arts in exile

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  Hans Wilhelm Steinberg

  Conductor
  In 1929, following engagements in Cologne and Prague, Hans Wilhelm Steinberg was appointed General Music Director at the opera house in Frankfurt am Main. He was dismissed from this post in May 1933 because he was Jewish.
  Hans Wilhelm Steinberg
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  Hugo Steiner-Prag

  Leipzig book illustrator and graphic artist of international reputeGraphic designer, Illustrator
  At the time the Nazis seized power, Hugo Steiner-Prag - since 1910 professor at the renowned Leipzig Academy for Graphic Art and the Book Trade - was one of Germany’s most famous illustrators and book designers. His reputation was founded particularly on the illustrations he did for an entire series in the fantasy genre which appeared in book form after the turn of the century.
  Hugo Steiner-Prag
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  Gerda Taro

  Photographer
  The war photographer known to us today as Gerda Taro was born as Gerta Pohorylle in Stuttgart, the daughter of Jewish-Galician immigrants. Her active opposition to the Nazis forced her into French exile in 1933.
  Gerda Taro
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  Richard Tauber

  Singer, Conductor, Composer
  On 9 March 1933, four days after the Reichstag elections, the performance by singer Richard Tauber in Berlin’s Admiralspalast theatre was disrupted by ante-Semitic heckling. The star tenor, who was Jewish from his father’s side, only sang in German and had become famous performing operettas by Franz Léhar.
  Richard Tauber
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  Bruno Taut

  Architect
  After the Nazis came to power, architect Bruno Taut was threatened with persecution as a “cultural Bolshevist”: in the First World War he designed peace monuments, wrote a pacifist manifesto and, during the November Revolution of 1918, established the “Workers’ Council for Art”.As the head of municipal planning and construction in Magdeburg and from 1924 as an architect with his own office in Berlin, he designed and built several avant-garde residential construction projects, among these the Hufeisensiedlung in the Berlin district of Britz, which now belongs to the UN World Cultural Heritage.
  Bruno Taut
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  Silvia Tennenbaum

  Writer
  Silvia Tennenbaum grew up in a liberal Jewish family in Frankfurt. Though she was initially enrolled at a private girls’ school in Frankfurt, the family went into exile in December 1936, initially settling in Switzerland, a step which the parents disguised to their daughter as a visit to relatives.
  Silvia Tennenbaum
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  Lisa Tetzner

  Writer
  After the First World War, Lisa Tetzner, who had begun making up stories as a child, travelled around the villages of central and southern Germany telling fairy tales.
  Lisa Tetzner
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  Ernst Toller

  Writer, Dramatist
  In his speech from 1 April 1933 on the boycott of Jewish businesses, Joseph Goebbels pronounced Ernst Toller to be one of the main enemies of Nazi ideology. During the night of the Reichstag fire on 27 February, the SA stormed Toller’s residence in Berlin to arrest him.
  Ernst Toller
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  Walter Trier

  Illustrator, Caricaturist
  In the Weimar Republic, Walter Trier was a popular caricaturist and illustrator. In 1929, his book created collaboratively with author Erich Kästner was published: “Emil und die Detektive” (Emil and the die Detectives).
  Walter Trier
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  Heinz Trökes

  Graphic designer, Painter
  The Nazi repression against a contemporary art that they did not accept hit Heinz Trökes during an important phase in his life. In 1938, the 25-year-old wanted more than ever to dedicate himself to painting.
  Heinz Trökes