Bettlerbar
Beggar Bar was an artists bar and cabaret which was founded in 1941 by the German actress and dancer Valeska Gert (1892–1978).
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3 Morton Street, Greenwich Village, New York City.
Gert, Valeska. Die Bettlerbar von New York. Arani, 1950.
Klösch, Christian and Regina Thumser-Wöhs. “From Vienna”: Exilkabarett in New York 1938 bis 1950. Picus, 2002.
Maaß, Ingrid. Repertoire der deutschsprachigen Exilbühnen 1933–1955. Hamburger Arbeitsstelle für Deutsche Exilliteratur, 2000.
Trapp, Frithjof, et al., editor. Handbuch des deutschsprachigen Exiltheaters 1933–1945, vol. 2: Biographisches Lexikon der Theaterkünstler. K.G. Saur, 1999.
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Ellen Auerbauch, Valeska Gert, Oskar Maria Graf, Marion Palfi, Lisette Model.
Lisette Model was an Austrian-born photographer who lived in New York with her husband Evsa Model after emigrating from France. Her street photographs capturing the curiosities of everyday life quickly caught the interest of museums and magazines.
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Rolf Tietgens was a German émigré photographer who arrived in New York in 1938. Although, in the course of his photographic career, his artistic and surrealist images were published and shown at exhibitions, his work, today, is very little known.
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Marion Palfi was a German émigré photographer who lived in New York from the 1940s to the 1960s. Her photographic engagement in social and political topics made her name for her use of the camera to draw attention to social injustices.
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In October 1935 the German émigré photographer Lotte Jacobi, together with her sister Ruth Jacobi, opened a photo studio on 57th Street. The two sisters had to leave their parents' photo studio in Berlin in the 1930s and emigrated to New York.
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Pantheon Books was a publishing house founded in 1942 by the German émigré Kurt Wolff (1887–1963) and aimed at the exiled European community in New York.
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