deportation, according to www.sestosg.net and www.morasha.it , identical to www.fondazione.scavolini.com , but he was deported as early as 1943. A testimony given in 1970 for Yad Vashem by John Henry Richter also names 1943 as the year of deportation and the likely year of death, cf. yvng.yadvashem.org .