Joseph Roth
Writer, JournalistJoseph Roth was a storyteller and the story he narrated most often was his own biography. Reality was what he wrote about.
Nelly Sachs
Poet, WriterA native of Berlin, Nelly Sachs already secretly wrote poems and stories as a child. 1921 saw the publication of her first book Legenden und Erzählungen (Legends and Tales) with eight pieces of prose, which she sent to Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, whom she very much admired.
Hans Sahl
Writer, JournalistAlready as a child Hans Sahl wanted to be a writer. He wrote expressionist poetry and short stories, some of which were also published.
Sasha Marianna Salzmann
Writer, Theaterautorin, Dramaturgin, EssayistinSasha Marianna Salzmann was born in Volgograd, grew up in Moscow, and emigrated with her family to Germany in 1995 as a so-called Jewish quota refugee. “The teachers at school asked us who we were, and we said Volga Germans, German Russians, Russians, Ukrainians, Jews (naturally without gendering, since we were still a long way from even having heard of it),” wrote Sasha Marianna Salzmann in an article for taz published in 2018.
Eric Schaal
Portrayer of artistsPhotographerEric Schaal had been interested in everything to do with art since his childhood. He was given his first camera for his Bar Mitzvah and learned how to use it at a nearby photo studio.
Josef Scharl
Painter, Graphic designerIn 1938, the painter and graphic artist Josef Scharl, who painted in the style of the New Objectivity, could only paint in secret in Germany. In the eyes of the Nazis his paintings were “degenerate art”.
René Schickele
Pacifist in second exileWriterWhen René Schickele left Germany in September 1932, he was of the opinion that the Nazis’ coming to power was only a matter of time. He rented out his house in Badenweiler and settled with his family in Sanary-sur-Mer. What he initially planned as a temporary stay turned into an exile without return.
Arnold Schönberg
Composer as a calling – teacher out of passionComposerArnold Schönberg had his first successes as a composer in Berlin from 1902 onwards. He earned a modest living as a teacher of music theory.
Roberto Schopflocher
WriterRobert Schopflocher was born into an assimilated German-Jewish family. After the Nazis seized power, he was excluded from attending the humanistic grammar school in Fürth and instead attended a Jewish boarding school.
Lili Schultz
Enamel ArtistUntil she fled the GDR in March 1958, the life of enamel artist Lili Schultz was very closely tied up with Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle (Saale). With the exception of a few years, which included a period at Bauhaus under Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky, she studied and taught there for four decades.
