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Julius Bab (Born December 11, 1880 in Berlin, † February 12, 1955 in Roslyn Heights, New York) was a German playwright of the Berlin modernity and theater critic. He was a co -founder of the cultural association of German Jews.

Julis Bab, Berlin memorial plaque at Bundesallee 19 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf

Bab was the son of the merchant Elkan Bab and his wife Fanny born Herrmann. He married Elisabeth Loos (1878–1963), the couple had three children, Björn, Ursula and Barbara. Bab visited the Askanian high school in Berlin, where he, among other things, Getting to know Heinrich Eduard Jacob, after which he studied German studies, philosophy and history from 1902 to 1905 in Berlin and Zurich. Then he worked in Berlin as a freelance writer, dramaturge and theater critic for numerous newspapers and magazines. He joined the Volksbühnen movement, their Dramaturgical leaves he published 1923-1932. He was a lecturer at Max Reinhardt’s drama school. He was one of the founding members of the “Jewish Cultural Association” and led the theater department until its dissolution in 1938.

Bab was a close friend of the journalist and theater critic Siegfried Jacobsohso and his most important employee in the early years of the Show , the later one World stage . In 1938 he emigrated to the USA via France. In 1951 he visited Germany as part of a lecture tour.

  • Fortinbras or the struggle of the 19th century with the spirit of romance. Six talk. Bondi, Berlin 1914.
  • With Willi Handl: Vienna and Berlin. Comparative to the cultural history of the two capitals in Central Europe. Oesterheld, Berlin 1918 (new, edited edition. With a final chapter by H. Kienzl. Deutsche Buch-Female, Berlin 1926).
  • The German war poetry 1914-1918. A critical bibliography. Norddeutscher Verlag for Literature and Art, Stettin 1920.
  • Richard Dehmel. The story of a life’s work. H. Haessel, Leipzig 1926.
  • The theater of the present. History of the dramatic stage since 1870 (= Illustrated theater history monographs. Bd. 1, ZDB-ID 2060952-8 ). Weber, Leipzig 1928.
  • Albert Bassermann. The path and work of a German actor at the turn of the 20th century. Erich Weißenzahl Verlag, Leipzig 1929.
  • The Devrients. History of a German theater family. Georg Stalk Verlag, Berlin 1932.
  • Rembrandt and Spinoza. A double portrait in the German-Jewish region. Philo-Verlag, Berlin 1934.
  • Life and death of German Judaism. Published by Klaus Siebenhaar. Argon-Verlag, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-87024-703-7 (also: Life and death of German Judaism. Essay, letters and “vita emigrationis” (= File exile. Vol. 6). Bostelmann and Siebenhaar, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-934189-73-3).
  • The Berlin boheme . Hermann Seemann Nachf., Berlin 1904 (big city documents Volume 2). Digitized by the Central and State Library Berlin, 2014. Urn urn: NBN: DE: KOBV: 109-1-5941052
  • 1914. The German War in the German Poem. Volume 1–2. Reduced complete edition of issue 1–6 of the collection. Morawe & Scheffelt, Berlin 1916. [first]
  • Reich manual of the German Society – The Handbook of Personalities in Word and Image. First volume, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, ISBN 3-598-30664-4.
  • Ilse Bab: Julius Bab – criticism in the service of the theater. In: Emune. Horizono Zur Discission on Israel and the judentum. Vol. 9, Issue 1, January/February 1974, ISSN  0174-2256 , S. 38–46.
  • Sylvia Rogge-soon: The double root of existence. Julius Bab and the Jewish Kulturbund Berlin (= Center for anti -Semitism research at the Technical University of Berlin. Series documents, texts, materials. Volume 30). Metropol, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-932482-14-X (at the same time: Berlin, Technical University, Dissertation, 1998: Julius Bab and the Jewish Kulturbund Berlin. ).
  • Kerstin Schoor: From the literary center to the literary ghetto. German-Jewish literary culture in Berlin between 1933 and 1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0656-1.
  • Renate Heuer: Archive Bibliographia Judaica e.V. structure – purpose of the collection – scientific intentions – demonstrates in a study on Julius Bab . In: Kerstin Schoor (hg.): Between racial hatred and search for identity. German-Jewish literary culture in National Socialist Germany , Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0648-6, pp. 403–418.
  • Gabriel Fitch-Vivié: Against all resistance. The Jewish Cultural Association 1933-1941. Facts, data, analyzes, biographical notes and memories. With a foreword by Jakob Hessing. Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-95565-005-6.
  1. ↑ Poetry of the death brides. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 5. April 2014, S. 15.