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Alfred Kerr (né Kempner; 25 December 1867 – 12 October 1948, surname: German pronunciation:) was an influential German theatre critic and essayist of Jewish descent, nicknamed the Kulturpapst ("Culture Pope").
Alfred Kerr (* 25. Dezember 1867 in Breslau; † 12. Oktober 1948 in Hamburg) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, Theaterkritiker und Journalist. Sein Geburtsname war Alfred Kempner, er publizierte aber von Anfang an unter dem Namen Kerr, um nicht mit der (mit ihm nicht verwandten) Dichterin Friederike Kempner in Verbindung gebracht zu werden.
German Jewish writer Alfred Kerr was a well known theater critic during the Weimar period. His works were burned during the Nazi book burnings of 1933.
Alfred Kerr (pen name of Alfred Kempner) was a German literary and theater critic and author. Kerr was born in Breslau and studied there and in Berlin. He became a drama critic for the Berlin newspaper Der Tag and later for the Berliner Tageblatt.
Alfred Kerr (1867-1948) was a renowned German writer and theatre critic who opposed Nazism and fled to England with his family. He wrote about his experiences and impressions of England in Ich kam nach England, a book that influenced his daughter Judith Kerr's novels.
Alfred Kerr regarded criticism as a literary genre in its own right, and the critic as artist. Whereas the dramatist’s creation is based on an experience of reality, he maintained, the critic’s work conveys the experience of that experience.
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Alfred, who had been a critic of the Nazi’s, fled Germany just before they came to power, in 1933. He was later joined by Judith, her brother Michael and her mother Julia, and this exhibition explores the family’s flight and life afterwards.
