Erich Lowinsky

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Erich Lowinsky or Erich Lowinski , also Eric Lowins , stage name Elow , (born February 10, 1893 in Berlin ; died September 2, 1978 in Los Angeles ) was a German-American cabaret artist.

Life

Erich Lowinsky was a son of the merchant Sigismund Lowinsky and Helene Baum. He left the secondary school in 1908, did a commercial apprenticeship and worked in the profession. He was a soldier in World War I from 1914 to 1918 . Lowinsky became a member of the SPD . He married Berta Solomon in 1920, they had a son.

In 1925 he founded the cabaret of the nameless in Berlin. After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he was banned from working and could only appear in events organized by the Jewish Cultural Association . In 1937 he founded the cabaret of the Jewish authors The Tourists , whose program could only be performed twice in November in the Brüdervereinshaus in Berlin. The program had contributions from Elow, Martha Wertheimer , Lucian Schnell, Hilde Marx , Mala Laaser and Wilhelm Graff, and the actors were Ernst Nussbaum, Werner Hinzelmann, Gina Friedman, Martin Rosen , Stella Ehrlich-May, Steffi Ronau and Kurt Süßmann .

In 1939 he emigrated with the family to the Netherlands and from there to the USA. In Los Angeles he first became director of the emigrant theater founded by Walter Wicclair . From 1941 on he organized his own cabaret evenings and until 1967 appeared in various cultural events for Jewish emigrants. He also wrote for the newspaper Aufbau .

Works (selection)

  • The time for jokes is over. Conference of a Jewish cabaret artist . November 1937. In: Volker Kühn, Deutschlands Erwachen , 1989, pp. 174–176

literature

  • Volker Kühn (Ed.): Germany's Awakening: Cabaret under the swastika; 1933-1945 . Volume 3. Weinheim: Quadriga, 1989 ISBN 3-88679-163-7 , p. 371 (short biography)
  • Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume II, 1. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 261
  • Elow , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 79

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on "Ghettokabarett" see Volker Kühn, Deutschlands Erwachen , 1989, p. 349f.
personal data
SURNAME Lowinsky, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lowinski, Erich; Lowins, Eric; Elow
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American cabaret artist
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1978
Place of death los Angeles