Eugen Tannenbaum

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Eugen Tannenbaum (born November 9, 1890 in Offenbach ; died on August 22, 1936 in Berlin ) was a German newspaper editor and cultural critic.

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Eugen Tannenbaum came from a Jewish family. He studied German in Berlin (documented in 1911/12) and received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1914 (Dr. phil.)

He then worked as a publicist and newspaper critic. With the edition of March 13, 1934, he took over the editing of the Jüdisch-Liberalen Zeitung (from November 7, 1934: Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung ).

Eugen Tannenbaum wrote a few books. He wrote film and culture reviews for various newspapers such as BZ am Mittag , Berliner Morgenpost , Danziger Zeitung and wrote articles on other topics.

Tannenbaum was a member of the "Association for Religious Liberal Judaism".

He died "of a heart attack" shortly after his father died. He was married to Berta Ruth, née Dannhäuser.

Publications (selection)

Monographs

  • Sources of Heinrich von Kleist's works have been compiled for use in literary-historical exercises (winter semester 1911/12). With Heinrich Adolf Grimm .
  • The elements of staging in Hebbel's dramas. Inaugural dissertation, Naumburg 1914.
  • Friedrich Hebbel and the theater. B. Behr's publishing house (Friedrich Feddersen), Berlin, Leipzig 1914; Reprographic printing: Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1978, ISBN 978-3-80-670768-7 ( table of contents ).
  • Great War Letters of German & Austrian Jews. 1914.
  • War letters from German and Austrian Jews. Neuer Verlag, Berlin 1915, Classic Reprint 2005; most popular collection of letters from Jewish combatants ( digitized in the Freimann collection ).
  • Landsturm. Songs from the front. With drawings by Wilhelm Wagner . Juncker, Berlin / Charlottenburg 1915, as editor.
  • The Maid of Orleans. A romantic tragedy in 5 acts by Friedrich Schiller. 1922.
  • Carousel. With other authors, 1922.
  • Philo Quote Lexicon. Words from Jews. Words for Jews. With Ernst Fraenkel (ed.) Philo-Verlag, Berlin 1936 ( digitized ).

Articles and essays

Literature (selection)

  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography. With more than 8000 biographies of well-known Jewish men and women from all times and countries. A reference work for the Jewish people and their friends. Sixth volume: Steinheim - Zweig, Addendum Abarbanel - Van Geldern. Arta, Tschernowitz 1933, p. 82 ( digitized in the Freimann collection. )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanns Loewenstein in the Jüdisch-Liberale Zeitung. March 13, 1934
  2. ↑ Why “Jüdische Allgemeine?” In: Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung. November 7, 1934
  3. ^ Katrin Diehl: The Jewish press in the Third Reich. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, a. a., 2015. p. 66.
  4. ^ Ulrich Sieg: Jewish intellectuals in the First World War. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2005. p. 118, also p. 76, 205, etc.
  5. ^ Quote from the Karlsruhe Kinemathek
personal data
SURNAME Tannenbaum, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German newspaper editor and cultural critic
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1936
Place of death Berlin