Julius Bab

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Julius Bab (born December 11, 1880 in Berlin , † February 12, 1955 in Roslyn Heights, New York ) was a German playwright of Berlin Modernism and theater critic . He was a co-founder of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden .

Life

Julis Bab, Berlin memorial plaque at Bundesallee 19 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Bab was the son of the merchant Elkan Bab and his wife Fanny nee Herrmann. He married Elisabeth Loos (1878–1963), the couple had three children, Björn, Ursula and Barbara. Bab attended the Askanisches Gymnasium in Berlin, where he a. a. Heinrich Eduard Jacob met, then he studied from 1902 to 1905 in Berlin and Zurich German, philosophy and history. He then worked in Berlin as a freelance writer, dramaturge and theater critic for numerous newspapers and magazines. He joined the Volksbühne movement, whose dramaturgical sheets he published from 1923 to 1932. He was a lecturer at Max Reinhardt's drama school . He was one of the founding members of the " Jewish Cultural Association " and headed the theater department until its dissolution in 1938.

Bab was a close friend of the journalist and theater critic Siegfried Jacobsohn and his most important collaborator in the early years of the Schaubühne , which later became the world stage . In 1938 he emigrated to the USA via France . In 1951 he visited Germany as part of a lecture tour.

Works (selection)

  • Fortinbras or The Struggle of the 19th Century with the Spirit of Romanticism. Six speeches. Bondi, Berlin 1914.
  • with Willi Handl : Vienna and Berlin. Comparative to the cultural history of the two capitals of Central Europe. Oesterheld, Berlin 1918 (New, revised edition. With a final chapter by H. Kienzl . German Book Association, Berlin 1926).
  • German war poetry 1914–1918. A critical bibliography. North German publishing house for literature and art, Stettin 1920.
  • Richard Dehmel . The story of a life's work. H. Haessel , Leipzig 1926.
  • The theater of the present. History of the dramatic stage since 1870 (= Illustrated monographs on the history of theater. Vol. 1, ZDB -ID 2060952-8 ). Weber, Leipzig 1928.
  • Albert Bassermann . Path and work of a German actor at the turn of the 20th century. Erich Weibezahl Verlag, Leipzig 1929.
  • The devrients . History of a German theater family. Georg Stilke Verlag, Berlin 1932.
  • Rembrandt and Spinoza . A double portrait in the German-Jewish area. Philo-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Life and death of German Jewry. Published by Klaus Siebenhaar . Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87024-703-7 (Also: Life and Death of German Judaism. Essay, Letters and "vita emigrationis" (= Exile files. Vol. 6). Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-934189-73-3 ).

Editing

  • 1914. The German War in the German Poem. Volume 1-2. Revised complete edition of issues 1–6 of the collection. Morawe & Scheffelt, Berlin 1916.

literature

  • Ilse Bab: Julius Bab - criticism in the service of the theater. In: EMUNA. Horizons for discussing Israel and Judaism. Vol. 9, Issue 1, January / February 1974, ISSN  0174-2256 , pp. 38-46.
  • Sylvia Rogge-Gau: The double root of existence. Julius Bab and the Jüdische Kulturbund Berlin (= Center for Antisemitism Research of the Technical University of Berlin. Series of Documents, Texts, Materials. Volume 30). Metropol, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932482-14-X (At the same time: Berlin, Technical University, dissertation, 1998: Julius Bab and the Jüdische Kulturbund Berlin. ).
  • Kerstin Schoor: From the literary center to the literary ghetto. German-Jewish literary culture in Berlin between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0656-1 .
  • Gabriele Fritsch-Vivié : Against all odds. The Jewish Cultural Association 1933–1941. Facts, data, analysis, biographical notes and memories. With a foreword by Jakob Hessing . Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95565-005-6 .
  • Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft - The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4 .

Web links

Commons : Julius Bab  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seal of the Brides of Death. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 5, 2014, p. 15.
personal data
SURNAME Bab, Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1955
Place of death Roslyn Heights , New York , United States