Fritz Tachauer

Fritz Tachauer (born April 20, 1889 in Berlin , † either October 29, 1942 in the Riga Ghetto , Soviet Union , or at the end of 1942 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ) was a German actor , cabaret artist , director and author .

Life

Tachauer began his stage career at the age of 20 at the Stadttheater von Altona (today part of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg ). Further stages were Düsseldorf , Dortmund , Ratibor in Upper Silesia and Königsberg . Occasionally he also tried his hand at being a director. From 1920 he worked as a cabaret artist in Berlin and probably also in East Prussia. Only a few documents can be found about this time, up to the end of the Weimar Republic. In 1925 he appeared on the radio show "Heiteres weekend". During this time he also published the volume of poetry My Firstborn.

After January 1933, Fritz Tachauer, who was born on the exact same day as Adolf Hitler , who had now come to power , was sidelined by the National Socialists as a Jewish artist . The only opportunity to perform was offered by the Jewish Cultural Association , of which he was a member until it was dissolved in September 1941. Tachauer played, as a partner of Max Ehrlich , in his revues Kunterbund (1935), Please einstieg (1937) and Mixed Compote (1938) and came across with the National Socialist authorities because of his conferences, "where it is not possible to distinguish exactly whether they are According to a note on the file, they are tasteless or bold. As an actor he appeared in Carlo Goldoni's Mirandolina in August 1939 at the side of Jenny Schaffer-Bernstein , Martin Brandt and Georg John in a production by Ben Spanier and in other plays in 1940/41. The artist also took part in the last Kulturbund performance, Ferenc Molnár's comedy Spiel im Schloss .

The exact circumstances of Tachauer's death are not known. According to the publicist Kay Less, Fritz Tachauer was abducted from Berlin to the Riga ghetto on October 26, 1942 and murdered there three days later. Another source names the Auschwitz concentration camp as a deportation destination.

literature

Fritz Tachauer: My firstborn. Poems, 31 pages, printed as a manuscript, no year

Web links

Literature by and about Fritz Tachauer in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry in the Central Database of the Names of Holocaust Victims at the Yad Vashem Memorial

Individual evidence

↑ Berthold Leimbach (ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945, Göttingen 1991
↑ Fred K. Prieberg , Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945, Auprès de Zombry 2004
↑ Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 336.

personal data
SURNAME	Tachauer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German actor, cabaret artist, director and author
DATE OF BIRTH	April 20, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH	between October 29, 1942 and December 1942
Place of death	uncertain: Ghetto Riga , Soviet Union or Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

[1] Berthold Leimbach (ed.): Sound documents of the cabaret and their interpreters 1898–1945, Göttingen 1991

[2] Fred K. Prieberg , Handbook of German Musicians 1933–1945, Auprès de Zombry 2004

[3] Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 336.