Julius Berstl
Julius Berstl ( pseudonyms : Albert Kaufmann , Gordon Mitchell ) (born August 6, 1883 in Bernburg (Saale) ; † December 8, 1975 in Santa Barbara (California) ) was a German (since 1947 British ) writer .
Life
Julius Berstl was the son of a Jewish actor and theater director ; his mother, who came from a Christian family, was also an actress. Berstl studied English from 1902 to 1903 at the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig ; he broke off his studies and worked from 1909 to 1924 as a dramaturge at the Berlin theaters of the Kleines Theater Unter den Linden and the Lessing Theater , headed by Victor Barnowsky . From 1921 he worked for the Drei-Masken-Verlag and later owned theGustav Kiepenheuer stage sales . As early as 1933, the National Socialist rulers imposed a publication ban on him; In 1935 he was refused membership in the Reichsschrifttumskammer . Berstl then emigrated to the United Kingdom with his family in 1936. At the beginning of World War II , he was interned in a camp near Liverpool for a few months . He then lived in London and worked from 1943 to 1951 as a translator and author for the BBC .
After his retirement in 1951, Berstl moved with his family to the United States . He lived there until 1964 as a freelance writer in the Flushing district of New York . After the death of his wife, he went to California and spent the last years of his life in Santa Barbara.
Julius Berstl's literary work includes well-read novels and plays at the time ; During his work for the BBC, numerous radio plays on biblical topics were created that were specially designed for broadcast in the Soviet zone . These also formed the basis for the biographical novel Paulus von Tarsus . Berstl's extensive estate is in the library of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles .
Works
- Ihavatrathe , Berlin 1907
- The Phantast , Berlin 1908
- Black-Red-Gold , Dresden 1909
- Nannettchen and love , Dresden 1910
- Ten years of the Kleines Theater , Berlin 1911
- Poor Eva , Berlin 1916
- Molly and love everywhere , Berlin 1920
- Hans Hagenbutt , Hamburg [a. a.] 1922
- The vicious Mr. Tschu , Leipzig 1922
- Lichtenberg's Idyll , Berlin 1922
- The picture in the mirror , Braunschweig 1924
- Aini , Braunschweig 1925
- Fighting Amazon , Braunschweig 1925
- Plimplamplauz , Braunschweig 1925
- Dover-Calais , Braunschweig 1926
- The journey into Rosenrote , Braunschweig 1926
- Scribby's soups are the best , Berlin 1929
- Napoleon the other , B.-Wilmersdorf 1930
- Finally a buyer! , Vienna [u. a.] 1932
- Here I am, here I stay , Berlin-Charlottenburg 1933
- One must have bad luck! , Berlin 1933
- The sun's bright child , London 1946
- The prisoners of God , Stuttgart 1948
- Odyssey of a theater person , Berlin-Grunewald 1963
- Berlin Schlesischer Bahnhof , Berlin 1964
- Paulus von Tarsus , Stuttgart 1965
Film adaptations
- 1931: never again love
Editing
- Laughing songs since 1800 , Leipzig 1909
- You know what? , Leipzig 1914
- 25 years of the Berlin Theater and Victor Barnowsky , Berlin 1930
Translations
- Frederick Lonsdale : Mrs. Cheney's Ende , Berlin 1927
- Frederick Lonsdale: On the gfl. View , Berlin 1927
Web links
- Literature by and about Julius Berstl in the catalog of the German National Library
- Berstl's biography
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Berstl, Julius |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaufmann, Albert; Mitchell, Gordon |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German (since 1947) British writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1883 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernburg (Saale) |
DATE OF DEATH | 8th December 1975 |
Place of death | Santa Barbara (California) |