Language:
German
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Exilforschung
Angaben zur Quelle:
21 (2003) 225-253
Keywords:
Bieber, E.
;
Halberstadt, Max
;
Kastan, Erich,
;
Schallenberg, Kurt,
;
Jewish photographers Biography
;
Jews Persecutions 1933-1945
;
History
;
Aryanization
;
Jewish refugees
;
Hamburg (Germany)
Abstract:
Examines the fate of four Jewish photographers from Hamburg in the Holocaust. Emil Bieber (1878-1962) continued the work of his father and grandfather as a photographer of the nobility and higher bourgeoisie until the family business was liquidated, and the family fled to South Africa in 1938. Max Halberstadt (1882-1940), a portrait photographer, also emigrated to South Africa in 1936, his livelihood having been stifled by the boycott against Jewish businesses. Erich Kastan (1898-1954), who mainly documented Jewish life in Hamburg after Hitler's rise to power, including the activities of the Jüdische Kulturbund, fled to the U.S. in 1938. Kurt Schallenberg (1883-1954), who focused on developing photography as a form of art, and whose work, like that of Bieber and Halberstadt, appeared in local newspapers and theater magazines, fled to Australia in 1939. Notes that the Nazi persecution of these photographers has been largely ignored in Hamburg and in the rest of Germany.
Note:
Appeared also in "Film und Fotografie" (2003) 225-253.
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