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	Kurt Gerron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kurt Gerron (May 11, 1897 – November 15, 1944) was a Jewish actor and film director during the Nazi period.
		Gerron was offered a trip to Hollywood but refused and stayed behind in Europe.
		Gerron is the subject of two documentary films, Prisoner in Paradise and Kurt Gerrons Karussell.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Gerron (307 words)

	The Green Hartnett Reviews: Kurt Gerron's Karussell
		Kurt Gerron (1887-1944), a noted actor, cabaret performer, and director, who established himself in pre-war Germany, was a man obsessed with his work.
		In Amsterdam, Gerron became director of the "Hollandse Schouwburg" (Dutch Municipal Theatre) on the Plantage Middenlaan.
		Gerron's rendition of the same song (during the end titles) is chilling.
	www.hartnett.nl /_fkurt.htm (1079 words)

	Kurt Gerron - Wikipedia
		Kurt Gerron war durch die Uraufführung von Bert Brechts und Kurt Weills Sensationserfolg „Die Dreigroschenoper” (1928) berühmt geworden.
		Nach der Besetzung der Niederlande spielte Gerron noch eine Weile an der "Schouwburg", die nun "Joodsche Schouwburg" hieß, bis das gesamte Ensemble in das KZ Theresienstadt deportiert wurde.
		Gerron erholte sich wieder und spielte zunächst für das Ghetto-Kabarett von Theresienstadt, welches wie auch andere Einrichtungen geschaffen wurde, um den erwarteten Besuchern vom Roten Kreuz ein "Musterlager" vorzeigen zu können und die Weltöffentlichkeit über die wahre Situation der Juden hinwegzutäuschen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Gerron (802 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Kurt Gerron : Prisoner of Paradise
		From a discussion with Gretta, who worked with Gerron (but not on Hitler's film because she was blond and they needed Jewish looking 'actors') I understood that Olga was with him through the Theresienstat nightmare.
		Poor Gerron - Gretta said that everyone in the film was killed - she wasn't allowed in the film because she didn't look Jewish enough for the propaganda and that's what saved her.
		Gerron directing the film "Hitler Builds a City for the Jews." He was murdered when the filming was completed.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=1707 (959 words)

	Reeling: the Movie Review Show's review of Prisoner of Paradise
		The life of Kurt Gerron, the legendary German-Jewish stage and film star of the1920’s and 30’s, is not well known in America.
		The camp commandant selects Kurt Gerron to make the documentary, demanding that it show the wonderful treatment of Jews under Nazi “care.” He takes on the task of creating a whitewashed depiction of the happy, healthy inmates eating bread and butter and playing music and dancing.
		Clarke and Sender paint Gerron as a Norma Desmond-ish character, dressing the part of director while suffering the abusive words of the Nazis he was filming for.
	www.reelingreviews.com /prisonerofparadise.htm (1393 words)

	Movie Review \| 'Prisoner of Paradise': Putting a Smiley Face on a Nazi Camp
		There Gerron filmed children at play who were selected for their dark eyes and hair, the opposite of the Aryan ideal.
		It's revealed that their subject had a robust and witty talent: it was Gerron's turn as Macheath in the original staging of Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" and particularly his rendition of "Mack the Knife" that garnered the show international attention.
		Gerron's childlike self-absorption makes him an object of pity, and several of the witnesses are forgiving of his behavior, perhaps because the film never saw the light of day.
	www.prisonerofparadise.com /NYTimes.htm (747 words)

	Amazon.ca: Prisoner Of Paradise: DVD: Malcolm Clarke,Stuart Sender,Kurt Gerron,Ian Holm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Kurt Gerron was an actor, filmmaker, and musician who rose to acclaim and stardom in Germany in the late '20s and early '30s.
		Gerron, however, was also a Jew, and while he had the good sense to flee to Amsterdam after the early Nazi programs when Holland fell under Axis occupation, he was later deported back to Germany.
		Gerron's reward for his hard work on the film was a one-way trip in a railroad car to a gas chamber.
	www.amazon.ca /Prisoner-Paradise-Malcolm-Clarke/dp/B0007NFLSG (425 words)

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		Kurt Gerron, a huge florid man, was a widely seen character actor in German Films of the 1920's and early 1930's.
		In 1942, Gerron was transported from Occupied Holland by the Nazis to a series of model concentration camps in Germany.
		KURT GERRON'S KARUSSEL is, in a sense, a defense of Gerron.
	www.epinions.com /trvl-review-E10-21EE45A9-3981CD70-prod5 (1402 words)

	KAET Exclusive
		Gerron’s story reveals the tragic paradoxes that shaped the fate of Jews in Europe in the years leading to and during the war.
		Forced to flee Berlin after the Nazi rise to power, Gerron struggles to revive his career in the local film industries and theatrical scenes of France and the Netherlands; achieving what turns out to be only a short-lived success, he declines invitations from his friends, now living in Hollywood, to come to America.
		A decorated WWI hero and a stage celebrity, Gerron is not deported to a death camp but to Theresienstadt, presented as a refuge for privileged Jews, where they could wait for the war’s end.
	www.azpbs.org /exclusive/ginsburg.html (898 words)

	KURT GERRONS KARUSSELL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Soon afterwards he is being sought after as a film director at the Berlin UFA studios: his speciality: the much-loved "optimistic comedies" of the day.
		For five short years - till 1933 - Kurt Gerron is one of the show-business celebrities of his age.
		Kurt Gerron's KARUSSELL is a fascinating and moving tribute to one of the great forgotten showmen of our time.
	www.agdok.de /GermanDocumentaries/gD152.htm (307 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Prisoner of Paradise (2003) - Printable
		Gerron was Jewish, and the apex of his fame came just as Hitler came to power; Gerron soon found himself barred from the German film business by the Nazis, and sought exile first in Paris, then in Amsterdam.
		Gerron was high profile enough not to be sent to a concentration camp, but rather was relocated to Theresienstadt, a "model" ghetto for "Jews who would be missed"—that is, those the Nazis couldn't simply slaughter without raising the ire of the international community.
		Their choice to direct was Gerron, thus making him a Jew making a film for the Nazis, a prisoner creating a work of art celebrating the virtues of his prison.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=7214 (883 words)

	Prisoner of Paradise Movie Review
		The life of Kurt Gerron, the legendary German-Jewish stage and film star of the 1920's and 30's, is not well known in America.
		Gerron, as a result, was ordered off the set of his latest film by Nazi officials and was forced to flee to Paris, leaving all that he owned to the fascists.
		Suddenly, the dreaded Laws apply to all of occupied Europe and Gerron is relegated, by his masters, to perform at Amsterdam's Jewish Theater.
	www.killermovies.com /p/prisonerofparadise/reviews/kxv.html (828 words)

	LA Weekly - Mogul of Theresienstadt
		Gerron was a Jew who began his career as a satirist of the Nazis and ended up as their stool pigeon; Kahn, an architect who kept three families on the boil without noticeable guilt or anguish.
		Gerron lived in more testing times than Kahn, and the consequences of his actions were broader and more catastrophic than Kahnâs, but his lapses stemmed from the same monomaniacal focus on creative work to the exclusion of all else.
		It was there, in 1944, that Gerron made his final deal with the devil and became the creative force behind the infamous Nazi propaganda film The FÃ¼hrer Gives a City to the Jews, which hoodwinked Western observers into the belief that Theresienstadt was a cultural paradise and that Jews in concentration camps were well treated.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/21/film-taylor.php (622 words)

	Kurt Gerron's Karussell - Moviefone
		Kurt Gerron's Karussell - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies...
		Kurt Gerrons Karussell (1999) Reply to Jan Onderwater's review of "Kurt Gerron's Karussell", 27 March 2001...
		Kurt Gerron's Karussell - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/kurt-gerrons-karussell/1134113/main (136 words)

	Mike Malloy :: View topic - Theresienstadt: Hitler's Dystopia & America's Gitmo
		The deception was so successful that film director Kurt Gerron was forced by threat of death and torture to become a part of the macabre project of making a documentary film, "The Fuhrer Gives a Village to the Jews," showing Theresienstadt as a safe haven where Jews could live in comfort and peace.
		Gerron’s film was shown to the world in short vendettas as propaganda, but Gerron’s camera couldn’t conceal that look—a suppressed distant alienated gazed--on the children’s face as he filmed them living in this false reality.
		Gerron perspired, was ill, sang Mackie Messer, tried all the tricks of his popular art, tried to make some jokes — the audience ordered to be there did not move and sat there silently.
	www.mikemalloy.com /board/viewtopic.php?p=289955 (1667 words)

	Kurt Gerron
		Wiederholt bildete der dicke Kurt Gerron zusammen mit dem schmalen, schlaksigen Siegfried Arno ein Komiker-Team: Als "Beef und Steak" kreierten sie unter anderem mit "Wir halten fest und treu zusammen" (1929) und "Aufruhr im Junggesellenheim" (1929) deutsche Film-Grotesken, die bei der Kritik allerdings nicht die erhoffte Resonanz fanden.
		Gerrons Hoffnung, durch diese Arbeit sein Leben, seine Familie und Mitwirkende zu retten, ging nicht in Erfüllung.
		Der Schauspieler und Regisseur Kurt Gerron besaß ein musikalisch-komödiantisches Talent, das er vor allem mit Siegfried Arno als "Beef und Steak" austobte.
	www.steffi-line.de /archiv_text/nost_buehne/06g_gerron.htm (683 words)

	village voice > film > Prisoner of Paradise by J. Hoberman
		Portly and sardonic, the German actor Kurt Gerron was a star of Weimar cabaret.
		Gerron missed his opportunity to join Peter Lorre and Billy Wilder in Hollywood, and moved to Amsterdam.
		When Holland was overrun, Gerron was deported first to the transit camp at Westerbork (where he entertained other Jews en route to Auschwitz) and then to the Theresienstadt ghetto outside of Prague.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0349/hoberman3.php (431 words)

	Frank's Reel Movie Reviews - Movie Review - Prisoner of Paradise
		Gerron enjoyed much success, but at the same time refused to accept the warning signs that fellow family members, and other actors of that period were trying to convey.
		Gerron was the man responsible for making the film and it doesn’t excuse or minimize the implications or what punishment the Filmmaker will have to suffer.
		Kurt Gerron's accomplishments include starring in the film classic Blue Angel among other film and stage performances.
	www.franksreelreviews.com /reviews/prisonerparadise.htm (395 words)

	Prisoner of Paradise (2003) - MovieWeb
		PRISONER OF PARADISE is the startling true story of Kurt Gerron, a well known and beloved German-Jewish actor, director and cabaret star in Berlin in the 1920's and '30's.
		Gerron also sang Mack The Knife in the original production of Threepenny Opera.
		PRISONER OF PARADISE follows Kurt Gerron's career and remarkable odyssey, offering a unique prospective on this extraordinary period.
	www.movieweb.com /movies/film/80/2080/summary.php (146 words)

	SFJFF Guide - KURT GERRON'S KARUSSELL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Kurt Gerron was the toast of Berlin for his performance in the first Brecht/Weill stage production of THE THREE PENNY OPERA.
		The effervescent Gerron also made more than 70 films, working with the greatest German talent of the 1920s, including Marlene Dietrich.
		There he produced Kurt Gerron's Karusell, a world-class event, with a surreal cast of many of Europe's best performers.
	www.sfjff.org /cgi-bin/sfjff_resource.pl?titleID=691 (217 words)

	Kurt Gerron - Gefangen im Paradies (Malcolm Clarke/Stuart Sender, 2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Gerron wurde - selbst im KZ Theresienstadt inhaftiert - auf Befehl von Joseph Goebbels gezwungen, einen Propagandafilm über Theresienstadt zu drehen.
		Familienmitglieder und Mitgefangene von Gerron setzen sich mit dieser Frage auseinander.
		Kurt Gerron fügte sich, doch noch bevor er den Film fertig stellen konnte, wurde er nach Auschwitz überstellt und ermordet.
	www.doew.at /aktuell/kinoki4.html (271 words)

	Amazon.com: "Kurt Gerron": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Darsteller: Siegfried.Arno (Beet), Kurt Gerron (Steak), Trude Hesterherg (Die lustige A\ itwe), Kthe von Nagy (Kthe, ihre Tochter), Adele Santlrock (Tante Adele), Albert Paulig (Onkel...
		dancers Boss manages, and her solo performance before a leering male audience is so seductive that one man (played by Kurt Gerron) comes onto the stage.
		Kurt Gerron -- Get the latest gossip about your favorite celebrity at Moviefone.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Kurt-Gerron (516 words)

	Kurt Gerron
		It is an amazingly symbolic film for a man who ended up in the kind of moral dilemma he was in - making a film for the Nazis and getting murdered by them.
		The package includes a DVD (also in English, a CD with sketches and music from different artists — including Kurt Gerron — mostly from 1928 to 1945.
		Documentary about the filmmaker who directed the propaganda film on Theresienstadt for the Nazis and was killed after completion.
	karenalkalay-gut.com /kurtgerron.html (972 words)

	holocaust plays
		The second "CAMP COMEDY" deals with the fate of the German actor and film director, Kurt Gerron - he sang the Mackie Messer Morität in the premiere of Brecht's "Threepenny Opera" and appeared opposite Marlene Dietrich in "The Blue Angel".
		The play was premiered at SUNY Geneseo in March 2003 in an excellent production by Randy Barbara Kaplan, featuring music by Anneliese Weibel.
		My translations of these texts can be found in "Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust" (Johns Hopkins University Press) and in my article on Gerron and the cabaret in "Staging the Holocaust" ed.
	www.geocities.com /roy_kift/arcnew_009.htm (162 words)

	2000 SFJFF - Karussell, The March (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Kurt Gerron was the toast of Berlin for his performance in the first Brecht/Weill stage production of THE THREE PENNY OPERA (See also SEPTEMBER SONGS).
		At Hitler's command, he directed THE FUHRER GIVES THE JEWS A CITY, a propaganda film for which Gerron remains infamous.
		German Jewish documentary filmmaker Ilona Ziok paints a masterful portrait of a wildly talented, blustery and conceited artist who needed a stage or a film set as much as he needed breath.
	www.sfjff.org /sfjff20/programs/15P.html (239 words)

	Kurt Gerron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		Kurt Gerron born in 1897 to Jewish parents in germany, studied at first medicine...
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	www.imdb.com /name/nm0314777 (293 words)

	Kurt Gerron's "Karussell" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-11)
		The fate of Kurt Gerron, the corpulent German-Jewish entertainer who played alongside Dietrich and Jannings in The Blue Angel, is the subject of this documentary.
		Ilona Ziok has chosen to tell Gerron's story because it is poignantly representative of a lesser-documented aspect of the Holocaust:the persecution of Jewish show people and their internment in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt.
		Deprived of freedom, food and hope, the prisoners of Theresienstadt could only do what they did best:put on shows and make music.
	oldwww.upol.cz /afo2001/en/katalog/anotaceu.cgi?film=32 (241 words)

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