James Wolf (singer, 1870)
James Wolf (born December 2, 1870 in Hamburg as James Isaac ; † January 3, 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a Hamburg folk singer , comedian and vaudeville star of Jewish origin.
Life
James Wolf grew up in Hamburg-Neustadt as one of twelve children of the Hamburg journeyman butcher Isaac Joseph Isaac and the midwife Pauline Isaac . When he joined the Wolf Trio founded by his older brother Ludwig (the third was his brother Leopold) at the age of 25 , he changed his name to James Wolf. The singer and entertainer James Iwan Wolf (1893–1981) was his nephew.
In 1906, James left the Wolf Trio and started his own newspaper business. In July 1942 he was taken to Theresienstadt concentration camp deported and died there under the harsh prison conditions at the beginning of the 1,943th
literature
- Dieter Guderian: The Hamburg originals Tetje and Fietje - the life story of the Wolf brothers and their Isaac family , Cardamina Verlag 2006, pp. 148–152 Link at Stolpersteine Hamburg
- 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. 375.
Web links
- James Wolf (singer, 1870) in the Lexicon of Persecuted Musicians of the Nazi Era (LexM)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wolf, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Isaac, James (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German folk singer, comedian and variety artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1943 |
| Place of death | Theresienstadt concentration camp |