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In 1931, his play Der Hauptmann von Köpenick premiered and became another success, but his plays were prohibited when the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933 (Zuckmayer's maternal grandfather had been born Jewish and converted to Protestantism).
Zuckmayer was much preoccupied with the fate of German Jewry, Jewish characters appearing in several of his dramas, including Der Hauptmann von Koepenick, Des Teufels General, Der Gesang im Feuerofen (1950), and Das kalte Licht (1955).
During The Holocaust many Jews fled Germany to other countries for refuge, and the majority of the remaining population were killed. The following is a list of some famous Jews (by religion or descent) from Germany proper.
Carl Zuckmayer (born December 27, 1896, Nackenheim, Germany—died January 18, 1977, Visp, Switzerland) was a German playwright whose works deal critically with many of the problems engendered by two world wars.
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Sep 24, 2008 · Carl Zuckmayer was born on 27 December 1896 in the wine producing small town of Nackenheim close to the River Rhine. His father owned a factory that made caps for wine bottles in nearby Mainz. His grandfather on his mother’s side was Jewish, but he had converted to Catholicism, a religion that
Jan 19, 2012 · Zuckmayer has been included in the Jewish narrative retrospectively, even in his own retelling of his life and origins, particularly in the account of the development of literary modernism, despite his real distance from Jewish life.
Sein älterer Bruder, der Musiker Eduard Zuckmayer, war, aufgrund der jüdischen Herkunft der christlich getauften Mutter, 1934 aus der Reichsmusikkammer ausgeschlossen worden, was einem Berufsverbot gleichkam. Im Jahr darauf war Eduard in die Türkei emigriert.
