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Georg Hermann
1871–1943
A keen-eyed chronicler of Berlin life, this popular German novelist brought the city’s Jewish middle class vividly to the page. His career was cut short by exile and the Holocaust, but his books remain an important window into a lost world.
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Die deutsche Karikatur im 19. Jahrhundert
by Georg Hermann
About the author
Born in Berlin on October 7, 1871, Georg Hermann was the pen name of Georg Hermann Borchardt. He became a widely read German writer of novels, essays, and other prose, and was especially admired for the way he captured the mood, manners, and everyday texture of Berlin.
He is best known for Jettchen Gebert and for fiction centered on Jewish bourgeois life in the German capital. Readers and critics valued his calm, observant style and his gift for making the city itself feel alive.
After the Nazi rise to power, Hermann left Germany for the Netherlands in 1933. Following the German occupation, he was deported via Westerbork and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in November 1943.