Georg Zivier (13 February 1897 – 19 March 1974) was a German writer, theatre critic and journalist.
Life
Born in
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
, Zivier was the son of the historian and writer . After studying in
Greifswald
Greifswald (), officially the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald (german: Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald, Low German: ''Griepswoold'') is the fourth-largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rosto ...
and Berlin, he worked as a writer and journalist. In 1937, Zivier was expelled from the because of his Jewish origin and later obliged to do forced labour. He nevertheless continued to write under the pseudonym "Hans Gregor" for both the ''
Vossische Zeitung
The (''Voss's Newspaper'') was a nationally-known Berlin newspaper that represented the interests of the liberal middle class. It was also generally regarded as Germany's national newspaper of record. In the Berlin press it held a special role d ...
'' and the ''
Berliner Tageblatt
The ''Berliner Tageblatt'' or ''BT'' was a German language newspaper published in Berlin from 1872 to 1939. Along with the ''Frankfurter Zeitung'', it became one of the most important liberal German newspapers of its time.
History
The ''Berline ...
''.
In 1946,
Arno Scholz engaged him as head of the department "cultural politics" for the Berlin ''
Telegraf
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* ''Telegraf'' (Baltimore newspaper), an American weekly newspaper
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* ''Telegrafi'', a newspaper published in Kosovo
* ''Dnevni telegraf
''Dnevni teleg ...
''. Until 1955, he also worked for ''
Die Neue Zeitung
''Die Neue Zeitung'' (''"The New Times"'', abbreviated ''NZ'') was a newspaper published in the American Occupation Zone of Germany after the Second World War. It was comparable to the daily newspaper ''Die Welt'' in the British Occupation Zone ...
'' as a
theatre critic
Theatre criticism is a genre of arts criticism, and the act of writing or speaking about the performing arts such as a play or opera.
Theatre criticism is distinct from drama criticism, as the latter is a division of literary criticism whereas t ...
. Neben seiner journalistischen Arbeit schrieb er Erzählungen und Hörspiele. Für sein Theaterstück „Perlicke, perlacke“ erhielt er 1963 den .
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Zivier died in Berlin at the age of 77.
Work
* ''Harmonie und Ekstase:
Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman (born Karoline Sophie Marie Wiegmann; 13 November 1886 – 18 September 1973) was a German dancer and choreographer, notable as the pioneer of expressionist dance, dance therapy, and movement training without pointe shoes. She is con ...
'' (1956)
* ''Komödianten und fahrende Poeten'' (1956)
* ''
Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch, also known as Ernest Dorian (16 September 1890 – 22 March 1969), was a Jewish Austrian actor. In 1916, his performance as the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play '' The Son'' in Dresde ...
und das Deutsche Theater'' (1964)
* ''Das
Romanische Café. Erscheinungen und Randerscheinungen rund um die Gedächtniskirche'' (1965)
* ''Berlin und der Tanz'' (1968)
* ''Deutschland und seine Juden'' (1971)
References
Further reading
* Walter Tetzlaff: ''2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts''. Askania, Lindhorst 1982,
External links
*
Georg Zivier: ''Würdig vor der Weißen mit Schuß''.In ''
Die Zeit'', Nr. 24/1964
Abbildungen aus seinem Nachlass und Biographiebeim
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln
The Deutsche Tanzarchiv Köln (German Dance Archive Cologne) is a national information and research centre for concert dance in Germany. It is located in the MediaPark in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, with an archive, library, video library a ...
.
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20th-century German writers
German theatre critics
20th-century German journalists
Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
1897 births
1974 deaths
People from Wrocław