Iwan Heilbut
Writer, JournalistAfter a brief internment, during which his manuscripts were also confiscated, the author and journalist Iwan Heilbut fled Berlin in 1933, going into exile in France via Czechoslovakia.
Manfred Henninger
Painter, KeramikerManfred Henninger, who had studied under Oskar Kokoschka among others, had become an established part of the Stuttgart arts scene at the beginning of the 1930s. His figurative painting was fed by his pantheistic worldview.
Eva Herrmann
Painter, Illustrator, Graphic designerA cosmopolitan spirit, Eva Herrmann never really settled anywhere. She grew up in Munich as the third of five children, her father an American painter with German-Jewish roots and her mother a Romanian Jew.
Paul Hindemith
Composer, ConductorFollowing the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the works of Paul Hindemith were defamed as “culturally Bolshevist” and removed from concert programmes; as a violist, he was increasingly restricted to performing abroad. However, as no general ban on his work was declared, Hindemith remained in Germany on the assumption that the situation could not endure for long.
Kurt Hirschfeld
Theater directorIn 1930, after completing his studies in German and Philosophy,In Kurt Hirschfeld took up the post of dramaturge at the Hessisches Landestheater (Hessian State Theatre) in Darmstadt under its director Gustav Hartung. He also worked as an artistic director there.
Paul Oscar Huldschinsky
Architect, Illustrator, SammlerPaul Huldschinsky was the son of industrial magnate Oscar Huldschinsky. He initially worked as an illustrator but went on to make a name for himself as an interior designer in the Weimar Republic.
Eric Isenburger
Berlin – Paris – New YorkPainterA solo exhibition at the prestigious Berlin gallery of Wolfgang Gurlitt should have been a breakthrough for the painter Eric Isenburger in early 1933. The public response was great and the press was full of praise.
Jula Isenburger
DancerJula Elenbogen came to Frankfurt as a 16-year-old to become a dancer. In order to continue her dance training she moved in 1928 with her husband, the painter Eric Isenburger, to Vienna.
Paul Walter Jacob
Conductor, Conductor, Actor, WriterAfter working in Koblenz, Lübeck and Wuppertal, Paul Walter Jacob was appointed Director of Opera and Operetta at Essen’s Städtische Bühnen (Civic Theatres) in 1931. He had already experienced hostility in Wuppertal for being a Social Democrat.
Uwe Johnson
WriterUwe Johnson was born in Pomerania and, as an 11-year-old, was forced to flee with his family from the advancing Red Army. His father was arrested after the war and did not return from Soviet internment. In 1945 Johnson lived with his mother and his sister first of all in the Mecklenburg toen of Reckwitz and then in Güstrow.
