Julius Berstl

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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

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

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personal data
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)