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Kurt Gerron (
May 11,
1897 –
November 15,
1944) was a German
Jewish actor and film director.
Born Kurt Gerson to Jewish parents in
Berlin, Germany, Gerron initially studied medicine but became a stage actor in
1920. He appeared in such films as
The Blue Angel opposite
Marlene Dietrich, and on stage originated the role of Brown (the chief of police in
London) in the premiere production of
Die Dreigroschenoper in Berlin in 1928.
Gerron was offered a trip to
Hollywood but refused and stayed behind in Europe. He later left
Germany, traveling first to
France and later to the
Netherlands. After the German army occupied the Netherlands, he was interned in the transit camp at
Westerbork before being sent to
Theresienstadt concentration camp. There he ran a cabaret called The Karussell to entertain the inmates.
In 1944, Gerron was either persuaded or coerced by the
Nazis to make a
propaganda film showing how humane the conditions were at
Theresienstadt. After shooting finished, Gerron was deported on the camp's final transport to
Auschwitz. He was murdered immediately upon arrival. Reichsfuhrer SS
Heinrich Himmler didn't order the gas chambers shut down until the next day. Gerron's film, supposed to have been titled either
Theresienstadt. Ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem jüdischen Siedlungsgebiet (
Terezin: A Documentary Film of the Jewish Resettlement) or
Der Führer schenkt den Juden eine Stadt (
The Fuhrer Gives the Jews a City), was supposedly never completed and exists today only in fragmentary form.
Gerron is the subject of two documentary films,
Prisoner of Paradise and
Kurt Gerrons Karussell. The narrator in
Kurt Gerrons Karussell, which stars
Ute Lemper, is
Roy Kift who has also written a play on Gerron's time in Theresienstadt entitled
Camp Comedy (for more
(External Link
)). The play is published in
The Theatre of the Holocaust edited by Professor
Robert Skloot and published by the University of Wisconsin Press.
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