Egon Jameson

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Egon Jameson (until 1935: Jacobsohn ; born October 2, 1895 in Berlin ; died December 23, 1969 in London ) was a German-British journalist and writer.

Life

Egon Jacobsohn worked for the Berliner Morgenpost from 1918 . From 1922 to 1933 he wrote for the BZ am Mittag and was responsible for the film side alongside Kurt Mühsam .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, he was dismissed from the Ullstein Verlag because of his Jewish origins. He emigrated to England in 1934.

Jameson stood out primarily through his comedies, revues, radio and television plays.

Fonts (selection)

  • with Kurt Mühsam : Lexicon of the film . Berlin: Verlag der Lichtbildbühne, 1924
  • Who's in the movie? 1926
  • Millions out of nowhere , 1936
  • Curiosities of Britain , 1937
  • Come to my newspaper , 1951
  • Egon Jameson's etiquette , 1953
  • The newspaper reporter - a primer for beginners and advanced users , 1958
  • Small world history of women , 1963
  • If I remember correctly . Autobiography, 1963
  • This is how you work miracles , 1966
  • Spree-Athens , 1968

literature

  • German Literature Lexicon, Bern / Munich: Francke Verlag 3rd ed. 1981, Vol. 8, Sp. 494–495.
  • Walther von La Roche (ed.): Egon Jameson. Open your eyes - forays into Berlin in the twenties, Ullstein-Taschenbuch, Berlin 1982
  • Jacobsohn, Egon , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 170

Individual evidence

  1. Ulrich Döge: "He just has the hot heart": The publisher and film entrepreneur Karl Wolffsohn . Hamburg: tredition, 2016 ISBN 978-3-7345-5311-0