Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly
Angaben zur Quelle:
45,3 (1998) 48-54
Keywords:
Salomon, Charlotte,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and art
Abstract:
Describes the life and creative work of Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), a Jew from Berlin, who began to experience Nazi persecution in 1933 when she was forced to leave school. In February 1936 she was permitted to attend the Berlin Academy of Arts, where she suffered from antisemitism. After the "Kristallnacht" pogrom she joined her grandparents in southern France. There, between 1940-42, she wrote the autobiographical work "Life? or Theatre?, " which is composed of various types of texts, drawings, and music, and includes elements of biography and fiction - a description of her own life as theater. In 1943 Salomon married Alexander Nagler, but the two were deported soon after and killed in Auschwitz. Just before her deportation, she gave her work to friends for safekeeping.
Note:
A German version appeared as "Charlotte Salomons 'Leben? Oder Theater?' Ein Werk jenseits der Assimilation" in "Der Differenz auf der Spur" (2004) 287-303.
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