Jack Bilbo

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Jack Bilbo (actually Hugo Cyrill Kulp Baruch ; born April 13, 1907 in Berlin ; † December 19, 1967 there ) was a German writer , painter , draftsman, gallery owner , casual worker, cabin boy, captain, adventurer, bon vivant and bohemian .

Life

In 1930 he was a co-founder of the Kampfbund against Fascism and was persecuted by the National Socialists as an anti-fascist and a Jew.

In 1933, after imprisonment and torture, he managed to escape via France (1935 worked on the Parisian magazine Voilà ) and into exile in Spain , initially to Mallorca , where he ran the Wikiki bar in Cala Rajada . He later lived in Barcelona , where he opened the “SOS Bar”. He participated on the part of anarchists in the Spanish Civil War . After this ended with a defeat for the Republican forces, Bilbo managed to escape to London . Here he stayed from 1936 to 1949 and began a career as a painter (initially naive drawings and paintings), published autobiographical, humorous texts with his own illustrations, and wrote art books on French painting and sculpture.

Bilbo was expatriated from Germany on May 28, 1938 (List 48, No. 2). Nevertheless, he was interned for a few months at the beginning of the Second World War , including on the Isle of Man . There he is finally appointed a pioneer by the camp commandant after a dispute about his identity and released. After his release, he and his wife opened the Modern Art Gallery on Baker Street in October 1941, in the middle of the war . This quickly became a well-known meeting place for exhibitions, discussions and readings, and Kurt Schwitters , Hein Heckroth and Jankel Adler soon belonged to its inner circle . In addition to an exhibition that only showed works of art made from garbage, the Modern Art Gallery organized the first exhibition only for women artists. When the premises became too small, she moved to new premises on Charles III Street. After the war, Bilbo moved to Weybridge and opened a gallery there again.

He has been traveling to France since 1949 (where he also worked as an innkeeper) and in the 1950s made the decision to move back to Berlin with his wife, the city of his birth. There he worked in Berlin-Charlottenburg at Olivaer Platz as a pub owner (“Captain Bilbo's Hafenspelunke”) and was widely known as a great storyteller and storyteller. In the 1960s he ran a curiosity shop on Schöneberger Meraner Strasse. The urn with the ashes of Jack Bilbo, honorary citizen of Berlin-Schöneberg, was sunk in the Jewish cemetery in Heerstrasse in Berlin.

The name creation Jack Bilbo is the Jack of Jack London and Bilbo from the Basque name of the city of Bilbao .

family

His parents were the theater entrepreneur Bruno Baruch (1872–1935) and Marguerite Frederica Beatrice Baruch, born in the British money aristocracy. Tuchmann-Turner, also called Daisy Baruch, was born in London in 1883. It was named after his grandfather Hugo, a Cologne tailor who worked in 1890 with his wife and sons Richard, Bruno and Erwin and the company Hugo Baruch & Cie. Founded in 1887 . , specialized in equipping stages and productions, moved to Berlin. After his parents divorced, he felt a bond with his father, but grew up with his mother. He thought his father was an elegant gentleman who had a financial stake in theaters and banks and owned gambling clubs that he himself liked to attend. In 1935 the father Bruno Baruch emigrated to Spain, where his son Hugo was already living, and committed suicide in Sitges . Hugo's mother, mentally ill due to excessive morphine consumption and most recently residing in Berlin in the Wuhlgarten sanctuary and the Herzberge municipal sanctuary , was deported in July 1940 and murdered in the Brandenburg an der Havel killing center .

Works / exhibitions

  • A man becomes a criminal , the notes of the bodyguard by Al Capone , fictional novel, Universitas, Berlin 1932
  • I Can't Escape Adventure , Cresset Press, London 1937
  • You under the Magnifying Glass. 20 Human and Humorous Drawings , Modern Art Gallery 1944
  • The Moderns. Past - Present - Future , Modern Art Gallery 1945
  • Picasso: Thirty Important Paintings from 1904 to 1943 , Modern Art Gallery 1945
  • Out of My Mind: Strange Stories , Modern Art Gallery 1946 (German: The secret cabinet of strange and gruesome stories. Opened and published by Bilbo (with 8 illustrations by the author) ), Munich, Esslingen 1965
  • Toulouse-Lautrec and Steinlen , Modern Art Gallery, London 1946
  • Famous Nudes by Famous Artists , Modern Art Gallery 1946
  • To Autobiography. The First Forty Years of the Complete and Intimate Life Story of an Artist, Author, Sculptor, Art Dealer, Philosopher, Psychologist, Traveler, and a Modernist Fighter for Humanity , London: The Modern Art Gallery 1948; German edition under the title: Rebel from passion. Adventurer, painter, philosopher , Herrenalb 1963; also with a different subtitle and with an introduction by Henry Miller , Munich 1969
  • The secret cabinet of strange and gruesome stories opened and revealed by Bilbo. Bechtle Verlag, Munich 1965
  • Exposition Jack Bilbo - Daniel Richter in the Liebermann studio . Edited by the Brandenburg Gate Foundation . Verlag Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2017

literature

  • Ludwig Lugmeier: The life of Captain Bilbo. Factual novel Verbrecher Verlag , Berlin 2017 ISBN 978-3-95732-279-1
    • Excerpt: The Lives of Captain Bilbo, in Dschungel, supplement to jungle world , 45, 9 November 2017, pp. 19-23
  • Kristin Becker: Chicago. A myth in his productions . Tectum, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8929-8 (therein about Jack Bilbo: Chapter 3.4. "The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life")
  • Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. International biographical dictionary of Central European émigrés 1933 - 1945 . Editing Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss . Ed. Institute for Contemporary History Munich, and Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration, New York. Verlag Saur, Munich 1980–1983 ISBN 978-3-598-10087-1 , p. 56.
  • Michael Nungesser : artist biographies: Jack Bilbo . In Hartmut Krug, Michael Nungesser: Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-1945 . Exhibition catalog Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst , Berlin 1986 ISBN 3-88725-218-7 , p. 118. (English: Art in Exile in Great Britain . Exhibition catalog Camden Art Center, London 1986)
    • Merry Kerr Woodeson: Jack Bilbo and his “Modern Art Gallery. London 1941–1946 ” , in Krug, Nungesser: Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933–1945 . P. 49ff.
  • Werner Portmann, Siegbert Wolf : Jack Bilbo . In this: "Yes, I fought". From dreams of revolution, 'air people' and children of the shtetl. Biographies of Radical Jews . Unrast, Münster 2006 ISBN 3-89771-452-3
  • Michael Seyfert: In no man's land. German exile literature in British internment. An unknown chapter in the cultural history of World War II . Berlin 1984, p. 190
  • Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 34.
  • Tobias Becker: Staged Modernism: Popular Theater in Berlin and London 1880-1930 . ISBN 3-11-035371-7 , p. 339 ( Hugo Baruch & Co.)
  • Bilbo, Jack. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 1: A-Benc. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-598-22681-0 , pp. 360-363.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joan-Antoni Adrover i Mascaró: 600 questions about Mallorca . Campos, 2010, ISBN 978-84-614-1808-4 , p. 166; thereafter he had been running the bar since 1932.
  2. ↑ Ludwig Lugmeier: The life of the captain Bilbo. Factual novel Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95732-279-1 , p. 176.
  3. ↑ Hugo Baruch & Cie. In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, Part I, p. 107.
  4. ↑ Christine Schmitt: Artist costumes . 1993, ISBN 3-484-66008-2 , p. 33
  5. ↑ Daisy Baruch, née Tuchmann, on December 9, 1883 in London; Resident in Berlin (Wuhlgarten sanatorium and nursing home) and Berlin (Herzberge sanatorium and nursing home); Deportation: from Berlin, Heil-and Pflegeenstalt Herzberge July 9, 1940, Berlin-Buch, Heil- und Pflegeanstalt July 1940, Brandenburg ad Havel, killing institution , in memorial book, on bundesarchiv.de, as of January 27, 2017
  6. ↑ Excerpt see web links, article of the taz
  7. ↑ Kerr Woodeson is a daughter of Bilbo
personal data
SURNAME Bilbo, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baruch, Hugo Cyrill Kulp (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer, painter, captain and (life) artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1967
Place of death Berlin