Georg Zivier

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Georg Zivier (born February 13, 1897 in Breslau , † March 19, 1974 in Berlin ) was a German writer , theater critic and journalist .

Life

Zivier was the son of the historian and writer Ezekiel Zivier . After studying in Greifswald and Berlin, he worked as a writer and journalist. In 1937 Georg Zivier was excluded from the Reichsschrifttumskammer due to his Jewish origins and was later committed to forced labor. Nevertheless, he continued to write under the pseudonym "Hans Gregor" for both the Vossische Zeitung and the Berliner Tageblatt .

In 1946 Arno Scholz hired him as head of the cultural policy department for the Berlin Telegraf . Until 1955 he also worked as a theater critic for Die Neue Zeitung . In addition to his journalistic work, he wrote short stories and radio plays. In 1963 he received the Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin for his play “Perlicke, perlacke” .

Works (selection)

  • Harmony and Ecstasy: Mary Wigman (1956)
  • Comedians and traveling poets (1956)
  • Ernst Deutsch and the German Theater (1964)
  • The Romanesque Café . Apparitions and peripheral phenomena around the Memorial Church (1965)
  • Berlin and Dance (1968)
  • Germany and its Jews (1971)

literature

  • Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 short biographies of important German Jews of the 20th century . Askania, Lindhorst 1982, ISBN 3-921730-10-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition ( Rudolf Vierhaus , ed.), Volume 10, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 874.
  2. ^ Susanne Grebner: The telegraph. Creation of a licensed newspaper close to the SPD in Berlin from 1946 to 1950 . LIT Verlag, Berlin / Hamburg / Münster 2002, ISBN 3-8258-4540-0 . (P. 142)
  3. ↑ Georg Zivier 75 years old , PDF ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger Abendblatt, February 11, 1972.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
  4. ↑ On the death of Georg Zivier , PDF ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Hamburger Abendblatt, March 21, 1974  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abendblatt.de
personal data
SURNAME Zivier, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gregor, Hans (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, theater critic and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1974
Place of death Berlin