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- He knew many of the major cultural and intellectual figures of his day and was indeed counted among them: the list of contributors to a ‘Book of Friendship’ published in Kerr’s honour in 1928 reads like a who’s who of contemporary German letters.
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He knew many of the major cultural and intellectual figures of his day and was indeed counted among them: the list of contributors to a ‘Book of Friendship’ published in Kerr’s honour in 1928 reads like a who’s who of contemporary German letters.
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His books were amongst those burnt in May 1933 by the Nazis when they came to power; Kerr had attacked the Nazi Party publicly very early on and Goebbels said before Hitler came to power that Kerr would be one of the first he would shoot. He lived in penury in London.
The TLS - Alfred Kerr – Weimar writer, fighter and sorrowful exile. A book review of Alfred Kerr by Deborah Vietor-EngläNder
In 1933 Kerr and his family fled Germany for London via Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, and France. These years of exile were described, from a child's perspective, by Kerr's daughter in her book When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit.
time to writing. Kerr was a warm and affectionate man towards his family and friends, but he was not outgoing, and the harsh conditions of life in a small hotel in Bloomsbury inhabited mainly by European refugees did not facilitate assimilation. Between and he completed Ich kam nach
Kerr was also an enthusiastic and frequent traveller, sometimes even during the theatre season: he published a series of well-received travel books: New York und London (1923); O! Spanien (1924); Die Allgier Trieb nach Algier (1929); Yankeeland (1925); Eine Insel Heisst Korsika (1933).
Jun 28, 2018 · LONDON — Among the 25,000 books consumed by the flames in Berlin’s Opernplatz on May 10, 1933 were those of Alfred Kerr.
